NVMe: Allow user initiated rescan

This exposes ioctl and sysfs methods a user can invoke to request the
driver rescan a controller and its namespaces. This is less harsh than
doing a controller reset, which temporarilly halts all IO, just to
surface a newly attached namespace.

This is mainly useful for controllers that implement the namespace
management command, but do not support the namespace notify change
asynchronous event notification.

Signed-off-by: Keith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
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Keith Busch
2016-04-29 15:45:18 -06:00
committed by Jens Axboe
parent d011fb3164
commit 9ec3bb2f99
2 changed files with 16 additions and 0 deletions

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@@ -61,5 +61,6 @@ struct nvme_passthru_cmd {
#define NVME_IOCTL_IO_CMD _IOWR('N', 0x43, struct nvme_passthru_cmd)
#define NVME_IOCTL_RESET _IO('N', 0x44)
#define NVME_IOCTL_SUBSYS_RESET _IO('N', 0x45)
#define NVME_IOCTL_RESCAN _IO('N', 0x46)
#endif /* _UAPI_LINUX_NVME_IOCTL_H */