[S390] cio: introduce cio_settle
This patch introduces a proc file cio_settle. A write request to
this file is blocked until all queued cio actions are handled.
This will allow userspace to wait for pending work affecting
device availability after changing cio_ignore or the hardware
configuration.
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Ott <sebott@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
diff --git a/Documentation/s390/CommonIO b/Documentation/s390/CommonIO
index 339207d..d378cba 100644
--- a/Documentation/s390/CommonIO
+++ b/Documentation/s390/CommonIO
@@ -87,6 +87,12 @@
compatibility, by the device number in hexadecimal (0xabcd or abcd). Device
numbers given as 0xabcd will be interpreted as 0.0.abcd.
+* /proc/cio_settle
+
+ A write request to this file is blocked until all queued cio actions are
+ handled. This will allow userspace to wait for pending work affecting
+ device availability after changing cio_ignore or the hardware configuration.
+
* For some of the information present in the /proc filesystem in 2.4 (namely,
/proc/subchannels and /proc/chpids), see driver-model.txt.
Information formerly in /proc/irq_count is now in /proc/interrupts.
