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<title>Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net</title>
<updated>2013-12-30T17:33:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
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<published>2013-12-30T17:33:30+00:00</published>
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Pull networking fixes from David Miller:
 "Some holiday bug fixes for 3.13...  There is still one bug I'd like to
  get fixed before 3.13-final.

  The vlan code erroneously assignes the header ops of the underlying
  real device to the VLAN device above it when the real device can
  hardware offload VLAN handling.  That's completely bogus because
  header ops are tied to the device type, so they only expect to see a
  'dev' argument compatible with their ops.

  The fix is the have the VLAN code use a special set of header ops that
  does the pass-thru correctly, by calling the underlying real device's
  header ops but _also_ passing in the real device instead of the VLAN
  device.

  That fix is currently waiting some testing.

  Anyways, of note here:

   1) Fix bitmap edge case in radiotap, from Johannes Berg.

   2) Fix oops on driver unload in rtlwifi, from Larry Finger.

   3) Bonding doesn't do locking correctly during speed/duplex/link
      changes, from Ding Tianhong.

   4) Fix header parsing in GRE code, this bug has been around for a few
      releases.  From Timo Teräs.

   5) SIT tunnel driver MTU check needs to take GSO into account, from
      Eric Dumazet.

   6) Minor info leak in inet_diag, from Daniel Borkmann.

   7) Info leak in YAM hamradio driver, from Salva Peiró.

   8) Fix route expiration state handling in ipv6 routing code, from Li
      RongQing.

   9) DCCP probe module does not check request_module()'s return value,
      from Wang Weidong.

  10) cpsw driver passes NULL device names to request_irq(), from
      Mugunthan V N.

  11) Prevent a NULL splat in RDS binding code, from Sasha Levin.

  12) Fix 4G overflow test in tg3 driver, from Nithin Sujir.

  13) Cure use after free in arc_emac and fec driver's software
      timestamp handling, from Eric Dumazet.

  14) SIT driver can fail to release the route when
      iptunnel_handle_offloads() throws an error.  From Li RongQing.

  15) Several batman-adv fixes from Simon Wunderlich and Antonio
      Quartulli.

  16) Fix deadlock during TIPC socket release, from Ying Xue.

  17) Fix regression in ROSE protocol recvmsg() msg_name handling, from
      Florian Westphal.

  18) stmmac PTP support releases wrong spinlock, from Vince Bridgers"

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net: (73 commits)
  stmmac: Fix incorrect spinlock release and PTP cap detection.
  phy: IRQ cannot be shared
  net: rose: restore old recvmsg behavior
  xen-netback: fix guest-receive-side array sizes
  fec: Do not assume that PHY reset is active low
  tipc: fix deadlock during socket release
  netfilter: nf_tables: fix wrong datatype in nft_validate_data_load()
  batman-adv: fix vlan header access
  batman-adv: clean nf state when removing protocol header
  batman-adv: fix alignment for batadv_tvlv_tt_change
  batman-adv: fix size of batadv_bla_claim_dst
  batman-adv: fix size of batadv_icmp_header
  batman-adv: fix header alignment by unrolling batadv_header
  batman-adv: fix alignment for batadv_coded_packet
  netfilter: nf_tables: fix oops when updating table with user chains
  netfilter: nf_tables: fix dumping with large number of sets
  ipv6: release dst properly in ipip6_tunnel_xmit
  netxen: Correct off-by-one errors in bounds checks
  net: Add some clarification to skb_tx_timestamp() comment.
  arc_emac: fix potential use after free
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Pull networking fixes from David Miller:
 "Some holiday bug fixes for 3.13...  There is still one bug I'd like to
  get fixed before 3.13-final.

  The vlan code erroneously assignes the header ops of the underlying
  real device to the VLAN device above it when the real device can
  hardware offload VLAN handling.  That's completely bogus because
  header ops are tied to the device type, so they only expect to see a
  'dev' argument compatible with their ops.

  The fix is the have the VLAN code use a special set of header ops that
  does the pass-thru correctly, by calling the underlying real device's
  header ops but _also_ passing in the real device instead of the VLAN
  device.

  That fix is currently waiting some testing.

  Anyways, of note here:

   1) Fix bitmap edge case in radiotap, from Johannes Berg.

   2) Fix oops on driver unload in rtlwifi, from Larry Finger.

