NVMe: Allow user initiated rescan

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This exposes ioctl and sysfs methods a user can invoke to request the
driver rescan a controller and its namespaces. This is less harsh than
doing a controller reset, which temporarilly halts all IO, just to
surface a newly attached namespace.

This is mainly useful for controllers that implement the namespace
management command, but do not support the namespace notify change
asynchronous event notification.

Signed-off-by: Keith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>

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Keith Busch 2016-04-29 15:45:18 -06:00 • committed by Jens Axboe

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include/uapi/linux/nvme_ioctl.h

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