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authorVishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com>2016-05-27 12:43:45 -0600
committerDan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>2016-06-17 16:23:23 -0700
commit0aefa05420c0e81eec2496b28a1b5d6e7783cb23 (patch)
tree6119ee49bd3c9d6bdfae2bffb890b891b312c203 /Documentation/nvdimm
parentf02716db951c5e01acf48df9fe815007674fecff (diff)
libnvdimm, btt: update the usage section in Documentation
Section 5 about BTT's in kernel usage was quite obsolete, replace it with a simple 'Usage' section that describes how to set up a BTT namespace using the 'ndctl' utility. Signed-off-by: Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
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diff --git a/Documentation/nvdimm/btt.txt b/Documentation/nvdimm/btt.txt
index b91443f577dc..e293fb664924 100644
--- a/Documentation/nvdimm/btt.txt
+++ b/Documentation/nvdimm/btt.txt
@@ -256,28 +256,18 @@ If any of these error conditions are encountered, the arena is put into a read
only state using a flag in the info block.
-5. In-kernel usage
-==================
+5. Usage
+========
-Any block driver that supports byte granularity IO to the storage may register
-with the BTT. It will have to provide the rw_bytes interface in its
-block_device_operations struct:
+The BTT can be set up on any disk (namespace) exposed by the libnvdimm subsystem
+(pmem, or blk mode). The easiest way to set up such a namespace is using the
+'ndctl' utility [1]:
- int (*rw_bytes)(struct gendisk *, void *, size_t, off_t, int rw);
+For example, the ndctl command line to setup a btt with a 4k sector size is:
-It may register with the BTT after it adds its own gendisk, using btt_init:
+ ndctl create-namespace -f -e namespace0.0 -m sector -l 4k
- struct btt *btt_init(struct gendisk *disk, unsigned long long rawsize,
- u32 lbasize, u8 uuid[], int maxlane);
+See ndctl create-namespace --help for more options.
-note that maxlane is the maximum amount of concurrency the driver wishes to
-allow the BTT to use.
-
-The BTT 'disk' appears as a stacked block device that grabs the underlying block
-device in the O_EXCL mode.
-
-When the driver wishes to remove the backing disk, it should similarly call
-btt_fini using the same struct btt* handle that was provided to it by btt_init.
-
- void btt_fini(struct btt *btt);
+[1]: https://github.com/pmem/ndctl