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<title>linux-stable.git/arch/powerpc/sysdev, branch v4.0</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>powerpc: use %*pb[l] to print bitmaps including cpumasks and nodemasks</title>
<updated>2015-02-14T05:21:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tejun Heo</name>
<email>tj@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-02-13T22:37:06+00:00</published>
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printk and friends can now format bitmaps using '%*pb[l]'.  cpumask
and nodemask also provide cpumask_pr_args() and nodemask_pr_args()
respectively which can be used to generate the two printf arguments
necessary to format the specified cpu/nodemask.

* Spurious if (len &gt; 1) test dropped from shared_cpu_map_show().

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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printk and friends can now format bitmaps using '%*pb[l]'.  cpumask
and nodemask also provide cpumask_pr_args() and nodemask_pr_args()
respectively which can be used to generate the two printf arguments
necessary to format the specified cpu/nodemask.

* Spurious if (len &gt; 1) test dropped from shared_cpu_map_show().

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-3.20/drivers' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block</title>
<updated>2015-02-12T22:30:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-02-12T22:30:53+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=8494bcf5b7c4b2416687e233dd34d4c6b6fe5653'/>
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Pull block driver changes from Jens Axboe:
 "This contains:

   - The 4k/partition fixes for brd from Boaz/Matthew.

   - A few xen front/back block fixes from David Vrabel and Roger Pau
     Monne.

   - Floppy changes from Takashi, cleaning the device file creation.

   - Switching libata to use the new blk-mq tagging policy, removing
     code (and a suboptimal implementation) from libata.  This will
     throw you a merge conflict, since a bug in the original libata
     tagging code was fixed since this code was branched.  Trivial.
     From Shaohua.

   - Conversion of loop to blk-mq, from Ming Lei.

   - Cleanup of the io_schedule() handling in bsg from Peter Zijlstra.
     He claims it improves on unreadable code, which will cost him a
     beer.

   - Maintainer update or NDB, now handled by Markus Pargmann.

   - NVMe:
        - Optimization from me that avoids a kmalloc/kfree per IO for
          smaller (&lt;= 8KB) IO. This cuts about 1% of high IOPS CPU
          overhead.
        - Removal of (now) dead RCU code, a relic from before NVMe was
          converted to blk-mq"

* 'for-3.20/drivers' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block:
  xen-blkback: default to X86_32 ABI on x86
  xen-blkfront: fix accounting of reqs when migrating
  xen-blkback,xen-blkfront: add myself as maintainer
  block: Simplify bsg complete all
  floppy: Avoid manual call of device_create_file()
  NVMe: avoid kmalloc/kfree for smaller IO
  MAINTAINERS: Update NBD maintainer
  libata: make sata_sil24 use fifo tag allocator
  libata: move sas ata tag allocation to libata-scsi.c
  libata: use blk taging
  NVMe: within nvme_free_queues(), delete RCU sychro/deferred free
  null_blk: suppress invalid partition info
  brd: Request from fdisk 4k alignment
  brd: Fix all partitions BUGs
  axonram: Fix bug in direct_access
  loop: add blk-mq.h include
  block: loop: don't handle REQ_FUA explicitly
  block: loop: introduce lo_discard() and lo_req_flush()
  block: loop: say goodby to bio
  block: loop: improve performance via blk-mq
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Pull block driver changes from Jens Axboe:
 "This contains:

   - The 4k/partition fixes for brd from Boaz/Matthew.

   - A few xen front/back block fixes from David Vrabel and Roger Pau
     Monne.

   - Floppy changes from Takashi, cleaning the device file creation.

   - Switching libata to use the new blk-mq tagging policy, removing
     code (and a suboptimal implementation) from libata.  This will
     throw you a merge conflict, since a bug in the original libata
     tagging code was fixed since this code was branched.  Trivial.
     From Shaohua.

   - Conversion of loop to blk-mq, from Ming Lei.

