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<title>gfs2: Avoid alignment hole in struct lm_lockname</title>
<updated>2017-03-15T14:06:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andreas Gruenbacher</name>
<email>agruenba@redhat.com</email>
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<published>2017-03-06T17:58:42+00:00</published>
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Commit 88ffbf3e03 switches to using rhashtables for glocks, hashing over
the entire struct lm_lockname instead of its individual fields.  On some
architectures, struct lm_lockname contains a hole of uninitialized
memory due to alignment rules, which now leads to incorrect hash values.
Get rid of that hole.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher &lt;agruenba@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson &lt;rpeterso@redhat.com&gt;
CC: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; #v4.3+
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Commit 88ffbf3e03 switches to using rhashtables for glocks, hashing over
the entire struct lm_lockname instead of its individual fields.  On some
architectures, struct lm_lockname contains a hole of uninitialized
memory due to alignment rules, which now leads to incorrect hash values.
Get rid of that hole.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher &lt;agruenba@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson &lt;rpeterso@redhat.com&gt;
CC: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; #v4.3+
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<title>Merge branch 'rebased-statx' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs</title>
<updated>2017-03-03T19:38:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-03-03T19:38:56+00:00</published>
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Pull vfs 'statx()' update from Al Viro.

This adds the new extended stat() interface that internally subsumes our
previous stat interfaces, and allows user mode to specify in more detail
what kind of information it wants.

It also allows for some explicit synchronization information to be
passed to the filesystem, which can be relevant for network filesystems:
is the cached value ok, or do you need open/close consistency, or what?

From David Howells.

Andreas Dilger points out that the first version of the extended statx
interface was posted June 29, 2010:

    https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-fsdevel/msg33831.html

* 'rebased-statx' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
  statx: Add a system call to make enhanced file info available
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Pull vfs 'statx()' update from Al Viro.

This adds the new extended stat() interface that internally subsumes our
previous stat interfaces, and allows user mode to specify in more detail
what kind of information it wants.

It also allows for some explicit synchronization information to be
passed to the filesystem, which can be relevant for network filesystems:
is the cached value ok, or do you need open/close consistency, or what?

From David Howells.

Andreas Dilger points out that the first version of the extended statx
interface was posted June 29, 2010:

    https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-fsdevel/msg33831.html

* 'rebased-statx' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
  statx: Add a system call to make enhanced file info available
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<entry>
<title>statx: Add a system call to make enhanced file info available</title>
<updated>2017-03-03T01:51:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Howells</name>
<email>dhowells@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-01-31T16:46:22+00:00</published>
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Add a system call to make extended file information available, including
file creation and some attribute flags where available through the
underlying filesystem.

The getattr inode operation is altered to take two additional arguments: a
u32 request_mask and an unsigned int flags that indicate the
synchronisation mode.  This change is propagated to the vfs_getattr*()
function.

Functions like vfs_stat() are now inline wrappers around new functions
vfs_statx() and vfs_statx_fd() to reduce stack usage.

========
OVERVIEW
========

The idea was initially proposed as a set of xattrs that could be retrieved
with getxattr(), but the general preference proved to be for a new syscall
with an extended stat structure.

A number of requests were gathered for features to be included.  The
following have been included:

 (1) Make the fields a consistent size on all arches and make them large.

 (2) Spare space, request flags and information flags are provided for
     future expansion.

 (3) Better support for the y2038 problem [Arnd Bergmann] (tv_sec is an
     __s64).

 (4) Creation time: The SMB protocol carries the creation time, which could
     be exported by Samba, which will in turn help CIFS make use of
     FS-Cache as that can be used for coherency data (stx_btime).

     This is also specified in NFSv4 as a recommended attribute and could
     be exported by NFSD [Steve French].

 (5) Lightweight stat: Ask for just those details of interest, and allow a
     netfs (such as NFS) to approximate anything not of interest, possibly
     without going to the server [Trond Myklebust, Ulrich Drepper, Andreas
     Dilger] (AT_STATX_DONT_SYNC).

 (6) Heavyweight stat: Force a netfs to go to the server, even if it thinks
     its cached attributes are up to date [Trond Myklebust]
     (AT_STATX_FORCE_SYNC).

And the following have been left out for future extension:

 (7) Data version number: Could be used by userspace NFS servers [Aneesh
     Kumar].

     Can also be used to modify fill_post_wcc() in NFSD which retrieves
     i_version directly, but has just called vfs_getattr().  It could get
     it from the kstat struct if it used vfs_xgetattr() instead.

