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<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>block: do not leak memory in bio_copy_user_iov()</title>
<updated>2019-04-27T07:30:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jérôme Glisse</name>
<email>jglisse@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-04-10T20:27:51+00:00</published>
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commit a3761c3c91209b58b6f33bf69dd8bb8ec0c9d925 upstream.

When bio_add_pc_page() fails in bio_copy_user_iov() we should free
the page we just allocated otherwise we are leaking it.

Cc: linux-block@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Chaitanya Kulkarni &lt;chaitanya.kulkarni@wdc.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jérôme Glisse &lt;jglisse@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit a3761c3c91209b58b6f33bf69dd8bb8ec0c9d925 upstream.

When bio_add_pc_page() fails in bio_copy_user_iov() we should free
the page we just allocated otherwise we are leaking it.

Cc: linux-block@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Chaitanya Kulkarni &lt;chaitanya.kulkarni@wdc.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jérôme Glisse &lt;jglisse@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>fix unbalanced page refcounting in bio_map_user_iov</title>
<updated>2017-10-18T07:15:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vitaly Mayatskikh</name>
<email>v.mayatskih@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-09-22T05:18:39+00:00</published>
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commit 95d78c28b5a85bacbc29b8dba7c04babb9b0d467 upstream.

bio_map_user_iov and bio_unmap_user do unbalanced pages refcounting if
IO vector has small consecutive buffers belonging to the same page.
bio_add_pc_page merges them into one, but the page reference is never
dropped.

Signed-off-by: Vitaly Mayatskikh &lt;v.mayatskih@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 95d78c28b5a85bacbc29b8dba7c04babb9b0d467 upstream.

bio_map_user_iov and bio_unmap_user do unbalanced pages refcounting if
IO vector has small consecutive buffers belonging to the same page.
bio_add_pc_page merges them into one, but the page reference is never
dropped.

Signed-off-by: Vitaly Mayatskikh &lt;v.mayatskih@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>block: Do a full clone when splitting discard bios</title>
<updated>2016-10-07T14:37:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Martin K. Petersen</name>
<email>martin.petersen@oracle.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-07-22T11:57:12+00:00</published>
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This fixes a data corruption bug when using discard on top of MD linear,
raid0 and raid10 personalities.

Commit 20d0189b1012 "block: Introduce new bio_split()" permits sharing
the bio_vec between the two resulting bios. That is fine for read/write
requests where the bio_vec is immutable. For discards, however, we need
to be able to attach a payload and update the bio_vec so the page can
get mapped to a scatterlist entry. Therefore the bio_vec can not be
shared when splitting discards and we must do a full clone.

Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen &lt;martin.petersen@oracle.com&gt;
Reported-by: Seunguk Shin &lt;seunguk.shin@samsung.com&gt;
Tested-by: Seunguk Shin &lt;seunguk.shin@samsung.com&gt;
Cc: Seunguk Shin &lt;seunguk.shin@samsung.com&gt;
Cc: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
Cc: Kent Overstreet &lt;kent.overstreet@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # v3.14+
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
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This fixes a data corruption bug when using discard on top of MD linear,
raid0 and raid10 personalities.

Commit 20d0189b1012 "block: Introduce new bio_split()" permits sharing
the bio_vec between the two resulting bios. That is fine for read/write
requests where the bio_vec is immutable. For discards, however, we need
to be able to attach a payload and update the bio_vec so the page can
get mapped to a scatterlist entry. Therefore the bio_vec can not be
shared when splitting discards and we must do a full clone.

Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen &lt;martin.petersen@oracle.com&gt;
Reported-by: Seunguk Shin &lt;seunguk.shin@samsung.com&gt;
Tested-by: Seunguk Shin &lt;seunguk.shin@samsung.com&gt;
Cc: Seunguk Shin &lt;seunguk.shin@samsung.com&gt;
Cc: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
Cc: Kent Overstreet &lt;kent.overstreet@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # v3.14+
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>block: add bioset_create_nobvec()</title>
<updated>2014-10-03T21:28:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Junichi Nomura</name>
<email>j-nomura@ce.jp.nec.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-10-03T21:27:12+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=d8f429e1669b9709f5b669aac9d734dbe0640891'/>
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<content type='text'>
Users of bio_clone_fast() do not want bios with their own bvecs.
Allocating a bvec mempool as part of the bioset intended for such users
is a waste of memory.

bioset_create_nobvec() creates a bioset that doesn't have the bvec
mempool.

