IB/mlx5: Add mlx5_ib_update_mtt to update page tables after creation
The new function allows updating the page tables of a memory region after it was created. This can be used to handle page faults and page invalidations. Since mlx5_ib_update_mtt will need to work from within page invalidation, so it must not block on memory allocation. It employs an atomic memory allocation mechanism that is used as a fallback when kmalloc(GFP_ATOMIC) fails. In order to reuse code from mlx5_ib_populate_pas, the patch splits this function and add the needed parameters. Signed-off-by: Haggai Eran <haggaie@mellanox.com> Signed-off-by: Shachar Raindel <raindel@mellanox.com> Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <roland@purestorage.com>
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