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<title>block: Move SECTOR_SIZE and SECTOR_SHIFT definitions into &lt;linux/blkdev.h&gt;</title>
<updated>2020-09-12T09:47:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Bart Van Assche</name>
<email>bart.vanassche@wdc.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-03-14T22:48:06+00:00</published>
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commit 233bde21aa43516baa013ef7ac33f3427056db3e upstream.

It happens often while I'm preparing a patch for a block driver that
I'm wondering: is a definition of SECTOR_SIZE and/or SECTOR_SHIFT
available for this driver? Do I have to introduce definitions of these
constants before I can use these constants? To avoid this confusion,
move the existing definitions of SECTOR_SIZE and SECTOR_SHIFT into the
&lt;linux/blkdev.h&gt; header file such that these become available for all
block drivers. Make the SECTOR_SIZE definition in the uapi msdos_fs.h
header file conditional to avoid that including that header file after
&lt;linux/blkdev.h&gt; causes the compiler to complain about a SECTOR_SIZE
redefinition.

Note: the SECTOR_SIZE / SECTOR_SHIFT / SECTOR_BITS definitions have
not been removed from uapi header files nor from NAND drivers in
which these constants are used for another purpose than converting
block layer offsets and sizes into a number of sectors.

Cc: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Minchan Kim &lt;minchan@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Nitin Gupta &lt;ngupta@vflare.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Sergey Senozhatsky &lt;sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn &lt;jthumshirn@suse.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen &lt;martin.petersen@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche &lt;bart.vanassche@wdc.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 233bde21aa43516baa013ef7ac33f3427056db3e upstream.

It happens often while I'm preparing a patch for a block driver that
I'm wondering: is a definition of SECTOR_SIZE and/or SECTOR_SHIFT
available for this driver? Do I have to introduce definitions of these
constants before I can use these constants? To avoid this confusion,
move the existing definitions of SECTOR_SIZE and SECTOR_SHIFT into the
&lt;linux/blkdev.h&gt; header file such that these become available for all
block drivers. Make the SECTOR_SIZE definition in the uapi msdos_fs.h
header file conditional to avoid that including that header file after
&lt;linux/blkdev.h&gt; causes the compiler to complain about a SECTOR_SIZE
redefinition.

Note: the SECTOR_SIZE / SECTOR_SHIFT / SECTOR_BITS definitions have
not been removed from uapi header files nor from NAND drivers in
which these constants are used for another purpose than converting
block layer offsets and sizes into a number of sectors.

Cc: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Minchan Kim &lt;minchan@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Nitin Gupta &lt;ngupta@vflare.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Sergey Senozhatsky &lt;sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn &lt;jthumshirn@suse.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen &lt;martin.petersen@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche &lt;bart.vanassche@wdc.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>
<title>brd: check and limit max_part par</title>
<updated>2020-02-28T14:42:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Zhiqiang Liu</name>
<email>liuzhiqiang26@huawei.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-02-04T11:30:20+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit c8ab422553c81a0eb070329c63725df1cd1425bc ]

In brd_init func, rd_nr num of brd_device are firstly allocated
and add in brd_devices, then brd_devices are traversed to add each
brd_device by calling add_disk func. When allocating brd_device,
the disk-&gt;first_minor is set to i * max_part, if rd_nr * max_part
is larger than MINORMASK, two different brd_device may have the same
devt, then only one of them can be successfully added.
when rmmod brd.ko, it will cause oops when calling brd_exit.

Follow those steps:
  # modprobe brd rd_nr=3 rd_size=102400 max_part=1048576
  # rmmod brd
then, the oops will appear.

Oops log:
[  726.613722] Call trace:
[  726.614175]  kernfs_find_ns+0x24/0x130
[  726.614852]  kernfs_find_and_get_ns+0x44/0x68
[  726.615749]  sysfs_remove_group+0x38/0xb0
[  726.616520]  blk_trace_remove_sysfs+0x1c/0x28
[  726.617320]  blk_unregister_queue+0x98/0x100
[  726.618105]  del_gendisk+0x144/0x2b8
[  726.618759]  brd_exit+0x68/0x560 [brd]
[  726.619501]  __arm64_sys_delete_module+0x19c/0x2a0
[  726.620384]  el0_svc_common+0x78/0x130
[  726.621057]  el0_svc_handler+0x38/0x78
[  726.621738]  el0_svc+0x8/0xc
[  726.622259] Code: aa0203f6 aa0103f7 aa1e03e0 d503201f (7940e260)

Here, we add brd_check_and_reset_par func to check and limit max_part par.

