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<title>Merge tag 'libnvdimm-for-4.12' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm</title>
<updated>2017-05-06T01:49:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-05-06T01:49:20+00:00</published>
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Pull libnvdimm updates from Dan Williams:
 "The bulk of this has been in multiple -next releases. There were a few
  late breaking fixes and small features that got added in the last
  couple days, but the whole set has received a build success
  notification from the kbuild robot.

  Change summary:

   - Region media error reporting: A libnvdimm region device is the
     parent to one or more namespaces. To date, media errors have been
     reported via the "badblocks" attribute attached to pmem block
     devices for namespaces in "raw" or "memory" mode. Given that
     namespaces can be in "device-dax" or "btt-sector" mode this new
     interface reports media errors generically, i.e. independent of
     namespace modes or state.

     This subsequently allows userspace tooling to craft "ACPI 6.1
     Section 9.20.7.6 Function Index 4 - Clear Uncorrectable Error"
     requests and submit them via the ioctl path for NVDIMM root bus
     devices.

   - Introduce 'struct dax_device' and 'struct dax_operations': Prompted
     by a request from Linus and feedback from Christoph this allows for
     dax capable drivers to publish their own custom dax operations.
     This fixes the broken assumption that all dax operations are
     related to a persistent memory device, and makes it easier for
     other architectures and platforms to add customized persistent
     memory support.

   - 'libnvdimm' core updates: A new "deep_flush" sysfs attribute is
     available for storage appliance applications to manually trigger
     memory controllers to drain write-pending buffers that would
     otherwise be flushed automatically by the platform ADR
     (asynchronous-DRAM-refresh) mechanism at a power loss event.
     Support for "locked" DIMMs is included to prevent namespaces from
     surfacing when the namespace label data area is locked. Finally,
     fixes for various reported deadlocks and crashes, also tagged for
     -stable.

   - ACPI / nfit driver updates: General updates of the nfit driver to
     add DSM command overrides, ACPI 6.1 health state flags support, DSM
     payload debug available by default, and various fixes.

  Acknowledgements that came after the branch was pushed:

   - commmit 565851c972b5 "device-dax: fix sysfs attribute deadlock":
     Tested-by: Yi Zhang &lt;yizhan@redhat.com&gt;

   - commit 23f498448362 "libnvdimm: rework region badblocks clearing"
     Tested-by: Toshi Kani &lt;toshi.kani@hpe.com&gt;"

* tag 'libnvdimm-for-4.12' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm: (52 commits)
  libnvdimm, pfn: fix 'npfns' vs section alignment
  libnvdimm: handle locked label storage areas
  libnvdimm: convert NDD_ flags to use bitops, introduce NDD_LOCKED
  brd: fix uninitialized use of brd-&gt;dax_dev
  block, dax: use correct format string in bdev_dax_supported
  device-dax: fix sysfs attribute deadlock
  libnvdimm: restore "libnvdimm: band aid btt vs clear poison locking"
  libnvdimm: fix nvdimm_bus_lock() vs device_lock() ordering
  libnvdimm: rework region badblocks clearing
  acpi, nfit: kill ACPI_NFIT_DEBUG
  libnvdimm: fix clear length of nvdimm_forget_poison()
  libnvdimm, pmem: fix a NULL pointer BUG in nd_pmem_notify
  libnvdimm, region: sysfs trigger for nvdimm_flush()
  libnvdimm: fix phys_addr for nvdimm_clear_poison
  x86, dax, pmem: remove indirection around memcpy_from_pmem()
  block: remove block_device_operations -&gt;direct_access()
  block, dax: convert bdev_dax_supported() to dax_direct_access()
  filesystem-dax: convert to dax_direct_access()
  Revert "block: use DAX for partition table reads"
  ext2, ext4, xfs: retrieve dax_device for iomap operations
  ...
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Pull libnvdimm updates from Dan Williams:
 "The bulk of this has been in multiple -next releases. There were a few
  late breaking fixes and small features that got added in the last
  couple days, but the whole set has received a build success
  notification from the kbuild robot.

  Change summary:

   - Region media error reporting: A libnvdimm region device is the
     parent to one or more namespaces. To date, media errors have been
     reported via the "badblocks" attribute attached to pmem block
     devices for namespaces in "raw" or "memory" mode. Given that
     namespaces can be in "device-dax" or "btt-sector" mode this new
     interface reports media errors generically, i.e. independent of
     namespace modes or state.

     This subsequently allows userspace tooling to craft "ACPI 6.1
     Section 9.20.7.6 Function Index 4 - Clear Uncorrectable Error"
     requests and submit them via the ioctl path for NVDIMM root bus
     devices.

   - Introduce 'struct dax_device' and 'struct dax_operations': Prompted
     by a request from Linus and feedback from Christoph this allows for
     dax capable drivers to publish their own custom dax operations.
     This fixes the broken assumption that all dax operations are
     related to a persistent memory device, and makes it easier for
     other architectures and platforms to add customized persistent
     memory support.

