On Mon, Jul 20, 2026 at 11:33:02AM +0200, [email protected] wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 7/17/26 00:33, [email protected] wrote:
> > The series adds few fixes for NVMe subsystem and block device management.
> > 
> > Patch 1 adds FUA support for NVMe devices (original effort in [1]).
> > Patch 2 adds plumbing for blk_flush()/blk_dflush().
> > Patch 3 introduces NVMe flush command.
> > Patch 4 enables `flush` subcommand to all the block-uclass front-end
> >          commands (ide, nvme, pvblock, sata, scsi, usb, virtio) in one go.
> > Patch 5 makes nvme_shutdown() symbol public to enable use of it from
> >          board_quiesce_devices()
> > Patch 6 tiny fixup for QEMU command for manual NVMe tests.
> > Patch 7 updates tests for flushing block devices.
> 
> Thanks for updating, but now you enable FUA, why do you still add the
> flush infrastructure ?
> 
> With FUA enabled, calling flush command would be a no-op.

I forgot to plumb enabling FUA behind the Kconfig knob, since not
every bootflow needs to persist data on NVMe...

re: flush: My understanding that flush() infra in general _could_ be useful.
That's why I kept it in the series.
But I agree, w/ NVMe FUA enabled, flush is redundant.

> 
> Neil
> 
> > 
> > [1] 
> > https://lore.kernel.org/u-boot/20211019104049.v3.1.Ic581ec99f46b6dfa2e0b1922e670a333ac859e82@changeid/
> > [2] Link to v2: 
> > https://lore.kernel.org/u-boot/[email protected]/
> > [3] Link to CI: https://github.com/u-boot/u-boot/pull/995
> > 
> > Denis Mukhin (7):
> >    drivers: nvme: Enable Force Unit Access (FUA)
> >    drivers: block: Introduce blk_flush()/blk_dflush()
> >    drivers: nvme: Implement flush command
> >    cmd: Add flush support for all blk devices
> >    drivers: nvme: Export nvme_shutdown()
> >    docs: nvme: Update QEMU command for testing
> >    tests: add blk_dflush() coverage
> > 
> >   arch/sandbox/cpu/os.c             |  5 ++++
> >   cmd/blk_common.c                  | 17 +++++++++++++
> >   cmd/blkmap.c                      |  2 ++
> >   cmd/ide.c                         |  1 +
> >   cmd/nvme.c                        |  1 +
> >   cmd/pvblock.c                     |  1 +
> >   cmd/sata.c                        |  1 +
> >   cmd/scsi.c                        |  1 +
> >   cmd/usb.c                         |  1 +
> >   cmd/virtio.c                      |  1 +
> >   disk/disk-uclass.c                |  6 +++++
> >   doc/develop/driver-model/nvme.rst |  2 +-
> >   drivers/block/blk-uclass.c        | 15 +++++++++++
> >   drivers/block/sandbox.c           |  9 +++++++
> >   drivers/nvme/nvme.c               | 42 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >   drivers/nvme/nvme.h               | 12 ++++-----
> >   drivers/nvme/nvme_apple.c         |  1 +
> >   include/blk.h                     | 26 +++++++++++++++++++
> >   include/nvme.h                    | 11 ++++++++
> >   include/os.h                      |  8 ++++++
> >   include/part.h                    |  8 ++++++
> >   test/dm/host.c                    |  2 ++
> >   test/dm/mmc.c                     |  2 ++
> >   23 files changed, 167 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
> > 
> 

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