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Commit bbd3e064 authored by Christoph Hellwig's avatar Christoph Hellwig Committed by Jens Axboe
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block: add an API for Persistent Reservations



This commits adds a driver API and ioctls for controlling Persistent
Reservations s/genericly/generically/ at the block layer.  Persistent
Reservations are supported by SCSI and NVMe and allow controlling who gets
access to a device in a shared storage setup.

Note that we add a pr_ops structure to struct block_device_operations
instead of adding the members directly to avoid bloating all instances
of devices that will never support Persistent Reservations.

Signed-off-by: default avatarChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
parent d8e4bb81
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