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<title>linux-stable.git/drivers/md/bcache, branch v4.12.2</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>drivers/md/bcache/super.c: use kvmalloc</title>
<updated>2017-05-09T00:15:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michal Hocko</name>
<email>mhocko@suse.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-05-08T22:57:37+00:00</published>
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bcache_device_init uses kmalloc for small requests and vmalloc for those
which are larger than 64 pages.  This alone is a strange criterion.
Moreover kmalloc can fallback to vmalloc on the failure.  Let's simply
use kvmalloc instead as it knows how to handle the fallback properly

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170306103327.2766-5-mhocko@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Kent Overstreet &lt;kent.overstreet@gmail.com&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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bcache_device_init uses kmalloc for small requests and vmalloc for those
which are larger than 64 pages.  This alone is a strange criterion.
Moreover kmalloc can fallback to vmalloc on the failure.  Let's simply
use kvmalloc instead as it knows how to handle the fallback properly

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170306103327.2766-5-mhocko@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Kent Overstreet &lt;kent.overstreet@gmail.com&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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</entry>
<entry>
<title>treewide: use kv[mz]alloc* rather than opencoded variants</title>
<updated>2017-05-09T00:15:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michal Hocko</name>
<email>mhocko@suse.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-05-08T22:57:27+00:00</published>
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There are many code paths opencoding kvmalloc.  Let's use the helper
instead.  The main difference to kvmalloc is that those users are
usually not considering all the aspects of the memory allocator.  E.g.
allocation requests &lt;= 32kB (with 4kB pages) are basically never failing
and invoke OOM killer to satisfy the allocation.  This sounds too
disruptive for something that has a reasonable fallback - the vmalloc.
On the other hand those requests might fallback to vmalloc even when the
memory allocator would succeed after several more reclaim/compaction
attempts previously.  There is no guarantee something like that happens
though.

This patch converts many of those places to kv[mz]alloc* helpers because
they are more conservative.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170306103327.2766-2-mhocko@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Boris Ostrovsky &lt;boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com&gt; # Xen bits
Acked-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Acked-by: Andreas Dilger &lt;andreas.dilger@intel.com&gt; # Lustre
Acked-by: Christian Borntraeger &lt;borntraeger@de.ibm.com&gt; # KVM/s390
Acked-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt; # nvdim
Acked-by: David Sterba &lt;dsterba@suse.com&gt; # btrfs
Acked-by: Ilya Dryomov &lt;idryomov@gmail.com&gt; # Ceph
Acked-by: Tariq Toukan &lt;tariqt@mellanox.com&gt; # mlx4
Acked-by: Leon Romanovsky &lt;leonro@mellanox.com&gt; # mlx5
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
Cc: Anton Vorontsov &lt;anton@enomsg.org&gt;
Cc: Colin Cross &lt;ccross@android.com&gt;
Cc: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" &lt;rjw@rjwysocki.net&gt;
Cc: Ben Skeggs &lt;bskeggs@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Kent Overstreet &lt;kent.overstreet@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Santosh Raspatur &lt;santosh@chelsio.com&gt;
Cc: Hariprasad S &lt;hariprasad@chelsio.com&gt;
Cc: Yishai Hadas &lt;yishaih@mellanox.com&gt;
Cc: Oleg Drokin &lt;oleg.drokin@intel.com&gt;
Cc: "Yan, Zheng" &lt;zyan@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Eric Dumazet &lt;eric.dumazet@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: David Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&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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There are many code paths opencoding kvmalloc.  Let's use the helper
instead.  The main difference to kvmalloc is that those users are
usually not considering all the aspects of the memory allocator.  E.g.
allocation requests &lt;= 32kB (with 4kB pages) are basically never failing
and invoke OOM killer to satisfy the allocation.  This sounds too
disruptive for something that has a reasonable fallback - the vmalloc.
On the other hand those requests might fallback to vmalloc even when the
memory allocator would succeed after several more reclaim/compaction
attempts previously.  There is no guarantee something like that happens
though.

This patch converts many of those places to kv[mz]alloc* helpers because
they are more conservative.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170306103327.2766-2-mhocko@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Boris Ostrovsky &lt;boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com&gt; # Xen bits
Acked-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Acked-by: Andreas Dilger &lt;andreas.dilger@intel.com&gt; # Lustre
Acked-by: Christian Borntraeger &lt;borntraeger@de.ibm.com&gt; # KVM/s390
Acked-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt; # nvdim
Acked-by: David Sterba &lt;dsterba@suse.com&gt; # btrfs
Acked-by: Ilya Dryomov &lt;idryomov@gmail.com&gt; # Ceph
Acked-by: Tariq Toukan &lt;tariqt@mellanox.com&gt; # mlx4
Acked-by: Leon Romanovsky &lt;leonro@mellanox.com&gt; # mlx5
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
Cc: Anton Vorontsov &lt;anton@enomsg.org&gt;
Cc: Colin Cross &lt;ccross@android.com&gt;
Cc: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" &lt;rjw@rjwysocki.net&gt;
Cc: Ben Skeggs &lt;bskeggs@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Kent Overstreet &lt;kent.overstreet@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Santosh Raspatur &lt;santosh@chelsio.com&gt;
Cc: Hariprasad S &lt;hariprasad@chelsio.com&gt;
Cc: Yishai Hadas &lt;yishaih@mellanox.com&gt;
Cc: Oleg Drokin &lt;oleg.drokin@intel.com&gt;
Cc: "Yan, Zheng" &lt;zyan@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Eric Dumazet &lt;eric.dumazet@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: David Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>drivers/md/bcache/util.h: remove duplicate inclusion of blkdev.h</title>
<updated>2017-03-10T01:01:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Masanari Iida</name>
<email>standby24x7@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-03-10T00:17:03+00:00</published>
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Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170226060230.11555-1-standby24x7@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Masanari Iida &lt;standby24x7@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Coly Li &lt;colyli@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Kent Overstreet &lt;kent.overstreet@gmail.com&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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Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170226060230.11555-1-standby24x7@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Masanari Iida &lt;standby24x7@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Coly Li &lt;colyli@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Kent Overstreet &lt;kent.overstreet@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>sched/headers: Prepare to use &lt;linux/rcuupdate.h&gt; instead of &lt;linux/rculist.h&gt; in &lt;linux/sched.h&gt;</title>
<updated>2017-03-02T07:42:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ingo Molnar</name>
<email>mingo@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-02-04T00:27:20+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
We don't actually need the full rculist.h header in sched.h anymore,
we will be able to include the smaller rcupdate.h header instead.

