From 228a73abde5c04428678e917b271f8526cfd90ed Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Anand Jain Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2019 13:31:54 +0800 Subject: btrfs: introduce new ioctl to unregister a btrfs device Support for a new command that can be used eg. as a command $ btrfs device scan --forget [dev]' (the final name may change though) to undo the effects of 'btrfs device scan [dev]'. For this purpose this patch proposes to use ioctl #5 as it was empty and is next to the SCAN ioctl. The new ioctl BTRFS_IOC_FORGET_DEV works only on the control device (/dev/btrfs-control) to unregister one or all devices, devices that are not mounted. The argument is struct btrfs_ioctl_vol_args, ::name specifies the device path. To unregister all device, the path is an empty string. Again, the devices are removed only if they aren't part of a mounte filesystem. This new ioctl provides: - release of unwanted btrfs_fs_devices and btrfs_devices structures from memory if the device is not going to be mounted - ability to mount filesystem in degraded mode, when one devices is corrupted like in split brain raid1 - running test cases which would require reloading the kernel module but this is not possible eg. due to mounted filesystem or built-in Signed-off-by: Anand Jain Reviewed-by: David Sterba [ update changelog ] Signed-off-by: David Sterba --- include/uapi/linux/btrfs.h | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) (limited to 'include/uapi') diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/btrfs.h b/include/uapi/linux/btrfs.h index e0763bc4158e..c195896d478f 100644 --- a/include/uapi/linux/btrfs.h +++ b/include/uapi/linux/btrfs.h @@ -837,6 +837,8 @@ enum btrfs_err_code { struct btrfs_ioctl_vol_args) #define BTRFS_IOC_SCAN_DEV _IOW(BTRFS_IOCTL_MAGIC, 4, \ struct btrfs_ioctl_vol_args) +#define BTRFS_IOC_FORGET_DEV _IOW(BTRFS_IOCTL_MAGIC, 5, \ + struct btrfs_ioctl_vol_args) /* trans start and trans end are dangerous, and only for * use by applications that know how to avoid the * resulting deadlocks -- cgit v1.2.3