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<entry>
<title>dm raid: bump target version</title>
<updated>2017-07-25T18:54:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Heinz Mauelshagen</name>
<email>heinzm@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-07-13T15:52:18+00:00</published>
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Bumo dm-raid target version to 1.12.1 to reflect that commit cc27b0c78c
("md: fix deadlock between mddev_suspend() and md_write_start()") is
available.

This version change allows userspace to detect that MD fix is available.

Signed-off-by: Heinz Mauelshagen &lt;heinzm@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
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Bumo dm-raid target version to 1.12.1 to reflect that commit cc27b0c78c
("md: fix deadlock between mddev_suspend() and md_write_start()") is
available.

This version change allows userspace to detect that MD fix is available.

Signed-off-by: Heinz Mauelshagen &lt;heinzm@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>dm raid: avoid mddev-&gt;suspended access</title>
<updated>2017-07-25T18:54:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Heinz Mauelshagen</name>
<email>heinzm@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-07-13T15:34:24+00:00</published>
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Use runtime flag to ensure that an mddev gets suspended/resumed just once.

Signed-off-by: Heinz Mauelshagen &lt;heinzm@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
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Use runtime flag to ensure that an mddev gets suspended/resumed just once.

Signed-off-by: Heinz Mauelshagen &lt;heinzm@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>dm raid: fix activation check in validate_raid_redundancy()</title>
<updated>2017-07-25T18:54:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Heinz Mauelshagen</name>
<email>heinzm@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-07-13T15:36:12+00:00</published>
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During growing reshapes (i.e. stripes being added to a raid set), the
new stripe images are not in-sync and not part of the raid set until
the reshape is started.

LVM2 has to request multiple table reloads involving superblock updates
in order to reflect proper size of SubLVs in the cluster.  Before a stripe
adding reshape starts, validate_raid_redundancy() fails as a result of that
because it checks the total number of devices against the number of rebuild
ones rather than the actual ones in the raid set (as retrieved from the
superblock) thus resulting in failed raid4/5/6/10 redundancy checks.

E.g. convert 3 stripes -&gt; 7 stripes raid5 (which only allows for maximum
1 device to fail) requesting +4 delta disks causing 4 devices to rebuild
during reshaping thus failing activation.

To fix this, move validate_raid_redundancy() to get access to the
current raid_set members.

Signed-off-by: Heinz Mauelshagen &lt;heinzm@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
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During growing reshapes (i.e. stripes being added to a raid set), the
new stripe images are not in-sync and not part of the raid set until
the reshape is started.

LVM2 has to request multiple table reloads involving superblock updates
in order to reflect proper size of SubLVs in the cluster.  Before a stripe
adding reshape starts, validate_raid_redundancy() fails as a result of that
because it checks the total number of devices against the number of rebuild
ones rather than the actual ones in the raid set (as retrieved from the
superblock) thus resulting in failed raid4/5/6/10 redundancy checks.

E.g. convert 3 stripes -&gt; 7 stripes raid5 (which only allows for maximum
1 device to fail) requesting +4 delta disks causing 4 devices to rebuild
during reshaping thus failing activation.

To fix this, move validate_raid_redundancy() to get access to the
current raid_set members.

Signed-off-by: Heinz Mauelshagen &lt;heinzm@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>dm raid: remove WARN_ON() in raid10_md_layout_to_format()</title>
<updated>2017-07-25T18:54:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Heinz Mauelshagen</name>
<email>heinzm@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-07-13T15:33:22+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Heinz Mauelshagen &lt;heinzm@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
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<pre>
Signed-off-by: Heinz Mauelshagen &lt;heinzm@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'for-4.13/dm-changes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/device-mapper/linux-dm</title>
<updated>2017-07-06T18:54:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-07-06T18:54:56+00:00</published>
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Pull device mapper updates from Mike Snitzer:

 - Add the ability to use select or poll /dev/mapper/control to wait for
   events from multiple DM devices.

 - Convert DM's printk macros over to using pr_&lt;level&gt; macros.

 - Add a big-endian variant of plain64 IV to dm-crypt.

 - Add support for zoned (aka SMR) devices to DM core. DM kcopyd was
   also improved to provide a sequential write feature needed by zoned
   devices.

 - Introduce DM zoned target that provides support for host-managed
   zoned devices, the result dm-zoned device acts as a drive-managed
   interface to the underlying host-managed device.

 - A DM raid fix to avoid using BUG() for error handling.