--
V5-&gt;V6:
 - remove useless code

V4-&gt;V5:(suggested by Ming Lei)
 - make sure max_part is not larger than DISK_MAX_PARTS

V3-&gt;V4:(suggested by Ming Lei)
 - remove useless change
 - add one limit of max_part

V2-&gt;V3: (suggested by Ming Lei)
 - clear .minors when running out of consecutive minor space in brd_alloc
 - remove limit of rd_nr

V1-&gt;V2:
 - add more checks in brd_check_par_valid as suggested by Ming Lei.

Signed-off-by: Zhiqiang Liu &lt;liuzhiqiang26@huawei.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Bob Liu &lt;bob.liu@oracle.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Ming Lei &lt;ming.lei@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit c8ab422553c81a0eb070329c63725df1cd1425bc ]

In brd_init func, rd_nr num of brd_device are firstly allocated
and add in brd_devices, then brd_devices are traversed to add each
brd_device by calling add_disk func. When allocating brd_device,
the disk-&gt;first_minor is set to i * max_part, if rd_nr * max_part
is larger than MINORMASK, two different brd_device may have the same
devt, then only one of them can be successfully added.
when rmmod brd.ko, it will cause oops when calling brd_exit.

Follow those steps:
  # modprobe brd rd_nr=3 rd_size=102400 max_part=1048576
  # rmmod brd
then, the oops will appear.

Oops log:
[  726.613722] Call trace:
[  726.614175]  kernfs_find_ns+0x24/0x130
[  726.614852]  kernfs_find_and_get_ns+0x44/0x68
[  726.615749]  sysfs_remove_group+0x38/0xb0
[  726.616520]  blk_trace_remove_sysfs+0x1c/0x28
[  726.617320]  blk_unregister_queue+0x98/0x100
[  726.618105]  del_gendisk+0x144/0x2b8
[  726.618759]  brd_exit+0x68/0x560 [brd]
[  726.619501]  __arm64_sys_delete_module+0x19c/0x2a0
[  726.620384]  el0_svc_common+0x78/0x130
[  726.621057]  el0_svc_handler+0x38/0x78
[  726.621738]  el0_svc+0x8/0xc
[  726.622259] Code: aa0203f6 aa0103f7 aa1e03e0 d503201f (7940e260)

Here, we add brd_check_and_reset_par func to check and limit max_part par.

--
V5-&gt;V6:
 - remove useless code

V4-&gt;V5:(suggested by Ming Lei)
 - make sure max_part is not larger than DISK_MAX_PARTS

V3-&gt;V4:(suggested by Ming Lei)
 - remove useless change
 - add one limit of max_part

V2-&gt;V3: (suggested by Ming Lei)
 - clear .minors when running out of consecutive minor space in brd_alloc
 - remove limit of rd_nr

V1-&gt;V2:
 - add more checks in brd_check_par_valid as suggested by Ming Lei.

Signed-off-by: Zhiqiang Liu &lt;liuzhiqiang26@huawei.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Bob Liu &lt;bob.liu@oracle.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Ming Lei &lt;ming.lei@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>block/mm: make bdev_ops-&gt;rw_page() take a bool for read/write</title>
<updated>2016-08-07T20:41:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jens Axboe</name>
<email>axboe@fb.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-08-05T14:11:04+00:00</published>
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Commit abf545484d31 changed it from an 'rw' flags type to the
newer ops based interface, but now we're effectively leaking
some bdev internals to the rest of the kernel. Since we only
care about whether it's a read or a write at that level, just
pass in a bool 'is_write' parameter instead.

Then we can also move op_is_write() and friends back under
CONFIG_BLOCK protection.

