Re: [PATCH rdma-next 7/7] RDMA/core: Create clean QP creations interface for uverbs

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Wed Jul 21 2021 - 02:50:14 EST


> +struct ib_qp *ib_create_qp_user(struct ib_device *dev, struct ib_pd *pd,
> + struct ib_qp_init_attr *attr,
> + struct ib_udata *udata,
> + struct ib_uqp_object *uobj, const char *caller);
> +static inline struct ib_qp *ib_create_qp_uverbs(struct ib_device *dev,
> + struct ib_pd *pd,
> + struct ib_qp_init_attr *attr,
> + struct ib_udata *udata,
> + struct ib_uqp_object *uobj)
> +{
> + if (attr->qp_type == IB_QPT_XRC_TGT)
> + return ib_create_qp_user(dev, pd, attr, NULL, uobj,
> + KBUILD_MODNAME);
> +
> + return ib_create_qp_user(dev, pd, attr, udata, uobj, NULL);

Why not always pass along the udata and caller and just not use them
in the low-level code?