RDMA/uverbs: Allow drivers to create a new HW object during rereg_mr
mlx5 has an ugly flow where it tries to allocate a new MR and replace the existing MR in the same memory during rereg. This is very complicated and buggy. Instead of trying to replace in-place inside the driver, provide support from uverbs to change the entire HW object assigned to a handle during rereg_mr. Since destroying a MR is allowed to fail (ie if a MW is pointing at it) and can't be detected in advance, the algorithm creates a completely new uobject to hold the new MR and swaps the IDR entries of the two objects. The old MR in the temporary IDR entry is destroyed, and if it fails rereg_mr succeeds and destruction is deferred to FD release. This complexity is why this cannot live in a driver safely. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201130075839.278575-4-leon@kernel.orgSigned-off-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
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