Reviewed-by: Mike Christie &lt;mchristi@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
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Commit abf545484d31 changed it from an 'rw' flags type to the
newer ops based interface, but now we're effectively leaking
some bdev internals to the rest of the kernel. Since we only
care about whether it's a read or a write at that level, just
pass in a bool 'is_write' parameter instead.

Then we can also move op_is_write() and friends back under
CONFIG_BLOCK protection.

Reviewed-by: Mike Christie &lt;mchristi@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm/block: convert rw_page users to bio op use</title>
<updated>2016-08-04T20:25:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mike Christie</name>
<email>mchristi@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-08-04T20:23:34+00:00</published>
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The rw_page users were not converted to use bio/req ops. As a result
bdev_write_page is not passing down REQ_OP_WRITE and the IOs will
be sent down as reads.

Signed-off-by: Mike Christie &lt;mchristi@redhat.com&gt;
Fixes: 4e1b2d52a80d ("block, fs, drivers: remove REQ_OP compat defs and related code")

Modified by me to:

1) Drop op_flags passing into -&gt;rw_page(), as we don't use it.
2) Make op_is_write() and friends safe to use for !CONFIG_BLOCK

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
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The rw_page users were not converted to use bio/req ops. As a result
bdev_write_page is not passing down REQ_OP_WRITE and the IOs will
be sent down as reads.

Signed-off-by: Mike Christie &lt;mchristi@redhat.com&gt;
Fixes: 4e1b2d52a80d ("block, fs, drivers: remove REQ_OP compat defs and related code")

Modified by me to:

1) Drop op_flags passing into -&gt;rw_page(), as we don't use it.
2) Make op_is_write() and friends safe to use for !CONFIG_BLOCK

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'libnvdimm-for-4.8' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm</title>
<updated>2016-07-29T00:38:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-07-29T00:22:07+00:00</published>
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Pull libnvdimm updates from Dan Williams:

 - Replace pcommit with ADR / directed-flushing.

   The pcommit instruction, which has not shipped on any product, is
   deprecated.  Instead, the requirement is that platforms implement
   either ADR, or provide one or more flush addresses per nvdimm.

   ADR (Asynchronous DRAM Refresh) flushes data in posted write buffers
   to the memory controller on a power-fail event.

   Flush addresses are defined in ACPI 6.x as an NVDIMM Firmware
   Interface Table (NFIT) sub-structure: "Flush Hint Address Structure".
   A flush hint is an mmio address that when written and fenced assures
   that all previous posted writes targeting a given dimm have been
   flushed to media.

 - On-demand ARS (address range scrub).

   Linux uses the results of the ACPI ARS commands to track bad blocks
   in pmem devices.  When latent errors are detected we re-scrub the
   media to refresh the bad block list, userspace can also request a
   re-scrub at any time.

 - Support for the Microsoft DSM (device specific method) command
   format.

 - Support for EDK2/OVMF virtual disk device memory ranges.

 - Various fixes and cleanups across the subsystem.

* tag 'libnvdimm-for-4.8' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm: (41 commits)
  libnvdimm-btt: Delete an unnecessary check before the function call "__nd_device_register"
  nfit: do an ARS scrub on hitting a latent media error
  nfit: move to nfit/ sub-directory
  nfit, libnvdimm: allow an ARS scrub to be triggered on demand
  libnvdimm: register nvdimm_bus devices with an nd_bus driver
  pmem: clarify a debug print in pmem_clear_poison
  x86/insn: remove pcommit
  Revert "KVM: x86: add pcommit support"
  nfit, tools/testing/nvdimm/: unify shutdown paths
  libnvdimm: move -&gt;module to struct nvdimm_bus_descriptor
  nfit: cleanup acpi_nfit_init calling convention
  nfit: fix _FIT evaluation memory leak + use after free
  tools/testing/nvdimm: add manufacturing_{date|location} dimm properties
  tools/testing/nvdimm: add virtual ramdisk range
  acpi, nfit: treat virtual ramdisk SPA as pmem region
  pmem: kill __pmem address space
  pmem: kill wmb_pmem()
  libnvdimm, pmem: use nvdimm_flush() for namespace I/O writes
  fs/dax: remove wmb_pmem()
  libnvdimm, pmem: flush posted-write queues on shutdown
  ...
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Pull libnvdimm updates from Dan Williams:

 - Replace pcommit with ADR / directed-flushing.