   3) Bonding doesn't do locking correctly during speed/duplex/link
      changes, from Ding Tianhong.

   4) Fix header parsing in GRE code, this bug has been around for a few
      releases.  From Timo Teräs.

   5) SIT tunnel driver MTU check needs to take GSO into account, from
      Eric Dumazet.

   6) Minor info leak in inet_diag, from Daniel Borkmann.

   7) Info leak in YAM hamradio driver, from Salva Peiró.

   8) Fix route expiration state handling in ipv6 routing code, from Li
      RongQing.

   9) DCCP probe module does not check request_module()'s return value,
      from Wang Weidong.

  10) cpsw driver passes NULL device names to request_irq(), from
      Mugunthan V N.

  11) Prevent a NULL splat in RDS binding code, from Sasha Levin.

  12) Fix 4G overflow test in tg3 driver, from Nithin Sujir.

  13) Cure use after free in arc_emac and fec driver's software
      timestamp handling, from Eric Dumazet.

  14) SIT driver can fail to release the route when
      iptunnel_handle_offloads() throws an error.  From Li RongQing.

  15) Several batman-adv fixes from Simon Wunderlich and Antonio
      Quartulli.

  16) Fix deadlock during TIPC socket release, from Ying Xue.

  17) Fix regression in ROSE protocol recvmsg() msg_name handling, from
      Florian Westphal.

  18) stmmac PTP support releases wrong spinlock, from Vince Bridgers"

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net: (73 commits)
  stmmac: Fix incorrect spinlock release and PTP cap detection.
  phy: IRQ cannot be shared
  net: rose: restore old recvmsg behavior
  xen-netback: fix guest-receive-side array sizes
  fec: Do not assume that PHY reset is active low
  tipc: fix deadlock during socket release
  netfilter: nf_tables: fix wrong datatype in nft_validate_data_load()
  batman-adv: fix vlan header access
  batman-adv: clean nf state when removing protocol header
  batman-adv: fix alignment for batadv_tvlv_tt_change
  batman-adv: fix size of batadv_bla_claim_dst
  batman-adv: fix size of batadv_icmp_header
  batman-adv: fix header alignment by unrolling batadv_header
  batman-adv: fix alignment for batadv_coded_packet
  netfilter: nf_tables: fix oops when updating table with user chains
  netfilter: nf_tables: fix dumping with large number of sets
  ipv6: release dst properly in ipip6_tunnel_xmit
  netxen: Correct off-by-one errors in bounds checks
  net: Add some clarification to skb_tx_timestamp() comment.
  arc_emac: fix potential use after free
  ...
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<title>RDMA/cxgb4: Use cxgb4_select_ntuple to correctly calculate ntuple fields</title>
<updated>2013-12-22T23:09:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kumar Sanghvi</name>
<email>kumaras@chelsio.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-12-18T11:08:26+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Kumar Sanghvi &lt;kumaras@chelsio.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Hariprasad Shenai &lt;hariprasad@chelsio.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Signed-off-by: Kumar Sanghvi &lt;kumaras@chelsio.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Hariprasad Shenai &lt;hariprasad@chelsio.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>RDMA/cxgb4: Server filters are supported only for IPv4</title>
<updated>2013-12-22T23:09:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kumar Sanghvi</name>
<email>kumaras@chelsio.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-12-18T11:08:25+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Kumar Sanghvi &lt;kumaras@chelsio.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Hariprasad Shenai &lt;hariprasad@chelsio.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Signed-off-by: Kumar Sanghvi &lt;kumaras@chelsio.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Hariprasad Shenai &lt;hariprasad@chelsio.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>RDMA/cxgb4: Calculate the filter server TID properly</title>
<updated>2013-12-22T23:09:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kumar Sanghvi</name>
<email>kumaras@chelsio.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-12-18T11:08:24+00:00</published>
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Based on original work by Santosh Rastapur &lt;santosh@chelsio.com&gt;

Signed-off-by: Kumar Sanghvi &lt;kumaras@chelsio.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Hariprasad Shenai &lt;hariprasad@chelsio.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Based on original work by Santosh Rastapur &lt;santosh@chelsio.com&gt;

