lightnvm: expose device geometry through sysfs

For a host to access an Open-Channel SSD, it has to know its geometry,
so that it writes and reads at the appropriate device bounds.

Currently, the geometry information is kept within the kernel, and not
exported to user-space for consumption. This patch exposes the
configuration through sysfs and enables user-space libraries, such as
liblightnvm, to use the sysfs implementation to get the geometry of an
Open-Channel SSD.

The sysfs entries are stored within the device hierarchy, and can be
found using the "lightnvm" device type.

An example configuration looks like this:

/sys/class/nvme/
└── nvme0n1
   ├── capabilities: 3
   ├── device_mode: 1
   ├── erase_max: 1000000
   ├── erase_typ: 1000000
   ├── flash_media_type: 0
   ├── media_capabilities: 0x00000001
   ├── media_type: 0
   ├── multiplane: 0x00010101
   ├── num_blocks: 1022
   ├── num_channels: 1
   ├── num_luns: 4
   ├── num_pages: 64
   ├── num_planes: 1
   ├── page_size: 4096
   ├── prog_max: 100000
   ├── prog_typ: 100000
   ├── read_max: 10000
   ├── read_typ: 10000
   ├── sector_oob_size: 0
   ├── sector_size: 4096
   ├── media_manager: gennvm
   ├── ppa_format: 0x380830082808001010102008
   ├── vendor_opcode: 0
   ├── max_phys_secs: 64
   └── version: 1

Signed-off-by: Simon A. F. Lund <slund@cnexlabs.com>
Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling <m@bjorling.me>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
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Simon A. F. Lund 2016-09-16 14:25:08 +02:00 committed by Jens Axboe
parent b0b4e09c1a
commit 40267efddc
8 changed files with 278 additions and 17 deletions

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@ -352,7 +352,10 @@ struct nvm_dev {
/* Backend device */
struct request_queue *q;
struct device dev;
struct device *parent_dev;
char name[DISK_NAME_LEN];
void *private_data;
struct mutex mlock;
spinlock_t lock;