   The pcommit instruction, which has not shipped on any product, is
   deprecated.  Instead, the requirement is that platforms implement
   either ADR, or provide one or more flush addresses per nvdimm.

   ADR (Asynchronous DRAM Refresh) flushes data in posted write buffers
   to the memory controller on a power-fail event.

   Flush addresses are defined in ACPI 6.x as an NVDIMM Firmware
   Interface Table (NFIT) sub-structure: "Flush Hint Address Structure".
   A flush hint is an mmio address that when written and fenced assures
   that all previous posted writes targeting a given dimm have been
   flushed to media.

 - On-demand ARS (address range scrub).

   Linux uses the results of the ACPI ARS commands to track bad blocks
   in pmem devices.  When latent errors are detected we re-scrub the
   media to refresh the bad block list, userspace can also request a
   re-scrub at any time.

 - Support for the Microsoft DSM (device specific method) command
   format.

 - Support for EDK2/OVMF virtual disk device memory ranges.

 - Various fixes and cleanups across the subsystem.

* tag 'libnvdimm-for-4.8' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm: (41 commits)
  libnvdimm-btt: Delete an unnecessary check before the function call "__nd_device_register"
  nfit: do an ARS scrub on hitting a latent media error
  nfit: move to nfit/ sub-directory
  nfit, libnvdimm: allow an ARS scrub to be triggered on demand
  libnvdimm: register nvdimm_bus devices with an nd_bus driver
  pmem: clarify a debug print in pmem_clear_poison
  x86/insn: remove pcommit
  Revert "KVM: x86: add pcommit support"
  nfit, tools/testing/nvdimm/: unify shutdown paths
  libnvdimm: move -&gt;module to struct nvdimm_bus_descriptor
  nfit: cleanup acpi_nfit_init calling convention
  nfit: fix _FIT evaluation memory leak + use after free
  tools/testing/nvdimm: add manufacturing_{date|location} dimm properties
  tools/testing/nvdimm: add virtual ramdisk range
  acpi, nfit: treat virtual ramdisk SPA as pmem region
  pmem: kill __pmem address space
  pmem: kill wmb_pmem()
  libnvdimm, pmem: use nvdimm_flush() for namespace I/O writes
  fs/dax: remove wmb_pmem()
  libnvdimm, pmem: flush posted-write queues on shutdown
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-4.8/drivers' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block</title>
<updated>2016-07-26T22:37:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-07-26T22:37:51+00:00</published>
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Pull block driver updates from Jens Axboe:
 "This branch also contains core changes.  I've come to the conclusion
  that from 4.9 and forward, I'll be doing just a single branch.  We
  often have dependencies between core and drivers, and it's hard to
  always split them up appropriately without pulling core into drivers
  when that happens.

  That said, this contains:

   - separate secure erase type for the core block layer, from
     Christoph.

   - set of discard fixes, from Christoph.

   - bio shrinking fixes from Christoph, as a followup up to the
     op/flags change in the core branch.

   - map and append request fixes from Christoph.

   - NVMeF (NVMe over Fabrics) code from Christoph.  This is pretty
     exciting!

   - nvme-loop fixes from Arnd.

   - removal of -&gt;driverfs_dev from Dan, after providing a
     device_add_disk() helper.

   - bcache fixes from Bhaktipriya and Yijing.

   - cdrom subchannel read fix from Vchannaiah.

   - set of lightnvm updates from Wenwei, Matias, Johannes, and Javier.

   - set of drbd updates and fixes from Fabian, Lars, and Philipp.

   - mg_disk error path fix from Bart.

   - user notification for failed device add for loop, from Minfei.

