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Add support for Asynchronous Namespace Access as specified in NVMe 1.3 TP 4004. With ANA each namespace attached to a controller belongs to an ANA group that describes the characteristics of accessing the namespaces through this controller. In the optimized and non-optimized states namespaces can be accessed regularly, although in a multi-pathing environment we should always prefer to access a namespace through a controller where an optimized relationship exists. Namespaces in Inaccessible, Permanent-Loss or Change state for a given controller should not be accessed. The states are updated through reading the ANA log page, which is read once during controller initialization, whenever the ANA change notice AEN is received, or when one of the ANA specific status codes that signal a state change is received on a command. The ANA state is kept in the nvme_ns structure, which makes the checks in the fast path very simple. Updating the ANA state when reading the log page is also very simple, the only downside is that finding the initial ANA state when scanning for namespaces is a bit cumbersome. The gendisk for a ns_head is only registered once a live path for it exists. Without that the kernel would hang during partition scanning. Includes fixes and improvements from Hannes Reinecke. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Keith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
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.