From 2651bf680bc2ad9a078b7222b0873145ab4ece07 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Song Liu Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2022 11:28:25 -0800 Subject: block: introduce BLK_STS_OFFLINE Currently, drivers reports BLK_STS_IOERR for devices that are not full online or being removed. This behavior could cause confusion for users, as they are not really I/O errors from the device. Solve this issue with a new state BLK_STS_OFFLINE, which reports "device offline error" in dmesg instead of "I/O error". EIO is intentionally kept to not change user visible return value. Signed-off-by: Song Liu Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220203192827.1370270-2-song@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe --- include/linux/blk_types.h | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) (limited to 'include/linux') diff --git a/include/linux/blk_types.h b/include/linux/blk_types.h index fe065c394fff..5561e58d158a 100644 --- a/include/linux/blk_types.h +++ b/include/linux/blk_types.h @@ -153,6 +153,13 @@ typedef u8 __bitwise blk_status_t; */ #define BLK_STS_ZONE_ACTIVE_RESOURCE ((__force blk_status_t)16) +/* + * BLK_STS_OFFLINE is returned from the driver when the target device is offline + * or is being taken offline. This could help differentiate the case where a + * device is intentionally being shut down from a real I/O error. + */ +#define BLK_STS_OFFLINE ((__force blk_status_t)17) + /** * blk_path_error - returns true if error may be path related * @error: status the request was completed with -- cgit v1.3-14-g43fede