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| What:		/sys/block/<disk>/alignment_offset
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| Date:		April 2009
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| Contact:	Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
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| Description:
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| 		Storage devices may report a physical block size that is
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| 		bigger than the logical block size (for instance a drive
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| 		with 4KB physical sectors exposing 512-byte logical
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| 		blocks to the operating system).  This parameter
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| 		indicates how many bytes the beginning of the device is
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| 		offset from the disk's natural alignment.
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| 
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| 
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| What:		/sys/block/<disk>/discard_alignment
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| Date:		May 2011
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| Contact:	Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
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| Description:
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| 		Devices that support discard functionality may
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| 		internally allocate space in units that are bigger than
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| 		the exported logical block size. The discard_alignment
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| 		parameter indicates how many bytes the beginning of the
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| 		device is offset from the internal allocation unit's
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| 		natural alignment.
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| 
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| 
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| What:		/sys/block/<disk>/diskseq
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| Date:		February 2021
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| Contact:	Matteo Croce <mcroce@microsoft.com>
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| Description:
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| 		The /sys/block/<disk>/diskseq files reports the disk
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| 		sequence number, which is a monotonically increasing
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| 		number assigned to every drive.
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| 		Some devices, like the loop device, refresh such number
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| 		every time the backing file is changed.
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| 		The value type is 64 bit unsigned.
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| 
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| 
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| What:		/sys/block/<disk>/inflight
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| Date:		October 2009
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| Contact:	Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>, Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@suse.de>
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| Description:
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| 		Reports the number of I/O requests currently in progress
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| 		(pending / in flight) in a device driver. This can be less
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| 		than the number of requests queued in the block device queue.
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| 		The report contains 2 fields: one for read requests
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| 		and one for write requests.
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| 		The value type is unsigned int.
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| 		Cf. Documentation/block/stat.rst which contains a single value for
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| 		requests in flight.
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| 		This is related to /sys/block/<disk>/queue/nr_requests
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| 		and for SCSI device also its queue_depth.
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| 
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| 
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| What:		/sys/block/<disk>/integrity/device_is_integrity_capable
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| Date:		July 2014
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| Contact:	Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
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| Description:
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| 		Indicates whether a storage device is capable of storing
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| 		integrity metadata. Set if the device is T10 PI-capable.
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| 
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| 
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| What:		/sys/block/<disk>/integrity/format
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| Date:		June 2008
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| Contact:	Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
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| Description:
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| 		Metadata format for integrity capable block device.
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| 		E.g. T10-DIF-TYPE1-CRC.
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| 
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| 
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| What:		/sys/block/<disk>/integrity/protection_interval_bytes
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| Date:		July 2015
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| Contact:	Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
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| Description:
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| 		Describes the number of data bytes which are protected
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| 		by one integrity tuple. Typically the device's logical
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| 		block size.
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| 
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| 
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| What:		/sys/block/<disk>/integrity/read_verify
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| Date:		June 2008
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| Contact:	Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
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| Description:
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| 		Indicates whether the block layer should verify the
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| 		integrity of read requests serviced by devices that
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| 		support sending integrity metadata.
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| 
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| 
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| What:		/sys/block/<disk>/integrity/tag_size
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| Date:		June 2008
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| Contact:	Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
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| Description:
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| 		Number of bytes of integrity tag space available per
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| 		512 bytes of data.
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| 
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| 
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| What:		/sys/block/<disk>/integrity/write_generate
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| Date:		June 2008
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| Contact:	Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
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| Description:
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| 		Indicates whether the block layer should automatically
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| 		generate checksums for write requests bound for
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| 		devices that support receiving integrity metadata.
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| 
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| 
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| What:		/sys/block/<disk>/<partition>/alignment_offset
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| Date:		April 2009
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| Contact:	Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
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| Description:
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| 		Storage devices may report a physical block size that is
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| 		bigger than the logical block size (for instance a drive
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| 		with 4KB physical sectors exposing 512-byte logical
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| 		blocks to the operating system).  This parameter
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| 		indicates how many bytes the beginning of the partition
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| 		is offset from the disk's natural alignment.