Signed-off-by: Kumar Sanghvi &lt;kumaras@chelsio.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Hariprasad Shenai &lt;hariprasad@chelsio.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>RDMA/cxgb4: Make _c4iw_write_mem_dma() static</title>
<updated>2013-12-15T16:04:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rashika</name>
<email>rashika.kheria@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-12-14T13:12:14+00:00</published>
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This patch marks the function _c4iw_write_mem_dma() as static
because it is not used outside this file, which fixes the warning:

    drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb4/mem.c:176:5: warning: no previous prototype for ‘_c4iw_write_mem_dma’ [-Wmissing-prototypes]

Signed-off-by: Rashika Kheria &lt;rashika.kheria@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Steve Wise &lt;swise@opengridcomputing.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett &lt;josh@joshtriplett.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier &lt;roland@purestorage.com&gt;
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This patch marks the function _c4iw_write_mem_dma() as static
because it is not used outside this file, which fixes the warning:

    drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb4/mem.c:176:5: warning: no previous prototype for ‘_c4iw_write_mem_dma’ [-Wmissing-prototypes]

Signed-off-by: Rashika Kheria &lt;rashika.kheria@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Steve Wise &lt;swise@opengridcomputing.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett &lt;josh@joshtriplett.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier &lt;roland@purestorage.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'rdma-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/roland/infiniband</title>
<updated>2013-11-18T23:36:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-11-18T23:36:04+00:00</published>
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Pull infiniband/rdma updates from Roland Dreier:
 - Re-enable flow steering verbs with new improved userspace ABI
 - Fixes for slow connection due to GID lookup scalability
 - IPoIB fixes
 - Many fixes to HW drivers including mlx4, mlx5, ocrdma and qib
 - Further improvements to SRP error handling
 - Add new transport type for Cisco usNIC

* tag 'rdma-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/roland/infiniband: (66 commits)
  IB/core: Re-enable create_flow/destroy_flow uverbs
  IB/core: extended command: an improved infrastructure for uverbs commands
  IB/core: Remove ib_uverbs_flow_spec structure from userspace
  IB/core: Use a common header for uverbs flow_specs
  IB/core: Make uverbs flow structure use names like verbs ones
  IB/core: Rename 'flow' structs to match other uverbs structs
  IB/core: clarify overflow/underflow checks on ib_create/destroy_flow
  IB/ucma: Convert use of typedef ctl_table to struct ctl_table
  IB/cm: Convert to using idr_alloc_cyclic()
  IB/mlx5: Fix page shift in create CQ for userspace
  IB/mlx4: Fix device max capabilities check
  IB/mlx5: Fix list_del of empty list
  IB/mlx5: Remove dead code
  IB/core: Encorce MR access rights rules on kernel consumers
  IB/mlx4: Fix endless loop in resize CQ
  RDMA/cma: Remove unused argument and minor dead code
  RDMA/ucma: Discard events for IDs not yet claimed by user space
  IB/core: Add Cisco usNIC rdma node and transport types
  RDMA/nes: Remove self-assignment from nes_query_qp()
  IB/srp: Report receive errors correctly
  ...
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Pull infiniband/rdma updates from Roland Dreier:
 - Re-enable flow steering verbs with new improved userspace ABI
 - Fixes for slow connection due to GID lookup scalability
 - IPoIB fixes
 - Many fixes to HW drivers including mlx4, mlx5, ocrdma and qib
 - Further improvements to SRP error handling
 - Add new transport type for Cisco usNIC

