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Each file descriptor gets a chunk of per-FD driver specific context that allows the driver to attach a device specific struct to. The core code takes care of the memory lifetime for this structure. The ioctl dispatch and design is based on what was built for iommufd. The ioctls have a struct which has a combined in/out behavior with a typical 'zero pad' scheme for future extension and backwards compatibility. Like iommufd some shared logic does most of the ioctl marshaling and compatibility work and table dispatches to some function pointers for each unique ioctl. This approach has proven to work quite well in the iommufd and rdma subsystems. Allocate an ioctl number space for the subsystem. Link: https://patch.msgid.link/r/2-v5-642aa0c94070+4447f-fwctl_jgg@nvidia.com Reviewed-by: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com> Reviewed-by: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Shannon Nelson <shannon.nelson@amd.com> Tested-by: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com> Tested-by: Shannon Nelson <shannon.nelson@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.