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Shaohua Li 3bf2bd2073 nullb: add configfs interface
Add configfs interface for nullb. configfs interface is more flexible
and easy to configure in a per-disk basis.

Configuration is something like this:
mount -t configfs none /mnt

Checking which features the driver supports:
cat /mnt/nullb/features

The 'features' attribute is for future extension. We probably will add
new features into the driver, userspace can check this attribute to find
the supported features.

Create/remove a device:
mkdir/rmdir /mnt/nullb/a

Then configure the device by setting attributes under /mnt/nullb/a, most
of nullb supported module parameters are converted to attributes:
size; /* device size in MB */
completion_nsec; /* time in ns to complete a request */
submit_queues; /* number of submission queues */
home_node; /* home node for the device */
queue_mode; /* block interface */
blocksize; /* block size */
irqmode; /* IRQ completion handler */
hw_queue_depth; /* queue depth */
use_lightnvm; /* register as a LightNVM device */
blocking; /* blocking blk-mq device */
use_per_node_hctx; /* use per-node allocation for hardware context */

Note, creating a device doesn't create a disk immediately. Creating a
disk is done in two phases: create a device and then power on the
device. Next patch will introduce device power on.

Based on original patch from Kyungchan Koh

Signed-off-by: Kyungchan Koh <kkc6196@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2017-08-23 08:54:02 -06:00
Documentation Merge branch 'linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6 2017-07-28 12:31:49 -07:00
arch s390: SRCU fix. 2017-07-28 13:36:56 -07:00
block block: Relax a check in blk_start_queue() 2017-08-18 08:45:29 -06:00
certs modsign: add markers to endif-statements in certs/Makefile 2017-07-14 11:01:37 +10:00
crypto crypto: authencesn - Fix digest_null crash 2017-07-18 17:01:11 +08:00
drivers nullb: add configfs interface 2017-08-23 08:54:02 -06:00
firmware firmware/Makefile: force recompilation if makefile changes 2017-05-08 17:15:10 -07:00
fs blktrace: add an option to allow displaying cgroup path 2017-07-29 09:00:03 -06:00
include blk-mq: Make blk_mq_reinit_tagset() calls easier to read 2017-08-18 08:36:58 -06:00
init random: do not ignore early device randomness 2017-07-12 16:26:00 -07:00
ipc ipc/util.h: update documentation for ipc_getref() and ipc_putref() 2017-07-12 16:26:02 -07:00
kernel block: use standard blktrace API to output cgroup info for debug notes 2017-07-29 09:00:03 -06:00
lib uuid: fix incorrect uuid_equal conversion in test_uuid_test 2017-07-21 09:38:30 +02:00
mm Merge branch 'work.mount' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2017-07-15 12:00:42 -07:00
net NFS client bugfixes for 4.13 2017-07-21 16:26:01 -07:00
samples Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2017-07-13 12:38:49 -07:00
scripts DeviceTree fixes for 4.13: 2017-07-28 17:21:41 -07:00
security Now that IPC and other changes have landed, enable manual markings for 2017-07-19 08:55:18 -07:00
sound sound fixes for 4.13-rc3 2017-07-27 10:44:28 -07:00
tools tools/kvm_stat: add '-f help' to get the available event list 2017-07-26 19:04:53 +02:00
usr ramfs: clarify help text that compression applies to ramfs as well as legacy ramdisk. 2017-07-06 16:24:30 -07:00
virt KVM: make pid available for uevents without debugfs 2017-07-26 18:57:44 +02:00
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Makefile Linux 4.13-rc2 2017-07-23 16:15:17 -07:00
README README: add a new README file, pointing to the Documentation/ 2016-10-24 08:12:35 -02:00

README

Linux kernel
============

This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst

Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users.
These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.