[S390] cio: introduce cio_settle

This patch introduces a proc file cio_settle. A write request to
this file is blocked until all queued cio actions are handled.

This will allow userspace to wait for pending work affecting
device availability after changing cio_ignore or the hardware
configuration.

Signed-off-by: Sebastian Ott <sebott@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/s390/CommonIO b/Documentation/s390/CommonIO
index 339207d11d95..d378cba66456 100644
--- a/Documentation/s390/CommonIO
+++ b/Documentation/s390/CommonIO
@@ -87,6 +87,12 @@ Command line parameters
   compatibility, by the device number in hexadecimal (0xabcd or abcd). Device
   numbers given as 0xabcd will be interpreted as 0.0.abcd.
 
+* /proc/cio_settle
+
+  A write request to this file is blocked until all queued cio actions are
+  handled. This will allow userspace to wait for pending work affecting
+  device availability after changing cio_ignore or the hardware configuration.
+
 * For some of the information present in the /proc filesystem in 2.4 (namely,
   /proc/subchannels and /proc/chpids), see driver-model.txt.
   Information formerly in /proc/irq_count is now in /proc/interrupts.