   - NVMe in general:
        + NVMe delay quirk from Guilherme.
        + SR-IOV support and command retry limits from Keith.
        + fix for memory-less NUMA node from Masayoshi.
        + use UINT_MAX for discard sectors, from Minfei.
        + cancel IO fixes from Ming.
        + don't allocate unused major, from Neil.
        + error code fixup from Dan.
        + use constants for PSDT/FUSE from James.
        + variable init fix from Jay.
        + fabrics fixes from Ming, Sagi, and Wei.
        + various fixes"

* 'for-4.8/drivers' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (115 commits)
  nvme/pci: Provide SR-IOV support
  nvme: initialize variable before logical OR'ing it
  block: unexport various bio mapping helpers
  scsi/osd: open code blk_make_request
  target: stop using blk_make_request
  block: simplify and export blk_rq_append_bio
  block: ensure bios return from blk_get_request are properly initialized
  virtio_blk: use blk_rq_map_kern
  memstick: don't allow REQ_TYPE_BLOCK_PC requests
  block: shrink bio size again
  block: simplify and cleanup bvec pool handling
  block: get rid of bio_rw and READA
  block: don't ignore -EOPNOTSUPP blkdev_issue_write_same
  block: introduce BLKDEV_DISCARD_ZERO to fix zeroout
  NVMe: don't allocate unused nvme_major
  nvme: avoid crashes when node 0 is memoryless node.
  nvme: Limit command retries
  loop: Make user notify for adding loop device failed
  nvme-loop: fix nvme-loop Kconfig dependencies
  nvmet: fix return value check in nvmet_subsys_alloc()
  ...
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Pull block driver updates from Jens Axboe:
 "This branch also contains core changes.  I've come to the conclusion
  that from 4.9 and forward, I'll be doing just a single branch.  We
  often have dependencies between core and drivers, and it's hard to
  always split them up appropriately without pulling core into drivers
  when that happens.

  That said, this contains:

   - separate secure erase type for the core block layer, from
     Christoph.

   - set of discard fixes, from Christoph.

   - bio shrinking fixes from Christoph, as a followup up to the
     op/flags change in the core branch.

   - map and append request fixes from Christoph.

   - NVMeF (NVMe over Fabrics) code from Christoph.  This is pretty
     exciting!

   - nvme-loop fixes from Arnd.

   - removal of -&gt;driverfs_dev from Dan, after providing a
     device_add_disk() helper.

   - bcache fixes from Bhaktipriya and Yijing.

   - cdrom subchannel read fix from Vchannaiah.

   - set of lightnvm updates from Wenwei, Matias, Johannes, and Javier.

   - set of drbd updates and fixes from Fabian, Lars, and Philipp.

   - mg_disk error path fix from Bart.

   - user notification for failed device add for loop, from Minfei.

   - NVMe in general:
        + NVMe delay quirk from Guilherme.
        + SR-IOV support and command retry limits from Keith.
        + fix for memory-less NUMA node from Masayoshi.
        + use UINT_MAX for discard sectors, from Minfei.
        + cancel IO fixes from Ming.
        + don't allocate unused major, from Neil.
        + error code fixup from Dan.
        + use constants for PSDT/FUSE from James.
        + variable init fix from Jay.
        + fabrics fixes from Ming, Sagi, and Wei.
        + various fixes"

* 'for-4.8/drivers' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (115 commits)
  nvme/pci: Provide SR-IOV support
  nvme: initialize variable before logical OR'ing it
  block: unexport various bio mapping helpers
  scsi/osd: open code blk_make_request
  target: stop using blk_make_request
  block: simplify and export blk_rq_append_bio
  block: ensure bios return from blk_get_request are properly initialized
  virtio_blk: use blk_rq_map_kern
  memstick: don't allow REQ_TYPE_BLOCK_PC requests
  block: shrink bio size again
  block: simplify and cleanup bvec pool handling
  block: get rid of bio_rw and READA
  block: don't ignore -EOPNOTSUPP blkdev_issue_write_same
  block: introduce BLKDEV_DISCARD_ZERO to fix zeroout
  NVMe: don't allocate unused nvme_major
  nvme: avoid crashes when node 0 is memoryless node.
  nvme: Limit command retries
  loop: Make user notify for adding loop device failed
  nvme-loop: fix nvme-loop Kconfig dependencies
  nvmet: fix return value check in nvmet_subsys_alloc()
  ...
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>block: add QUEUE_FLAG_DAX for devices to advertise their DAX support</title>
<updated>2016-07-21T03:01:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Toshi Kani</name>
<email>toshi.kani@hpe.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-06-23T21:05:50+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=163d4baaebe39c0e56d9c08597eab7b3ae0bf334'/>
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Currently, presence of direct_access() in block_device_operations
indicates support of DAX on its block device.  Because
block_device_operations is instantiated with 'const', this DAX
capablity may not be enabled conditinally.

