NVMe: Passthrough IOCTL for IO commands
authorKeith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com>
Fri, 12 Sep 2014 22:07:20 +0000 (16:07 -0600)
committerJens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Tue, 4 Nov 2014 20:17:09 +0000 (13:17 -0700)
commit7963e521811ed19396d47793cc77d87c643ab891
tree5587991bb23e2694f627e7ff73b784eda2dd1cc8
parent1b9dbf7fe02d85f70e8efc1c12c070206c0d5c5f
NVMe: Passthrough IOCTL for IO commands

The NVME_IOCTL_SUBMIT_IO only works for IO commands with block data
transfers and isn't usable for other NVMe commands like flush,
data set management, or any sort of vendor unique command. The
NVME_IOCTL_ADMIN_CMD, however, can easily be modified to accept arbitrary
IO commands in addition to arbitrary admin commands without breaking
backward compatibility. This patch just adds a new IOCTL to distinguish
if the driver should submit the command on an IO or Admin queue.

Signed-off-by: Keith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <matthew.r.wilcox@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
drivers/block/nvme-core.c
include/uapi/linux/nvme.h