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mlx5 has an ugly flow where it tries to allocate a new MR and replace the existing MR in the same memory during rereg. This is very complicated and buggy. Instead of trying to replace in-place inside the driver, provide support from uverbs to change the entire HW object assigned to a handle during rereg_mr. Since destroying a MR is allowed to fail (ie if a MW is pointing at it) and can't be detected in advance, the algorithm creates a completely new uobject to hold the new MR and swaps the IDR entries of the two objects. The old MR in the temporary IDR entry is destroyed, and if it fails rereg_mr succeeds and destruction is deferred to FD release. This complexity is why this cannot live in a driver safely. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201130075839.278575-4-leon@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com> |
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README
Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.