[PATCH v2 3/3] nvme: prevent ioq creation for discovery controllers

Damien Le Moal dlemoal at kernel.org
Tue Jul 1 19:18:40 PDT 2025


On 7/2/25 09:58, Kamaljit Singh wrote:
> Prevent ioq creation for discovery-controllers as the spec prohibits
> them, similarly to the administrative controllers.
> 
> Reference: NVMe Base rev 2.2, sec 3.1.3.4, fig 28.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Kamaljit Singh <kamaljit.singh1 at wdc.com>
> ---
>  drivers/nvme/host/core.c | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/nvme/host/core.c b/drivers/nvme/host/core.c
> index c310634e75f3..3ad3b1da8b34 100644
> --- a/drivers/nvme/host/core.c
> +++ b/drivers/nvme/host/core.c
> @@ -3155,12 +3155,12 @@ static inline bool nvme_admin_ctrl(struct nvme_ctrl *ctrl)
>  }
>  
>  /*
> - * An admin controller has one admin queue, but no I/O queues.
> + * An admin or discovery controller has one admin queue, but no I/O queues.
>   * Override queue_count so it only creates an admin queue.
>   */
>  void nvme_override_prohibited_io_queues(struct nvme_ctrl *ctrl)
>  {
> -	if (nvme_admin_ctrl(ctrl))
> +	if (nvme_admin_ctrl(ctrl) || nvme_discovery_ctrl(ctrl))
>  		ctrl->queue_count = 1;
>  }
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(nvme_override_prohibited_io_queues);

Repeating comment on patch 1. Can't we do this in nvme_init_subsystem() or may
be better, in nvme_set_queue_count() or nvme_init_ctrl_finish() ?


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Damien Le Moal
Western Digital Research



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