* tag 'rdma-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/roland/infiniband: (66 commits)
  IB/core: Re-enable create_flow/destroy_flow uverbs
  IB/core: extended command: an improved infrastructure for uverbs commands
  IB/core: Remove ib_uverbs_flow_spec structure from userspace
  IB/core: Use a common header for uverbs flow_specs
  IB/core: Make uverbs flow structure use names like verbs ones
  IB/core: Rename 'flow' structs to match other uverbs structs
  IB/core: clarify overflow/underflow checks on ib_create/destroy_flow
  IB/ucma: Convert use of typedef ctl_table to struct ctl_table
  IB/cm: Convert to using idr_alloc_cyclic()
  IB/mlx5: Fix page shift in create CQ for userspace
  IB/mlx4: Fix device max capabilities check
  IB/mlx5: Fix list_del of empty list
  IB/mlx5: Remove dead code
  IB/core: Encorce MR access rights rules on kernel consumers
  IB/mlx4: Fix endless loop in resize CQ
  RDMA/cma: Remove unused argument and minor dead code
  RDMA/ucma: Discard events for IDs not yet claimed by user space
  IB/core: Add Cisco usNIC rdma node and transport types
  RDMA/nes: Remove self-assignment from nes_query_qp()
  IB/srp: Report receive errors correctly
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge branches 'cma', 'cxgb4', 'flowsteer', 'ipoib', 'misc', 'mlx4', 'mlx5', 'nes', 'ocrdma', 'qib' and 'srp' into for-next</title>
<updated>2013-11-17T16:22:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Roland Dreier</name>
<email>roland@purestorage.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-11-17T16:22:19+00:00</published>
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<title>IB/core: Re-enable create_flow/destroy_flow uverbs</title>
<updated>2013-11-17T16:22:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Matan Barak</name>
<email>matanb@mellanox.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-11-06T22:21:50+00:00</published>
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This commit reverts commit 7afbddfae993 ("IB/core: Temporarily disable
create_flow/destroy_flow uverbs").  Since the uverbs extensions
functionality was experimental for v3.12, this patch re-enables the
support for them and flow-steering for v3.13.

Signed-off-by: Matan Barak &lt;matanb@mellanox.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier &lt;roland@purestorage.com&gt;
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This commit reverts commit 7afbddfae993 ("IB/core: Temporarily disable
create_flow/destroy_flow uverbs").  Since the uverbs extensions
functionality was experimental for v3.12, this patch re-enables the
support for them and flow-steering for v3.13.

Signed-off-by: Matan Barak &lt;matanb@mellanox.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier &lt;roland@purestorage.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>IB/core: extended command: an improved infrastructure for uverbs commands</title>
<updated>2013-11-17T16:22:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Yann Droneaud</name>
<email>ydroneaud@opteya.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-11-06T22:21:49+00:00</published>
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Commit 400dbc96583f ("IB/core: Infrastructure for extensible uverbs
commands") added an infrastructure for extensible uverbs commands
while later commit 436f2ad05a0b ("IB/core: Export ib_create/destroy_flow
through uverbs") exported ib_create_flow()/ib_destroy_flow() functions
using this new infrastructure.

According to the commit 400dbc96583f, the purpose of this
infrastructure is to support passing around provider (eg. hardware)
specific buffers when userspace issue commands to the kernel, so that
it would be possible to extend uverbs (eg. core) buffers independently
from the provider buffers.

But the new kernel command function prototypes were not modified to
take advantage of this extension. This issue was exposed by Roland
Dreier in a previous review[1].

So the following patch is an attempt to a revised extensible command
infrastructure.

This improved extensible command infrastructure distinguish between
core (eg. legacy)'s command/response buffers from provider
(eg. hardware)'s command/response buffers: each extended command
implementing function is given a struct ib_udata to hold core
(eg. uverbs) input and output buffers, and another struct ib_udata to
hold the hw (eg. provider) input and output buffers.

Having those buffers identified separately make it easier to increase
one buffer to support extension without having to add some code to
guess the exact size of each command/response parts: This should make
the extended functions more reliable.

Additionally, instead of relying on command identifier being greater
than IB_USER_VERBS_CMD_THRESHOLD, the proposed infrastructure rely on
unused bits in command field: on the 32 bits provided by command
field, only 6 bits are really needed to encode the identifier of
commands currently supported by the kernel. (Even using only 6 bits
leaves room for about 23 new commands).

So this patch makes use of some high order bits in command field to
store flags, leaving enough room for more command identifiers than one
will ever need (eg. 256).

The new flags are used to specify if the command should be processed
as an extended one or a legacy one. While designing the new command
format, care was taken to make usage of flags itself extensible.

Using high order bits of the commands field ensure that newer
libibverbs on older kernel will properly fail when trying to call
extended commands. On the other hand, older libibverbs on newer kernel
will never be able to issue calls to extended commands.

The extended command header includes the optional response pointer so
that output buffer length and output buffer pointer are located
together in the command, allowing proper parameters checking. This
should make implementing functions easier and safer.

Additionally the extended header ensure 64bits alignment, while making
all sizes multiple of 8 bytes, extending the maximum buffer size:

                             legacy      extended

   Maximum command buffer:  256KBytes   1024KBytes (512KBytes + 512KBytes)
  Maximum response buffer:  256KBytes   1024KBytes (512KBytes + 512KBytes)

For the purpose of doing proper buffer size accounting, the headers
size are no more taken in account in "in_words".

