Haggai Eran 832a6b06ab IB/mlx5: Add mlx5_ib_update_mtt to update page tables after creation ...

The new function allows updating the page tables of a memory region
after it was created. This can be used to handle page faults and page
invalidations.

Since mlx5_ib_update_mtt will need to work from within page invalidation,
so it must not block on memory allocation. It employs an atomic memory
allocation mechanism that is used as a fallback when kmalloc(GFP_ATOMIC) fails.

In order to reuse code from mlx5_ib_populate_pas, the patch splits
this function and add the needed parameters.

Signed-off-by: Haggai Eran <haggaie@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Shachar Raindel <raindel@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <roland@purestorage.com>

2014-12-15 18:19:02 -08:00

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