Hans Petter Selasky d6b92ffa99 OFED user-space import and update for use with Linux-4.9 compatible RDMA
kernel APIs.

List of sources used:

1) rdma-core was cloned from "https://github.com/linux-rdma/rdma-core.git"
Top commit d65138ef93af30b3ea249f3a84aa6a24ba7f8a75

2) OpenSM was cloned from git://git.openfabrics.org/~halr/opensm.git
Top commit 85f841cf209f791c89a075048a907020e924528d

3) libibmad was cloned from "git://git.openfabrics.org/~iraweiny/libibmad.git"
Tag 1.3.13 with some additional patches from Mellanox.

4) infiniband-diags was cloned from "git://git.openfabrics.org/~iraweiny/infiniband-diags.git"
Tag 1.6.7 with some additional patches from Mellanox.

Added the required Makefiles for building and installing.

Sponsored by:	Mellanox Technologies
2017-08-02 16:00:30 +00:00

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.\" -*- nroff -*-
.\" Licensed under the OpenIB.org BSD license (FreeBSD Variant) - See COPYING.md
.\"
.TH IBV_ALLOC_PD 3 2006-10-31 libibverbs "Libibverbs Programmer's Manual"
.SH "NAME"
ibv_alloc_pd, ibv_dealloc_pd \- allocate or deallocate a protection domain (PDs)
.SH "SYNOPSIS"
.nf
.B #include <infiniband/verbs.h>
.sp
.BI "struct ibv_pd *ibv_alloc_pd(struct ibv_context " "*context" );
.sp
.BI "int ibv_dealloc_pd(struct ibv_pd " "*pd" );
.fi
.SH "DESCRIPTION"
.B ibv_alloc_pd()
allocates a PD for the RDMA device context
.I context\fR.
.PP
.B ibv_dealloc_pd()
deallocates the PD
.I pd\fR.
.SH "RETURN VALUE"
.B ibv_alloc_pd()
returns a pointer to the allocated PD, or NULL if the request fails.
.PP
.B ibv_dealloc_pd()
returns 0 on success, or the value of errno on failure (which indicates the failure reason).
.SH "NOTES"
.B ibv_dealloc_pd()
may fail if any other resource is still associated with the PD being
freed.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.BR ibv_reg_mr (3),
.BR ibv_create_srq (3),
.BR ibv_create_qp (3),
.BR ibv_create_ah (3),
.BR ibv_create_ah_from_wc (3)
.SH "AUTHORS"
.TP
Dotan Barak <dotanba@gmail.com>