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Subject[PATCH 1/3] docs-rst: infiniband: Convert user verbs doc to rst
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Replace the existing Documentation/infiniband/user_verbs.txt with
Documentation/infiniband/user_verbs.rst. No substantial changes to
the content - just some minor reformatting to have the rendering
come out nicely.
This is in preparation for updating the content in a subsequent
patch.

Signed-off-by: Joel Nider <joeln@il.ibm.com>
---
Documentation/infiniband/user_verbs.rst | 70 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Documentation/infiniband/user_verbs.txt | 69 --------------------------------
2 files changed, 70 insertions(+), 69 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 Documentation/infiniband/user_verbs.rst
delete mode 100644 Documentation/infiniband/user_verbs.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/infiniband/user_verbs.rst b/Documentation/infiniband/user_verbs.rst
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..ffc4aec
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/infiniband/user_verbs.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,70 @@
+======================
+Userspace Verbs Access
+======================
+The ib_uverbs module, built by enabling CONFIG_INFINIBAND_USER_VERBS,
+enables direct userspace access to IB hardware via "verbs," as
+described in chapter 11 of the InfiniBand Architecture Specification.
+
+To use the verbs, the libibverbs library, available from
+https://github.com/linux-rdma/rdma-core, is required. libibverbs contains a
+device-independent API for using the ib_uverbs interface.
+libibverbs also requires appropriate device-dependent kernel and
+userspace driver for your InfiniBand hardware. For example, to use
+a Mellanox HCA, you will need the ib_mthca kernel module and the
+libmthca userspace driver be installed.
+
+User-kernel communication
+=========================
+Userspace communicates with the kernel for slow path, resource
+management operations via the /dev/infiniband/uverbsN character
+devices. Fast path operations are typically performed by writing
+directly to hardware registers mmap()ed into userspace, with no
+system call or context switch into the kernel.
+
+Commands are sent to the kernel via write()s on these device files.
+The ABI is defined in drivers/infiniband/include/ib_user_verbs.h.
+The structs for commands that require a response from the kernel
+contain a 64-bit field used to pass a pointer to an output buffer.
+Status is returned to userspace as the return value of the write()
+system call.
+
+Resource management
+===================
+Since creation and destruction of all IB resources is done by
+commands passed through a file descriptor, the kernel can keep track
+of which resources are attached to a given userspace context. The
+ib_uverbs module maintains idr tables that are used to translate
+between kernel pointers and opaque userspace handles, so that kernel
+pointers are never exposed to userspace and userspace cannot trick
+the kernel into following a bogus pointer.
+
+This also allows the kernel to clean up when a process exits and
+prevent one process from touching another process's resources.
+
+Memory pinning
+==============
+Direct userspace I/O requires that memory regions that are potential
+I/O targets be kept resident at the same physical address. The
+ib_uverbs module manages pinning and unpinning memory regions via
+get_user_pages() and put_page() calls. It also accounts for the
+amount of memory pinned in the process's locked_vm, and checks that
+unprivileged processes do not exceed their RLIMIT_MEMLOCK limit.
+
+Pages that are pinned multiple times are counted each time they are
+pinned, so the value of locked_vm may be an overestimate of the
+number of pages pinned by a process.
+
+/dev files
+==========
+To create the appropriate character device files automatically with
+udev, a rule like::
+
+ KERNEL=="uverbs*", NAME="infiniband/%k"
+
+can be used. This will create device nodes named::
+
+ /dev/infiniband/uverbs0
+
+and so on. Since the InfiniBand userspace verbs should be safe for
+use by non-privileged processes, it may be useful to add an
+appropriate MODE or GROUP to the udev rule.
diff --git a/Documentation/infiniband/user_verbs.txt b/Documentation/infiniband/user_verbs.txt
deleted file mode 100644
index df049b9..0000000
--- a/Documentation/infiniband/user_verbs.txt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,69 +0,0 @@
-USERSPACE VERBS ACCESS
-
- The ib_uverbs module, built by enabling CONFIG_INFINIBAND_USER_VERBS,
- enables direct userspace access to IB hardware via "verbs," as
- described in chapter 11 of the InfiniBand Architecture Specification.
-
- To use the verbs, the libibverbs library, available from
- https://github.com/linux-rdma/rdma-core, is required. libibverbs contains a
- device-independent API for using the ib_uverbs interface.
- libibverbs also requires appropriate device-dependent kernel and
- userspace driver for your InfiniBand hardware. For example, to use
- a Mellanox HCA, you will need the ib_mthca kernel module and the
- libmthca userspace driver be installed.
-
-User-kernel communication
-
- Userspace communicates with the kernel for slow path, resource
- management operations via the /dev/infiniband/uverbsN character
- devices. Fast path operations are typically performed by writing
- directly to hardware registers mmap()ed into userspace, with no
- system call or context switch into the kernel.
-
- Commands are sent to the kernel via write()s on these device files.
- The ABI is defined in drivers/infiniband/include/ib_user_verbs.h.
- The structs for commands that require a response from the kernel
- contain a 64-bit field used to pass a pointer to an output buffer.
- Status is returned to userspace as the return value of the write()
- system call.
-
-Resource management
-
- Since creation and destruction of all IB resources is done by
- commands passed through a file descriptor, the kernel can keep track
- of which resources are attached to a given userspace context. The
- ib_uverbs module maintains idr tables that are used to translate
- between kernel pointers and opaque userspace handles, so that kernel
- pointers are never exposed to userspace and userspace cannot trick
- the kernel into following a bogus pointer.
-
- This also allows the kernel to clean up when a process exits and
- prevent one process from touching another process's resources.
-
-Memory pinning
-
- Direct userspace I/O requires that memory regions that are potential
- I/O targets be kept resident at the same physical address. The
- ib_uverbs module manages pinning and unpinning memory regions via
- get_user_pages() and put_page() calls. It also accounts for the
- amount of memory pinned in the process's locked_vm, and checks that
- unprivileged processes do not exceed their RLIMIT_MEMLOCK limit.
-
- Pages that are pinned multiple times are counted each time they are
- pinned, so the value of locked_vm may be an overestimate of the
- number of pages pinned by a process.
-
-/dev files
-
- To create the appropriate character device files automatically with
- udev, a rule like
-
- KERNEL=="uverbs*", NAME="infiniband/%k"
-
- can be used. This will create device nodes named
-
- /dev/infiniband/uverbs0
-
- and so on. Since the InfiniBand userspace verbs should be safe for
- use by non-privileged processes, it may be useful to add an
- appropriate MODE or GROUP to the udev rule.
--
2.7.4
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