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Matan Barak 118620d368 IB/core: Add uverbs merge trees functionality
Different drivers support different features and even subset of the
common uverbs implementation. Currently, this is handled as bitmask
in every driver that represents which kind of methods it supports, but
doesn't go down to attributes granularity. Moreover, drivers might
want to add their specific types, methods and attributes to let
their user-space counter-parts be exposed to some more efficient
abstractions. It means that existence of different features is
validated syntactically via the parsing infrastructure rather than
using a complex in-handler logic.

In order to do that, we allow defining features and abstractions
as parsing trees. These per-feature parsing tree could be merged
to an efficient (perfect-hash based) parsing tree, which is later
used by the parsing infrastructure.

To sum it up, this makes a parse tree unique for a device and
represents only the features this particular device supports.
This is done by having a root specification tree per feature.
Before a device registers itself as an IB device, it merges
all these trees into one parsing tree. This parsing tree
is used to parse all user-space commands.

A future user-space application could read this parse tree. This
tree represents which objects, methods and attributes are
supported by this device.

This is based on the idea of
Jason Gunthorpe <jgunthorpe@obsidianresearch.com>

Signed-off-by: Matan Barak <matanb@mellanox.com>
Reviewed-by: Yishai Hadas <yishaih@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>
2017-08-31 08:35:10 -04:00
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acpi More ACPI updates for v4.13-rc1 2017-07-10 15:19:40 -07:00
asm-generic Merge branch 'work.uaccess-unaligned' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2017-07-15 11:17:52 -07:00
clocksource
crypto crypto: engine - replace pr_xxx by dev_xxx 2017-06-19 14:19:54 +08:00
drm i915, amd and some core fixes + mediatek color support 2017-07-13 11:26:18 -07:00
dt-bindings Merge branch 'upstream' of git://git.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/ralf/upstream-linus 2017-07-15 10:59:54 -07:00
keys
kvm
linux net/mlx5: Add XRQ support 2017-08-29 08:30:20 -04:00
math-emu
media main drm pull for v4.13 2017-07-09 18:48:37 -07:00
memory
misc cxl: Export library to support IBM XSL 2017-07-03 23:07:03 +10:00
net Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2017-07-20 16:33:39 -07:00
pcmcia
ras trace, ras: add ARM processor error trace event 2017-06-22 18:22:05 +01:00
rdma IB/core: Add uverbs merge trees functionality 2017-08-31 08:35:10 -04:00
rxrpc
scsi Merge branch 'for-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nab/target-pending 2017-07-13 14:27:32 -07:00
soc Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next 2017-07-05 12:31:59 -07:00
sound ASoC: Updates for v4.13 2017-07-03 19:51:42 +02:00
target iscsi-target: Add login_keys_workaround attribute for non RFC initiators 2017-07-11 10:56:39 -07:00
trace mm, tree wide: replace __GFP_REPEAT by __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL with more useful semantic 2017-07-12 16:26:03 -07:00
uapi IB/core: Add new ioctl interface 2017-08-31 08:35:09 -04:00
video
xen xen/balloon: don't online new memory initially 2017-07-23 08:13:18 +02:00