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| 
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| 
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| What:		/sys/block/<disk>/<partition>/discard_alignment
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| Date:		May 2011
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| Contact:	Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
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| Description:
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| 		Devices that support discard functionality may
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| 		internally allocate space in units that are bigger than
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| 		the exported logical block size. The discard_alignment
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| 		parameter indicates how many bytes the beginning of the
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| 		partition is offset from the internal allocation unit's
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| 		natural alignment.
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| 
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| 
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| What:		/sys/block/<disk>/<partition>/stat
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| Date:		February 2008
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| Contact:	Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com>
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| Description:
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| 		The /sys/block/<disk>/<partition>/stat files display the
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| 		I/O statistics of partition <partition>. The format is the
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| 		same as the format of /sys/block/<disk>/stat.
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| 
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| 
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| What:		/sys/block/<disk>/queue/add_random
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| Date:		June 2010
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| Contact:	linux-block@vger.kernel.org
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| Description:
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| 		[RW] This file allows to turn off the disk entropy contribution.
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| 		Default value of this file is '1'(on).
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| 
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| 
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| What:		/sys/block/<disk>/queue/chunk_sectors
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| Date:		September 2016
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| Contact:	Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>
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| Description:
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| 		[RO] chunk_sectors has different meaning depending on the type
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| 		of the disk. For a RAID device (dm-raid), chunk_sectors
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| 		indicates the size in 512B sectors of the RAID volume stripe
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| 		segment. For a zoned block device, either host-aware or
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| 		host-managed, chunk_sectors indicates the size in 512B sectors
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| 		of the zones of the device, with the eventual exception of the
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| 		last zone of the device which may be smaller.
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| 
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| 
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| What:		/sys/block/<disk>/queue/crypto/
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| Date:		February 2022
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| Contact:	linux-block@vger.kernel.org
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| Description:
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| 		The presence of this subdirectory of /sys/block/<disk>/queue/
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| 		indicates that the device supports inline encryption.  This
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| 		subdirectory contains files which describe the inline encryption
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| 		capabilities of the device.  For more information about inline
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| 		encryption, refer to Documentation/block/inline-encryption.rst.
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| 
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| 
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| What:		/sys/block/<disk>/queue/crypto/max_dun_bits
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| Date:		February 2022
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| Contact:	linux-block@vger.kernel.org
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| Description:
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| 		[RO] This file shows the maximum length, in bits, of data unit
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| 		numbers accepted by the device in inline encryption requests.
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| 
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| 
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| What:		/sys/block/<disk>/queue/crypto/modes/<mode>
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| Date:		February 2022
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| Contact:	linux-block@vger.kernel.org
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| Description:
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| 		[RO] For each crypto mode (i.e., encryption/decryption
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| 		algorithm) the device supports with inline encryption, a file
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| 		will exist at this location.  It will contain a hexadecimal
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| 		number that is a bitmask of the supported data unit sizes, in
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| 		bytes, for that crypto mode.
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| 
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| 		Currently, the crypto modes that may be supported are:
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| 
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| 		   * AES-256-XTS
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| 		   * AES-128-CBC-ESSIV
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| 		   * Adiantum
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| 
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| 		For example, if a device supports AES-256-XTS inline encryption
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| 		with data unit sizes of 512 and 4096 bytes, the file
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| 		/sys/block/<disk>/queue/crypto/modes/AES-256-XTS will exist and
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| 		will contain "0x1200".
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| 
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| 
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| What:		/sys/block/<disk>/queue/crypto/num_keyslots
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| Date:		February 2022
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| Contact:	linux-block@vger.kernel.org
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| Description:
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| 		[RO] This file shows the number of keyslots the device has for
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| 		use with inline encryption.
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| 
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| 
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| What:		/sys/block/<disk>/queue/dax
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| Date:		June 2016
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| Contact:	linux-block@vger.kernel.org
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| Description:
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| 		[RO] This file indicates whether the device supports Direct
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| 		Access (DAX), used by CPU-addressable storage to bypass the
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| 		pagecache.  It shows '1' if true, '0' if not.
