From: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@xxxxxxxxxx> Create a separate manual page for the RESBLKS ioctls so we can document how they work. Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@xxxxxxxxxx> --- man/man2/ioctl_xfs_getresblks.2 | 65 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ man/man3/xfsctl.3 | 13 +++++++- 2 files changed, 76 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) create mode 100644 man/man2/ioctl_xfs_getresblks.2 diff --git a/man/man2/ioctl_xfs_getresblks.2 b/man/man2/ioctl_xfs_getresblks.2 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..57533927 --- /dev/null +++ b/man/man2/ioctl_xfs_getresblks.2 @@ -0,0 +1,65 @@ +.\" 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 2019-04-16 "XFS" +.SH NAME +ioctl_xfs_getresblks \- query XFS summary counter information +.SH SYNOPSIS +.br +.B #include <xfs/xfs_fs.h> +.PP +.BI "int ioctl(int " fd ", XFS_IOC_GET_RESBLKS, struct xfs_fsop_resblks *" arg ); +.PP +.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 last-ditch attempt to prevent +metadata update failures due to insufficient space. +Only the system administrator can call these ioctls, because overriding the +defaults is extremely dangerous and should never be tried by anyone. +.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/man3/xfsctl.3 b/man/man3/xfsctl.3 index 9b8b52f4..3b84ac2b 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