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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2021-08-31 04:52:11 +0300
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2021-08-31 04:52:11 +0300
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Merge tag 'for-5.15/block-2021-08-30' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block
Pull block updates from Jens Axboe: "Nothing major in here - lots of good cleanups and tech debt handling, which is also evident in the diffstats. In particular: - Add disk sequence numbers (Matteo) - Discard merge fix (Ming) - Relax disk zoned reporting restrictions (Niklas) - Bio error handling zoned leak fix (Pavel) - Start of proper add_disk() error handling (Luis, Christoph) - blk crypto fix (Eric) - Non-standard GPT location support (Dmitry) - IO priority improvements and cleanups (Damien)o - blk-throtl improvements (Chunguang) - diskstats_show() stack reduction (Abd-Alrhman) - Loop scheduler selection (Bart) - Switch block layer to use kmap_local_page() (Christoph) - Remove obsolete disk_name helper (Christoph) - block_device refcounting improvements (Christoph) - Ensure gendisk always has a request queue reference (Christoph) - Misc fixes/cleanups (Shaokun, Oliver, Guoqing)" * tag 'for-5.15/block-2021-08-30' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (129 commits) sg: pass the device name to blk_trace_setup block, bfq: cleanup the repeated declaration blk-crypto: fix check for too-large dun_bytes blk-zoned: allow BLKREPORTZONE without CAP_SYS_ADMIN blk-zoned: allow zone management send operations without CAP_SYS_ADMIN block: mark blkdev_fsync static block: refine the disk_live check in del_gendisk mmc: sdhci-tegra: Enable MMC_CAP2_ALT_GPT_TEGRA mmc: block: Support alternative_gpt_sector() operation partitions/efi: Support non-standard GPT location block: Add alternative_gpt_sector() operation bio: fix page leak bio_add_hw_page failure block: remove CONFIG_DEBUG_BLOCK_EXT_DEVT block: remove a pointless call to MINOR() in device_add_disk null_blk: add error handling support for add_disk() virtio_blk: add error handling support for add_disk() block: add error handling for device_add_disk / add_disk block: return errors from disk_alloc_events block: return errors from blk_integrity_add block: call blk_register_queue earlier in device_add_disk ...
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@@ -28,6 +28,18 @@ Description:
For more details refer Documentation/admin-guide/iostats.rst
+What: /sys/block/<disk>/diskseq
+Date: February 2021
+Contact: Matteo Croce <mcroce@microsoft.com>
+Description:
+ The /sys/block/<disk>/diskseq files reports the disk
+ sequence number, which is a monotonically increasing
+ number assigned to every drive.
+ Some devices, like the loop device, refresh such number
+ every time the backing file is changed.
+ The value type is 64 bit unsigned.
+
+
What: /sys/block/<disk>/<part>/stat
Date: February 2008
Contact: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com>