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The rdma_user_mmap_io interface created a common interface for drivers to correctly map hw resources and zap them once the ucontext is destroyed enabling the drivers to safely free the hw resources. However, this meant the drivers need to delay freeing the resource to the ucontext destroy phase to ensure they were no longer mapped. The new mechanism for a common way of handling user/driver address mapping enabled notifying the driver if all umap_priv mappings were removed, and enabled freeing the hw resources when they are done with and not delay it until ucontext destroy. Since not all drivers use the mechanism, NULL can be sent to the rdma_user_mmap_io interface to continue working as before. Drivers that use the mmap_xa interface can pass the entry being mapped to the rdma_user_mmap_io function to be linked together. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191030094417.16866-4-michal.kalderon@marvell.com Signed-off-by: Ariel Elior <ariel.elior@marvell.com> Signed-off-by: Michal Kalderon <michal.kalderon@marvell.com> Reviewed-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@mellanox.com> Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@mellanox.com>
Linux kernel
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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.