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NVMe Zoned Namespace introduced the concept of active zones, which are zones in the implicit open, explicit open or closed condition. Drives may have a limit on the number of zones that can be simultaneously active. This potential limitation translate into a risk for applications to see write IO errors due to this limit if the zone of a file being written to is not already active when a write request is issued. To avoid these potential errors, the zone of a file can explicitly be made active using an open zone command when the file is open for the first time. If the zone open command succeeds, the application is then guaranteed that write requests can be processed. This indirect management of active zones relies on the maximum number of open zones of a drive, which is always lower or equal to the maximum number of active zones. On the first open of a sequential zone file, send a REQ_OP_ZONE_OPEN command to the block device. Conversely, on the last release of a zone file and send a REQ_OP_ZONE_CLOSE to the device if the zone is not full or empty. As truncating a zone file to 0 or max can deactivate a zone as well, we need to serialize against truncates and also be careful not to close a zone as the file may still be open for writing, e.g. the user called ftruncate(). If the zone file is not open and a process does a truncate(), then no close operation is needed. Signed-off-by: Johannes Thumshirn <johannes.thumshirn@wdc.com> Reviewed-by: Damien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@wdc.com> Signed-off-by: Damien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@wdc.com> |
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Linux kernel
============
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.
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.