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    IB/core: Add a generic way to execute an operation on a uobject · a0aa309c
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    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: default avatarMatan Barak <matanb@mellanox.com>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarYishai Hadas <yishaih@mellanox.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDoug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>
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