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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2014-08-14 11:09:05 -0600
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2014-08-14 11:09:05 -0600
commite3b1fd56f175526db42ae94c457f29c2fa810aca (patch)
tree3e2948ca44fb7fd5348244c2a83eef864b3110b4 /Documentation
parent0680eb1f485ba5aac2ee02c9f0622239c9a4b16c (diff)
parentd087f6ad724dfbcdc3df8e0191b80d9d8d839e71 (diff)
Merge tag 'rdma-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/roland/infiniband
Pull infiniband/rdma updates from Roland Dreier: "Main set of InfiniBand/RDMA updates for 3.17 merge window: - MR reregistration support - MAD support for RMPP in userspace - iSER and SRP initiator updates - ocrdma hardware driver updates - other fixes..." * tag 'rdma-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/roland/infiniband: (52 commits) IB/srp: Fix return value check in srp_init_module() RDMA/ocrdma: report asic-id in query device RDMA/ocrdma: Update sli data structure for endianness RDMA/ocrdma: Obtain SL from device structure RDMA/uapi: Include socket.h in rdma_user_cm.h IB/srpt: Handle GID change events IB/mlx5: Use ARRAY_SIZE instead of sizeof/sizeof[0] IB/mlx4: Use ARRAY_SIZE instead of sizeof/sizeof[0] RDMA/amso1100: Check for integer overflow in c2_alloc_cq_buf() IPoIB: Remove unnecessary test for NULL before debugfs_remove() IB/mad: Add user space RMPP support IB/mad: add new ioctl to ABI to support new registration options IB/mad: Add dev_notice messages for various umad/mad registration failures IB/mad: Update module to [pr|dev]_* style print messages IB/ipoib: Avoid multicast join attempts with invalid P_key IB/umad: Update module to [pr|dev]_* style print messages IB/ipoib: Avoid flushing the workqueue from worker context IB/ipoib: Use P_Key change event instead of P_Key polling mechanism IB/ipath: Add P_Key change event support mlx4_core: Add support for secure-host and SMP firewall ...
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/infiniband/user_mad.txt13
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/infiniband/user_mad.txt b/Documentation/infiniband/user_mad.txt
index 8a366959f5cc..7aca13a54a3a 100644
--- a/Documentation/infiniband/user_mad.txt
+++ b/Documentation/infiniband/user_mad.txt
@@ -26,6 +26,11 @@ Creating MAD agents
ioctl. Also, all agents registered through a file descriptor will
be unregistered when the descriptor is closed.
+ 2014 -- a new registration ioctl is now provided which allows additional
+ fields to be provided during registration.
+ Users of this registration call are implicitly setting the use of
+ pkey_index (see below).
+
Receiving MADs
MADs are received using read(). The receive side now supports
@@ -104,10 +109,10 @@ P_Key Index Handling
The old ib_umad interface did not allow setting the P_Key index for
MADs that are sent and did not provide a way for obtaining the P_Key
index of received MADs. A new layout for struct ib_user_mad_hdr
- with a pkey_index member has been defined; however, to preserve
- binary compatibility with older applications, this new layout will
- not be used unless the IB_USER_MAD_ENABLE_PKEY ioctl is called
- before a file descriptor is used for anything else.
+ with a pkey_index member has been defined; however, to preserve binary
+ compatibility with older applications, this new layout will not be used
+ unless one of IB_USER_MAD_ENABLE_PKEY or IB_USER_MAD_REGISTER_AGENT2 ioctl's
+ are called before a file descriptor is used for anything else.
In September 2008, the IB_USER_MAD_ABI_VERSION will be incremented
to 6, the new layout of struct ib_user_mad_hdr will be used by