   - Cleanup of the io_schedule() handling in bsg from Peter Zijlstra.
     He claims it improves on unreadable code, which will cost him a
     beer.

   - Maintainer update or NDB, now handled by Markus Pargmann.

   - NVMe:
        - Optimization from me that avoids a kmalloc/kfree per IO for
          smaller (&lt;= 8KB) IO. This cuts about 1% of high IOPS CPU
          overhead.
        - Removal of (now) dead RCU code, a relic from before NVMe was
          converted to blk-mq"

* 'for-3.20/drivers' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block:
  xen-blkback: default to X86_32 ABI on x86
  xen-blkfront: fix accounting of reqs when migrating
  xen-blkback,xen-blkfront: add myself as maintainer
  block: Simplify bsg complete all
  floppy: Avoid manual call of device_create_file()
  NVMe: avoid kmalloc/kfree for smaller IO
  MAINTAINERS: Update NBD maintainer
  libata: make sata_sil24 use fifo tag allocator
  libata: move sas ata tag allocation to libata-scsi.c
  libata: use blk taging
  NVMe: within nvme_free_queues(), delete RCU sychro/deferred free
  null_blk: suppress invalid partition info
  brd: Request from fdisk 4k alignment
  brd: Fix all partitions BUGs
  axonram: Fix bug in direct_access
  loop: add blk-mq.h include
  block: loop: don't handle REQ_FUA explicitly
  block: loop: introduce lo_discard() and lo_req_flush()
  block: loop: say goodby to bio
  block: loop: improve performance via blk-mq
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-3.20/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block</title>
<updated>2015-02-12T22:13:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-02-12T22:13:23+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=3e12cefbe143b4947171ff92dd50024c4841e291'/>
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<content type='text'>
Pull core block IO changes from Jens Axboe:
 "This contains:

   - A series from Christoph that cleans up and refactors various parts
     of the REQ_BLOCK_PC handling.  Contributions in that series from
     Dongsu Park and Kent Overstreet as well.

   - CFQ:
        - A bug fix for cfq for realtime IO scheduling from Jeff Moyer.
        - A stable patch fixing a potential crash in CFQ in OOM
          situations.  From Konstantin Khlebnikov.

   - blk-mq:
        - Add support for tag allocation policies, from Shaohua. This is
          a prep patch enabling libata (and other SCSI parts) to use the
          blk-mq tagging, instead of rolling their own.
        - Various little tweaks from Keith and Mike, in preparation for
          DM blk-mq support.
        - Minor little fixes or tweaks from me.
        - A double free error fix from Tony Battersby.

   - The partition 4k issue fixes from Matthew and Boaz.

   - Add support for zero+unprovision for blkdev_issue_zeroout() from
     Martin"

* 'for-3.20/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (27 commits)
  block: remove unused function blk_bio_map_sg
  block: handle the null_mapped flag correctly in blk_rq_map_user_iov
  blk-mq: fix double-free in error path
  block: prevent request-to-request merging with gaps if not allowed
  blk-mq: make blk_mq_run_queues() static
  dm: fix multipath regression due to initializing wrong request
  cfq-iosched: handle failure of cfq group allocation
  block: Quiesce zeroout wrapper
  block: rewrite and split __bio_copy_iov()
  block: merge __bio_map_user_iov into bio_map_user_iov
  block: merge __bio_map_kern into bio_map_kern
  block: pass iov_iter to the BLOCK_PC mapping functions
  block: add a helper to free bio bounce buffer pages
  block: use blk_rq_map_user_iov to implement blk_rq_map_user
  block: simplify bio_map_kern
  block: mark blk-mq devices as stackable
  block: keep established cmd_flags when cloning into a blk-mq request
  block: add blk-mq support to blk_insert_cloned_request()
  block: require blk_rq_prep_clone() be given an initialized clone request
  blk-mq: add tag allocation policy
  ...
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<pre>
Pull core block IO changes from Jens Axboe:
 "This contains:

   - A series from Christoph that cleans up and refactors various parts
     of the REQ_BLOCK_PC handling.  Contributions in that series from
     Dongsu Park and Kent Overstreet as well.