* tag 'for-4.13/dm-changes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/device-mapper/linux-dm:
  dm zoned: fix overflow when converting zone ID to sectors
  dm raid: stop using BUG() in __rdev_sectors()
  dm zoned: drive-managed zoned block device target
  dm kcopyd: add sequential write feature
  dm linear: add support for zoned block devices
  dm flakey: add support for zoned block devices
  dm: introduce dm_remap_zone_report()
  dm: fix REQ_OP_ZONE_REPORT bio handling
  dm: fix REQ_OP_ZONE_RESET bio handling
  dm table: add zoned block devices validation
  dm: convert DM printk macros to pr_&lt;level&gt; macros
  dm crypt: add big-endian variant of plain64 IV
  dm bio prison: use rb_entry() rather than container_of()
  dm ioctl: report event number in DM_LIST_DEVICES
  dm ioctl: add a new DM_DEV_ARM_POLL ioctl
  dm: add basic support for using the select or poll function
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Pull device mapper updates from Mike Snitzer:

 - Add the ability to use select or poll /dev/mapper/control to wait for
   events from multiple DM devices.

 - Convert DM's printk macros over to using pr_&lt;level&gt; macros.

 - Add a big-endian variant of plain64 IV to dm-crypt.

 - Add support for zoned (aka SMR) devices to DM core. DM kcopyd was
   also improved to provide a sequential write feature needed by zoned
   devices.

 - Introduce DM zoned target that provides support for host-managed
   zoned devices, the result dm-zoned device acts as a drive-managed
   interface to the underlying host-managed device.

 - A DM raid fix to avoid using BUG() for error handling.

* tag 'for-4.13/dm-changes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/device-mapper/linux-dm:
  dm zoned: fix overflow when converting zone ID to sectors
  dm raid: stop using BUG() in __rdev_sectors()
  dm zoned: drive-managed zoned block device target
  dm kcopyd: add sequential write feature
  dm linear: add support for zoned block devices
  dm flakey: add support for zoned block devices
  dm: introduce dm_remap_zone_report()
  dm: fix REQ_OP_ZONE_REPORT bio handling
  dm: fix REQ_OP_ZONE_RESET bio handling
  dm table: add zoned block devices validation
  dm: convert DM printk macros to pr_&lt;level&gt; macros
  dm crypt: add big-endian variant of plain64 IV
  dm bio prison: use rb_entry() rather than container_of()
  dm ioctl: report event number in DM_LIST_DEVICES
  dm ioctl: add a new DM_DEV_ARM_POLL ioctl
  dm: add basic support for using the select or poll function
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>dm raid: stop using BUG() in __rdev_sectors()</title>
<updated>2017-06-30T14:15:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Heinz Mauelshagen</name>
<email>heinzm@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-06-30T13:45:58+00:00</published>
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Return 0 rather than BUG() if __rdev_sectors() fails and catch invalid
rdev size in the constructor.

Reported-by: Hannes Reinecke &lt;hare@suse.de&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Heinz Mauelshagen &lt;heinzm@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
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Return 0 rather than BUG() if __rdev_sectors() fails and catch invalid
rdev size in the constructor.

Reported-by: Hannes Reinecke &lt;hare@suse.de&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Heinz Mauelshagen &lt;heinzm@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>dm raid: fix oops on upgrading to extended superblock format</title>
<updated>2017-06-23T16:16:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Heinz Mauelshagen</name>
<email>heinzm@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-06-23T15:27:01+00:00</published>
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When a RAID set was created on dm-raid version &lt; 1.9.0 (old RAID
superblock format), all of the new 1.9.0 members of the superblock are
uninitialized (zero) -- including the device sectors member needed to
support shrinking.

All the other accesses to superblock fields new in 1.9.0 were reviewed
and verified to be properly guarded against invalid use.  The 'sectors'
member was the only one used when the superblock version is &lt; 1.9.

Don't access the superblock's &gt;= 1.9.0 'sectors' member unconditionally.
Also add respective comments.

Signed-off-by: Heinz Mauelshagen &lt;heinzm@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
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When a RAID set was created on dm-raid version &lt; 1.9.0 (old RAID
superblock format), all of the new 1.9.0 members of the superblock are
uninitialized (zero) -- including the device sectors member needed to
support shrinking.

All the other accesses to superblock fields new in 1.9.0 were reviewed
and verified to be properly guarded against invalid use.  The 'sectors'
member was the only one used when the superblock version is &lt; 1.9.

Don't access the superblock's &gt;= 1.9.0 'sectors' member unconditionally.
Also add respective comments.

