If a controller connection is attempted (say to a subsystem that
does not exist), the first attempt errors out. If another connect
is attempted, it crashes.
Issue is the prior controller has yet execute it's final put, thus
its still on lists. However, opts points on it have been cleared, thus
causing the crash if they are referenced.
Fix is to add the missing put after the nvme_uninit_ctrl() call on
the attachment failure.
Signed-off-by: Paul Ely <Paul.Ely@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: James Smart <james.smart@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Per the recommendation by Sagi on:
http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-nvme/2017-April/009261.html
Wait for io aborts to complete wait converted from msleep look to
using a struct completion.
Signed-off-by: James Smart <james.smart@broadcom.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Current fc transport code, on io termination, is calling
nvme_cleanup_cmd() followed by the transport dma unmap routine
which also calls nvme_cleanup_cmd(). Which means two kfrees occur
on the same address, raising havoc. This resulted in odd data errors,
effectively corruption..
Fix by removing the extraneous double calls. Call now occurs only in
teardown paths and as part of dma unmap routine.
Signed-off-by: James Smart <james.smart@broadcom.com>
Reviewed-by: Ewan D. Milne <emilne@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Keith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
NVMe 1.2.1 or later requires controllers to provide a subsystem NQN in the
Identify controller data structures. Use this NQN for the subsysnqn
sysfs attribute by storing it in the nvme_ctrl structure after verifying
it. For older controllers we generate a "fake" NQN per non-normative
text in the NVMe 1.3 spec.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Keith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
While a NVMe Namespace is somewhat similar to a SCSI Logical Unit (and not
a Logical Unit Number anyway) there are subtile differences. Remove the
misleading comment.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagi@grmberg.me>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Max Gurtovoy <maxg@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
A user reports APST is enabled, even when the NVMe is quirked or with
option "default_ps_max_latency_us=0".
The current logic will not set APST if the device is quirked. But the
NVMe in question will enable APST automatically.
Separate the logic "apst is supported" and "to enable apst", so we can
use the latter one to explicitly disable APST at initialiaztion.
BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1699004
Signed-off-by: Kai-Heng Feng <kai.heng.feng@canonical.com>
Reviewed-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Keith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
No need to differentiate fabrics from pci/loop, also lower
it to 32 as we don't really need 256 inflight admin commands.
Signed-off-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me>
Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Max Gurtovoy <maxg@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Keith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Currently we have no way to define a stable host-id but always use the one
which is randomly generated when we add the host or use the default host.
Provide a "hostid=%s" for user-space to pass in a persistent host-id which
overrides the randomly generated one.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me>
Signed-off-by: Keith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
The SCSI-to-NVMe translations were added to assist storage applications
utilizing SG_IO transitioning to NVMe. It was always recommended,
however, to use native NVMe for device management as too much is lost
in translation and the maintenance burden in keeping this kludgey
layer around has been neglected such that much of the translations are
completely broken.
This patch removes SG_IO handling from NVMe to avoid any confusion
regarding maintenance support for this interface. The config option for
NVMe SCSI emulation has been disabled by default since 4.5. The driver
has supported native nvme user commands since the beginning, and native
tooling is publicly available for use or as reference for anyone writing
their own tools, so there's no excuse for hanging onto a broken crutch.
Signed-off-by: Keith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com>
Acked-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me>
Reviewed-by: Max Gurtovoy <maxg@mellanox.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Guan Junxiong <guanjunxiong@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Given that the code is simple enough it seems better
then passing a tag by reference for each call site, also
we can now get rid of __nvme_process_cq.
Signed-off-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Keith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Also, maintain a consumed counter to rely on for doorbell and
cqe_seen update instead of directly relying on the cq head and phase.
Signed-off-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Keith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Makes the code slightly more readable.
Signed-off-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Keith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Nice abstraction of the actual mechanics of how to do it.
Note the change that we call it after we assign nvmeq->cq_head
to avoid passing it.
Signed-off-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Keith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Some architectures (at least PPC) doesn't like get/put_user with
64-bit types on a 32-bit system. Use the variably sized copy
to/from user variants instead.
Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Fixes: c75b1d9421 ("fs: add fcntl() interface for setting/getting write life time hints")
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Pass-through devices to VM guest can get updated IRQ affinity
information via irq_set_affinity() when not running in guest mode.
Currently, AMD IOMMU driver in GA mode ignores the updated information
if the pass-through device is setup to use vAPIC regardless of guest_mode.
This could cause invalid interrupt remapping.
Also, the guest_mode bit should be set and cleared only when
SVM updates posted-interrupt interrupt remapping information.