   - CFQ:
        - A bug fix for cfq for realtime IO scheduling from Jeff Moyer.
        - A stable patch fixing a potential crash in CFQ in OOM
          situations.  From Konstantin Khlebnikov.

   - blk-mq:
        - Add support for tag allocation policies, from Shaohua. This is
          a prep patch enabling libata (and other SCSI parts) to use the
          blk-mq tagging, instead of rolling their own.
        - Various little tweaks from Keith and Mike, in preparation for
          DM blk-mq support.
        - Minor little fixes or tweaks from me.
        - A double free error fix from Tony Battersby.

   - The partition 4k issue fixes from Matthew and Boaz.

   - Add support for zero+unprovision for blkdev_issue_zeroout() from
     Martin"

* 'for-3.20/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (27 commits)
  block: remove unused function blk_bio_map_sg
  block: handle the null_mapped flag correctly in blk_rq_map_user_iov
  blk-mq: fix double-free in error path
  block: prevent request-to-request merging with gaps if not allowed
  blk-mq: make blk_mq_run_queues() static
  dm: fix multipath regression due to initializing wrong request
  cfq-iosched: handle failure of cfq group allocation
  block: Quiesce zeroout wrapper
  block: rewrite and split __bio_copy_iov()
  block: merge __bio_map_user_iov into bio_map_user_iov
  block: merge __bio_map_kern into bio_map_kern
  block: pass iov_iter to the BLOCK_PC mapping functions
  block: add a helper to free bio bounce buffer pages
  block: use blk_rq_map_user_iov to implement blk_rq_map_user
  block: simplify bio_map_kern
  block: mark blk-mq devices as stackable
  block: keep established cmd_flags when cloning into a blk-mq request
  block: add blk-mq support to blk_insert_cloned_request()
  block: require blk_rq_prep_clone() be given an initialized clone request
  blk-mq: add tag allocation policy
  ...
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'powerpc-3.20-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mpe/linux</title>
<updated>2015-02-12T02:15:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-02-12T02:15:38+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=d3f180ea1a44aecba1b0dab2a253428e77f906bf'/>
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<content type='text'>
Pull powerpc updates from Michael Ellerman:

 - Update of all defconfigs

 - Addition of a bunch of config options to modernise our defconfigs

 - Some PS3 updates from Geoff

 - Optimised memcmp for 64 bit from Anton

 - Fix for kprobes that allows 'perf probe' to work from Naveen

 - Several cxl updates from Ian &amp; Ryan

 - Expanded support for the '24x7' PMU from Cody &amp; Sukadev

 - Freescale updates from Scott:
    "Highlights include 8xx optimizations, some more work on datapath
     device tree content, e300 machine check support, t1040 corenet
     error reporting, and various cleanups and fixes"

* tag 'powerpc-3.20-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mpe/linux: (102 commits)
  cxl: Add missing return statement after handling AFU errror
  cxl: Fail AFU initialisation if an invalid configuration record is found
  cxl: Export optional AFU configuration record in sysfs
  powerpc/mm: Warn on flushing tlb page in kernel context
  powerpc/powernv: Add OPAL soft-poweroff routine
  powerpc/perf/hv-24x7: Document sysfs event description entries
  powerpc/perf/hv-gpci: add the remaining gpci requests
  powerpc/perf/{hv-gpci, hv-common}: generate requests with counters annotated
  powerpc/perf/hv-24x7: parse catalog and populate sysfs with events
  perf: define EVENT_DEFINE_RANGE_FORMAT_LITE helper
  perf: add PMU_EVENT_ATTR_STRING() helper
  perf: provide sysfs_show for struct perf_pmu_events_attr
  powerpc/kernel: Avoid initializing device-tree pointer twice
  powerpc: Remove old compile time disabled syscall tracing code
  powerpc/kernel: Make syscall_exit a local label
  cxl: Fix device_node reference counting
  powerpc/mm: bail out early when flushing TLB page
  powerpc: defconfigs: add MTD_SPI_NOR (new dependency for M25P80)
  perf/powerpc: reset event hw state when adding it to the PMU
  powerpc/qe: Use strlcpy()
  ...
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<pre>
Pull powerpc updates from Michael Ellerman:

 - Update of all defconfigs

 - Addition of a bunch of config options to modernise our defconfigs

 - Some PS3 updates from Geoff

 - Optimised memcmp for 64 bit from Anton

 - Fix for kprobes that allows 'perf probe' to work from Naveen

 - Several cxl updates from Ian &amp; Ryan

 - Expanded support for the '24x7' PMU from Cody &amp; Sukadev

 - Freescale updates from Scott:
    "Highlights include 8xx optimizations, some more work on datapath
     device tree content, e300 machine check support, t1040 corenet
     error reporting, and various cleanups and fixes"

* tag 'powerpc-3.20-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mpe/linux: (102 commits)
  cxl: Add missing return statement after handling AFU errror
  cxl: Fail AFU initialisation if an invalid configuration record is found
  cxl: Export optional AFU configuration record in sysfs
  powerpc/mm: Warn on flushing tlb page in kernel context
  powerpc/powernv: Add OPAL soft-poweroff routine
  powerpc/perf/hv-24x7: Document sysfs event description entries
  powerpc/perf/hv-gpci: add the remaining gpci requests
  powerpc/perf/{hv-gpci, hv-common}: generate requests with counters annotated
  powerpc/perf/hv-24x7: parse catalog and populate sysfs with events
  perf: define EVENT_DEFINE_RANGE_FORMAT_LITE helper
  perf: add PMU_EVENT_ATTR_STRING() helper
  perf: provide sysfs_show for struct perf_pmu_events_attr
  powerpc/kernel: Avoid initializing device-tree pointer twice
  powerpc: Remove old compile time disabled syscall tracing code
  powerpc/kernel: Make syscall_exit a local label
  cxl: Fix device_node reference counting
  powerpc/mm: bail out early when flushing TLB page
  powerpc: defconfigs: add MTD_SPI_NOR (new dependency for M25P80)
  perf/powerpc: reset event hw state when adding it to the PMU
  powerpc/qe: Use strlcpy()
  ...
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/fsl_pci: Convert PCI to use generic config accessors</title>
<updated>2015-01-30T22:14:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rob Herring</name>
<email>robh@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-01-10T02:34:44+00:00</published>
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Convert the fsl_pci driver to use the generic config access functions.

This changes accesses from (in|out)_(8|le16|le32) to readX/writeX variants.
I believe these should be equivalent for PCI config space accesses, but
confirmation would be nice.

Signed-off-by: Rob Herring &lt;robh@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas &lt;bhelgaas@google.com&gt;
CC: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
CC: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
CC: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
CC: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org</content>
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Convert the fsl_pci driver to use the generic config access functions.

This changes accesses from (in|out)_(8|le16|le32) to readX/writeX variants.
I believe these should be equivalent for PCI config space accesses, but
confirmation would be nice.

Signed-off-by: Rob Herring &lt;robh@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas &lt;bhelgaas@google.com&gt;
CC: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
CC: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
CC: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
CC: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/qe: Use strlcpy()</title>
<updated>2015-01-30T05:32:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rickard Strandqvist</name>
<email>rickard_strandqvist@spectrumdigital.se</email>
</author>
<published>2014-07-26T21:26:51+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
Replace strcpy and strncpy with strlcpy to avoid strings that are too
big, or lack null termination.

Signed-off-by: Rickard Strandqvist &lt;rickard_strandqvist@spectrumdigital.se&gt;
[scottwood@freescale.com: cleaned up commit message]
Signed-off-by: Scott Wood &lt;scottwood@freescale.com&gt;
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Replace strcpy and strncpy with strlcpy to avoid strings that are too
big, or lack null termination.

