linux.git/drivers/nvme, branch v4.4-rc2

NVMe: add support for Apple NVMe controller

2015-11-11T16:36:57+00:00

Add PCI ID of Apple's NVMe controller.

Signed-off-by: Stephan Guenther 
Signed-off-by: Maurice Leclaire 
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

NVMe: use split lo_hi_{read,write}q

2015-11-11T16:36:56+00:00

Some controllers may require ordered split transfers even on 64bit
machines, e.g. Apple's NVMe controller as found in the MacBook8,1 and
MacBookAir7,1 (256/512GB models).

This patch enforces ordered split transfers on 64bit platforms, which
works around that issue for all controllers. As pointed out by Christoph
[1] there should be no performance impact due to that modification.

[1] http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-nvme/2015-November/002965.html

Signed-off-by: Stephan Guenther 
Signed-off-by: Maurice Leclaire 
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig 

Updated by me to explicitly use lo_hi_read/writeq instead of playing
define tricks.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

NVMe: Increase the max transfer size when mdts is 0

2015-11-11T16:36:56+00:00

This patch address the issue when IO with 128KB from FIO is split into
two parts, 124KB and 4KB, due to max transfer size(127KB). This degrades
the device performance.

Signed-off-by: Sathyavathi M 
Acked-by: Keith Busch 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

Merge branch 'for-4.4/io-poll' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block

2015-11-11T01:23:49+00:00

Pull block IO poll support from Jens Axboe:
 "Various groups have been doing experimentation around IO polling for
  (really) fast devices.  The code has been reviewed and has been
  sitting on the side for a few releases, but this is now good enough
  for coordinated benchmarking and further experimentation.

  Currently O_DIRECT sync read/write are supported.  A framework is in
  the works that allows scalable stats tracking so we can auto-tune
  this.  And we'll add libaio support as well soon.  Fow now, it's an
  opt-in feature for test purposes"

* 'for-4.4/io-poll' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block:
  direct-io: be sure to assign dio->bio_bdev for both paths
  directio: add block polling support
  NVMe: add blk polling support
  block: add block polling support
  blk-mq: return tag/queue combo in the make_request_fn handlers
  block: change ->make_request_fn() and users to return a queue cookie

Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)

2015-11-07T22:32:45+00:00

Merge second patch-bomb from Andrew Morton:

 - most of the rest of MM

 - procfs

 - lib/ updates

 - printk updates

 - bitops infrastructure tweaks

 - checkpatch updates

 - nilfs2 update

 - signals

 - various other misc bits: coredump, seqfile, kexec, pidns, zlib, ipc,
   dma-debug, dma-mapping, ...

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton : (102 commits)
  ipc,msg: drop dst nil validation in copy_msg
  include/linux/zutil.h: fix usage example of zlib_adler32()
  panic: release stale console lock to always get the logbuf printed out
  dma-debug: check nents in dma_sync_sg*
  dma-mapping: tidy up dma_parms default handling
  pidns: fix set/getpriority and ioprio_set/get in PRIO_USER mode
  kexec: use file name as the output message prefix
  fs, seqfile: always allow oom killer
  seq_file: reuse string_escape_str()
  fs/seq_file: use seq_* helpers in seq_hex_dump()
  coredump: change zap_threads() and zap_process() to use for_each_thread()
  coredump: ensure all coredumping tasks have SIGNAL_GROUP_COREDUMP
  signal: remove jffs2_garbage_collect_thread()->allow_signal(SIGCONT)
  signal: introduce kernel_signal_stop() to fix jffs2_garbage_collect_thread()
  signal: turn dequeue_signal_lock() into kernel_dequeue_signal()
  signals: kill block_all_signals() and unblock_all_signals()
  nilfs2: fix gcc uninitialized-variable warnings in powerpc build
  nilfs2: fix gcc unused-but-set-variable warnings
  MAINTAINERS: nilfs2: add header file for tracing
  nilfs2: add tracepoints for analyzing reading and writing metadata files
  ...

NVMe: add blk polling support

2015-11-07T17:40:47+00:00

Add nvme_poll(), which will check a specific completion queue for
command completions. Wire that up to the new block layer poll
mechanism.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe 
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Acked-by: Keith Busch

mm, page_alloc: rename __GFP_WAIT to __GFP_RECLAIM

2015-11-07T01:50:42+00:00

__GFP_WAIT was used to signal that the caller was in atomic context and
could not sleep.  Now it is possible to distinguish between true atomic
context and callers that are not willing to sleep.  The latter should
clear __GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM so kswapd will still wake.  As clearing
__GFP_WAIT behaves differently, there is a risk that people will clear the
wrong flags.  This patch renames __GFP_WAIT to __GFP_RECLAIM to clearly
indicate what it does -- setting it allows all reclaim activity, clearing
them prevents it.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix build]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman 
Acked-by: Michal Hocko 
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka 
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner 
Cc: Christoph Lameter 
Acked-by: David Rientjes 
Cc: Vitaly Wool 
Cc: Rik van Riel 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge tag 'asm-generic-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/asm-generic

2015-11-06T22:22:15+00:00

Pull asm-generic cleanups from Arnd Bergmann:
 "The asm-generic changes for 4.4 are mostly a series from Christoph
  Hellwig to clean up various abuses of headers in there.  The patch to
  rename the io-64-nonatomic-*.h headers caused some conflicts with new
  users, so I added a workaround that we can remove in the next merge
  window.

  The only other patch is a warning fix from Marek Vasut"

* tag 'asm-generic-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/asm-generic:
  asm-generic: temporarily add back asm-generic/io-64-nonatomic*.h
  asm-generic: cmpxchg: avoid warnings from macro-ized cmpxchg() implementations
  gpio-mxc: stop including 
  n_tracesink: stop including 
  n_tracerouter: stop including 
  mlx5: stop including 
  hifn_795x: stop including 
  drbd: stop including 
  move count_zeroes.h out of asm-generic
  move io-64-nonatomic*.h out of asm-generic

Merge branch 'for-4.4/reservations' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block

2015-11-05T05:01:27+00:00

Pull block reservation support from Jens Axboe:
 "This adds support for persistent reservations, both at the core level,
  as well as for sd and NVMe"

[ Background from the docs: "Persistent Reservations allow restricting
  access to block devices to specific initiators in a shared storage
  setup.  All implementations are expected to ensure the reservations
  survive a power loss and cover all connections in a multi path
  environment" ]

* 'for-4.4/reservations' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block:
  NVMe: Precedence error in nvme_pr_clear()
  nvme: add missing endianess annotations in nvme_pr_command
  NVMe: Add persistent reservation ops
  sd: implement the Persistent Reservation API
  block: add an API for Persistent Reservations
  block: cleanup blkdev_ioctl

Merge branch 'for-4.4/integrity' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block

2015-11-05T04:51:48+00:00

Pull block integrity updates from Jens Axboe:
 ""This is the joint work of Dan and Martin, cleaning up and improving
  the support for block data integrity"

* 'for-4.4/integrity' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block:
  block, libnvdimm, nvme: provide a built-in blk_integrity nop profile
  block: blk_flush_integrity() for bio-based drivers
  block: move blk_integrity to request_queue
  block: generic request_queue reference counting
  nvme: suspend i/o during runtime blk_integrity_unregister
  md: suspend i/o during runtime blk_integrity_unregister
  md, dm, scsi, nvme, libnvdimm: drop blk_integrity_unregister() at shutdown
  block: Inline blk_integrity in struct gendisk
  block: Export integrity data interval size in sysfs
  block: Reduce the size of struct blk_integrity
  block: Consolidate static integrity profile properties
  block: Move integrity kobject to struct gendisk