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| 
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| 
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| What:		/sys/block/<disk>/queue/discard_granularity
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| Date:		May 2011
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| Contact:	Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
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| Description:
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| 		[RO] Devices that support discard functionality may internally
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| 		allocate space using units that are bigger than the logical
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| 		block size. The discard_granularity parameter indicates the size
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| 		of the internal allocation unit in bytes if reported by the
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| 		device. Otherwise the discard_granularity will be set to match
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| 		the device's physical block size. A discard_granularity of 0
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| 		means that the device does not support discard functionality.
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| 
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| 
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| What:		/sys/block/<disk>/queue/discard_max_bytes
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| Date:		May 2011
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| Contact:	Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
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| Description:
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| 		[RW] While discard_max_hw_bytes is the hardware limit for the
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| 		device, this setting is the software limit. Some devices exhibit
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| 		large latencies when large discards are issued, setting this
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| 		value lower will make Linux issue smaller discards and
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| 		potentially help reduce latencies induced by large discard
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| 		operations.
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| 
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| 
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| What:		/sys/block/<disk>/queue/discard_max_hw_bytes
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| Date:		July 2015
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| Contact:	linux-block@vger.kernel.org
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| Description:
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| 		[RO] Devices that support discard functionality may have
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| 		internal limits on the number of bytes that can be trimmed or
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| 		unmapped in a single operation.  The `discard_max_hw_bytes`
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| 		parameter is set by the device driver to the maximum number of
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| 		bytes that can be discarded in a single operation.  Discard
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| 		requests issued to the device must not exceed this limit.  A
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| 		`discard_max_hw_bytes` value of 0 means that the device does not
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| 		support discard functionality.
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| 
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| 
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| What:		/sys/block/<disk>/queue/discard_zeroes_data
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| Date:		May 2011
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| Contact:	Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
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| Description:
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| 		[RO] Will always return 0.  Don't rely on any specific behavior
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| 		for discards, and don't read this file.
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| 
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| 
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| What:		/sys/block/<disk>/queue/dma_alignment
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| Date:		May 2022
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| Contact:	linux-block@vger.kernel.org
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| Description:
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| 		Reports the alignment that user space addresses must have to be
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| 		used for raw block device access with O_DIRECT and other driver
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| 		specific passthrough mechanisms.
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| 
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| 
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| What:		/sys/block/<disk>/queue/fua
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| Date:		May 2018
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| Contact:	linux-block@vger.kernel.org
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| Description:
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| 		[RO] Whether or not the block driver supports the FUA flag for
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| 		write requests.  FUA stands for Force Unit Access. If the FUA
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| 		flag is set that means that write requests must bypass the
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| 		volatile cache of the storage device.
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| 
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| 
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| What:		/sys/block/<disk>/queue/hw_sector_size
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| Date:		January 2008
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| Contact:	linux-block@vger.kernel.org
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| Description:
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| 		[RO] This is the hardware sector size of the device, in bytes.
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| 
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| 
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| What:		/sys/block/<disk>/queue/independent_access_ranges/
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| Date:		October 2021
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| Contact:	linux-block@vger.kernel.org
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| Description:
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| 		[RO] The presence of this sub-directory of the
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| 		/sys/block/xxx/queue/ directory indicates that the device is
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| 		capable of executing requests targeting different sector ranges
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| 		in parallel. For instance, single LUN multi-actuator hard-disks
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| 		will have an independent_access_ranges directory if the device
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| 		correctly advertizes the sector ranges of its actuators.
