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>
This commit is contained in:
Roland Dreier
2007-03-04 16:15:11 -08:00
parent 36f021b579
commit f7c6a7b5d5
20 changed files with 357 additions and 204 deletions

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@ -183,6 +183,8 @@ static int ib_uverbs_cleanup_ucontext(struct ib_uverbs_file *file,
if (!context)
return 0;
context->closing = 1;
list_for_each_entry_safe(uobj, tmp, &context->ah_list, list) {
struct ib_ah *ah = uobj->object;
@ -230,16 +232,10 @@ static int ib_uverbs_cleanup_ucontext(struct ib_uverbs_file *file,
list_for_each_entry_safe(uobj, tmp, &context->mr_list, list) {
struct ib_mr *mr = uobj->object;
struct ib_device *mrdev = mr->device;
struct ib_umem_object *memobj;
idr_remove_uobj(&ib_uverbs_mr_idr, uobj);
ib_dereg_mr(mr);
memobj = container_of(uobj, struct ib_umem_object, uobject);
ib_umem_release_on_close(mrdev, &memobj->umem);
kfree(memobj);
kfree(uobj);
}
list_for_each_entry_safe(uobj, tmp, &context->pd_list, list) {
@ -906,7 +902,6 @@ static void __exit ib_uverbs_cleanup(void)
unregister_filesystem(&uverbs_event_fs);
class_destroy(uverbs_class);
unregister_chrdev_region(IB_UVERBS_BASE_DEV, IB_UVERBS_MAX_DEVICES);
flush_scheduled_work();
idr_destroy(&ib_uverbs_pd_idr);
idr_destroy(&ib_uverbs_mr_idr);
idr_destroy(&ib_uverbs_mw_idr);