Signed-off-by: Suravee Suthikulpanit <suravee.suthikulpanit@amd.com>
Cc: Joerg Roedel <jroedel@suse.de>
Fixes: d98de49a53 ('iommu/amd: Enable vAPIC interrupt remapping mode by default')
Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <jroedel@suse.de>
When copying up a file that has multiple hard links we need to break any
association with the origin file. This makes copy-up be essentially an
atomic replace.
The new file has nothing to do with the old one (except having the same
data and metadata initially), so don't set the overlay.origin attribute.
We can relax this in the future when we are able to index upper object by
origin.
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
Fixes: 3a1e819b4e ("ovl: store file handle of lower inode on copy up")
Nothing prevents mischief on upper layer while we are busy copying up the
data.
Move the lookup right before the looked up dentry is actually used.
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
Fixes: 01ad3eb8a0 ("ovl: concurrent copy up of regular files")
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v4.11
azx_codec_configure() loops over the codecs found on the given
controller via a linked list. The code used to work in the past, but
in the current version, this may lead to an endless loop when a codec
binding returns an error.
The culprit is that the snd_hda_codec_configure() unregisters the
device upon error, and this eventually deletes the given codec object
from the bus. Since the list is initialized via list_del_init(), the
next object points to the same device itself. This behavior change
was introduced at splitting the HD-audio code code, and forgotten to
adapt it here.
For fixing this bug, just use a *_safe() version of list iteration.
Fixes: d068ebc25e ("ALSA: hda - Move some codes up to hdac_bus struct")
Reported-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
We were reading the no-implicit sync flag the wrong way around,
synchronizing too much for the explicit case, and not at all for the
implicit case. Oops.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Stone <daniels@collabora.com>
Signed-off-by: Lucas Stach <l.stach@pengutronix.de>
The addition of the flags member to etnaviv_gem_submit structure didn't
take into account that the last member of this structure is a variable
length array.
Signed-off-by: Lucas Stach <l.stach@pengutronix.de>
Just a few minor fixes. Important one is the execbuf async fix (aka
ANDROID_native_sync). There was another patch for a display coherency
corner case on APL, but we've random-walked in that space too much,
and the cherry-pick looked really invasive.
* tag 'drm-intel-fixes-2017-06-27' of git://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/drm-intel:
drm/i915: Disable EXEC_OBJECT_ASYNC when doing relocations
drm/i915: Hold struct_mutex for per-file stats in debugfs/i915_gem_object
drm/i915: Retire the VMA's fence tracker before unbinding
Single vmwgfx fix
* 'vmwgfx-fixes-4.12' of git://people.freedesktop.org/~thomash/linux:
drm/vmwgfx: Free hash table allocated by cmdbuf managed res mgr
Recently we met a problem, the codec has valid adcs and input pins,
and they can form valid input paths, but the driver does not build
valid controls for them like "Mic boost", "Capture Volume" and
"Capture Switch".
Through debugging, I found the driver needs to shrink the invalid
adcs and input paths for this machine, so it will move the whole
column bitmap value to the previous column, after moving it, the
driver forgets to set the original column bitmap value to zero, as a
result, the driver will invalidate the path whose index value is the
original colume bitmap value. After executing this function, all
valid input paths are invalidated by a mistake, there are no any
valid input paths, so the driver won't build controls for them.
Fixes: 3a65bcdc57 ("ALSA: hda - Fix inconsistent input_paths after ADC reduction")
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Hui Wang <hui.wang@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
The current code works only for the case where we have exactly one slot,
which is no longer true.
nfs4_free_slot() will automatically declare the callback channel to be
drained when all slots have been returned.
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@primarydata.com>
This reverts commit 920b4530fb which could
call d_move() without holding the directory's i_mutex, and reverts commit
d4ea7e3c5c "NFS: Fix old dentry rehash after
move", which was a follow-up fix.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Coddington <bcodding@redhat.com>
Fixes: 920b4530fb ("NFS: nfs_rename() handle -ERESTARTSYS dentry left behind")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.10+
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@primarydata.com>
If the task calling layoutget is signalled, then it is possible for the
calls to nfs4_sequence_free_slot() and nfs4_layoutget_prepare() to race,
in which case we leak a slot.
The fix is to move the call to nfs4_sequence_free_slot() into the
nfs4_layoutget_release() so that it gets called at task teardown time.
Fixes: 2e80dbe7ac ("NFSv4.1: Close callback races for OPEN, LAYOUTGET...")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.8+
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@primarydata.com>
Drop static on a local variable, when the variable is initialized before
any use, on every possible execution path through the function. The
static has no benefit, and dropping it reduces the code size.
