Patch "IB/core, RDMA RW API: Do not exceed QP SGE send limit" has been added to the 4.7-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    IB/core, RDMA RW API: Do not exceed QP SGE send limit

to the 4.7-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     ib-core-rdma-rw-api-do-not-exceed-qp-sge-send-limit.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.7 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From 632bc3f65081dd1e2e5394a9161580a0f78e8839 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@sandisk.com>
Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2016 13:03:30 -0700
Subject: IB/core, RDMA RW API: Do not exceed QP SGE send limit

From: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@sandisk.com>

commit 632bc3f65081dd1e2e5394a9161580a0f78e8839 upstream.

Compute the SGE limit for RDMA READ and WRITE requests in
ib_create_qp(). Use that limit in the RDMA RW API implementation.

Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@sandisk.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Sagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me>
Cc: Steve Wise <swise@opengridcomputing.com>
Cc: Parav Pandit <pandit.parav@gmail.com>
Cc: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
Cc: Laurence Oberman <loberman@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 drivers/infiniband/core/rw.c    |   10 ++--------
 drivers/infiniband/core/verbs.c |    9 +++++++++
 include/rdma/ib_verbs.h         |    6 ++++++
 3 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/infiniband/core/rw.c
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/core/rw.c
@@ -58,13 +58,6 @@ static inline bool rdma_rw_io_needs_mr(s
 	return false;
 }
 
-static inline u32 rdma_rw_max_sge(struct ib_device *dev,
-		enum dma_data_direction dir)
-{
-	return dir == DMA_TO_DEVICE ?
-		dev->attrs.max_sge : dev->attrs.max_sge_rd;
-}
-
 static inline u32 rdma_rw_fr_page_list_len(struct ib_device *dev)
 {
 	/* arbitrary limit to avoid allocating gigantic resources */
@@ -186,7 +179,8 @@ static int rdma_rw_init_map_wrs(struct r
 		u64 remote_addr, u32 rkey, enum dma_data_direction dir)
 {
 	struct ib_device *dev = qp->pd->device;
-	u32 max_sge = rdma_rw_max_sge(dev, dir);
+	u32 max_sge = dir == DMA_TO_DEVICE ? qp->max_write_sge :
+		      qp->max_read_sge;
 	struct ib_sge *sge;
 	u32 total_len = 0, i, j;
 
--- a/drivers/infiniband/core/verbs.c
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/core/verbs.c
@@ -814,6 +814,15 @@ struct ib_qp *ib_create_qp(struct ib_pd
 		}
 	}
 
+	/*
+	 * Note: all hw drivers guarantee that max_send_sge is lower than
+	 * the device RDMA WRITE SGE limit but not all hw drivers ensure that
+	 * max_send_sge <= max_sge_rd.
+	 */
+	qp->max_write_sge = qp_init_attr->cap.max_send_sge;
+	qp->max_read_sge = min_t(u32, qp_init_attr->cap.max_send_sge,
+				 device->attrs.max_sge_rd);
+
 	return qp;
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(ib_create_qp);
--- a/include/rdma/ib_verbs.h
+++ b/include/rdma/ib_verbs.h
@@ -1428,6 +1428,10 @@ struct ib_srq {
 	} ext;
 };
 
+/*
+ * @max_write_sge: Maximum SGE elements per RDMA WRITE request.
+ * @max_read_sge:  Maximum SGE elements per RDMA READ request.
+ */
 struct ib_qp {
 	struct ib_device       *device;
 	struct ib_pd	       *pd;
@@ -1449,6 +1453,8 @@ struct ib_qp {
 	void                  (*event_handler)(struct ib_event *, void *);
 	void		       *qp_context;
 	u32			qp_num;
+	u32			max_write_sge;
+	u32			max_read_sge;
 	enum ib_qp_type		qp_type;
 };
 


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from bart.vanassche@sandisk.com are

queue-4.7/dm-set-dmf_suspended-_before_-clearing-dmf_noflush_suspending.patch
queue-4.7/ib-core-make-rdma_rw_ctx_init-initialize-all-used-fields.patch
queue-4.7/ib-rdmavt-disable-by-default.patch
queue-4.7/ib-srpt-limit-the-number-of-sg-elements-per-work-request.patch
queue-4.7/ib-core-rdma-rw-api-do-not-exceed-qp-sge-send-limit.patch