Signed-off-by: Rickard Strandqvist &lt;rickard_strandqvist@spectrumdigital.se&gt;
[scottwood@freescale.com: cleaned up commit message]
Signed-off-by: Scott Wood &lt;scottwood@freescale.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/fsl_pci: Fix pci stack build bug with FRAME_WARN</title>
<updated>2015-01-30T01:56:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kim Phillips</name>
<email>kim.phillips@freescale.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-01-23T01:05:06+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=6d5f6a0eba15c1d2cfd367f1c3fb77ab2bfe8ca8'/>
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Fix this:

  CC      arch/powerpc/sysdev/fsl_pci.o
arch/powerpc/sysdev/fsl_pci.c: In function 'fsl_pcie_check_link':
arch/powerpc/sysdev/fsl_pci.c:91:1: error: the frame size of 1360 bytes is larger than 1024 bytes [-Werror=frame-larger-than=]

when configuring FRAME_WARN, by refactoring indirect_read_config()
to take hose and bus number instead of the 1344-byte struct pci_bus.

Signed-off-by: Kim Phillips &lt;kim.phillips@freescale.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Scott Wood &lt;scottwood@freescale.com&gt;
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Fix this:

  CC      arch/powerpc/sysdev/fsl_pci.o
arch/powerpc/sysdev/fsl_pci.c: In function 'fsl_pcie_check_link':
arch/powerpc/sysdev/fsl_pci.c:91:1: error: the frame size of 1360 bytes is larger than 1024 bytes [-Werror=frame-larger-than=]

when configuring FRAME_WARN, by refactoring indirect_read_config()
to take hose and bus number instead of the 1344-byte struct pci_bus.

Signed-off-by: Kim Phillips &lt;kim.phillips@freescale.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Scott Wood &lt;scottwood@freescale.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc: Replace cpumask_weight(cpu_possible_mask) with num_possible_cpus()</title>
<updated>2015-01-23T03:02:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Emil Medve</name>
<email>Emilian.Medve@freescale.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-01-21T22:21:14+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=53a448c3d5d721cd85e3ad3e38c222a4dbb17f13'/>
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<content type='text'>
num_possible_cpus() is just a shorthand for it.

Signed-off-by: Emil Medve &lt;Emilian.Medve@Freescale.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
</content>
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<pre>
num_possible_cpus() is just a shorthand for it.

Signed-off-by: Emil Medve &lt;Emilian.Medve@Freescale.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-3.20/core' into for-3.20/drivers</title>
<updated>2015-01-14T04:58:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jens Axboe</name>
<email>axboe@fb.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-01-14T04:58:45+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=d4119ee0e1aa2b74e5e367cbc915e79db7b9e271'/>
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<content type='text'>
</content>
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<pre>
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>block: Change direct_access calling convention</title>
<updated>2015-01-14T04:58:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Matthew Wilcox</name>
<email>matthew.r.wilcox@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-01-07T16:05:34+00:00</published>
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In order to support accesses to larger chunks of memory, pass in a
'size' parameter (counted in bytes), and return the amount available at
that address.

Add a new helper function, bdev_direct_access(), to handle common
functionality including partition handling, checking the length requested
is positive, checking for the sector being page-aligned, and checking
the length of the request does not pass the end of the partition.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox &lt;matthew.r.wilcox@intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Reviewed-by: Boaz Harrosh &lt;boaz@plexistor.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
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In order to support accesses to larger chunks of memory, pass in a
'size' parameter (counted in bytes), and return the amount available at
that address.

Add a new helper function, bdev_direct_access(), to handle common
functionality including partition handling, checking the length requested
is positive, checking for the sector being page-aligned, and checking
the length of the request does not pass the end of the partition.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox &lt;matthew.r.wilcox@intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Reviewed-by: Boaz Harrosh &lt;boaz@plexistor.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
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