IB/core: Add a generic way to execute an operation on a uobject

The ioctl infrastructure treats all user-objects in the same manner.
It gets objects ids from the user-space and by using the object type
and type attributes mentioned in the object specification, it executes
this required method. Passing an object id from the user-space as
an attribute is carried out in three stages. The first is carried out
before the actual handler and the last is carried out afterwards.

The different supported operations are read, write, destroy and create.
In the first stage, the former three actions just fetches the object
from the repository (by using its id) and locks it. The last action
allocates a new uobject. Afterwards, the second stage is carried out
when the handler itself carries out the required modification of the
object. The last stage is carried out after the handler finishes and
commits the result. The former two operations just unlock the object.
Destroy calls the "free object" operation, taking into account the
object's type and releases the uobject as well. Creation just adds the
new uobject to the repository, making the object visible to the
application.

In order to abstract these details from the ioctl infrastructure
layer, we add uverbs_get_uobject_from_context and
uverbs_finalize_object functions which corresponds to the first
and last stages respectively.

Signed-off-by: Matan Barak <matanb@mellanox.com>
Reviewed-by: Yishai Hadas <yishaih@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 52 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/rdma/uverbs_ioctl.h b/include/rdma/uverbs_ioctl.h
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+
+#ifndef _UVERBS_IOCTL_
+#define _UVERBS_IOCTL_
+
+#include <rdma/uverbs_types.h>
+
+/*
+ * =======================================
+ *	Verbs action specifications
+ * =======================================
+ */
+
+enum uverbs_obj_access {
+	UVERBS_ACCESS_READ,
+	UVERBS_ACCESS_WRITE,
+	UVERBS_ACCESS_NEW,
+	UVERBS_ACCESS_DESTROY
+};
+
+#endif
+