In preparation for supporting DAX to device-mapper devices, add
QUEUE_FLAG_DAX to request_queue flags to advertise their DAX
support.  This will allow to set the DAX capability based on how
mapped device is composed.

Signed-off-by: Toshi Kani &lt;toshi.kani@hpe.com&gt;
Acked-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Cc: Ross Zwisler &lt;ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;linux-s390@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
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Currently, presence of direct_access() in block_device_operations
indicates support of DAX on its block device.  Because
block_device_operations is instantiated with 'const', this DAX
capablity may not be enabled conditinally.

In preparation for supporting DAX to device-mapper devices, add
QUEUE_FLAG_DAX to request_queue flags to advertise their DAX
support.  This will allow to set the DAX capability based on how
mapped device is composed.

Signed-off-by: Toshi Kani &lt;toshi.kani@hpe.com&gt;
Acked-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Cc: Ross Zwisler &lt;ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;linux-s390@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>block: get rid of bio_rw and READA</title>
<updated>2016-07-20T23:37:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Hellwig</name>
<email>hch@lst.de</email>
</author>
<published>2016-07-19T09:28:41+00:00</published>
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These two are confusing leftover of the old world order, combining
values of the REQ_OP_ and REQ_ namespaces.  For callers that don't
special case we mostly just replace bi_rw with bio_data_dir or
op_is_write, except for the few cases where a switch over the REQ_OP_
values makes more sense.  Any check for READA is replaced with an
explicit check for REQ_RAHEAD.  Also remove the READA alias for
REQ_RAHEAD.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn &lt;jthumshirn@suse.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Mike Christie &lt;mchristi@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
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These two are confusing leftover of the old world order, combining
values of the REQ_OP_ and REQ_ namespaces.  For callers that don't
special case we mostly just replace bi_rw with bio_data_dir or
op_is_write, except for the few cases where a switch over the REQ_OP_
values makes more sense.  Any check for READA is replaced with an
explicit check for REQ_RAHEAD.  Also remove the READA alias for
REQ_RAHEAD.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn &lt;jthumshirn@suse.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Mike Christie &lt;mchristi@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>pmem: kill __pmem address space</title>
<updated>2016-07-13T02:25:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dan Williams</name>
<email>dan.j.williams@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-06-04T01:06:47+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=7a9eb20666317794d0279843fbd091af93907780'/>
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The __pmem address space was meant to annotate codepaths that touch
persistent memory and need to coordinate a call to wmb_pmem().  Now that
wmb_pmem() is gone, there is little need to keep this annotation.

Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Cc: Ross Zwisler &lt;ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
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The __pmem address space was meant to annotate codepaths that touch
persistent memory and need to coordinate a call to wmb_pmem().  Now that
wmb_pmem() is gone, there is little need to keep this annotation.

Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Cc: Ross Zwisler &lt;ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>block, fs, mm, drivers: use bio set/get op accessors</title>
<updated>2016-06-07T19:41:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mike Christie</name>
<email>mchristi@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-06-05T19:31:48+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=95fe6c1a209ef89d9f94dd04a0ad72be1487d5d5'/>
<id>95fe6c1a209ef89d9f94dd04a0ad72be1487d5d5</id>
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This patch converts the simple bi_rw use cases in the block,
drivers, mm and fs code to set/get the bio operation using
bio_set_op_attrs/bio_op

These should be simple one or two liner cases, so I just did them
in one patch. The next patches handle the more complicated
cases in a module per patch.

Signed-off-by: Mike Christie &lt;mchristi@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke &lt;hare@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
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<pre>
This patch converts the simple bi_rw use cases in the block,
drivers, mm and fs code to set/get the bio operation using
bio_set_op_attrs/bio_op

These should be simple one or two liner cases, so I just did them
in one patch. The next patches handle the more complicated
cases in a module per patch.

Signed-off-by: Mike Christie &lt;mchristi@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke &lt;hare@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
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