Signed-off-by: Heinz Mauelshagen &lt;heinzm@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'for-4.12/dm-changes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/device-mapper/linux-dm</title>
<updated>2017-05-03T17:31:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-05-03T17:31:20+00:00</published>
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Pull device mapper updates from Mike Snitzer:

 - A major update for DM cache that reduces the latency for deciding
   whether blocks should migrate to/from the cache. The bio-prison-v2
   interface supports this improvement by enabling direct dispatch of
   work to workqueues rather than having to delay the actual work
   dispatch to the DM cache core. So the dm-cache policies are much more
   nimble by being able to drive IO as they see fit. One immediate
   benefit from the improved latency is a cache that should be much more
   adaptive to changing workloads.

 - Add a new DM integrity target that emulates a block device that has
   additional per-sector tags that can be used for storing integrity
   information.

 - Add a new authenticated encryption feature to the DM crypt target
   that builds on the capabilities provided by the DM integrity target.

 - Add MD interface for switching the raid4/5/6 journal mode and update
   the DM raid target to use it to enable aid4/5/6 journal write-back
   support.

 - Switch the DM verity target over to using the asynchronous hash
   crypto API (this helps work better with architectures that have
   access to off-CPU algorithm providers, which should reduce CPU
   utilization).

 - Various request-based DM and DM multipath fixes and improvements from
   Bart and Christoph.

 - A DM thinp target fix for a bio structure leak that occurs for each
   discard IFF discard passdown is enabled.

 - A fix for a possible deadlock in DM bufio and a fix to re-check the
   new buffer allocation watermark in the face of competing admin
   changes to the 'max_cache_size_bytes' tunable.

 - A couple DM core cleanups.

* tag 'for-4.12/dm-changes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/device-mapper/linux-dm: (50 commits)
  dm bufio: check new buffer allocation watermark every 30 seconds
  dm bufio: avoid a possible ABBA deadlock
  dm mpath: make it easier to detect unintended I/O request flushes
  dm mpath: cleanup QUEUE_IF_NO_PATH bit manipulation by introducing assign_bit()
  dm mpath: micro-optimize the hot path relative to MPATHF_QUEUE_IF_NO_PATH
  dm: introduce enum dm_queue_mode to cleanup related code
  dm mpath: verify __pg_init_all_paths locking assumptions at runtime
  dm: verify suspend_locking assumptions at runtime
  dm block manager: remove an unused argument from dm_block_manager_create()
  dm rq: check blk_mq_register_dev() return value in dm_mq_init_request_queue()
  dm mpath: delay requeuing while path initialization is in progress
  dm mpath: avoid that path removal can trigger an infinite loop
  dm mpath: split and rename activate_path() to prepare for its expanded use
  dm ioctl: prevent stack leak in dm ioctl call
  dm integrity: use previously calculated log2 of sectors_per_block
  dm integrity: use hex2bin instead of open-coded variant
  dm crypt: replace custom implementation of hex2bin()
  dm crypt: remove obsolete references to per-CPU state
  dm verity: switch to using asynchronous hash crypto API
  dm crypt: use WQ_HIGHPRI for the IO and crypt workqueues
  ...
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Pull device mapper updates from Mike Snitzer:

 - A major update for DM cache that reduces the latency for deciding
   whether blocks should migrate to/from the cache. The bio-prison-v2
   interface supports this improvement by enabling direct dispatch of
   work to workqueues rather than having to delay the actual work
   dispatch to the DM cache core. So the dm-cache policies are much more
   nimble by being able to drive IO as they see fit. One immediate
   benefit from the improved latency is a cache that should be much more
   adaptive to changing workloads.

 - Add a new DM integrity target that emulates a block device that has
   additional per-sector tags that can be used for storing integrity
   information.

 - Add a new authenticated encryption feature to the DM crypt target
   that builds on the capabilities provided by the DM integrity target.

 - Add MD interface for switching the raid4/5/6 journal mode and update
   the DM raid target to use it to enable aid4/5/6 journal write-back
   support.

 - Switch the DM verity target over to using the asynchronous hash
   crypto API (this helps work better with architectures that have
   access to off-CPU algorithm providers, which should reduce CPU
   utilization).

 - Various request-based DM and DM multipath fixes and improvements from
   Bart and Christoph.

 - A DM thinp target fix for a bio structure leak that occurs for each
   discard IFF discard passdown is enabled.

 - A fix for a possible deadlock in DM bufio and a fix to re-check the
   new buffer allocation watermark in the face of competing admin
   changes to the 'max_cache_size_bytes' tunable.

 - A couple DM core cleanups.