   - 'libnvdimm' core updates: A new "deep_flush" sysfs attribute is
     available for storage appliance applications to manually trigger
     memory controllers to drain write-pending buffers that would
     otherwise be flushed automatically by the platform ADR
     (asynchronous-DRAM-refresh) mechanism at a power loss event.
     Support for "locked" DIMMs is included to prevent namespaces from
     surfacing when the namespace label data area is locked. Finally,
     fixes for various reported deadlocks and crashes, also tagged for
     -stable.

   - ACPI / nfit driver updates: General updates of the nfit driver to
     add DSM command overrides, ACPI 6.1 health state flags support, DSM
     payload debug available by default, and various fixes.

  Acknowledgements that came after the branch was pushed:

   - commmit 565851c972b5 "device-dax: fix sysfs attribute deadlock":
     Tested-by: Yi Zhang &lt;yizhan@redhat.com&gt;

   - commit 23f498448362 "libnvdimm: rework region badblocks clearing"
     Tested-by: Toshi Kani &lt;toshi.kani@hpe.com&gt;"

* tag 'libnvdimm-for-4.12' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm: (52 commits)
  libnvdimm, pfn: fix 'npfns' vs section alignment
  libnvdimm: handle locked label storage areas
  libnvdimm: convert NDD_ flags to use bitops, introduce NDD_LOCKED
  brd: fix uninitialized use of brd-&gt;dax_dev
  block, dax: use correct format string in bdev_dax_supported
  device-dax: fix sysfs attribute deadlock
  libnvdimm: restore "libnvdimm: band aid btt vs clear poison locking"
  libnvdimm: fix nvdimm_bus_lock() vs device_lock() ordering
  libnvdimm: rework region badblocks clearing
  acpi, nfit: kill ACPI_NFIT_DEBUG
  libnvdimm: fix clear length of nvdimm_forget_poison()
  libnvdimm, pmem: fix a NULL pointer BUG in nd_pmem_notify
  libnvdimm, region: sysfs trigger for nvdimm_flush()
  libnvdimm: fix phys_addr for nvdimm_clear_poison
  x86, dax, pmem: remove indirection around memcpy_from_pmem()
  block: remove block_device_operations -&gt;direct_access()
  block, dax: convert bdev_dax_supported() to dax_direct_access()
  filesystem-dax: convert to dax_direct_access()
  Revert "block: use DAX for partition table reads"
  ext2, ext4, xfs: retrieve dax_device for iomap operations
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial</title>
<updated>2017-05-03T02:09:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-05-03T02:09:35+00:00</published>
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Pull trivial tree updates from Jiri Kosina.

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial:
  tty: fix comment for __tty_alloc_driver()
  init/main: properly align the multi-line comment
  init/main: Fix double "the" in comment
  Fix dead URLs to ftp.kernel.org
  drivers: Clean up duplicated email address
  treewide: Fix typo in xml/driver-api/basics.xml
  tools/testing/selftests/powerpc: remove redundant CFLAGS in Makefile: "-Wall -O2 -Wall" -&gt; "-O2 -Wall"
  selftests/timers: Spelling s/privledges/privileges/
  HID: picoLCD: Spelling s/REPORT_WRTIE_MEMORY/REPORT_WRITE_MEMORY/
  net: phy: dp83848: Fix Typo
  UBI: Fix typos
  Documentation: ftrace.txt: Correct nice value of 120 priority
  net: fec: Fix typo in error msg and comment
  treewide: Fix typos in printk
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Pull trivial tree updates from Jiri Kosina.

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial:
  tty: fix comment for __tty_alloc_driver()
  init/main: properly align the multi-line comment
  init/main: Fix double "the" in comment
  Fix dead URLs to ftp.kernel.org
  drivers: Clean up duplicated email address
  treewide: Fix typo in xml/driver-api/basics.xml
  tools/testing/selftests/powerpc: remove redundant CFLAGS in Makefile: "-Wall -O2 -Wall" -&gt; "-O2 -Wall"
  selftests/timers: Spelling s/privledges/privileges/
  HID: picoLCD: Spelling s/REPORT_WRTIE_MEMORY/REPORT_WRITE_MEMORY/
  net: phy: dp83848: Fix Typo
  UBI: Fix typos
  Documentation: ftrace.txt: Correct nice value of 120 priority
  net: fec: Fix typo in error msg and comment
  treewide: Fix typos in printk
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<entry>
<title>virtio_blk: Fix English description of VIRTIO_BLK_SCSI</title>
<updated>2017-04-25T04:07:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jean Delvare</name>
<email>jdelvare@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2017-04-25T04:07:10+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare &lt;jdelvare@suse.de&gt;
Fixes: 97b50a654d5d ("virtio_blk: make SCSI passthrough support configurable")
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
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Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare &lt;jdelvare@suse.de&gt;
Fixes: 97b50a654d5d ("virtio_blk: make SCSI passthrough support configurable")
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>brd: add dax_operations support</title>
<updated>2017-04-19T22:14:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dan Williams</name>
<email>dan.j.williams@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-01-26T00:54:45+00:00</published>
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Setup a dax_inode to have the same lifetime as the brd block device and
add a -&gt;direct_access() method that is equivalent to
brd_direct_access(). Once fs/dax.c has been converted to use
dax_operations the old brd_direct_access() will be removed.

Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
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Setup a dax_inode to have the same lifetime as the brd block device and
add a -&gt;direct_access() method that is equivalent to
brd_direct_access(). Once fs/dax.c has been converted to use
dax_operations the old brd_direct_access() will be removed.

Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>block: remove the osdblk driver</title>
<updated>2017-04-19T15:10:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Hellwig</name>
<email>hch@lst.de</email>
</author>
<published>2017-04-12T16:01:06+00:00</published>
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This was just a proof of concept user for the SCSI OSD library, and
never had any real users.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Acked-by: Boaz Harrosh &lt;ooo@electrozaur.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
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This was just a proof of concept user for the SCSI OSD library, and
never had any real users.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Acked-by: Boaz Harrosh &lt;ooo@electrozaur.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>remove the mg_disk driver</title>
<updated>2017-04-14T20:00:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Hellwig</name>
<email>hch@lst.de</email>
</author>
<published>2017-04-06T11:28:46+00:00</published>
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This drivers was added in 2008, but as far as a I can tell we never had a
single platform that actually registered resources for the platform driver.

It's also been unmaintained for a long time and apparently has a ATA mode
that can be driven using the IDE/libata subsystem.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke &lt;hare@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
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This drivers was added in 2008, but as far as a I can tell we never had a
single platform that actually registered resources for the platform driver.

It's also been unmaintained for a long time and apparently has a ATA mode
that can be driven using the IDE/libata subsystem.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke &lt;hare@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
</pre>
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<entry>
<title>remove the obsolete hd driver</title>
<updated>2017-04-05T15:50:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Hellwig</name>
<email>hch@lst.de</email>
</author>
<published>2017-04-05T13:59:23+00:00</published>
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This driver is for pre-IDE hardisk that are only found in PC from the
stoneage of personal computing, and which we don't support elsewhere
in the kernel these days.

It's also been marked broken forever.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen &lt;martin.petersen@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
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This driver is for pre-IDE hardisk that are only found in PC from the
stoneage of personal computing, and which we don't support elsewhere
in the kernel these days.

It's also been marked broken forever.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen &lt;martin.petersen@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Fix dead URLs to ftp.kernel.org</title>
<updated>2017-03-28T14:16:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>SeongJae Park</name>
<email>sj38.park@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-03-27T12:44:06+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=4f6cce39105e63587e53361bb670786b52d533ae'/>
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URLs to ftp.kernel.org are still exist though the service is closed [0].
This commit fixes the URLs to use www.kernel.org instead.

[0] https://www.kernel.org/shutting-down-ftp-services.html

Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park &lt;sj38.park@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina &lt;jkosina@suse.cz&gt;
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URLs to ftp.kernel.org are still exist though the service is closed [0].
This commit fixes the URLs to use www.kernel.org instead.

[0] https://www.kernel.org/shutting-down-ftp-services.html

Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park &lt;sj38.park@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina &lt;jkosina@suse.cz&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>virtio_blk: make SCSI passthrough support configurable</title>
<updated>2017-01-31T17:53:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Hellwig</name>
<email>hch@lst.de</email>
</author>
<published>2017-01-28T08:32:53+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=97b50a654d5de505ccf972c6b7ea7bfda1c0c475'/>
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The SCSI passthrough idea was a a bad idea to start with (guess who came
up with it?), and has been removed from the virtio 1.O spec, and is not
enabled by defauly by any host I know of.  Add a separate config option
for it so that we don't need to enable it for most setups.  That way
any bugs related to it (like the one recently fixed for vmapped stacks)
do not affect other users, and the size of the virtblk_req structure
also shrinks significantly.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
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The SCSI passthrough idea was a a bad idea to start with (guess who came
up with it?), and has been removed from the virtio 1.O spec, and is not
enabled by defauly by any host I know of.  Add a separate config option
for it so that we don't need to enable it for most setups.  That way
any bugs related to it (like the one recently fixed for vmapped stacks)
do not affect other users, and the size of the virtblk_req structure
also shrinks significantly.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>block: make scsi_request and scsi ioctl support optional</title>
<updated>2017-01-31T17:53:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Hellwig</name>
<email>hch@lst.de</email>
</author>
<published>2017-01-28T08:32:51+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=72148aecf4fd9218e2db1333534e8403fdd66eb9'/>
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We only need this code to support scsi, ide, cciss and virtio.  And at
least for virtio it's a deprecated feature to start with.

This should shrink the kernel size for embedded device that only use,
say eMMC a bit.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
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We only need this code to support scsi, ide, cciss and virtio.  And at
least for virtio it's a deprecated feature to start with.

This should shrink the kernel size for embedded device that only use,
say eMMC a bit.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
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