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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2021-04-28 14:39:37 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2021-04-28 14:39:37 -0700
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parentMerge tag 'for-5.13/block-2021-04-27' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block (diff)
parentMerge branch 'md-next' of https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/song/md into for-5.13/drivers (diff)
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Merge tag 'for-5.13/drivers-2021-04-27' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block
Pull block driver updates from Jens Axboe: - MD changes via Song: - raid5 POWER fix - raid1 failure fix - UAF fix for md cluster - mddev_find_or_alloc() clean up - Fix NULL pointer deref with external bitmap - Performance improvement for raid10 discard requests - Fix missing information of /proc/mdstat - rsxx const qualifier removal (Arnd) - Expose allocated brd pages (Calvin) - rnbd via Gioh Kim: - Change maintainer - Change domain address of maintainers' email - Add polling IO mode and document update - Fix memory leak and some bug detected by static code analysis tools - Code refactoring - Series of floppy cleanups/fixes (Denis) - s390 dasd fixes (Julian) - kerneldoc fixes (Lee) - null_blk double free (Lv) - null_blk virtual boundary addition (Max) - Remove xsysace driver (Michal) - umem driver removal (Davidlohr) - ataflop fixes (Dan) - Revalidate disk removal (Christoph) - Bounce buffer cleanups (Christoph) - Mark lightnvm as deprecated (Christoph) - mtip32xx init cleanups (Shixin) - Various fixes (Tian, Gustavo, Coly, Yang, Zhang, Zhiqiang) * tag 'for-5.13/drivers-2021-04-27' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (143 commits) async_xor: increase src_offs when dropping destination page drivers/block/null_blk/main: Fix a double free in null_init. md/raid1: properly indicate failure when ending a failed write request md-cluster: fix use-after-free issue when removing rdev nvme: introduce generic per-namespace chardev nvme: cleanup nvme_configure_apst nvme: do not try to reconfigure APST when the controller is not live nvme: add 'kato' sysfs attribute nvme: sanitize KATO setting nvmet: avoid queuing keep-alive timer if it is disabled brd: expose number of allocated pages in debugfs ataflop: fix off by one in ataflop_probe() ataflop: potential out of bounds in do_format() drbd: Fix fall-through warnings for Clang block/rnbd: Use strscpy instead of strlcpy block/rnbd-clt-sysfs: Remove copy buffer overlap in rnbd_clt_get_path_name block/rnbd-clt: Remove max_segment_size block/rnbd-clt: Generate kobject_uevent when the rnbd device state changes block/rnbd-srv: Remove unused arguments of rnbd_srv_rdma_ev Documentation/ABI/rnbd-clt: Add description for nr_poll_queues ...
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-block-rnbd18
-rw-r--r--Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-rnbd-client13
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/locking.rst2
3 files changed, 31 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-block-rnbd b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-block-rnbd
index 14a6fe9422b3..80b420b5d6b8 100644
--- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-block-rnbd
+++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-block-rnbd
@@ -44,3 +44,21 @@ Date: Feb 2020
KernelVersion: 5.7
Contact: Jack Wang <jinpu.wang@cloud.ionos.com> Danil Kipnis <danil.kipnis@cloud.ionos.com>
Description: Contains the device access mode: ro, rw or migration.
+
+What: /sys/block/rnbd<N>/rnbd/resize
+Date: Feb 2020
+KernelVersion: 5.7
+Contact: Jack Wang <jinpu.wang@cloud.ionos.com> Danil Kipnis <danil.kipnis@cloud.ionos.com>
+Description: Write the number of sectors to change the size of the disk.
+
+What: /sys/block/rnbd<N>/rnbd/remap_device
+Date: Feb 2020
+KernelVersion: 5.7
+Contact: Jack Wang <jinpu.wang@cloud.ionos.com> Danil Kipnis <danil.kipnis@cloud.ionos.com>
+Description: Remap the disconnected device if the session is not destroyed yet.
+
+What: /sys/block/rnbd<N>/rnbd/nr_poll_queues
+Date: Feb 2020
+KernelVersion: 5.7
+Contact: Jack Wang <jinpu.wang@cloud.ionos.com> Danil Kipnis <danil.kipnis@cloud.ionos.com>
+Description: Contains the number of poll-mode queues
diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-rnbd-client b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-rnbd-client
index 2aa05b3e348e..0b5997ab3365 100644
--- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-rnbd-client
+++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-rnbd-client
@@ -85,6 +85,19 @@ Description: Expected format is the following::
By default "rw" is used.
+ nr_poll_queues
+ specifies the number of poll-mode queues. If the IO has HIPRI flag,
+ the block-layer will send the IO via the poll-mode queue.
+ For fast network and device the polling is faster than interrupt-base
+ IO handling because it saves time for context switching, switching to
+ another process, handling the interrupt and switching back to the
+ issuing process.
+
+ Set -1 if you want to set it as the number of CPUs
+ By default rnbd client creates only irq-mode queues.
+
+ NOTICE: MUST make a unique session for a device using the poll-mode queues.
+
Exit Codes:
If the device is already mapped it will fail with EEXIST. If the input
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/locking.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/locking.rst
index 729ce492b662..1e894480115b 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/locking.rst
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/locking.rst
@@ -474,7 +474,6 @@ prototypes::
int (*direct_access) (struct block_device *, sector_t, void **,
unsigned long *);
void (*unlock_native_capacity) (struct gendisk *);
- int (*revalidate_disk) (struct gendisk *);
int (*getgeo)(struct block_device *, struct hd_geometry *);
void (*swap_slot_free_notify) (struct block_device *, unsigned long);
@@ -489,7 +488,6 @@ ioctl: no
compat_ioctl: no
direct_access: no
unlock_native_capacity: no
-revalidate_disk: no
getgeo: no
swap_slot_free_notify: no (see below)
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