The semantic patch that fixes this problem is as follows:
(http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)
// <smpl>
@bad exists@
position p;
identifier x;
type T;
@@
static T x@p;
...
x = <+...x...+>
@@
identifier x;
expression e;
type T;
position p != bad.p;
@@
-static
T x@p;
... when != x
when strict
?x = e;
// </smpl>
The change in code size is indicates by the following output from the size
command.
before:
text data bss dec hex filename
67299 2291 1056 70646 113f6 drivers/block/drbd/drbd_nl.o
after:
text data bss dec hex filename
67283 2291 1056 70630 113e6 drivers/block/drbd/drbd_nl.o
Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr>
Signed-off-by: Roland Kammerer <roland.kammerer@linbit.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
The controller state is set to resetting prior to disabling the
controller, so this patch accounts for that state when deciding if it
needs to freeze the queues. Without this, an 'nvme reset /dev/nvme0'
blocks forever because the queues were never frozen.
Fixes: 82b057caef ("nvme-pci: fix multiple ctrl removal scheduling")
Signed-off-by: Keith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
In this sequence the 'move' is assumed in the delay slot of the 'beq',
but head.S is in reorder mode and the former gets pushed one 'nop'
farther by the assembler.
The corrected behavior made booting with an UHI supplied dtb erratic.
Fixes: 15f37e1588 ("MIPS: store the appended dtb address in a variable")
Signed-off-by: Karl Beldan <karl.beldan+oss@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>
Cc: Jonas Gorski <jogo@openwrt.org>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/16614/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
The Belkin B2B128 is a USB 3.0 Hub + Gigabit Ethernet Adapter, the
Ethernet adapter uses the ASIX AX88179 USB 3.0 to Gigabit Ethernet
chip supported by this driver, add the USB ID for the same.
This patch is based on work by Geoffrey Tran <geoffrey.tran@gmail.com>
who has indicated they would like this upstreamed by someone more
familiar with the upstreaming process.
Signed-off-by: Andrew F. Davis <afd@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
A previous commit (5567e98919) inserted a dependency on DMA
API that requires HAS_DMA to be added in Kconfig.
Signed-off-by: Madalin Bucur <madalin.bucur@nxp.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
process_prepared_discard_passdown_pt1() should cleanup
dm_thin_new_mapping in cases of error.
dm_pool_inc_data_range() can fail trying to get a block reference:
metadata operation 'dm_pool_inc_data_range' failed: error = -61
When dm_pool_inc_data_range() fails, dm thin aborts current metadata
transaction and marks pool as PM_READ_ONLY. Memory for thin mapping
is released as well. However, current thin mapping will be queued
onto next stage as part of queue_passdown_pt2() or passdown_endio().
This dangling thin mapping memory when processed and accessed in
next stage will lead to device mapper crashing.
Code flow without fix:
-> process_prepared_discard_passdown_pt1(m)
-> dm_thin_remove_range()
-> discard passdown
--> passdown_endio(m) queues m onto next stage
-> dm_pool_inc_data_range() fails, frees memory m
but does not remove it from next stage queue
-> process_prepared_discard_passdown_pt2(m)
-> processes freed memory m and crashes
One such stack:
Call Trace:
[<ffffffffa037a46f>] dm_cell_release_no_holder+0x2f/0x70 [dm_bio_prison]
[<ffffffffa039b6dc>] cell_defer_no_holder+0x3c/0x80 [dm_thin_pool]
[<ffffffffa039b88b>] process_prepared_discard_passdown_pt2+0x4b/0x90 [dm_thin_pool]
[<ffffffffa0399611>] process_prepared+0x81/0xa0 [dm_thin_pool]
[<ffffffffa039e735>] do_worker+0xc5/0x820 [dm_thin_pool]
[<ffffffff8152bf54>] ? __schedule+0x244/0x680
[<ffffffff81087e72>] ? pwq_activate_delayed_work+0x42/0xb0
[<ffffffff81089f53>] process_one_work+0x153/0x3f0
[<ffffffff8108a71b>] worker_thread+0x12b/0x4b0
[<ffffffff8108a5f0>] ? rescuer_thread+0x350/0x350
[<ffffffff8108fd6a>] kthread+0xca/0xe0
[<ffffffff8108fca0>] ? kthread_park+0x60/0x60
[<ffffffff81530b45>] ret_from_fork+0x25/0x30
The fix is to first take the block ref count for discarded block and
then do a passdown discard of this block. If block ref count fails,
then bail out aborting current metadata transaction, mark pool as
PM_READ_ONLY and also free current thin mapping memory (existing error
handling code) without queueing this thin mapping onto next stage of
processing. If block ref count succeeds, then passdown discard of this
block. Discard callback of passdown_endio() will queue this thin mapping
onto next stage of processing.
