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[v2,3/3] io_submit.2: Document RWF_ATOMIC

Message ID 20240124112731.28579-4-john.g.garry@oracle.com
State New
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Series man2: Document RWF_ATOMIC |

Commit Message

John Garry Jan. 24, 2024, 11:27 a.m. UTC 
  Document RWF_ATOMIC for asynchronous I/O.

Signed-off-by: John Garry <john.g.garry@oracle.com>
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 man2/io_submit.2 | 17 +++++++++++++++++
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diff --git a/man2/io_submit.2 b/man2/io_submit.2
index c53ae9aaf..fb6c4d9bc 100644
--- a/man2/io_submit.2
+++ b/man2/io_submit.2
@@ -140,6 +140,23 @@  as well the description of
 .B O_SYNC
 in
 .BR open (2).
+.TP
+.BR RWF_ATOMIC " (since Linux 6.9)"
+Write a block of data such that a write will never be
+torn from power fail or similar. See the description
+of the flag of the same name in
+.BR pwritev2 (2).
+For usage with
+.BR IOCB_CMD_PWRITEV,
+the upper vector limit is in
+.I stx_atomic_write_segments_max.
+See
+.B STATX_WRITE_ATOMIC
+and
+.I stx_atomic_write_segments_max
+description
+in
+.BR statx (2).
 .RE
 .TP
 .I aio_lio_opcode