linux-kernel - [PATCH v3 6/8] docs: sysfs-block: document virt_boundary

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-Id: <20211209003833.6396-7-ebiggers@kernel.org>
Date:   Wed,  8 Dec 2021 16:38:31 -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, Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@....org>
Subject: [PATCH v3 6/8] docs: sysfs-block: document virt_boundary_mask

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

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

Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@....org>
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...gle.com>
---
 Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-block | 12 ++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-block b/Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-block
index 288626e8cb532..8dd3e84a8aade 100644
--- a/Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-block
+++ b/Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-block
@@ -544,6 +544,18 @@ Description:
 		CONFIG_BLK_DEV_THROTTLING_LOW is enabled.
 
 
+What:		/sys/block/<disk>/queue/virt_boundary_mask
+Date:		April 2021
+Contact:	linux-block@...r.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@...r.kernel.org
-- 
2.34.1