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From: Huaisheng Ye <yehs2007@zoho.com>
To: mpatocka@redhat.com, snitzer@redhat.com, agk@redhat.com
Cc: dan.j.williams@intel.com, hch@lst.de, jack@suse.cz,
	corbet@lwn.net, dm-devel@redhat.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org,
	linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, Huaisheng Ye <yehs1@lenovo.com>
Subject: [PATCH v3 4/5] Documentation/device-mapper: add optional parameter reinit
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2019 10:29:54 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190131022955.9920-5-yehs2007@zoho.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190131022955.9920-1-yehs2007@zoho.com>

From: Huaisheng Ye <yehs1@lenovo.com>

Add intro and usage guide for reinit.

Signed-off-by: Huaisheng Ye <yehs1@lenovo.com>
---
 Documentation/device-mapper/writecache.txt | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/device-mapper/writecache.txt b/Documentation/device-mapper/writecache.txt
index 01532b3..255c68c 100644
--- a/Documentation/device-mapper/writecache.txt
+++ b/Documentation/device-mapper/writecache.txt
@@ -45,6 +45,10 @@ Constructor parameters:
 		afterwards
 		- some underlying devices perform better with fua, some
 		  with nofua. The user should test it
+	reinit		(by default off)
+		applicable only to persistent memory - use the REINIT flag
+		when the surper block has messy data, that would cause fn ctr
+		failed to work with invalid magic or version in the superblock
 
 Status:
 1. error indicator - 0 if there was no error, otherwise error number
-- 
1.8.3.1



  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-01-31  2:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-01-31  2:29 [PATCH v3 0/5] Optimize writecache when using pmem as cache Huaisheng Ye
2019-01-31  2:29 ` [PATCH v3 1/5] dm-writecache: remove unused size to writecache_flush_region Huaisheng Ye
2019-01-31  2:29 ` [PATCH v3 2/5] dm-writecache: get rid of memory_data flush to writecache_flush_entry Huaisheng Ye
2019-01-31  2:29 ` [PATCH v3 3/5] dm-writecache: expand pmem_reinit for struct dm_writecache Huaisheng Ye
2019-01-31  2:29 ` Huaisheng Ye [this message]
2019-01-31  2:29 ` [PATCH v3 5/5] dm-writecache: output seq_count within status Huaisheng Ye
2019-02-04 11:27 ` [PATCH v3 0/5] Optimize writecache when using pmem as cache Mikulas Patocka
2019-02-11  6:47   ` [External] " Huaisheng HS1 Ye

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