From: Darrick J. Wong Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2019 21:16:36 +0000 (-0400) Subject: man: create a separate RESBLKS ioctl manpage X-Git-Tag: v5.1.0-rc1~4 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=cb5c5cb9d405ab695e2ca1a16ef278167a495d68;p=thirdparty%2Fxfsprogs-dev.git man: create a separate RESBLKS ioctl manpage Create a separate manual page for the xfs RESBLKS ioctls so we can document how it works. Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong [sandeen: minor edits] Reviewed-by: Eric Sandeen Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen --- diff --git a/man/man2/ioctl_xfs_getresblks.2 b/man/man2/ioctl_xfs_getresblks.2 new file mode 100644 index 000000000..7f80bdbd2 --- /dev/null +++ b/man/man2/ioctl_xfs_getresblks.2 @@ -0,0 +1,67 @@ +.\" Copyright (c) 2019, Oracle. All rights reserved. +.\" +.\" %%%LICENSE_START(GPLv2+_DOC_FULL) +.\" SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0+ +.\" %%%LICENSE_END +.TH IOCTL-XFS-GETRESBLKS 2 2019-06-17 "XFS" +.SH NAME +ioctl_xfs_getresblks \- query and set XFS free space reservation information +.SH SYNOPSIS +.br +.B #include +.PP +.BI "int ioctl(int " fd ", XFS_IOC_GET_RESBLKS, struct xfs_fsop_resblks *" arg ); +.br +.BI "int ioctl(int " fd ", XFS_IOC_SET_RESBLKS, struct xfs_fsop_resblks *" arg ); +.SH DESCRIPTION +Query or set the free space reservation information. +These blocks are reserved by the filesystem as a final attempt to prevent +metadata update failures due to insufficient space. +Only the system administrator can use these ioctls, because overriding the +defaults is extremely dangerous. +.PP +This functionality is intended only for use by XFS filesystem developers. +.PP +The reservation information is conveyed in a structure of the following form: +.PP +.in +4n +.nf +struct xfs_fsop_resblks { + __u64 resblks; + __u64 resblks_avail; +}; +.fi +.in +.PP +.I resblks +is the number of blocks that the filesystem will try to maintain to prevent +critical out of space situations. +.PP +.I resblks_avail +is the number of reserved blocks remaining. +.SH RETURN VALUE +On error, \-1 is returned, and +.I errno +is set to indicate the error. +.PP +.SH ERRORS +Error codes can be one of, but are not limited to, the following: +.TP +.B EFSBADCRC +Metadata checksum validation failed while performing the query. +.TP +.B EFSCORRUPTED +Metadata corruption was encountered while performing the query. +.TP +.B EINVAL +The specified allocation group number is not valid for this filesystem. +.TP +.B EIO +An I/O error was encountered while performing the query. +.TP +.B EPERM +Caller does not have permission to call this ioctl. +.SH CONFORMING TO +This API is specific to XFS filesystem on the Linux kernel. +.SH SEE ALSO +.BR ioctl (2) diff --git a/man/man2/ioctl_xfs_setresblks.2 b/man/man2/ioctl_xfs_setresblks.2 new file mode 100644 index 000000000..209bc0a81 --- /dev/null +++ b/man/man2/ioctl_xfs_setresblks.2 @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +.so man2/ioctl_xfs_getresblks.2 diff --git a/man/man3/xfsctl.3 b/man/man3/xfsctl.3 index ee3188ec3..89975a3cd 100644 --- a/man/man3/xfsctl.3 +++ b/man/man3/xfsctl.3 @@ -396,12 +396,21 @@ See .BR ioctl_xfs_fscounts (2) for more information. +.TP +.nf +.B XFS_IOC_GET_RESBLKS +.fi +.TP +.B XFS_IOC_SET_RESBLKS +See +.BR ioctl_xfs_getresblks (2) +for more information. +Save yourself a lot of frustration and avoid these ioctls. + .PP .nf .B XFS_IOC_THAW .B XFS_IOC_FREEZE -.B XFS_IOC_GET_RESBLKS -.B XFS_IOC_SET_RESBLKS .B XFS_IOC_FSGROWFSDATA .B XFS_IOC_FSGROWFSLOG .fi @@ -419,6 +428,7 @@ as they are not of general use to applications. .BR ioctl_xfs_scrub_metadata (2), .BR ioctl_xfs_fsinumbers (2), .BR ioctl_xfs_fscounts (2), +.BR ioctl_xfs_getresblks (2), .BR fstatfs (2), .BR statfs (2), .BR xfs (5),