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authorDamien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@hgst.com>2016-10-18 09:40:29 +0300
committerJens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>2016-10-18 19:02:00 +0300
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block: Add 'zoned' queue limit
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 <damien.lemoal@hgst.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Shaun Tancheff <shaun.tancheff@seagate.com> Tested-by: Shaun Tancheff <shaun.tancheff@seagate.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
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@@ -235,3 +235,19 @@ Description:
write_same_max_bytes is 0, write same is not supported
by the device.
+What: /sys/block/<disk>/queue/zoned
+Date: September 2016
+Contact: Damien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@hgst.com>
+Description:
+ zoned indicates if the device is a zoned block device
+ and the zone model of the device if it is indeed zoned.
+ The possible values indicated by zoned are "none" for
+ regular block devices and "host-aware" or "host-managed"
+ for zoned block devices. The characteristics of
+ host-aware and host-managed zoned block devices are
+ described in the ZBC (Zoned Block Commands) and ZAC
+ (Zoned Device ATA Command Set) standards. These standards
+ also define the "drive-managed" zone model. However,
+ since drive-managed zoned block devices do not support
+ zone commands, they will be treated as regular block
+ devices and zoned will report "none".