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    IB/core: Add uverbs merge trees functionality · 118620d3
    Matan Barak authored
    Different drivers support different features and even subset of the
    common uverbs implementation. Currently, this is handled as bitmask
    in every driver that represents which kind of methods it supports, but
    doesn't go down to attributes granularity. Moreover, drivers might
    want to add their specific types, methods and attributes to let
    their user-space counter-parts be exposed to some more efficient
    abstractions. It means that existence of different features is
    validated syntactically via the parsing infrastructure rather than
    using a complex in-handler logic.
    
    In order to do that, we allow defining features and abstractions
    as parsing trees. These per-feature parsing tree could be merged
    to an efficient (perfect-hash based) parsing tree, which is later
    used by the parsing infrastructure.
    
    To sum it up, this makes a parse tree unique for a device and
    represents only the features this particular device supports.
    This is done by having a root specification tree per feature.
    Before a device registers itself as an IB device, it merges
    all these trees into one parsing tree. This parsing tree
    is used to parse all user-space commands.
    
    A future user-space application could read this parse tree. This
    tree represents which objects, methods and attributes are
    supported by this device.
    
    This is based on the idea of
    Jason Gunthorpe <jgunthorpe@obsidianresearch.com>
    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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