Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-block-loop
Source file repositories/reference/linux-study-clean/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-block-loop
File Facts
- System
- Linux kernel
- Corpus path
Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-block-loop- Extension
[no extension]- Size
- 1484 bytes
- Lines
- 51
- Domain
- Support Tooling And Documentation
- Bucket
- Documentation
- Inferred role
- Support Tooling And Documentation: Documentation
- Status
- atlas-only
Why This File Exists
Repository support layer: documentation, build tooling, samples, user-space helper tools, generated initramfs support, licenses, and validation utilities.
- Repository support layer: documentation, build tooling, samples, user-space helper tools, generated initramfs support, licenses, and validation utilities.
- Defines or uses C structs; map object ownership, embedded links, reference counts, and lock ownership.
Dependency Surface
- No C-style include directives detected by the generator.
Detected Declarations
- No top-level syscall, struct, function, initcall, or export declaration detected by the generator.
Annotated Snippet
What: /sys/block/loopX/loop/autoclear
Date: Aug, 2010
KernelVersion: v2.6.37
Contact: linux-block@vger.kernel.org
Description:
(RO) Shows if the device is in autoclear mode or not ( "1" or
"0"). Autoclear (if set) indicates that the loopback device will
self-distruct after last close.
What: /sys/block/loopX/loop/backing_file
Date: Aug, 2010
KernelVersion: v2.6.37
Contact: linux-block@vger.kernel.org
Description:
(RO) The path of the backing file that the loop device maps its
data blocks to.
What: /sys/block/loopX/loop/offset
Date: Aug, 2010
KernelVersion: v2.6.37
Contact: linux-block@vger.kernel.org
Description:
(RO) Start offset (in bytes).
What: /sys/block/loopX/loop/sizelimit
Date: Aug, 2010
KernelVersion: v2.6.37
Contact: linux-block@vger.kernel.org
Description:
(RO) The size (in bytes) that the block device maps, starting
from the offset.
What: /sys/block/loopX/loop/partscan
Date: Aug, 2011
KernelVersion: v3.10
Contact: linux-block@vger.kernel.org
Description:
(RO) Shows if automatic partition scanning is enabled for the
device or not ("1" or "0"). This can be requested individually
per loop device during its setup by setting LO_FLAGS_PARTSCAN in
in the ioctl request. By default, no partition tables are
scanned.
What: /sys/block/loopX/loop/dio
Date: Aug, 2015
KernelVersion: v4.10
Contact: linux-block@vger.kernel.org
Description:
(RO) Shows if direct IO is being used to access backing file or
not ("1 or "0").Annotation
- Atlas domain: Support Tooling And Documentation / Documentation.
- Implementation status: atlas-only.
Implementation Notes
- This generated page is the file-by-file coverage layer; curated subsystem chapters should link here when they synthesize a multi-file control flow.
- Core OS pages should be promoted from atlas-only to deep-reviewed when they explain data structures, invariants, locking, lifecycle, and C implementation snippets.
- Driver-family pages are intentionally pattern-oriented unless they are part of the selected PCIe/NVMe representative device path.