IB/uverbs: Export ib_umem_get()/ib_umem_release() to modules
Export ib_umem_get()/ib_umem_release() and put low-level drivers in
control of when to call ib_umem_get() to pin and DMA map userspace,
rather than always calling it in ib_uverbs_reg_mr() before calling the
low-level driver's reg_user_mr method.
Also move these functions to be in the ib_core module instead of
ib_uverbs, so that driver modules using them do not depend on
ib_uverbs.
This has a number of advantages:
- It is better design from the standpoint of making generic code a
library that can be used or overridden by device-specific code as
the details of specific devices dictate.
- Drivers that do not need to pin userspace memory regions do not
need to take the performance hit of calling ib_mem_get(). For
example, although I have not tried to implement it in this patch,
the ipath driver should be able to avoid pinning memory and just
use copy_{to,from}_user() to access userspace memory regions.
- Buffers that need special mapping treatment can be identified by
the low-level driver. For example, it may be possible to solve
some Altix-specific memory ordering issues with mthca CQs in
userspace by mapping CQ buffers with extra flags.
- Drivers that need to pin and DMA map userspace memory for things
other than memory regions can use ib_umem_get() directly, instead
of hacks using extra parameters to their reg_phys_mr method. For
example, the mlx4 driver that is pending being merged needs to pin
and DMA map QP and CQ buffers, but it does not need to create a
memory key for these buffers. So the cleanest solution is for mlx4
to call ib_umem_get() in the create_qp and create_cq methods.
Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
diff --git a/include/rdma/ib_verbs.h b/include/rdma/ib_verbs.h
index 5342ac6..47cefca 100644
--- a/include/rdma/ib_verbs.h
+++ b/include/rdma/ib_verbs.h
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
* Copyright (c) 2004 Topspin Corporation. All rights reserved.
* Copyright (c) 2004 Voltaire Corporation. All rights reserved.
* Copyright (c) 2005 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved.
- * Copyright (c) 2005, 2006 Cisco Systems. All rights reserved.
+ * Copyright (c) 2005, 2006, 2007 Cisco Systems. All rights reserved.
*
* This software is available to you under a choice of one of two
* licenses. You may choose to be licensed under the terms of the GNU
@@ -710,6 +710,7 @@
struct list_head qp_list;
struct list_head srq_list;
struct list_head ah_list;
+ int closing;
};
struct ib_uobject {
@@ -723,23 +724,6 @@
int live;
};
-struct ib_umem {
- unsigned long user_base;
- unsigned long virt_base;
- size_t length;
- int offset;
- int page_size;
- int writable;
- struct list_head chunk_list;
-};
-
-struct ib_umem_chunk {
- struct list_head list;
- int nents;
- int nmap;
- struct scatterlist page_list[0];
-};
-
struct ib_udata {
void __user *inbuf;
void __user *outbuf;
@@ -752,11 +736,6 @@
((void *) &((struct ib_umem_chunk *) 0)->page_list[1] - \
(void *) &((struct ib_umem_chunk *) 0)->page_list[0]))
-struct ib_umem_object {
- struct ib_uobject uobject;
- struct ib_umem umem;
-};
-
struct ib_pd {
struct ib_device *device;
struct ib_uobject *uobject;
@@ -1003,7 +982,8 @@
int mr_access_flags,
u64 *iova_start);
struct ib_mr * (*reg_user_mr)(struct ib_pd *pd,
- struct ib_umem *region,
+ u64 start, u64 length,
+ u64 virt_addr,
int mr_access_flags,
struct ib_udata *udata);
int (*query_mr)(struct ib_mr *mr,