[S390] cio: introduce cio_settle
authorSebastian Ott <sebott@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Fri, 26 Feb 2010 21:37:25 +0000 (22:37 +0100)
committerMartin Schwidefsky <sky@mschwide.boeblingen.de.ibm.com>
Fri, 26 Feb 2010 21:37:29 +0000 (22:37 +0100)
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>

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