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Minwoo Im 2637baed78 nvme: introduce generic per-namespace chardev
Userspace has not been allowed to I/O to device that's failed to
be initialized.  This patch introduces generic per-namespace character
device to allow userspace to I/O regardless the block device is there or
not.

The chardev naming convention will similar to the existing blkdev naming,
using a ng prefix instead of nvme, i.e.

	- /dev/ngXnY

It also supports multipath which means it will not expose chardev for the
hidden namespace blkdevs (e.g., nvmeXcYnZ).  If /dev/ngXnY is created for
a ns_head, then I/O request will be routed to a specific controller
selected by the iopolicy of the subsystem.

Signed-off-by: Minwoo Im <minwoo.im.dev@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Javier González <javier.gonz@samsung.com>
Reviewed-by: Keith Busch <kbusch@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Kanchan Joshi <joshi.k@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
2021-04-22 07:25:17 +02:00
arch floppy: remove redundant assignment to variable st 2021-04-20 08:59:03 -06:00
block block: Discard page cache of zone reset target range 2021-03-11 11:49:25 -07:00
certs certs: Replace K{U,G}IDT_INIT() with GLOBAL_ROOT_{U,G}ID 2021-01-21 16:16:10 +00:00
crypto crypto: mips/poly1305 - enable for all MIPS processors 2021-03-08 11:52:17 +01:00
Documentation Documentation/ABI/rnbd-clt: Add description for nr_poll_queues 2021-04-20 08:59:04 -06:00
drivers nvme: introduce generic per-namespace chardev 2021-04-22 07:25:17 +02:00
fs block: remove the -ERESTARTSYS handling in blkdev_get_by_dev 2021-04-12 06:55:31 -06:00
include floppy: cleanups: remove trailing whitespaces 2021-04-20 08:59:03 -06:00
init Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2021-03-14 12:23:34 -07:00
ipc fs: make helpers idmap mount aware 2021-01-24 14:27:20 +01:00
kernel prctl: fix PR_SET_MM_AUXV kernel stack leak 2021-03-14 14:33:27 -07:00
lib kasan: fix KASAN_STACK dependency for HW_TAGS 2021-03-13 11:27:31 -08:00
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samples Merge git://git.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net 2021-03-09 17:15:56 -08:00
scripts kbuild: fix ld-version.sh to not be affected by locale 2021-03-13 11:12:13 +09:00
security Revert 95ebabde38 ("capabilities: Don't allow writing ambiguous v3 file capabilities") 2021-03-12 15:27:14 -06:00
sound ALSA: hda/hdmi: Cancel pending works before suspend 2021-03-10 12:52:01 +01:00
tools A single objtool fix to handle the PUSHF/POPF validation correctly for the 2021-03-14 13:15:55 -07:00
usr Kbuild updates for v5.12 2021-02-25 10:17:31 -08:00
virt KVM: x86/mmu: Consider the hva in mmu_notifier retry 2021-02-22 13:16:53 -05:00
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Kbuild kbuild: rename hostprogs-y/always to hostprogs/always-y 2020-02-04 01:53:07 +09:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
MAINTAINERS MAINTAINERS: Change maintainer for rnbd module 2021-04-20 08:59:03 -06:00
Makefile Linux 5.12-rc3 2021-03-14 14:41:02 -07:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

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.