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| 
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| 		The independent_access_ranges directory contains one directory
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| 		per access range, with each range described using the sector
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| 		(RO) attribute file to indicate the first sector of the range
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| 		and the nr_sectors (RO) attribute file to indicate the total
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| 		number of sectors in the range starting from the first sector of
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| 		the range.  For example, a dual-actuator hard-disk will have the
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| 		following independent_access_ranges entries.::
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| 
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| 			$ tree /sys/block/<disk>/queue/independent_access_ranges/
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| 			/sys/block/<disk>/queue/independent_access_ranges/
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| 			|-- 0
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| 			|   |-- nr_sectors
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| 			|   `-- sector
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| 			`-- 1
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| 			    |-- nr_sectors
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| 			    `-- sector
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| 
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| 		The sector and nr_sectors attributes use 512B sector unit,
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| 		regardless of the actual block size of the device. Independent
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| 		access ranges do not overlap and include all sectors within the
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| 		device capacity. The access ranges are numbered in increasing
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| 		order of the range start sector, that is, the sector attribute
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| 		of range 0 always has the value 0.
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| 
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| 
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| What:		/sys/block/<disk>/queue/io_poll
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| Date:		November 2015
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| Contact:	linux-block@vger.kernel.org
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| Description:
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| 		[RW] When read, this file shows whether polling is enabled (1)
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| 		or disabled (0).  Writing '0' to this file will disable polling
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| 		for this device.  Writing any non-zero value will enable this
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| 		feature.
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| 
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| 
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| What:		/sys/block/<disk>/queue/io_poll_delay
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| Date:		November 2016
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| Contact:	linux-block@vger.kernel.org
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| Description:
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| 		[RW] If polling is enabled, this controls what kind of polling
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| 		will be performed. It defaults to -1, which is classic polling.
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| 		In this mode, the CPU will repeatedly ask for completions
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| 		without giving up any time.  If set to 0, a hybrid polling mode
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| 		is used, where the kernel will attempt to make an educated guess
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| 		at when the IO will complete. Based on this guess, the kernel
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| 		will put the process issuing IO to sleep for an amount of time,
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| 		before entering a classic poll loop. This mode might be a little
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| 		slower than pure classic polling, but it will be more efficient.
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| 		If set to a value larger than 0, the kernel will put the process
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| 		issuing IO to sleep for this amount of microseconds before
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| 		entering classic polling.
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| 
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| 
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| What:		/sys/block/<disk>/queue/io_timeout
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| Date:		November 2018
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| Contact:	Weiping Zhang <zhangweiping@didiglobal.com>
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| Description:
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| 		[RW] io_timeout is the request timeout in milliseconds. If a
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| 		request does not complete in this time then the block driver
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| 		timeout handler is invoked. That timeout handler can decide to
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| 		retry the request, to fail it or to start a device recovery
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| 		strategy.
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| 
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| 
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| What:		/sys/block/<disk>/queue/iostats
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| Date:		January 2009
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| Contact:	linux-block@vger.kernel.org
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| Description:
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| 		[RW] This file is used to control (on/off) the iostats
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| 		accounting of the disk.
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| 
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| 
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| What:		/sys/block/<disk>/queue/logical_block_size
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| Date:		May 2009
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| Contact:	Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
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| Description:
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| 		[RO] This is the smallest unit the storage device can address.
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| 		It is typically 512 bytes.
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| 
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| 
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| What:		/sys/block/<disk>/queue/max_active_zones
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| Date:		July 2020
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| Contact:	Niklas Cassel <niklas.cassel@wdc.com>
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| Description:
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| 		[RO] For zoned block devices (zoned attribute indicating
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| 		"host-managed" or "host-aware"), the sum of zones belonging to
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| 		any of the zone states: EXPLICIT OPEN, IMPLICIT OPEN or CLOSED,
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| 		is limited by this value. If this value is 0, there is no limit.
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| 
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| 		If the host attempts to exceed this limit, the driver should
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| 		report this error with BLK_STS_ZONE_ACTIVE_RESOURCE, which user
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| 		space may see as the EOVERFLOW errno.
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| 
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| 
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| What:		/sys/block/<disk>/queue/max_discard_segments
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| Date:		February 2017
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| Contact:	linux-block@vger.kernel.org
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| Description:
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| 		[RO] The maximum number of DMA scatter/gather entries in a
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| 		discard request.