One of the odds of the current extensible infrastructure, reading
twice the "legacy" command header, is fixed by removing the "legacy"
command header from the extended command header: they are processed as
two different parts of the command: memory is read once and
information are not duplicated: it's making clear that's an extended
command scheme and not a different command scheme.

The proposed scheme will format input (command) and output (response)
buffers this way:

- command:

  legacy header +
  extended header +
  command data (core + hw):

    +----------------------------------------+
    | flags     |   00      00    |  command |
    |        in_words    |   out_words       |
    +----------------------------------------+
    |                 response               |
    |                 response               |
    | provider_in_words | provider_out_words |
    |                 padding                |
    +----------------------------------------+
    |                                        |
    .              &lt;uverbs input&gt;            .
    .              (in_words * 8)            .
    |                                        |
    +----------------------------------------+
    |                                        |
    .             &lt;provider input&gt;           .
    .          (provider_in_words * 8)       .
    |                                        |
    +----------------------------------------+

- response, if present:

    +----------------------------------------+
    |                                        |
    .          &lt;uverbs output space&gt;         .
    .             (out_words * 8)            .
    |                                        |
    +----------------------------------------+
    |                                        |
    .         &lt;provider output space&gt;        .
    .         (provider_out_words * 8)       .
    |                                        |
    +----------------------------------------+

The overall design is to ensure that the extensible infrastructure is
itself extensible while begin more reliable with more input and bound
checking.

Note:

The unused field in the extended header would be perfect candidate to
hold the command "comp_mask" (eg. bit field used to handle
compatibility).  This was suggested by Roland Dreier in a previous
review[2].  But "comp_mask" field is likely to be present in the uverb
input and/or provider input, likewise for the response, as noted by
Matan Barak[3], so it doesn't make sense to put "comp_mask" in the
header.

[1]:
http://marc.info/?i=CAL1RGDWxmM17W2o_era24A-TTDeKyoL6u3NRu_=t_dhV_ZA9MA@mail.gmail.com

[2]:
http://marc.info/?i=CAL1RGDXJtrc849M6_XNZT5xO1+ybKtLWGq6yg6LhoSsKpsmkYA@mail.gmail.com

[3]:
http://marc.info/?i=525C1149.6000701@mellanox.com

Signed-off-by: Yann Droneaud &lt;ydroneaud@opteya.com&gt;
Link: http://marc.info/?i=cover.1383773832.git.ydroneaud@opteya.com

[ Convert "ret ? ret : 0" to the equivalent "ret".  - Roland ]

Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier &lt;roland@purestorage.com&gt;
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Commit 400dbc96583f ("IB/core: Infrastructure for extensible uverbs
commands") added an infrastructure for extensible uverbs commands
while later commit 436f2ad05a0b ("IB/core: Export ib_create/destroy_flow
through uverbs") exported ib_create_flow()/ib_destroy_flow() functions
using this new infrastructure.

According to the commit 400dbc96583f, the purpose of this
infrastructure is to support passing around provider (eg. hardware)
specific buffers when userspace issue commands to the kernel, so that
it would be possible to extend uverbs (eg. core) buffers independently
from the provider buffers.

But the new kernel command function prototypes were not modified to
take advantage of this extension. This issue was exposed by Roland
Dreier in a previous review[1].

So the following patch is an attempt to a revised extensible command
infrastructure.

This improved extensible command infrastructure distinguish between
core (eg. legacy)'s command/response buffers from provider
(eg. hardware)'s command/response buffers: each extended command
implementing function is given a struct ib_udata to hold core
(eg. uverbs) input and output buffers, and another struct ib_udata to
hold the hw (eg. provider) input and output buffers.

Having those buffers identified separately make it easier to increase
one buffer to support extension without having to add some code to
guess the exact size of each command/response parts: This should make
the extended functions more reliable.

Additionally, instead of relying on command identifier being greater
than IB_USER_VERBS_CMD_THRESHOLD, the proposed infrastructure rely on
unused bits in command field: on the 32 bits provided by command
field, only 6 bits are really needed to encode the identifier of
commands currently supported by the kernel. (Even using only 6 bits
leaves room for about 23 new commands).