* tag 'for-4.12/dm-changes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/device-mapper/linux-dm: (50 commits)
  dm bufio: check new buffer allocation watermark every 30 seconds
  dm bufio: avoid a possible ABBA deadlock
  dm mpath: make it easier to detect unintended I/O request flushes
  dm mpath: cleanup QUEUE_IF_NO_PATH bit manipulation by introducing assign_bit()
  dm mpath: micro-optimize the hot path relative to MPATHF_QUEUE_IF_NO_PATH
  dm: introduce enum dm_queue_mode to cleanup related code
  dm mpath: verify __pg_init_all_paths locking assumptions at runtime
  dm: verify suspend_locking assumptions at runtime
  dm block manager: remove an unused argument from dm_block_manager_create()
  dm rq: check blk_mq_register_dev() return value in dm_mq_init_request_queue()
  dm mpath: delay requeuing while path initialization is in progress
  dm mpath: avoid that path removal can trigger an infinite loop
  dm mpath: split and rename activate_path() to prepare for its expanded use
  dm ioctl: prevent stack leak in dm ioctl call
  dm integrity: use previously calculated log2 of sectors_per_block
  dm integrity: use hex2bin instead of open-coded variant
  dm crypt: replace custom implementation of hex2bin()
  dm crypt: remove obsolete references to per-CPU state
  dm verity: switch to using asynchronous hash crypto API
  dm crypt: use WQ_HIGHPRI for the IO and crypt workqueues
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-4.12/block' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block</title>
<updated>2017-05-01T17:39:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-05-01T17:39:57+00:00</published>
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Pull block layer updates from Jens Axboe:

 - Add BFQ IO scheduler under the new blk-mq scheduling framework. BFQ
   was initially a fork of CFQ, but subsequently changed to implement
   fairness based on B-WF2Q+, a modified variant of WF2Q. BFQ is meant
   to be used on desktop type single drives, providing good fairness.
   From Paolo.

 - Add Kyber IO scheduler. This is a full multiqueue aware scheduler,
   using a scalable token based algorithm that throttles IO based on
   live completion IO stats, similary to blk-wbt. From Omar.

 - A series from Jan, moving users to separately allocated backing
   devices. This continues the work of separating backing device life
   times, solving various problems with hot removal.

 - A series of updates for lightnvm, mostly from Javier. Includes a
   'pblk' target that exposes an open channel SSD as a physical block
   device.

 - A series of fixes and improvements for nbd from Josef.

 - A series from Omar, removing queue sharing between devices on mostly
   legacy drivers. This helps us clean up other bits, if we know that a
   queue only has a single device backing. This has been overdue for
   more than a decade.

 - Fixes for the blk-stats, and improvements to unify the stats and user
   windows. This both improves blk-wbt, and enables other users to
   register a need to receive IO stats for a device. From Omar.

 - blk-throttle improvements from Shaohua. This provides a scalable
   framework for implementing scalable priotization - particularly for
   blk-mq, but applicable to any type of block device. The interface is
   marked experimental for now.

 - Bucketized IO stats for IO polling from Stephen Bates. This improves
   efficiency of polled workloads in the presence of mixed block size
   IO.

 - A few fixes for opal, from Scott.

 - A few pulls for NVMe, including a lot of fixes for NVMe-over-fabrics.
   From a variety of folks, mostly Sagi and James Smart.

 - A series from Bart, improving our exposed info and capabilities from
   the blk-mq debugfs support.

 - A series from Christoph, cleaning up how handle WRITE_ZEROES.

 - A series from Christoph, cleaning up the block layer handling of how
   we track errors in a request. On top of being a nice cleanup, it also
   shrinks the size of struct request a bit.

 - Removal of mg_disk and hd (sorry Linus) by Christoph. The former was
   never used by platforms, and the latter has outlived it's usefulness.

 - Various little bug fixes and cleanups from a wide variety of folks.

* 'for-4.12/block' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (329 commits)
  block: hide badblocks attribute by default
  blk-mq: unify hctx delay_work and run_work
  block: add kblock_mod_delayed_work_on()
  blk-mq: unify hctx delayed_run_work and run_work
  nbd: fix use after free on module unload
  MAINTAINERS: bfq: Add Paolo as maintainer for the BFQ I/O scheduler
  blk-mq-sched: alloate reserved tags out of normal pool
  mtip32xx: use runtime tag to initialize command header
  scsi: Implement blk_mq_ops.show_rq()
  blk-mq: Add blk_mq_ops.show_rq()
  blk-mq: Show operation, cmd_flags and rq_flags names
  blk-mq: Make blk_flags_show() callers append a newline character
  blk-mq: Move the "state" debugfs attribute one level down
  blk-mq: Unregister debugfs attributes earlier
  blk-mq: Only unregister hctxs for which registration succeeded
  blk-mq-debugfs: Rename functions for registering and unregistering the mq directory
  blk-mq: Let blk_mq_debugfs_register() look up the queue name
  blk-mq: Register &lt;dev&gt;/queue/mq after having registered &lt;dev&gt;/queue
  ide-pm: always pass 0 error to ide_complete_rq in ide_do_devset
  ide-pm: always pass 0 error to __blk_end_request_all
  ..
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Pull block layer updates from Jens Axboe:

