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A verbs application may need to get statistics and info on various aspects of a verb object (e.g. Flow, QP, ...), in general case the application will state which object's counters its interested in (we refer to this action as attach), bind this new counters object to the appropriate verb object and on later stage read their values using the counters object. This series introduces a general API for counters object that may accumulate any ib object counters type, bound and read on demand. Counters instance is allocated on an IB context and belongs to that context. Upon successful creation the counters can be bound to a verbs object so that hardware counter instances can be created and read. Downstream patches in this series will introduce the attach, bind and the read functionality. Counters instance can be de-allocated, upon successful destruction the related hardware resources are released. Prior to destroy call the user must first make sure that the counters is not being used by any IB object, e.g. not attached to any of its counted type otherwise an EBUSY error is invoked. Reviewed-by: Yishai Hadas <yishaih@mellanox.com> Signed-off-by: Raed Salem <raeds@mellanox.com> Signed-off-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@mellanox.com> Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@mellanox.com>
Linux kernel
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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 Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.
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.