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    IB/core: Add support to finalize objects in one transaction · f43dbebf
    Matan Barak authored
    The new ioctl based infrastructure either commits or rollbacks
    all objects of the method as one transaction. In order to do
    that, we introduce a notion of dealing with a collection of
    objects that are related to a specific method.
    
    This also requires adding a notion of a method and attribute.
    A method contains a hash of attributes, where each bucket
    contains several attributes. The attributes are hashed according
    to their namespace which resides in the four upper bits of the id.
    
    For example, an object could be a CQ, which has an action of CREATE_CQ.
    This action has multiple attributes. For example, the CQ's new handle
    and the comp_channel. Each layer in this hierarchy - objects, methods
    and attributes is split into namespaces. The basic example for that is
    one namespace representing the default entities and another one
    representing the driver specific entities.
    
    When declaring these methods and attributes, we actually declare
    their specifications. When a method is executed, we actually
    allocates some space to hold auxiliary information. This auxiliary
    information contains meta-data about the required objects, such
    as pointers to their type information, pointers to the uobjects
    themselves (if exist), etc.
    The specification, along with the auxiliary information we allocated
    and filled is given to the finalize_objects function.
    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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