 - Add BFQ IO scheduler under the new blk-mq scheduling framework. BFQ
   was initially a fork of CFQ, but subsequently changed to implement
   fairness based on B-WF2Q+, a modified variant of WF2Q. BFQ is meant
   to be used on desktop type single drives, providing good fairness.
   From Paolo.

 - Add Kyber IO scheduler. This is a full multiqueue aware scheduler,
   using a scalable token based algorithm that throttles IO based on
   live completion IO stats, similary to blk-wbt. From Omar.

 - A series from Jan, moving users to separately allocated backing
   devices. This continues the work of separating backing device life
   times, solving various problems with hot removal.

 - A series of updates for lightnvm, mostly from Javier. Includes a
   'pblk' target that exposes an open channel SSD as a physical block
   device.

 - A series of fixes and improvements for nbd from Josef.

 - A series from Omar, removing queue sharing between devices on mostly
   legacy drivers. This helps us clean up other bits, if we know that a
   queue only has a single device backing. This has been overdue for
   more than a decade.

 - Fixes for the blk-stats, and improvements to unify the stats and user
   windows. This both improves blk-wbt, and enables other users to
   register a need to receive IO stats for a device. From Omar.

 - blk-throttle improvements from Shaohua. This provides a scalable
   framework for implementing scalable priotization - particularly for
   blk-mq, but applicable to any type of block device. The interface is
   marked experimental for now.

 - Bucketized IO stats for IO polling from Stephen Bates. This improves
   efficiency of polled workloads in the presence of mixed block size
   IO.

 - A few fixes for opal, from Scott.

 - A few pulls for NVMe, including a lot of fixes for NVMe-over-fabrics.
   From a variety of folks, mostly Sagi and James Smart.

 - A series from Bart, improving our exposed info and capabilities from
   the blk-mq debugfs support.

 - A series from Christoph, cleaning up how handle WRITE_ZEROES.

 - A series from Christoph, cleaning up the block layer handling of how
   we track errors in a request. On top of being a nice cleanup, it also
   shrinks the size of struct request a bit.

 - Removal of mg_disk and hd (sorry Linus) by Christoph. The former was
   never used by platforms, and the latter has outlived it's usefulness.

 - Various little bug fixes and cleanups from a wide variety of folks.

* 'for-4.12/block' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (329 commits)
  block: hide badblocks attribute by default
  blk-mq: unify hctx delay_work and run_work
  block: add kblock_mod_delayed_work_on()
  blk-mq: unify hctx delayed_run_work and run_work
  nbd: fix use after free on module unload
  MAINTAINERS: bfq: Add Paolo as maintainer for the BFQ I/O scheduler
  blk-mq-sched: alloate reserved tags out of normal pool
  mtip32xx: use runtime tag to initialize command header
  scsi: Implement blk_mq_ops.show_rq()
  blk-mq: Add blk_mq_ops.show_rq()
  blk-mq: Show operation, cmd_flags and rq_flags names
  blk-mq: Make blk_flags_show() callers append a newline character
  blk-mq: Move the "state" debugfs attribute one level down
  blk-mq: Unregister debugfs attributes earlier
  blk-mq: Only unregister hctxs for which registration succeeded
  blk-mq-debugfs: Rename functions for registering and unregistering the mq directory
  blk-mq: Let blk_mq_debugfs_register() look up the queue name
  blk-mq: Register &lt;dev&gt;/queue/mq after having registered &lt;dev&gt;/queue
  ide-pm: always pass 0 error to ide_complete_rq in ide_do_devset
  ide-pm: always pass 0 error to __blk_end_request_all
  ..
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<title>block: remove the discard_zeroes_data flag</title>
<updated>2017-04-08T17:25:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Hellwig</name>
<email>hch@lst.de</email>
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<published>2017-04-05T17:21:23+00:00</published>
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Now that we use the proper REQ_OP_WRITE_ZEROES operation everywhere we can
kill this hack.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen &lt;martin.petersen@oracle.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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Now that we use the proper REQ_OP_WRITE_ZEROES operation everywhere we can
kill this hack.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen &lt;martin.petersen@oracle.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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