linux/include
Eli Cohen 02d1aa7af1 IB/core: Add support for extended query device caps
Add extensible query device capabilities verb to allow adding new features.
ib_uverbs_ex_query_device is added and copy_query_dev_fields is used to copy
capability fields to be used by both ib_uverbs_query_device and
ib_uverbs_ex_query_device.

Following the discussion about this patch [1], the code now validates
the command's comp_mask is zero, returning -EINVAL for unknown values,
in order to allow extending the verb in the future.

The verb also checks the user-space provided response buffer size and
only fills in capabilities that will fit in the buffer. In attempt to
follow the spirit of presentation [2] by Tzahi Oved that was presented
during OpenFabrics Alliance International Developer Workshop 2013, the
comp_mask bits will only describe which fields are valid.  Furthermore,
fields that can simply be cleared when they are not supported, do not
require a comp_mask bit at all.  The verb returns a response_length
field containing the actual number of bytes written by the kernel, so
that a newer version running on an older kernel can tell which fields
were actually returned.

[1] [PATCH v1 0/5] IB/core: extended query device caps cleanup for v3.19
    http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.api/7889/

[2] https://www.openfabrics.org/images/docs/2013_Dev_Workshop/Tues_0423/2013_Workshop_Tues_0830_Tzahi_Oved-verbs_extensions_ofa_2013-tzahio.pdf

Signed-off-by: Eli Cohen <eli@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Haggai Eran <haggaie@mellanox.com>
Reviewed-by: Yann Droneaud <ydroneaud@opteya.com>
Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <roland@purestorage.com>
2015-02-18 08:36:26 -08:00
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