nvme: add support for TP4084 - Time-to-Ready Enhancements
Add support for using longer timeouts during controller initialization and letting the controller come up with namespaces that are not ready for I/O yet. We skip these not ready namespaces during scanning and only bring them online once anoter scan is kicked off by the AEN that is set when the NRDY bit gets set in the I/O Command Set Independent Identify Namespace Data Structure. This asynchronous probing avoids blocking the kernel boot when controllers take a very long time to recover after unclean shutdowns (up to minutes). Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Keith Busch <kbusch@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Chaitanya Kulkarni <kch@nvidia.com> Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
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