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Date:   Tue,  7 Dec 2021 16:56:37 -0800
From:   Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...nel.org>
To:     linux-block@...r.kernel.org, Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>
Cc:     linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Hannes Reinecke <hare@...e.de>
Subject: [PATCH v2 5/8] docs: sysfs-block: document stable_writes

From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...gle.com>

/sys/block/<disk>/queue/stable_writes is completely undocumented.
Document it.

Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@...e.de>
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...gle.com>
---
 Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-block | 10 ++++++++++
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-block b/Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-block
index de3b86a3dfa55..30ce8dc587bb2 100644
--- a/Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-block
+++ b/Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-block
@@ -516,6 +516,16 @@ Description:
 		scheduler module, if it isn't already present in the system.
 
 
+What:		/sys/block/<disk>/queue/stable_writes
+Date:		September 2020
+Contact:	linux-block@...r.kernel.org
+Description:
+		[RW] If the device requires that memory must not be modified
+		while it is being written out to disk, this file will contain
+		'1'.  Otherwise it will contain '0'.  This file is writable for
+		testing purposes.
+
+
 What:		/sys/block/<disk>/queue/throttle_sample_time
 Date:		March 2017
 Contact:	linux-block@...r.kernel.org
-- 
2.34.1

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