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From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
To: linux-block@vger.kernel.org, Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
Subject: [PATCH v3 6/8] docs: sysfs-block: document virt_boundary_mask
Date: Wed,  8 Dec 2021 16:38:31 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20211209003833.6396-7-ebiggers@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20211209003833.6396-1-ebiggers@kernel.org>

From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>

/sys/block/<disk>/queue/virt_boundary_mask is completely undocumented.
Document it.

Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
---
 Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-block | 12 ++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-block b/Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-block
index 288626e8cb532..8dd3e84a8aade 100644
--- a/Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-block
+++ b/Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-block
@@ -544,6 +544,18 @@ Description:
 		CONFIG_BLK_DEV_THROTTLING_LOW is enabled.
 
 
+What:		/sys/block/<disk>/queue/virt_boundary_mask
+Date:		April 2021
+Contact:	linux-block@vger.kernel.org
+Description:
+		[RO] This file shows the I/O segment memory alignment mask for
+		the block device.  I/O requests to this device will be split
+		between segments wherever either the memory address of the end
+		of the previous segment or the memory address of the beginning
+		of the current segment is not aligned to virt_boundary_mask + 1
+		bytes.
+
+
 What:		/sys/block/<disk>/queue/wbt_lat_usec
 Date:		November 2016
 Contact:	linux-block@vger.kernel.org
-- 
2.34.1


  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-12-09  0:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-12-09  0:38 [PATCH v3 0/8] docs: consolidate sysfs-block into Documentation/ABI/ Eric Biggers
2021-12-09  0:38 ` [PATCH v3 1/8] docs: sysfs-block: move to stable directory Eric Biggers
2021-12-09  0:38 ` [PATCH v3 2/8] docs: sysfs-block: sort alphabetically Eric Biggers
2021-12-09  0:38 ` [PATCH v3 3/8] docs: sysfs-block: add contact for nomerges Eric Biggers
2021-12-09  0:38 ` [PATCH v3 4/8] docs: sysfs-block: fill in missing documentation from queue-sysfs.rst Eric Biggers
2021-12-09  0:38 ` [PATCH v3 5/8] docs: sysfs-block: document stable_writes Eric Biggers
2021-12-09  0:38 ` Eric Biggers [this message]
2021-12-09  0:38 ` [PATCH v3 7/8] docs: block: remove queue-sysfs.rst Eric Biggers
2021-12-09  0:38 ` [PATCH v3 8/8] MAINTAINERS: add entries for block layer documentation Eric Biggers
2021-12-21 15:41 ` [PATCH v3 0/8] docs: consolidate sysfs-block into Documentation/ABI/ Eric Biggers
2022-01-03 15:06   ` Eric Biggers
2022-01-06 21:41     ` Eric Biggers
2022-01-07 20:58       ` Bart Van Assche
2022-01-09 17:01         ` Jens Axboe
2022-01-09 21:25           ` Eric Biggers
2022-01-10  1:58             ` Jens Axboe
2022-01-11  0:37               ` Jonathan Corbet
2022-01-10  1:59 ` Jens Axboe

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