Signed-off-by: Jun'ichi Nomura &lt;j-nomura@ce.jp.nec.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
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Users of bio_clone_fast() do not want bios with their own bvecs.
Allocating a bvec mempool as part of the bioset intended for such users
is a waste of memory.

bioset_create_nobvec() creates a bioset that doesn't have the bvec
mempool.

Signed-off-by: Jun'ichi Nomura &lt;j-nomura@ce.jp.nec.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>block: use kmalloc alignment for bio slab</title>
<updated>2014-08-01T16:30:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mikulas Patocka</name>
<email>mpatocka@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-03-28T19:51:55+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=6a2414836154dc22b224c837ad7b862f78d595d1'/>
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<content type='text'>
Various subsystems can ask the bio subsystem to create a bio slab cache
with some free space before the bio.  This free space can be used for any
purpose.  Device mapper uses this per-bio-data feature to place some
target-specific and device-mapper specific data before the bio, so that
the target-specific data doesn't have to be allocated separately.

This per-bio-data mechanism is used in place of kmalloc, so we need the
allocated slab to have the same memory alignment as memory allocated
with kmalloc.

Change bio_find_or_create_slab() so that it uses ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN
alignment when creating the slab cache.  This is needed so that dm-crypt
can use per-bio-data for encryption - the crypto subsystem assumes this
data will have the same alignment as kmalloc'ed memory.

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka &lt;mpatocka@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
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Various subsystems can ask the bio subsystem to create a bio slab cache
with some free space before the bio.  This free space can be used for any
purpose.  Device mapper uses this per-bio-data feature to place some
target-specific and device-mapper specific data before the bio, so that
the target-specific data doesn't have to be allocated separately.

This per-bio-data mechanism is used in place of kmalloc, so we need the
allocated slab to have the same memory alignment as memory allocated
with kmalloc.

Change bio_find_or_create_slab() so that it uses ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN
alignment when creating the slab cache.  This is needed so that dm-crypt
can use per-bio-data for encryption - the crypto subsystem assumes this
data will have the same alignment as kmalloc'ed memory.

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka &lt;mpatocka@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>block: add support for limiting gaps in SG lists</title>
<updated>2014-06-24T22:22:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jens Axboe</name>
<email>axboe@fb.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-06-24T22:22:24+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=66cb45aa41315d1d9972cada354fbdf7870d7714'/>
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Another restriction inherited for NVMe - those devices don't support
SG lists that have "gaps" in them. Gaps refers to cases where the
previous SG entry doesn't end on a page boundary. For NVMe, all SG
entries must start at offset 0 (except the first) and end on a page
boundary (except the last).

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
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Another restriction inherited for NVMe - those devices don't support
SG lists that have "gaps" in them. Gaps refers to cases where the
previous SG entry doesn't end on a page boundary. For NVMe, all SG
entries must start at offset 0 (except the first) and end on a page
boundary (except the last).

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block</title>
<updated>2014-06-11T15:41:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-06-11T15:41:17+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=23d4ed53b7342bf5999b3ea227d9f69e75e5a625'/>
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<content type='text'>
Pull block layer fixes from Jens Axboe:
 "Final small batch of fixes to be included before -rc1.  Some general
  cleanups in here as well, but some of the blk-mq fixes we need for the
  NVMe conversion and/or scsi-mq.  The pull request contains:

   - Support for not merging across a specified "chunk size", if set by
     the driver.  Some NVMe devices perform poorly for IO that crosses
     such a chunk, so we need to support it generically as part of
     request merging avoid having to do complicated split logic.  From
     me.

   - Bump max tag depth to 10Ki tags.  Some scsi devices have a huge
     shared tag space.  Before we failed with EINVAL if a too large tag
     depth was specified, now we truncate it and pass back the actual
     value.  From me.

   - Various blk-mq rq init fixes from me and others.

   - A fix for enter on a dying queue for blk-mq from Keith.  This is
     needed to prevent oopsing on hot device removal.

   - Fixup for blk-mq timer addition from Ming Lei.

   - Small round of performance fixes for mtip32xx from Sam Bradshaw.

   - Minor stack leak fix from Rickard Strandqvist.