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| 
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| 
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| What:		/sys/block/<disk>/queue/max_hw_sectors_kb
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| Date:		September 2004
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| Contact:	linux-block@vger.kernel.org
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| Description:
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| 		[RO] This is the maximum number of kilobytes supported in a
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| 		single data transfer.
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| 
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| 
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| What:		/sys/block/<disk>/queue/max_integrity_segments
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| Date:		September 2010
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| Contact:	linux-block@vger.kernel.org
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| Description:
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| 		[RO] Maximum number of elements in a DMA scatter/gather list
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| 		with integrity data that will be submitted by the block layer
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| 		core to the associated block driver.
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| 
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| 
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| What:		/sys/block/<disk>/queue/max_open_zones
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| Date:		July 2020
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| Contact:	Niklas Cassel <niklas.cassel@wdc.com>
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| Description:
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| 		[RO] For zoned block devices (zoned attribute indicating
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| 		"host-managed" or "host-aware"), the sum of zones belonging to
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| 		any of the zone states: EXPLICIT OPEN or IMPLICIT OPEN, is
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| 		limited by this value. If this value is 0, there is no limit.
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| 
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| 
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| What:		/sys/block/<disk>/queue/max_sectors_kb
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| Date:		September 2004
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| Contact:	linux-block@vger.kernel.org
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| Description:
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| 		[RW] This is the maximum number of kilobytes that the block
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| 		layer will allow for a filesystem request. Must be smaller than
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| 		or equal to the maximum size allowed by the hardware.
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| 
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| 
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| What:		/sys/block/<disk>/queue/max_segment_size
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| Date:		March 2010
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| Contact:	linux-block@vger.kernel.org
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| Description:
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| 		[RO] Maximum size in bytes of a single element in a DMA
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| 		scatter/gather list.
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| 
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| 
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| What:		/sys/block/<disk>/queue/max_segments
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| Date:		March 2010
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| Contact:	linux-block@vger.kernel.org
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| Description:
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| 		[RO] Maximum number of elements in a DMA scatter/gather list
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| 		that is submitted to the associated block driver.
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| 
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| 
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| What:		/sys/block/<disk>/queue/minimum_io_size
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| Date:		April 2009
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| Contact:	Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
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| Description:
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| 		[RO] Storage devices may report a granularity or preferred
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| 		minimum I/O size which is the smallest request the device can
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| 		perform without incurring a performance penalty.  For disk
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| 		drives this is often the physical block size.  For RAID arrays
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| 		it is often the stripe chunk size.  A properly aligned multiple
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| 		of minimum_io_size is the preferred request size for workloads
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| 		where a high number of I/O operations is desired.
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| 
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| 
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| What:		/sys/block/<disk>/queue/nomerges
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| Date:		January 2010
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| Contact:	linux-block@vger.kernel.org
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| Description:
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| 		[RW] Standard I/O elevator operations include attempts to merge
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| 		contiguous I/Os. For known random I/O loads these attempts will
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| 		always fail and result in extra cycles being spent in the
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| 		kernel. This allows one to turn off this behavior on one of two
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| 		ways: When set to 1, complex merge checks are disabled, but the
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| 		simple one-shot merges with the previous I/O request are
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| 		enabled. When set to 2, all merge tries are disabled. The
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| 		default value is 0 - which enables all types of merge tries.
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| 
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| 
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| What:		/sys/block/<disk>/queue/nr_requests
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| Date:		July 2003
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| Contact:	linux-block@vger.kernel.org
 | |
| Description:
 | |
| 		[RW] This controls how many requests may be allocated in the
 | |
| 		block layer for read or write requests. Note that the total
 | |
| 		allocated number may be twice this amount, since it applies only
 | |
| 		to reads or writes (not the accumulated sum).
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| 
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| 		To avoid priority inversion through request starvation, a
 | |
| 		request queue maintains a separate request pool per each cgroup
 | |
| 		when CONFIG_BLK_CGROUP is enabled, and this parameter applies to
 | |
| 		each such per-block-cgroup request pool.  IOW, if there are N
 | |
| 		block cgroups, each request queue may have up to N request
 | |
| 		pools, each independently regulated by nr_requests.
