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Commit ec5a138c authored by Ankit Kumar's avatar Ankit Kumar Committed by Klaus Jensen
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docs: update hw/nvme documentation for protection information


Add missing entry for pif ("protection information format").
Protection information size can be 8 or 16 bytes, Update the pil entry
as per the NVM command set specification.

Signed-off-by: default avatarAnkit Kumar <ankit.kumar@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarKlaus Jensen <k.jensen@samsung.com>
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......@@ -271,9 +271,15 @@ The virtual namespace device supports DIF- and DIX-based protection information
``pil=UINT8`` (default: ``0``)
Controls the location of the protection information within the metadata. Set
to ``1`` to transfer protection information as the first eight bytes of
metadata. Otherwise, the protection information is transferred as the last
eight bytes.
to ``1`` to transfer protection information as the first bytes of metadata.
Otherwise, the protection information is transferred as the last bytes of
metadata.
``pif=UINT8`` (default: ``0``)
By default, the namespace device uses 16 bit guard protection information
format (``pif=0``). Set to ``2`` to enable 64 bit guard protection
information format. This requires at least 16 bytes of metadata. Note that
``pif=1`` (32 bit guards) is currently not supported.
Virtualization Enhancements and SR-IOV (Experimental Support)
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