   - Two __init annotations from Fabian Frederick"

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block:
  block: add __init to blkcg_policy_register
  block: add __init to elv_register
  block: ensure that bio_add_page() always accepts a page for an empty bio
  blk-mq: add timer in blk_mq_start_request
  blk-mq: always initialize request-&gt;start_time
  block: blk-exec.c: Cleaning up local variable address returnd
  mtip32xx: minor performance enhancements
  blk-mq: -&gt;timeout should be cleared in blk_mq_rq_ctx_init()
  blk-mq: don't allow queue entering for a dying queue
  blk-mq: bump max tag depth to 10K tags
  block: add blk_rq_set_block_pc()
  block: add notion of a chunk size for request merging
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Pull block layer fixes from Jens Axboe:
 "Final small batch of fixes to be included before -rc1.  Some general
  cleanups in here as well, but some of the blk-mq fixes we need for the
  NVMe conversion and/or scsi-mq.  The pull request contains:

   - Support for not merging across a specified "chunk size", if set by
     the driver.  Some NVMe devices perform poorly for IO that crosses
     such a chunk, so we need to support it generically as part of
     request merging avoid having to do complicated split logic.  From
     me.

   - Bump max tag depth to 10Ki tags.  Some scsi devices have a huge
     shared tag space.  Before we failed with EINVAL if a too large tag
     depth was specified, now we truncate it and pass back the actual
     value.  From me.

   - Various blk-mq rq init fixes from me and others.

   - A fix for enter on a dying queue for blk-mq from Keith.  This is
     needed to prevent oopsing on hot device removal.

   - Fixup for blk-mq timer addition from Ming Lei.

   - Small round of performance fixes for mtip32xx from Sam Bradshaw.

   - Minor stack leak fix from Rickard Strandqvist.

   - Two __init annotations from Fabian Frederick"

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block:
  block: add __init to blkcg_policy_register
  block: add __init to elv_register
  block: ensure that bio_add_page() always accepts a page for an empty bio
  blk-mq: add timer in blk_mq_start_request
  blk-mq: always initialize request-&gt;start_time
  block: blk-exec.c: Cleaning up local variable address returnd
  mtip32xx: minor performance enhancements
  blk-mq: -&gt;timeout should be cleared in blk_mq_rq_ctx_init()
  blk-mq: don't allow queue entering for a dying queue
  blk-mq: bump max tag depth to 10K tags
  block: add blk_rq_set_block_pc()
  block: add notion of a chunk size for request merging
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>block: ensure that bio_add_page() always accepts a page for an empty bio</title>
<updated>2014-06-10T18:53:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jens Axboe</name>
<email>axboe@fb.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-06-10T18:53:56+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=58a4915ad2f8a87f4456aac260396df7e300e6f2'/>
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<content type='text'>
With commit 762380ad9322 added support for chunk sizes and no merging
across them, it broke the rule of always allowing adding of a single
page to an empty bio. So relax the restriction a bit to allow for that,
similarly to what we have always done.

This fixes a crash with mkfs.xfs and 512b sector sizes on NVMe.

Reported-by: Keith Busch &lt;keith.busch@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
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With commit 762380ad9322 added support for chunk sizes and no merging
across them, it broke the rule of always allowing adding of a single
page to an empty bio. So relax the restriction a bit to allow for that,
similarly to what we have always done.

This fixes a crash with mkfs.xfs and 512b sector sizes on NVMe.

Reported-by: Keith Busch &lt;keith.busch@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-3.16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup</title>
<updated>2014-06-09T22:03:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-06-09T22:03:33+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=14208b0ec56919f5333dd654b1a7d10765d0ad05'/>
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<content type='text'>
Pull cgroup updates from Tejun Heo:
 "A lot of activities on cgroup side.  Heavy restructuring including
  locking simplification took place to improve the code base and enable
  implementation of the unified hierarchy, which currently exists behind
  a __DEVEL__ mount option.  The core support is mostly complete but
  individual controllers need further work.  To explain the design and
  rationales of the the unified hierarchy

        Documentation/cgroups/unified-hierarchy.txt

  is added.