So this patch makes use of some high order bits in command field to
store flags, leaving enough room for more command identifiers than one
will ever need (eg. 256).

The new flags are used to specify if the command should be processed
as an extended one or a legacy one. While designing the new command
format, care was taken to make usage of flags itself extensible.

Using high order bits of the commands field ensure that newer
libibverbs on older kernel will properly fail when trying to call
extended commands. On the other hand, older libibverbs on newer kernel
will never be able to issue calls to extended commands.

The extended command header includes the optional response pointer so
that output buffer length and output buffer pointer are located
together in the command, allowing proper parameters checking. This
should make implementing functions easier and safer.

Additionally the extended header ensure 64bits alignment, while making
all sizes multiple of 8 bytes, extending the maximum buffer size:

                             legacy      extended

   Maximum command buffer:  256KBytes   1024KBytes (512KBytes + 512KBytes)
  Maximum response buffer:  256KBytes   1024KBytes (512KBytes + 512KBytes)

For the purpose of doing proper buffer size accounting, the headers
size are no more taken in account in "in_words".

One of the odds of the current extensible infrastructure, reading
twice the "legacy" command header, is fixed by removing the "legacy"
command header from the extended command header: they are processed as
two different parts of the command: memory is read once and
information are not duplicated: it's making clear that's an extended
command scheme and not a different command scheme.

The proposed scheme will format input (command) and output (response)
buffers this way:

- command:

  legacy header +
  extended header +
  command data (core + hw):

    +----------------------------------------+
    | flags     |   00      00    |  command |
    |        in_words    |   out_words       |
    +----------------------------------------+
    |                 response               |
    |                 response               |
    | provider_in_words | provider_out_words |
    |                 padding                |
    +----------------------------------------+
    |                                        |
    .              &lt;uverbs input&gt;            .
    .              (in_words * 8)            .
    |                                        |
    +----------------------------------------+
    |                                        |
    .             &lt;provider input&gt;           .
    .          (provider_in_words * 8)       .
    |                                        |
    +----------------------------------------+

- response, if present:

    +----------------------------------------+
    |                                        |
    .          &lt;uverbs output space&gt;         .
    .             (out_words * 8)            .
    |                                        |
    +----------------------------------------+
    |                                        |
    .         &lt;provider output space&gt;        .
    .         (provider_out_words * 8)       .
    |                                        |
    +----------------------------------------+

The overall design is to ensure that the extensible infrastructure is
itself extensible while begin more reliable with more input and bound
checking.

Note:

The unused field in the extended header would be perfect candidate to
hold the command "comp_mask" (eg. bit field used to handle
compatibility).  This was suggested by Roland Dreier in a previous
review[2].  But "comp_mask" field is likely to be present in the uverb
input and/or provider input, likewise for the response, as noted by
Matan Barak[3], so it doesn't make sense to put "comp_mask" in the
header.

[1]:
http://marc.info/?i=CAL1RGDWxmM17W2o_era24A-TTDeKyoL6u3NRu_=t_dhV_ZA9MA@mail.gmail.com

[2]:
http://marc.info/?i=CAL1RGDXJtrc849M6_XNZT5xO1+ybKtLWGq6yg6LhoSsKpsmkYA@mail.gmail.com

[3]:
http://marc.info/?i=525C1149.6000701@mellanox.com

Signed-off-by: Yann Droneaud &lt;ydroneaud@opteya.com&gt;
Link: http://marc.info/?i=cover.1383773832.git.ydroneaud@opteya.com

[ Convert "ret ? ret : 0" to the equivalent "ret".  - Roland ]

Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier &lt;roland@purestorage.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>IB/mlx5: Fix page shift in create CQ for userspace</title>
<updated>2013-11-15T22:36:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eli Cohen</name>
<email>eli@dev.mellanox.co.il</email>
</author>
<published>2013-10-31T13:26:36+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=cf1c5e1f1c965cf44e680127b2e9564fc472676c'/>
<id>cf1c5e1f1c965cf44e680127b2e9564fc472676c</id>
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When creating a CQ, we must use mlx5 adapter page shift.

Signed-off-by: Eli Cohen &lt;eli@mellanox.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier &lt;roland@purestorage.com&gt;
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When creating a CQ, we must use mlx5 adapter page shift.

Signed-off-by: Eli Cohen &lt;eli@mellanox.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier &lt;roland@purestorage.com&gt;
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