More commands will be added to nvmecontrol. Also, there will be a few
more vendor commands (some of which may need to remain private to
companies writing them). The first step on that journey is to move to
using linker sets to dispatch commands. The next step will be using
dlopen to bring in the .so's that have the command that might need
to remain private for seamless integration.
Similar changes to this will be needed for vendor specific log pages.
Sponsored by: Netflix
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D18403
The original NVMe API used bit-fields to represent fields in data
structures defined by the specification (e.g. the op-code in the command
data structure). The implementation targeted x86_64 processors and
defined the bit fields for little endian dwords (i.e. 32 bits).
This approach does not work as-is for big endian architectures and was
changed to use a combination of bit shifts and masks to support PowerPC.
Unfortunately, this changed the NVMe API and forces #ifdef's based on
the OS revision level in user space code.
This change reverts to something that looks like the original API, but
it uses bytes instead of bit-fields inside the packed command structure.
As a bonus, this works as-is for both big and little endian CPU
architectures.
Bump __FreeBSD_version to 1200081 due to API change
Reviewed by: imp, kbowling, smh, mav
Approved by: imp (mentor)
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D16404
It allows to change namespace parameters, such as block size, metadata,
protection information, etc. and/or erase the data.
MFC after: 2 weeks
Sponsored by: iXsystems, Inc.