  Another notable change is css (cgroup_subsys_state - what each
  controller uses to identify and interact with a cgroup) iteration
  update.  This is part of continuing updates on css object lifetime and
  visibility.  cgroup started with reference count draining on removal
  way back and is now reaching a point where csses behave and are
  iterated like normal refcnted objects albeit with some complexities to
  allow distinguishing the state where they're being deleted.  The css
  iteration update isn't taken advantage of yet but is planned to be
  used to simplify memcg significantly"

* 'for-3.16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup: (77 commits)
  cgroup: disallow disabled controllers on the default hierarchy
  cgroup: don't destroy the default root
  cgroup: disallow debug controller on the default hierarchy
  cgroup: clean up MAINTAINERS entries
  cgroup: implement css_tryget()
  device_cgroup: use css_has_online_children() instead of has_children()
  cgroup: convert cgroup_has_live_children() into css_has_online_children()
  cgroup: use CSS_ONLINE instead of CGRP_DEAD
  cgroup: iterate cgroup_subsys_states directly
  cgroup: introduce CSS_RELEASED and reduce css iteration fallback window
  cgroup: move cgroup-&gt;serial_nr into cgroup_subsys_state
  cgroup: link all cgroup_subsys_states in their sibling lists
  cgroup: move cgroup-&gt;sibling and -&gt;children into cgroup_subsys_state
  cgroup: remove cgroup-&gt;parent
  device_cgroup: remove direct access to cgroup-&gt;children
  memcg: update memcg_has_children() to use css_next_child()
  memcg: remove tasks/children test from mem_cgroup_force_empty()
  cgroup: remove css_parent()
  cgroup: skip refcnting on normal root csses and cgrp_dfl_root self css
  cgroup: use cgroup-&gt;self.refcnt for cgroup refcnting
  ...
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Pull cgroup updates from Tejun Heo:
 "A lot of activities on cgroup side.  Heavy restructuring including
  locking simplification took place to improve the code base and enable
  implementation of the unified hierarchy, which currently exists behind
  a __DEVEL__ mount option.  The core support is mostly complete but
  individual controllers need further work.  To explain the design and
  rationales of the the unified hierarchy

        Documentation/cgroups/unified-hierarchy.txt

  is added.

  Another notable change is css (cgroup_subsys_state - what each
  controller uses to identify and interact with a cgroup) iteration
  update.  This is part of continuing updates on css object lifetime and
  visibility.  cgroup started with reference count draining on removal
  way back and is now reaching a point where csses behave and are
  iterated like normal refcnted objects albeit with some complexities to
  allow distinguishing the state where they're being deleted.  The css
  iteration update isn't taken advantage of yet but is planned to be
  used to simplify memcg significantly"

* 'for-3.16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup: (77 commits)
  cgroup: disallow disabled controllers on the default hierarchy
  cgroup: don't destroy the default root
  cgroup: disallow debug controller on the default hierarchy
  cgroup: clean up MAINTAINERS entries
  cgroup: implement css_tryget()
  device_cgroup: use css_has_online_children() instead of has_children()
  cgroup: convert cgroup_has_live_children() into css_has_online_children()
  cgroup: use CSS_ONLINE instead of CGRP_DEAD
  cgroup: iterate cgroup_subsys_states directly
  cgroup: introduce CSS_RELEASED and reduce css iteration fallback window
  cgroup: move cgroup-&gt;serial_nr into cgroup_subsys_state
  cgroup: link all cgroup_subsys_states in their sibling lists
  cgroup: move cgroup-&gt;sibling and -&gt;children into cgroup_subsys_state
  cgroup: remove cgroup-&gt;parent
  device_cgroup: remove direct access to cgroup-&gt;children
  memcg: update memcg_has_children() to use css_next_child()
  memcg: remove tasks/children test from mem_cgroup_force_empty()
  cgroup: remove css_parent()
  cgroup: skip refcnting on normal root csses and cgrp_dfl_root self css
  cgroup: use cgroup-&gt;self.refcnt for cgroup refcnting
  ...
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>block: add notion of a chunk size for request merging</title>
<updated>2014-06-05T19:38:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jens Axboe</name>
<email>axboe@fb.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-06-05T19:38:39+00:00</published>
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Some drivers have different limits on what size a request should
optimally be, depending on the offset of the request. Similar to
dividing a device into chunks. Add a setting that allows the driver
to inform the block layer of such a chunk size. The block layer will
then prevent merging across the chunks.

This is needed to optimally support NVMe with a non-zero stripe size.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
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Some drivers have different limits on what size a request should
optimally be, depending on the offset of the request. Similar to
dividing a device into chunks. Add a setting that allows the driver
to inform the block layer of such a chunk size. The block layer will
then prevent merging across the chunks.

This is needed to optimally support NVMe with a non-zero stripe size.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
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