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| 
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| 
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| What:		/sys/block/<disk>/queue/nr_zones
 | |
| Date:		November 2018
 | |
| Contact:	Damien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@wdc.com>
 | |
| Description:
 | |
| 		[RO] nr_zones indicates the total number of zones of a zoned
 | |
| 		block device ("host-aware" or "host-managed" zone model). For
 | |
| 		regular block devices, the value is always 0.
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| 
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| 
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| What:		/sys/block/<disk>/queue/optimal_io_size
 | |
| Date:		April 2009
 | |
| Contact:	Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
 | |
| Description:
 | |
| 		[RO] Storage devices may report an optimal I/O size, which is
 | |
| 		the device's preferred unit for sustained I/O.  This is rarely
 | |
| 		reported for disk drives.  For RAID arrays it is usually the
 | |
| 		stripe width or the internal track size.  A properly aligned
 | |
| 		multiple of optimal_io_size is the preferred request size for
 | |
| 		workloads where sustained throughput is desired.  If no optimal
 | |
| 		I/O size is reported this file contains 0.
 | |
| 
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| 
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| What:		/sys/block/<disk>/queue/physical_block_size
 | |
| Date:		May 2009
 | |
| Contact:	Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
 | |
| Description:
 | |
| 		[RO] This is the smallest unit a physical storage device can
 | |
| 		write atomically.  It is usually the same as the logical block
 | |
| 		size but may be bigger.  One example is SATA drives with 4KB
 | |
| 		sectors that expose a 512-byte logical block size to the
 | |
| 		operating system.  For stacked block devices the
 | |
| 		physical_block_size variable contains the maximum
 | |
| 		physical_block_size of the component devices.
 | |
| 
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| 
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| What:		/sys/block/<disk>/queue/read_ahead_kb
 | |
| Date:		May 2004
 | |
| Contact:	linux-block@vger.kernel.org
 | |
| Description:
 | |
| 		[RW] Maximum number of kilobytes to read-ahead for filesystems
 | |
| 		on this block device.
 | |
| 
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| 
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| What:		/sys/block/<disk>/queue/rotational
 | |
| Date:		January 2009
 | |
| Contact:	linux-block@vger.kernel.org
 | |
| Description:
 | |
| 		[RW] This file is used to stat if the device is of rotational
 | |
| 		type or non-rotational type.
 | |
| 
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| 
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| What:		/sys/block/<disk>/queue/rq_affinity
 | |
| Date:		September 2008
 | |
| Contact:	linux-block@vger.kernel.org
 | |
| Description:
 | |
| 		[RW] If this option is '1', the block layer will migrate request
 | |
| 		completions to the cpu "group" that originally submitted the
 | |
| 		request. For some workloads this provides a significant
 | |
| 		reduction in CPU cycles due to caching effects.
 | |
| 
 | |
| 		For storage configurations that need to maximize distribution of
 | |
| 		completion processing setting this option to '2' forces the
 | |
| 		completion to run on the requesting cpu (bypassing the "group"
 | |
| 		aggregation logic).
 | |
| 
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| 
 | |
| What:		/sys/block/<disk>/queue/scheduler
 | |
| Date:		October 2004
 | |
| Contact:	linux-block@vger.kernel.org
 | |
| Description:
 | |
| 		[RW] When read, this file will display the current and available
 | |
| 		IO schedulers for this block device. The currently active IO
 | |
| 		scheduler will be enclosed in [] brackets. Writing an IO
 | |
| 		scheduler name to this file will switch control of this block
 | |
| 		device to that new IO scheduler. Note that writing an IO
 | |
| 		scheduler name to this file will attempt to load that IO
 | |
| 		scheduler module, if it isn't already present in the system.
