From 068a45420f2c98887e220b45e946cc7074da550e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daniel Baumann Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2024 21:22:29 +0200 Subject: Adding upstream version 1.8. Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann --- doc/man/nvme_status_type.2 | 40 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 40 insertions(+) create mode 100644 doc/man/nvme_status_type.2 (limited to 'doc/man/nvme_status_type.2') diff --git a/doc/man/nvme_status_type.2 b/doc/man/nvme_status_type.2 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..238cf6e --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/man/nvme_status_type.2 @@ -0,0 +1,40 @@ +.TH "libnvme" 9 "enum nvme_status_type" "February 2024" "API Manual" LINUX +.SH NAME +enum nvme_status_type \- type encoding for NVMe return values, when represented as an int. +.SH SYNOPSIS +enum nvme_status_type { +.br +.BI " NVME_STATUS_TYPE_SHIFT" +, +.br +.br +.BI " NVME_STATUS_TYPE_MASK" +, +.br +.br +.BI " NVME_STATUS_TYPE_NVME" +, +.br +.br +.BI " NVME_STATUS_TYPE_MI" + +}; +.SH Constants +.IP "NVME_STATUS_TYPE_SHIFT" 12 +shift value for status bits +.IP "NVME_STATUS_TYPE_MASK" 12 +mask value for status bits +.IP "NVME_STATUS_TYPE_NVME" 12 +NVMe command status value, typically from CDW3 +.IP "NVME_STATUS_TYPE_MI" 12 +NVMe-MI header status +.SH "Description" + +The nvme_* api returns an int, with negative values indicating an internal +or syscall error, zero signifying success, positive values representing +the NVMe status. + +That latter case (the NVMe status) may represent status values from +different parts of the transport/controller/etc, and are at most 16 bits of +data. So, we use the most-significant 3 bits of the signed int to indicate +which type of status this is. -- cgit v1.2.3