kernel/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-block, branch linux-5.1.y

block: add documentation for io_timeout

2019-01-05T02:19:51Z

Add documentation for /sys/block//queue/io_timeout. Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche Signed-off-by: Weiping Zhang Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: update sysfs documentation

2018-12-17T02:53:06Z

Add the description of the zoned, nr_zones and chunk_sectors sysfs queue attributes to Documentation/block/queue-sysfs.txt. The description of the zoned and chunk_sector attributes are mostly copied from ABI/testing/sysfs-block (added a typo fix). While at it, also fix a typo in the description of the io_poll_delay attribute. nr_zones description is also added to ABI/testing/sysfs-block and contact email address updated for the zoned attribute. Signed-off-by: Damien Le Moal Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: remove the discard_zeroes_data flag

2017-04-08T17:25:38Z

Now that we use the proper REQ_OP_WRITE_ZEROES operation everywhere we can kill this hack. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: add support for REQ_OP_WRITE_ZEROES

2016-12-01T14:58:40Z

This adds a new block layer operation to zero out a range of LBAs. This allows to implement zeroing for devices that don't use either discard with a predictable zero pattern or WRITE SAME of zeroes. The prominent example of that is NVMe with the Write Zeroes command, but in the future, this should also help with improving the way zeroing discards work. For this operation, suitable entry is exported in sysfs which indicate the number of maximum bytes allowed in one write zeroes operation by the device. Signed-off-by: Chaitanya Kulkarni Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

blk-sysfs: Add 'chunk_sectors' to sysfs attributes

2016-10-18T16:02:02Z

The queue limits already have a 'chunk_sectors' setting, so we should be presenting it via sysfs. Signed-off-by: Hannes Reinecke [Damien: Updated Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-block] Signed-off-by: Damien Le Moal Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen Reviewed-by: Shaun Tancheff Tested-by: Shaun Tancheff Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: Add 'zoned' queue limit

2016-10-18T16:02:00Z

Add the zoned queue limit to indicate the zoning model of a block device. Defined values are 0 (BLK_ZONED_NONE) for regular block devices, 1 (BLK_ZONED_HA) for host-aware zone block devices and 2 (BLK_ZONED_HM) for host-managed zone block devices. The standards defined drive managed model is not defined here since these block devices do not provide any command for accessing zone information. Drive managed model devices will be reported as BLK_ZONED_NONE. The helper functions blk_queue_zoned_model and bdev_zoned_model return the zoned limit and the functions blk_queue_is_zoned and bdev_is_zoned return a boolean for callers to test if a block device is zoned. The zoned attribute is also exported as a string to applications via sysfs. BLK_ZONED_NONE shows as "none", BLK_ZONED_HA as "host-aware" and BLK_ZONED_HM as "host-managed". Signed-off-by: Damien Le Moal Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen Reviewed-by: Shaun Tancheff Tested-by: Shaun Tancheff Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: Export integrity data interval size in sysfs

2015-10-21T20:42:41Z

The size of the data interval was not exported in the sysfs integrity directory. Export it so that userland apps can tell whether the interval is different from the device's logical block size. Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen Reviewed-by: Sagi Grimberg Signed-off-by: Dan Williams Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: Add a disk flag to block integrity profile

2014-09-27T15:14:51Z

So far we have relied on the app tag size to determine whether a disk has been formatted with T10 protection information or not. However, not all target devices provide application tag storage. Add a flag to the block integrity profile that indicates whether the disk has been formatted with protection information. Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen Reviewed-by: Sagi Grimberg Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: Implement support for WRITE SAME

2012-09-20T12:31:45Z

The WRITE SAME command supported on some SCSI devices allows the same block to be efficiently replicated throughout a block range. Only a single logical block is transferred from the host and the storage device writes the same data to all blocks described by the I/O. This patch implements support for WRITE SAME in the block layer. The blkdev_issue_write_same() function can be used by filesystems and block drivers to replicate a buffer across a block range. This can be used to efficiently initialize software RAID devices, etc. Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen Acked-by: Mike Snitzer Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: Revert "[SCSI] genhd: add a new attribute "alias" in gendisk"

2011-11-10T08:03:55Z

This reverts commit a72c5e5eb738033938ab30d6a634b74d1d060f10. The commit introduced alias for block devices which is intended to be used during logging although actual usage hasn't been committed yet. This approach adds very limited benefit (raw log might be easier to follow) which can be trivially implemented in userland but has a lot of problems. It is much worse than netif renames because it doesn't rename the actual device but just adds conveninence name which isn't used universally or enforced. Everything internal including device lookup and sysfs still uses the internal name and nothing prevents two devices from using conflicting alias - ie. sda can have sdb as its alias. This has been nacked by people working on device driver core, block layer and kernel-userland interface and shouldn't have been upstreamed. Revert it. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1155104 http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.scsi/68632 http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.scsi/69776 Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman Acked-by: Kay Sievers Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" Cc: Nao Nishijima Cc: Alan Cox Cc: Al Viro Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe