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<title>linux.git/block, branch v4.9-rc2</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel source tree</subtitle>
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<title>Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block</title>
<updated>2016-10-21T17:54:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-10-21T17:54:01+00:00</published>
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Pull block fixes from Jens Axboe:
 "A set of fixes that missed the merge window, mostly due to me being
  away around that time.

  Nothing major here, a mix of nvme cleanups and fixes, and one fix for
  the badblocks handling"

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block:
  nvmet: use symbolic constants for CNS values
  nvme: use symbolic constants for CNS values
  nvme.h: add an enum for cns values
  nvme.h: don't use uuid_be
  nvme.h: resync with nvme-cli
  nvme: Add tertiary number to NVME_VS
  nvme : Add sysfs entry for NVMe CMBs when appropriate
  nvme: don't schedule multiple resets
  nvme: Delete created IO queues on reset
  nvme: Stop probing a removed device
  badblocks: fix overlapping check for clearing
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Pull block fixes from Jens Axboe:
 "A set of fixes that missed the merge window, mostly due to me being
  away around that time.

  Nothing major here, a mix of nvme cleanups and fixes, and one fix for
  the badblocks handling"

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block:
  nvmet: use symbolic constants for CNS values
  nvme: use symbolic constants for CNS values
  nvme.h: add an enum for cns values
  nvme.h: don't use uuid_be
  nvme.h: resync with nvme-cli
  nvme: Add tertiary number to NVME_VS
  nvme : Add sysfs entry for NVMe CMBs when appropriate
  nvme: don't schedule multiple resets
  nvme: Delete created IO queues on reset
  nvme: Stop probing a removed device
  badblocks: fix overlapping check for clearing
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'gcc-plugins-v4.9-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux</title>
<updated>2016-10-15T17:03:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-10-15T17:03:15+00:00</published>
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Pull gcc plugins update from Kees Cook:
 "This adds a new gcc plugin named "latent_entropy". It is designed to
  extract as much possible uncertainty from a running system at boot
  time as possible, hoping to capitalize on any possible variation in
  CPU operation (due to runtime data differences, hardware differences,
  SMP ordering, thermal timing variation, cache behavior, etc).

  At the very least, this plugin is a much more comprehensive example
  for how to manipulate kernel code using the gcc plugin internals"

* tag 'gcc-plugins-v4.9-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux:
  latent_entropy: Mark functions with __latent_entropy
  gcc-plugins: Add latent_entropy plugin
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Pull gcc plugins update from Kees Cook:
 "This adds a new gcc plugin named "latent_entropy". It is designed to
  extract as much possible uncertainty from a running system at boot
  time as possible, hoping to capitalize on any possible variation in
  CPU operation (due to runtime data differences, hardware differences,
  SMP ordering, thermal timing variation, cache behavior, etc).

  At the very least, this plugin is a much more comprehensive example
  for how to manipulate kernel code using the gcc plugin internals"

* tag 'gcc-plugins-v4.9-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux:
  latent_entropy: Mark functions with __latent_entropy
  gcc-plugins: Add latent_entropy plugin
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-4.9' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup</title>
<updated>2016-10-14T19:18:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-10-14T19:18:50+00:00</published>
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Pull cgroup updates from Tejun Heo:

 - tracepoints for basic cgroup management operations added

 - kernfs and cgroup path formatting functions updated to behave in the
   style of strlcpy()

 - non-critical bug fixes

* 'for-4.9' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup:
  blkcg: Unlock blkcg_pol_mutex only once when cpd == NULL
  cgroup: fix error handling regressions in proc_cgroup_show() and cgroup_release_agent()
  cpuset: fix error handling regression in proc_cpuset_show()
  cgroup: add tracepoints for basic operations
  cgroup: make cgroup_path() and friends behave in the style of strlcpy()
  kernfs: remove kernfs_path_len()
  kernfs: make kernfs_path*() behave in the style of strlcpy()
  kernfs: add dummy implementation of kernfs_path_from_node()
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Pull cgroup updates from Tejun Heo:

 - tracepoints for basic cgroup management operations added

 - kernfs and cgroup path formatting functions updated to behave in the
   style of strlcpy()

 - non-critical bug fixes

* 'for-4.9' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup:
  blkcg: Unlock blkcg_pol_mutex only once when cpd == NULL
  cgroup: fix error handling regressions in proc_cgroup_show() and cgroup_release_agent()
  cpuset: fix error handling regression in proc_cpuset_show()
  cgroup: add tracepoints for basic operations
  cgroup: make cgroup_path() and friends behave in the style of strlcpy()
  kernfs: remove kernfs_path_len()
  kernfs: make kernfs_path*() behave in the style of strlcpy()
  kernfs: add dummy implementation of kernfs_path_from_node()
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>badblocks: fix overlapping check for clearing</title>
<updated>2016-10-12T14:08:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tomasz Majchrzak</name>
<email>tomasz.majchrzak@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-10-12T10:23:08+00:00</published>
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Current bad block clear implementation assumes the range to clear
overlaps with at least one bad block already stored. If given range to
clear precedes first bad block in a list, the first entry is incorrectly
updated.

Check not only if stored block end is past clear block end but also if
stored block start is before clear block end.

Signed-off-by: Tomasz Majchrzak &lt;tomasz.majchrzak@intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: NeilBrown &lt;neilb@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
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Current bad block clear implementation assumes the range to clear
overlaps with at least one bad block already stored. If given range to
clear precedes first bad block in a list, the first entry is incorrectly
updated.

Check not only if stored block end is past clear block end but also if
stored block start is before clear block end.

Signed-off-by: Tomasz Majchrzak &lt;tomasz.majchrzak@intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: NeilBrown &lt;neilb@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>block: require write_same and discard requests align to logical block size</title>
<updated>2016-10-11T22:06:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Darrick J. Wong</name>
<email>darrick.wong@oracle.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-10-11T20:51:08+00:00</published>
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Make sure that the offset and length arguments that we're using to
construct WRITE SAME and DISCARD requests are actually aligned to the
logical block size.  Failure to do this causes other errors in other parts
of the block layer or the SCSI layer because disks don't support partial
logical block writes.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/147518379026.22791.4437508871355153928.stgit@birch.djwong.org
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong &lt;darrick.wong@oracle.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche &lt;bart.vanassche@sandisk.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen &lt;martin.petersen@oracle.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke &lt;hare@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Cc: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt; # tweaked header
Cc: Brian Foster &lt;bfoster@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&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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Make sure that the offset and length arguments that we're using to
construct WRITE SAME and DISCARD requests are actually aligned to the
logical block size.  Failure to do this causes other errors in other parts
of the block layer or the SCSI layer because disks don't support partial
logical block writes.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/147518379026.22791.4437508871355153928.stgit@birch.djwong.org
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong &lt;darrick.wong@oracle.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche &lt;bart.vanassche@sandisk.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen &lt;martin.petersen@oracle.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke &lt;hare@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Cc: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt; # tweaked header
Cc: Brian Foster &lt;bfoster@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&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>block: invalidate the page cache when issuing BLKZEROOUT</title>
<updated>2016-10-11T22:06:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Darrick J. Wong</name>
<email>darrick.wong@oracle.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-10-11T20:51:05+00:00</published>
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Patch series "fallocate for block devices", v11.

This is a patchset to fix page cache coherency with BLKZEROOUT and
implement fallocate for block devices.

The first patch is a fix to the existing BLKZEROOUT ioctl to invalidate
the page cache if the zeroing command to the underlying device succeeds.
Without this patch we still have the pagecache coherence bug that's been
in the kernel forever.

The second patch changes the internal block device functions to reject
attempts to discard or zeroout that are not aligned to the logical block
size.  Previously, we only checked that the start/len parameters were
512-byte aligned, which caused kernel BUG_ONs for unaligned IOs to 4k-LBA
devices.

The third patch creates an fallocate handler for block devices, wires up
the FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE flag to zeroing-discard, and connects
FALLOC_FL_ZERO_RANGE to write-same so that we can have a consistent
fallocate interface between files and block devices.  It also allows the
combination of PUNCH_HOLE and NO_HIDE_STALE to invoke non-zeroing discard.

Test cases for the new block device fallocate are now in xfstests as
generic/349-351.

This patch (of 3):

Invalidate the page cache (as a regular O_DIRECT write would do) to avoid
returning stale cache contents at a later time.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/147518378313.22791.16649519283678515021.stgit@birch.djwong.org
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong &lt;darrick.wong@oracle.com&gt;
Reviewed-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;
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke &lt;hare@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Cc: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Brian Foster &lt;bfoster@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&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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Patch series "fallocate for block devices", v11.

This is a patchset to fix page cache coherency with BLKZEROOUT and
implement fallocate for block devices.

The first patch is a fix to the existing BLKZEROOUT ioctl to invalidate
the page cache if the zeroing command to the underlying device succeeds.
Without this patch we still have the pagecache coherence bug that's been
in the kernel forever.

The second patch changes the internal block device functions to reject
attempts to discard or zeroout that are not aligned to the logical block
size.  Previously, we only checked that the start/len parameters were
512-byte aligned, which caused kernel BUG_ONs for unaligned IOs to 4k-LBA
devices.

The third patch creates an fallocate handler for block devices, wires up
the FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE flag to zeroing-discard, and connects
FALLOC_FL_ZERO_RANGE to write-same so that we can have a consistent
fallocate interface between files and block devices.  It also allows the
combination of PUNCH_HOLE and NO_HIDE_STALE to invoke non-zeroing discard.

Test cases for the new block device fallocate are now in xfstests as
generic/349-351.

This patch (of 3):

Invalidate the page cache (as a regular O_DIRECT write would do) to avoid
returning stale cache contents at a later time.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/147518378313.22791.16649519283678515021.stgit@birch.djwong.org
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong &lt;darrick.wong@oracle.com&gt;
Reviewed-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;
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke &lt;hare@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Cc: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Brian Foster &lt;bfoster@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&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>latent_entropy: Mark functions with __latent_entropy</title>
<updated>2016-10-10T21:51:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Emese Revfy</name>
<email>re.emese@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-06-20T18:42:34+00:00</published>
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The __latent_entropy gcc attribute can be used only on functions and
variables.  If it is on a function then the plugin will instrument it for
gathering control-flow entropy. If the attribute is on a variable then
the plugin will initialize it with random contents.  The variable must
be an integer, an integer array type or a structure with integer fields.

These specific functions have been selected because they are init
functions (to help gather boot-time entropy), are called at unpredictable
times, or they have variable loops, each of which provide some level of
latent entropy.

Signed-off-by: Emese Revfy &lt;re.emese@gmail.com&gt;
[kees: expanded commit message]
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
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The __latent_entropy gcc attribute can be used only on functions and
variables.  If it is on a function then the plugin will instrument it for
gathering control-flow entropy. If the attribute is on a variable then
the plugin will initialize it with random contents.  The variable must
be an integer, an integer array type or a structure with integer fields.

These specific functions have been selected because they are init
functions (to help gather boot-time entropy), are called at unpredictable
times, or they have variable loops, each of which provide some level of
latent entropy.

Signed-off-by: Emese Revfy &lt;re.emese@gmail.com&gt;
[kees: expanded commit message]
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-4.9/block-smp' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block</title>
<updated>2016-10-10T00:32:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-10-10T00:32:20+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=24532f768121b07b16178ffb40442ece43365cbd'/>
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Pull blk-mq CPU hotplug update from Jens Axboe:
 "This is the conversion of blk-mq to the new hotplug state machine"

* 'for-4.9/block-smp' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block:
  blk-mq: fixup "Convert to new hotplug state machine"
  blk-mq: Convert to new hotplug state machine
  blk-mq/cpu-notif: Convert to new hotplug state machine
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Pull blk-mq CPU hotplug update from Jens Axboe:
 "This is the conversion of blk-mq to the new hotplug state machine"

* 'for-4.9/block-smp' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block:
  blk-mq: fixup "Convert to new hotplug state machine"
  blk-mq: Convert to new hotplug state machine
  blk-mq/cpu-notif: Convert to new hotplug state machine
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-4.9/block-irq' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block</title>
<updated>2016-10-10T00:29:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-10-10T00:29:33+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=12e3d3cdd975fe986cc5c35f60b1467a8ec20b80'/>
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Pull blk-mq irq/cpu mapping updates from Jens Axboe:
 "This is the block-irq topic branch for 4.9-rc. It's mostly from
  Christoph, and it allows drivers to specify their own mappings, and
  more importantly, to share the blk-mq mappings with the IRQ affinity
  mappings. It's a good step towards making this work better out of the
  box"

* 'for-4.9/block-irq' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block:
  blk_mq: linux/blk-mq.h does not include all the headers it depends on
  blk-mq: kill unused blk_mq_create_mq_map()
  blk-mq: get rid of the cpumask in struct blk_mq_tags
  nvme: remove the post_scan callout
  nvme: switch to use pci_alloc_irq_vectors
  blk-mq: provide a default queue mapping for PCI device
  blk-mq: allow the driver to pass in a queue mapping
  blk-mq: remove -&gt;map_queue
  blk-mq: only allocate a single mq_map per tag_set
  blk-mq: don't redistribute hardware queues on a CPU hotplug event
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Pull blk-mq irq/cpu mapping updates from Jens Axboe:
 "This is the block-irq topic branch for 4.9-rc. It's mostly from
  Christoph, and it allows drivers to specify their own mappings, and
  more importantly, to share the blk-mq mappings with the IRQ affinity
  mappings. It's a good step towards making this work better out of the
  box"

* 'for-4.9/block-irq' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block:
  blk_mq: linux/blk-mq.h does not include all the headers it depends on
  blk-mq: kill unused blk_mq_create_mq_map()
  blk-mq: get rid of the cpumask in struct blk_mq_tags
  nvme: remove the post_scan callout
  nvme: switch to use pci_alloc_irq_vectors
  blk-mq: provide a default queue mapping for PCI device
  blk-mq: allow the driver to pass in a queue mapping
  blk-mq: remove -&gt;map_queue
  blk-mq: only allocate a single mq_map per tag_set
  blk-mq: don't redistribute hardware queues on a CPU hotplug event
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-4.9/block' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block</title>
<updated>2016-10-07T21:42:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-10-07T21:42:05+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=513a4befae06c4469abfb836e8f71977de58c636'/>
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Pull block layer updates from Jens Axboe:
 "This is the main pull request for block layer changes in 4.9.

  As mentioned at the last merge window, I've changed things up and now
  do just one branch for core block layer changes, and driver changes.
  This avoids dependencies between the two branches. Outside of this
  main pull request, there are two topical branches coming as well.

  This pull request contains:

   - A set of fixes, and a conversion to blk-mq, of nbd. From Josef.

   - Set of fixes and updates for lightnvm from Matias, Simon, and Arnd.
     Followup dependency fix from Geert.

   - General fixes from Bart, Baoyou, Guoqing, and Linus W.

   - CFQ async write starvation fix from Glauber.

   - Add supprot for delayed kick of the requeue list, from Mike.

   - Pull out the scalable bitmap code from blk-mq-tag.c and make it
     generally available under the name of sbitmap. Only blk-mq-tag uses
     it for now, but the blk-mq scheduling bits will use it as well.
     From Omar.

   - bdev thaw error progagation from Pierre.

   - Improve the blk polling statistics, and allow the user to clear
     them. From Stephen.

   - Set of minor cleanups from Christoph in block/blk-mq.

   - Set of cleanups and optimizations from me for block/blk-mq.

   - Various nvme/nvmet/nvmeof fixes from the various folks"

* 'for-4.9/block' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (54 commits)
  fs/block_dev.c: return the right error in thaw_bdev()
  nvme: Pass pointers, not dma addresses, to nvme_get/set_features()
  nvme/scsi: Remove power management support
  nvmet: Make dsm number of ranges zero based
  nvmet: Use direct IO for writes
  admin-cmd: Added smart-log command support.
  nvme-fabrics: Add host_traddr options field to host infrastructure
  nvme-fabrics: revise host transport option descriptions
  nvme-fabrics: rework nvmf_get_address() for variable options
  nbd: use BLK_MQ_F_BLOCKING
  blkcg: Annotate blkg_hint correctly
  cfq: fix starvation of asynchronous writes
  blk-mq: add flag for drivers wanting blocking -&gt;queue_rq()
  blk-mq: remove non-blocking pass in blk_mq_map_request
  blk-mq: get rid of manual run of queue with __blk_mq_run_hw_queue()
  block: export bio_free_pages to other modules
  lightnvm: propagate device_add() error code
  lightnvm: expose device geometry through sysfs
  lightnvm: control life of nvm_dev in driver
  blk-mq: register device instead of disk
  ...
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Pull block layer updates from Jens Axboe:
 "This is the main pull request for block layer changes in 4.9.

  As mentioned at the last merge window, I've changed things up and now
  do just one branch for core block layer changes, and driver changes.
  This avoids dependencies between the two branches. Outside of this
  main pull request, there are two topical branches coming as well.

  This pull request contains:

   - A set of fixes, and a conversion to blk-mq, of nbd. From Josef.

   - Set of fixes and updates for lightnvm from Matias, Simon, and Arnd.
     Followup dependency fix from Geert.

   - General fixes from Bart, Baoyou, Guoqing, and Linus W.

   - CFQ async write starvation fix from Glauber.

   - Add supprot for delayed kick of the requeue list, from Mike.

   - Pull out the scalable bitmap code from blk-mq-tag.c and make it
     generally available under the name of sbitmap. Only blk-mq-tag uses
     it for now, but the blk-mq scheduling bits will use it as well.
     From Omar.

   - bdev thaw error progagation from Pierre.

   - Improve the blk polling statistics, and allow the user to clear
     them. From Stephen.

   - Set of minor cleanups from Christoph in block/blk-mq.

   - Set of cleanups and optimizations from me for block/blk-mq.

   - Various nvme/nvmet/nvmeof fixes from the various folks"

* 'for-4.9/block' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (54 commits)
  fs/block_dev.c: return the right error in thaw_bdev()
  nvme: Pass pointers, not dma addresses, to nvme_get/set_features()
  nvme/scsi: Remove power management support
  nvmet: Make dsm number of ranges zero based
  nvmet: Use direct IO for writes
  admin-cmd: Added smart-log command support.
  nvme-fabrics: Add host_traddr options field to host infrastructure
  nvme-fabrics: revise host transport option descriptions
  nvme-fabrics: rework nvmf_get_address() for variable options
  nbd: use BLK_MQ_F_BLOCKING
  blkcg: Annotate blkg_hint correctly
  cfq: fix starvation of asynchronous writes
  blk-mq: add flag for drivers wanting blocking -&gt;queue_rq()
  blk-mq: remove non-blocking pass in blk_mq_map_request
  blk-mq: get rid of manual run of queue with __blk_mq_run_hw_queue()
  block: export bio_free_pages to other modules
  lightnvm: propagate device_add() error code
  lightnvm: expose device geometry through sysfs
  lightnvm: control life of nvm_dev in driver
  blk-mq: register device instead of disk
  ...
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