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From: ZiyangZhang <ZiyangZhang@linux.alibaba.com>
To: axboe@kernel.dk, ming.lei@redhat.com
Cc: xiaoguang.wang@linux.alibaba.com, linux-block@vger.kernel.org,
	corbet@lwn.net, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, joseph.qi@linux.alibaba.com,
	ZiyangZhang <ZiyangZhang@linux.alibaba.com>
Subject: [PATCH 1/1] Documentation: document ublk user recovery feature
Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2022 12:53:46 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20221018045346.99706-2-ZiyangZhang@linux.alibaba.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20221018045346.99706-1-ZiyangZhang@linux.alibaba.com>

Add documentation for user recovery feature of ublk subsystem.

Signed-off-by: ZiyangZhang <ZiyangZhang@linux.alibaba.com>
Reviewed-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
---
 Documentation/block/ublk.rst | 36 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 36 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/block/ublk.rst b/Documentation/block/ublk.rst
index 2122d1a4a541..ba45c46cc0da 100644
--- a/Documentation/block/ublk.rst
+++ b/Documentation/block/ublk.rst
@@ -144,6 +144,42 @@ managing and controlling ublk devices with help of several control commands:
   For retrieving device info via ``ublksrv_ctrl_dev_info``. It is the server's
   responsibility to save IO target specific info in userspace.
 
+- ``UBLK_CMD_START_USER_RECOVERY``
+
+  This command is valid if ``UBLK_F_USER_RECOVERY`` feature is enabled. This
+  command is accepted after the old process has exited, ublk device is quiesced
+  and ``/dev/ublkc*`` is released. User should send this command before he starts
+  a new process which re-opens ``/dev/ublkc*``. When this command returns, the
+  ublk device is ready for the new process.
+
+- ``UBLK_CMD_END_USER_RECOVERY``
+
+  This command is valid if ``UBLK_F_USER_RECOVERY`` feature is enabled. This
+  command is accepted after ublk device is quiesced and a new process has
+  opened ``/dev/ublkc*`` and get all ublk queues be ready. When this command
+  returns, ublk device is unquiesced and new I/O requests are passed to the
+  new process.
+
+- user recovery feature description
+
+  Two new features are added for user recovery: ``UBLK_F_USER_RECOVERY`` and
+  ``UBLK_F_USER_RECOVERY_REISSUE``.
+
+  With ``UBLK_F_USER_RECOVERY`` set, after one ubq_daemon(ublk server's io
+  handler) is dying, ublk does not delete ``/dev/ublkb*`` during the whole
+  recovery stage and ublk device ID is kept. It is ublk server's
+  responsibility to recover the device context by its own knowledge.
+  Requests which have not been issued to userspace are requeued. Requests
+  which have been issued to userspace are aborted.
+
+  With ``UBLK_F_USER_RECOVERY_REISSUE`` set, after one ubq_daemon(ublk
+  server's io handler) is dying, contrary to ``UBLK_F_USER_RECOVERY``,
+  requests which have been issued to userspace are requeued and will be
+  re-issued to the new process after handling ``UBLK_CMD_END_USER_RECOVERY``.
+  ``UBLK_F_USER_RECOVERY_REISSUE`` is designed for backends who tolerate
+  double-write since the driver may issue the same I/O request twice. It
+  might be useful to a read-only FS or a VM backend.
+
 Data plane
 ----------
 
-- 
2.27.0


  reply	other threads:[~2022-10-18  4:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-10-18  4:53 [PATCH 0/1] Documentation: document ublk user recovery ZiyangZhang
2022-10-18  4:53 ` ZiyangZhang [this message]
2022-10-18  4:59 ` Ziyang Zhang
2022-10-18 12:12 ` Jens Axboe

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