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| -rw-r--r-- | include/rdma/ib_verbs.h | 11 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/rdma/ib_verbs.h b/include/rdma/ib_verbs.h index 3be1d1194a17..06a565203cfc 100644 --- a/include/rdma/ib_verbs.h +++ b/include/rdma/ib_verbs.h @@ -3394,6 +3394,17 @@ enum ib_pd_flags { struct ib_pd *__ib_alloc_pd(struct ib_device *device, unsigned int flags, const char *caller); +/** + * ib_alloc_pd - Allocates an unused protection domain. + * @device: The device on which to allocate the protection domain. + * @flags: protection domain flags + * + * A protection domain object provides an association between QPs, shared + * receive queues, address handles, memory regions, and memory windows. + * + * Every PD has a local_dma_lkey which can be used as the lkey value for local + * memory operations. + */ #define ib_alloc_pd(device, flags) \ __ib_alloc_pd((device), (flags), KBUILD_MODNAME) |