 | |
| 
 | |
| 
 | |
| What:		/sys/block/<disk>/queue/stable_writes
 | |
| Date:		September 2020
 | |
| Contact:	linux-block@vger.kernel.org
 | |
| Description:
 | |
| 		[RW] This file will contain '1' if memory must not be modified
 | |
| 		while it is being used in a write request to this device.  When
 | |
| 		this is the case and the kernel is performing writeback of a
 | |
| 		page, the kernel will wait for writeback to complete before
 | |
| 		allowing the page to be modified again, rather than allowing
 | |
| 		immediate modification as is normally the case.  This
 | |
| 		restriction arises when the device accesses the memory multiple
 | |
| 		times where the same data must be seen every time -- for
 | |
| 		example, once to calculate a checksum and once to actually write
 | |
| 		the data.  If no such restriction exists, this file will contain
 | |
| 		'0'.  This file is writable for testing purposes.
 | |
| 
 | |
| 
 | |
| What:		/sys/block/<disk>/queue/throttle_sample_time
 | |
| Date:		March 2017
 | |
| Contact:	linux-block@vger.kernel.org
 | |
| Description:
 | |
| 		[RW] This is the time window that blk-throttle samples data, in
 | |
| 		millisecond.  blk-throttle makes decision based on the
 | |
| 		samplings. Lower time means cgroups have more smooth throughput,
 | |
| 		but higher CPU overhead. This exists only when
 | |
| 		CONFIG_BLK_DEV_THROTTLING_LOW is enabled.
 | |
| 
 | |
| 
 | |
| What:		/sys/block/<disk>/queue/virt_boundary_mask
 | |
| Date:		April 2021
 | |
| Contact:	linux-block@vger.kernel.org
 | |
| Description:
 | |
| 		[RO] This file shows the I/O segment memory alignment mask for
 | |
| 		the block device.  I/O requests to this device will be split
 | |
| 		between segments wherever either the memory address of the end
 | |
| 		of the previous segment or the memory address of the beginning
 | |
| 		of the current segment is not aligned to virt_boundary_mask + 1
 | |
| 		bytes.
 | |
| 
 | |
| 
 | |
| What:		/sys/block/<disk>/queue/wbt_lat_usec
 | |
| Date:		November 2016
 | |
| Contact:	linux-block@vger.kernel.org
 | |
| Description:
 | |
| 		[RW] If the device is registered for writeback throttling, then
 | |
| 		this file shows the target minimum read latency. If this latency
 | |
| 		is exceeded in a given window of time (see wb_window_usec), then
 | |
| 		the writeback throttling will start scaling back writes. Writing
 | |
| 		a value of '0' to this file disables the feature. Writing a
 | |
| 		value of '-1' to this file resets the value to the default
 | |
| 		setting.
 | |
| 
 | |
| 
 | |
| What:		/sys/block/<disk>/queue/write_cache
 | |
| Date:		April 2016
 | |
| Contact:	linux-block@vger.kernel.org
 | |
| Description:
 | |
| 		[RW] When read, this file will display whether the device has
 | |
| 		write back caching enabled or not. It will return "write back"
 | |
| 		for the former case, and "write through" for the latter. Writing
 | |
| 		to this file can change the kernels view of the device, but it
 | |
| 		doesn't alter the device state. This means that it might not be
 | |
| 		safe to toggle the setting from "write back" to "write through",
 | |
| 		since that will also eliminate cache flushes issued by the
 | |
| 		kernel.
 | |
| 
 | |
| 
 | |
| What:		/sys/block/<disk>/queue/write_same_max_bytes
 | |
| Date:		January 2012
 | |
| Contact:	Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
 | |
| Description:
 | |
| 		[RO] Some devices support a write same operation in which a
 | |
| 		single data block can be written to a range of several
 | |
| 		contiguous blocks on storage. This can be used to wipe areas on
 | |
| 		disk or to initialize drives in a RAID configuration.
 | |
| 		write_same_max_bytes indicates how many bytes can be written in
 | |
| 		a single write same command. If write_same_max_bytes is 0, write
 | |
| 		same is not supported by the device.