But first update code that relied on the implicit header inclusion.

Acked-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Mike Galbraith &lt;efault@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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<pre>
We don't actually need the full rculist.h header in sched.h anymore,
we will be able to include the smaller rcupdate.h header instead.

But first update code that relied on the implicit header inclusion.

Acked-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Mike Galbraith &lt;efault@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>sched/headers: Prepare for new header dependencies before moving code to &lt;linux/sched/task_stack.h&gt;</title>
<updated>2017-03-02T07:42:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ingo Molnar</name>
<email>mingo@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-02-08T17:51:37+00:00</published>
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We are going to split &lt;linux/sched/task_stack.h&gt; out of &lt;linux/sched.h&gt;, which
will have to be picked up from other headers and a couple of .c files.

Create a trivial placeholder &lt;linux/sched/task_stack.h&gt; file that just
maps to &lt;linux/sched.h&gt; to make this patch obviously correct and
bisectable.

Include the new header in the files that are going to need it.

Acked-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Mike Galbraith &lt;efault@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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<pre>
We are going to split &lt;linux/sched/task_stack.h&gt; out of &lt;linux/sched.h&gt;, which
will have to be picked up from other headers and a couple of .c files.

Create a trivial placeholder &lt;linux/sched/task_stack.h&gt; file that just
maps to &lt;linux/sched.h&gt; to make this patch obviously correct and
bisectable.

Include the new header in the files that are going to need it.

Acked-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Mike Galbraith &lt;efault@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>sched/headers: Prepare for new header dependencies before moving code to &lt;linux/sched/clock.h&gt;</title>
<updated>2017-03-02T07:42:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ingo Molnar</name>
<email>mingo@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-02-01T15:36:40+00:00</published>
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We are going to split &lt;linux/sched/clock.h&gt; out of &lt;linux/sched.h&gt;, which
will have to be picked up from other headers and .c files.

Create a trivial placeholder &lt;linux/sched/clock.h&gt; file that just
maps to &lt;linux/sched.h&gt; to make this patch obviously correct and
bisectable.

Include the new header in the files that are going to need it.

Acked-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Mike Galbraith &lt;efault@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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<pre>
We are going to split &lt;linux/sched/clock.h&gt; out of &lt;linux/sched.h&gt;, which
will have to be picked up from other headers and .c files.

Create a trivial placeholder &lt;linux/sched/clock.h&gt; file that just
maps to &lt;linux/sched.h&gt; to make this patch obviously correct and
bisectable.

Include the new header in the files that are going to need it.

Acked-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Mike Galbraith &lt;efault@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>block: Use pointer to backing_dev_info from request_queue</title>
<updated>2017-02-02T15:20:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jan Kara</name>
<email>jack@suse.cz</email>
</author>
<published>2017-02-02T14:56:50+00:00</published>
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We will want to have struct backing_dev_info allocated separately from
struct request_queue. As the first step add pointer to backing_dev_info
to request_queue and convert all users touching it. No functional
changes in this patch.

Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
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We will want to have struct backing_dev_info allocated separately from
struct request_queue. As the first step add pointer to backing_dev_info
to request_queue and convert all users touching it. No functional
changes in this patch.

Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>block: add a op_is_flush helper</title>
<updated>2017-01-27T16:01:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Hellwig</name>
<email>hch@lst.de</email>
</author>
<published>2017-01-27T15:30:47+00:00</published>
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This centralizes the checks for bios that needs to be go into the flush
state machine.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen &lt;martin.petersen@oracle.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche &lt;bart.vanassche@sandisk.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
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<pre>
This centralizes the checks for bios that needs to be go into the flush
state machine.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen &lt;martin.petersen@oracle.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche &lt;bart.vanassche@sandisk.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>bcache: partition support: add 16 minors per bcacheN device</title>
<updated>2016-12-17T20:02:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Wheeler</name>
<email>git@linux.ewheeler.net</email>
</author>
<published>2016-10-24T01:19:20+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
Signed-off-by: Eric Wheeler &lt;bcache@linux.ewheeler.net&gt;
Tested-by: Wido den Hollander &lt;wido@widodh.nl&gt;
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<pre>
Signed-off-by: Eric Wheeler &lt;bcache@linux.ewheeler.net&gt;
Tested-by: Wido den Hollander &lt;wido@widodh.nl&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>bcache: Make gc wakeup sane, remove set_task_state()</title>
<updated>2016-12-17T20:01:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kent Overstreet</name>
<email>kent.overstreet@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-10-27T03:31:17+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet &lt;kent.overstreet@gmail.com&gt;
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<pre>
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet &lt;kent.overstreet@gmail.com&gt;
</pre>
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