NAME
nvme-admin-passthru - Submit an arbitrary admin command, return results
SYNOPSIS
nvme-admin-passthru
<device> [--opcode=<opcode> | -O <opcode>]
[--flags=<flags> | -f <flags>]
[-rsvd=<rsvd> | -R <rsvd>]
[--namespace-id=<nsid> | -n <nsid>]
[--cdw2=<cdw2> | -2 <cdw2>]
[--cdw3=<cdw3> | -3 <cdw3>]
[--cdw10=<cdw10> | -4 <cdw10>]
[--cdw11=<cdw11> | -5 <cdw11>]
[--cdw12=<cdw12> | -6 <cdw12>]
[--cdw13=<cdw13> | -7 <cdw13>]
[--cdw14=<cdw14> | -8 <cdw14>]
[--cdw15=<cdw15> | -9 <cdw15>]
[--data-len=<data-len> | -l <data-len>]
[--metadata-len=<len> | -m <len>]
[--input-file=<file> | -i <file>]
[--read | -r] [--write | -w]
[--timeout=<to> | -t <to>]
[--show-command | -s]
[--dry-run | -d]
[--raw-binary | -b]
[--prefill=<prefill> | -p <prefill>]
[--latency | -T]
[--output-format=<fmt> | -o <fmt>] [--verbose |
-v]
DESCRIPTION
Submits an arbitrary NVMe admin command and returns the applicable results. This may be the simply the commands result and status, or may also include a buffer if the command returns one. This command does no interpretation of the opcodes or options.
The <device> parameter is mandatory and may be either the NVMe character device (ex: /dev/nvme0), or a namespace block device (ex: /dev/nvme0n1).
On success, the returned structure (if applicable) may be returned in one of several ways depending on the option flags; the structure may printed by the program as a hex dump, or may be returned as a raw buffer printed to stdout for another program to parse.
OPTIONS
-O <opcode>, --opcode=<opcode>
The NVMe opcode to send to the device in the command
-f <flags>, --flags=<flags>
The NVMe command flags to send to the device in the command
-R <rsvd>, --rsvd=<rsvd>
The value for the reserved field in the command.
-n <nsid>, --namespace-id=<nsid>
The value for the ns-id in the command.
-[2-9] <cdw>, --cdw[2-3,10-15]=<cdw>
Specifies the command dword value for that specified entry in the command
-r, --read, -w, --write
Used for the data-direction for the command and required for commands sending/receiving data. Don’t use both read and write at the same time.
-i <file>, --input-file=<file>
If the command is a data-out (write) command, use this file to fill the buffer sent to the device. If no file is given, assumed to use STDIN.
-l <data-len>, --data-len=<data-len>
The data length for the buffer used for this command.
-m <data-len>, --metadata-len=<data-len>
The metadata length for the buffer used for this command.
-s, --show-cmd
Print out the command to be sent.
-d, --dry-run
Do not actually send the command. If want to use --dry-run option, --show-cmd option must be set. Otherwise --dry-run option will be ignored.
-b, --raw-binary
Print the raw returned buffer to stdout if the command returns a structure.
-p, --prefill
Prefill the buffer with a predetermined byte value. Defaults to 0. This may be useful if the data you are writing is shorter than the required buffer, and you need to pad it with a known value. It may also be useful if you need to confirm if a device is overwriting a buffer for a data-in command.
-T, --latency
Print out the latency the IOCTL took (in us).
-o <fmt>, --output-format=<fmt>
Set the reporting format to normal, json or binary. Only one output format can be used at a time.
-v, --verbose
Increase the information detail in the output.
EXAMPLES
• The following will run the admin command with opcode=6 and cdw10=1, which corresponds to an identify controller command. This example requires the data-len param be 4096, which is the size of the returned structure. The -r option is used because it is a data-in command
# nvme admin-passthru /dev/nvme0 --opcode=06 --data-len=4096 --cdw10=1 -r
• Or if you want to save that structure to a file:
# nvme admin-passthru /dev/nvme0 --opcode=06 --data-len=4096 --cdw10=1 -r -b > id_ns.raw
NVME
Part of the nvme-user suite