 | |
| 
 | |
| 
 | |
| What:		/sys/block/<disk>/queue/write_zeroes_max_bytes
 | |
| Date:		November 2016
 | |
| Contact:	Chaitanya Kulkarni <chaitanya.kulkarni@wdc.com>
 | |
| Description:
 | |
| 		[RO] Devices that support write zeroes operation in which a
 | |
| 		single request can be issued to zero out the range of contiguous
 | |
| 		blocks on storage without having any payload in the request.
 | |
| 		This can be used to optimize writing zeroes to the devices.
 | |
| 		write_zeroes_max_bytes indicates how many bytes can be written
 | |
| 		in a single write zeroes command. If write_zeroes_max_bytes is
 | |
| 		0, write zeroes is not supported by the device.
 | |
| 
 | |
| 
 | |
| What:		/sys/block/<disk>/queue/zone_append_max_bytes
 | |
| Date:		May 2020
 | |
| Contact:	linux-block@vger.kernel.org
 | |
| Description:
 | |
| 		[RO] This is the maximum number of bytes that can be written to
 | |
| 		a sequential zone of a zoned block device using a zone append
 | |
| 		write operation (REQ_OP_ZONE_APPEND). This value is always 0 for
 | |
| 		regular block devices.
 | |
| 
 | |
| 
 | |
| What:		/sys/block/<disk>/queue/zone_write_granularity
 | |
| Date:		January 2021
 | |
| Contact:	linux-block@vger.kernel.org
 | |
| Description:
 | |
| 		[RO] This indicates the alignment constraint, in bytes, for
 | |
| 		write operations in sequential zones of zoned block devices
 | |
| 		(devices with a zoned attributed that reports "host-managed" or
 | |
| 		"host-aware"). This value is always 0 for regular block devices.
 | |
| 
 | |
| 
 | |
| What:		/sys/block/<disk>/queue/zoned
 | |
| Date:		September 2016
 | |
| Contact:	Damien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@wdc.com>
 | |
| Description:
 | |
| 		[RO] zoned indicates if the device is a zoned block device and
 | |
| 		the zone model of the device if it is indeed zoned.  The
 | |
| 		possible values indicated by zoned are "none" for regular block
 | |
| 		devices and "host-aware" or "host-managed" for zoned block
 | |
| 		devices. The characteristics of host-aware and host-managed
 | |
| 		zoned block devices are described in the ZBC (Zoned Block
 | |
| 		Commands) and ZAC (Zoned Device ATA Command Set) standards.
 | |
| 		These standards also define the "drive-managed" zone model.
 | |
| 		However, since drive-managed zoned block devices do not support
 | |
| 		zone commands, they will be treated as regular block devices and
 | |
| 		zoned will report "none".
 | |
| 
 | |
| 
 | |
| What:		/sys/block/<disk>/stat
 | |
| Date:		February 2008
 | |
| Contact:	Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com>
 | |
| Description:
 | |
| 		The /sys/block/<disk>/stat files displays the I/O
 | |
| 		statistics of disk <disk>. They contain 11 fields:
 | |
| 
 | |
| 		==  ==============================================
 | |
| 		 1  reads completed successfully
 | |
| 		 2  reads merged
 | |
| 		 3  sectors read
 | |
| 		 4  time spent reading (ms)
 | |
| 		 5  writes completed
 | |
| 		 6  writes merged
 | |
| 		 7  sectors written
 | |
| 		 8  time spent writing (ms)
 | |
| 		 9  I/Os currently in progress
 | |
| 		10  time spent doing I/Os (ms)
 | |
| 		11  weighted time spent doing I/Os (ms)
 | |
| 		12  discards completed
 | |
| 		13  discards merged
 | |
| 		14  sectors discarded
 | |
| 		15  time spent discarding (ms)
 | |
| 		16  flush requests completed
 | |
| 		17  time spent flushing (ms)
 | |
| 		==  ==============================================
 | |
| 
 | |
| 		For more details refer Documentation/admin-guide/iostats.rst
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