Code flow with fix:
-> process_prepared_discard_passdown_pt1(m)
-> dm_thin_remove_range()
-> dm_pool_inc_data_range()
--> if fails, free memory m and bail out
-> discard passdown
--> passdown_endio(m) queues m onto next stage
Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v4.9+
Reviewed-by: Eduardo Valentin <eduval@amazon.com>
Reviewed-by: Cristian Gafton <gafton@amazon.com>
Reviewed-by: Anchal Agarwal <anchalag@amazon.com>
Signed-off-by: Vallish Vaidyeshwara <vallish@amazon.com>
Reviewed-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Similar to the fix provided by Dominik Heidler in commit
9b3dc0a17d ("l2tp: cast l2tp traffic counter to unsigned")
we need to take care of 32bit kernels in dev_get_stats().
When using atomic_long_read(), we add a 'long' to u64 and
might misinterpret high order bit, unless we cast to unsigned.
Fixes: caf586e5f2 ("net: add a core netdev->rx_dropped counter")
Fixes: 015f0688f5 ("net: net: add a core netdev->tx_dropped counter")
Fixes: 6e7333d315 ("net: add rx_nohandler stat counter")
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Jarod Wilson <jarod@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This commit fixes a bug triggered by a non-trivial sequence of
events. These events are briefly described in the next two
paragraphs. The impatiens, or those who are familiar with queue
merging and splitting, can jump directly to the last paragraph.
On each I/O-request arrival for a shared bfq_queue, i.e., for a
bfq_queue that is the result of the merge of two or more bfq_queues,
BFQ checks whether the shared bfq_queue has become seeky (i.e., if too
many random I/O requests have arrived for the bfq_queue; if the device
is non rotational, then random requests must be also small for the
bfq_queue to be tagged as seeky). If the shared bfq_queue is actually
detected as seeky, then a split occurs: the bfq I/O context of the
process that has issued the request is redirected from the shared
bfq_queue to a new non-shared bfq_queue. As a degenerate case, if the
shared bfq_queue actually happens to be shared only by one process
(because of previous splits), then no new bfq_queue is created: the
state of the shared bfq_queue is just changed from shared to non
shared.
Regardless of whether a brand new non-shared bfq_queue is created, or
the pre-existing shared bfq_queue is just turned into a non-shared
bfq_queue, several parameters of the non-shared bfq_queue are set
(restored) to the original values they had when the bfq_queue
associated with the bfq I/O context of the process (that has just
issued an I/O request) was merged with the shared bfq_queue. One of
these parameters is the weight-raising state.
If, on the split of a shared bfq_queue,
1) a pre-existing shared bfq_queue is turned into a non-shared
bfq_queue;
2) the previously shared bfq_queue happens to be busy;
3) the weight-raising state of the previously shared bfq_queue happens
to change;
the number of weight-raised busy queues changes. The field
wr_busy_queues must then be updated accordingly, but such an update
was missing. This commit adds the missing update.
Reported-by: Luca Miccio <lucmiccio@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Valente <paolo.valente@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
BLK_BOUNCE_ANY is the defauly now, so the call is superflous.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Now all queues allocators come without abounce limit by default,
dm doesn't have to override this anymore.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Instead move it to the callers. Those that either don't use bio_data() or
page_address() or are specific to architectures that do not support highmem
are skipped.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
And just move it into scsi_transport_sas which needs it due to low-level
drivers directly derferencing bio_data, and into blk_init_queue_node,
which will need a further push into the callers.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
For historical reasons we default to bouncing highmem pages for all block
queues. But the blk-mq drivers are easy to audit to ensure that we don't
need this - scsi and mtip32xx set explicit limits and everyone else doesn't
have any particular ones.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
We only call blk_queue_bounce for request-based drivers, so stop messing
with it for make_request based drivers.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Only used inside the bounce code, and opencoding it makes it more obvious
what is going on.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
This makes moves the knowledge about bouncing out of the callers into the
block core (just like we do for the normal I/O path), and allows to unexport
blk_queue_bounce.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
pktcdvd is a make_request based stacking driver and thus doesn't have any
addressing limits on it's own. It also doesn't use bio_data() or
page_address(), so it doesn't need a lowmem bounce either.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
This adds support for Directives in NVMe, particular for the Streams
directive. Support for Directives is a new feature in NVMe 1.3. It
allows a user to pass in information about where to store the data, so
that it the device can do so most effiently. If an application is
managing and writing data with different life times, mixing differently
retentioned data onto the same locations on flash can cause write
amplification to grow. This, in turn, will reduce performance and life
time of the device.
Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Reviewed-by: Andreas Dilger <adilger@dilger.ca>
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <clm@fb.com>
Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