     (There's disagreement on the exact semantics of a single field, since
     not all filesystems do this the same way).

 (8) BSD stat compatibility: Including more fields from the BSD stat such
     as creation time (st_btime) and inode generation number (st_gen)
     [Jeremy Allison, Bernd Schubert].

 (9) Inode generation number: Useful for FUSE and userspace NFS servers
     [Bernd Schubert].

     (This was asked for but later deemed unnecessary with the
     open-by-handle capability available and caused disagreement as to
     whether it's a security hole or not).

(10) Extra coherency data may be useful in making backups [Andreas Dilger].

     (No particular data were offered, but things like last backup
     timestamp, the data version number and the DOS archive bit would come
     into this category).

(11) Allow the filesystem to indicate what it can/cannot provide: A
     filesystem can now say it doesn't support a standard stat feature if
     that isn't available, so if, for instance, inode numbers or UIDs don't
     exist or are fabricated locally...

     (This requires a separate system call - I have an fsinfo() call idea
     for this).

(12) Store a 16-byte volume ID in the superblock that can be returned in
     struct xstat [Steve French].

     (Deferred to fsinfo).

(13) Include granularity fields in the time data to indicate the
     granularity of each of the times (NFSv4 time_delta) [Steve French].

     (Deferred to fsinfo).

(14) FS_IOC_GETFLAGS value.  These could be translated to BSD's st_flags.
     Note that the Linux IOC flags are a mess and filesystems such as Ext4
     define flags that aren't in linux/fs.h, so translation in the kernel
     may be a necessity (or, possibly, we provide the filesystem type too).

     (Some attributes are made available in stx_attributes, but the general
     feeling was that the IOC flags were to ext[234]-specific and shouldn't
     be exposed through statx this way).

(15) Mask of features available on file (eg: ACLs, seclabel) [Brad Boyer,
     Michael Kerrisk].

     (Deferred, probably to fsinfo.  Finding out if there's an ACL or
     seclabal might require extra filesystem operations).

(16) Femtosecond-resolution timestamps [Dave Chinner].

     (A __reserved field has been left in the statx_timestamp struct for
     this - if there proves to be a need).

(17) A set multiple attributes syscall to go with this.

===============
NEW SYSTEM CALL
===============

The new system call is:

	int ret = statx(int dfd,
			const char *filename,
			unsigned int flags,
			unsigned int mask,
			struct statx *buffer);

The dfd, filename and flags parameters indicate the file to query, in a
similar way to fstatat().  There is no equivalent of lstat() as that can be
emulated with statx() by passing AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW in flags.  There is
also no equivalent of fstat() as that can be emulated by passing a NULL
filename to statx() with the fd of interest in dfd.

Whether or not statx() synchronises the attributes with the backing store
can be controlled by OR'ing a value into the flags argument (this typically
only affects network filesystems):

 (1) AT_STATX_SYNC_AS_STAT tells statx() to behave as stat() does in this
     respect.

 (2) AT_STATX_FORCE_SYNC will require a network filesystem to synchronise
     its attributes with the server - which might require data writeback to
     occur to get the timestamps correct.

 (3) AT_STATX_DONT_SYNC will suppress synchronisation with the server in a
     network filesystem.  The resulting values should be considered
     approximate.

mask is a bitmask indicating the fields in struct statx that are of
interest to the caller.  The user should set this to STATX_BASIC_STATS to
get the basic set returned by stat().  It should be noted that asking for
more information may entail extra I/O operations.

buffer points to the destination for the data.  This must be 256 bytes in
size.

======================
MAIN ATTRIBUTES RECORD
======================

The following structures are defined in which to return the main attribute
set:

	struct statx_timestamp {
		__s64	tv_sec;
		__s32	tv_nsec;
		__s32	__reserved;
	};

	struct statx {
		__u32	stx_mask;
		__u32	stx_blksize;
		__u64	stx_attributes;
		__u32	stx_nlink;
		__u32	stx_uid;
		__u32	stx_gid;
		__u16	stx_mode;
		__u16	__spare0[1];
		__u64	stx_ino;
		__u64	stx_size;
		__u64	stx_blocks;
		__u64	__spare1[1];
		struct statx_timestamp	stx_atime;
		struct statx_timestamp	stx_btime;
		struct statx_timestamp	stx_ctime;
		struct statx_timestamp	stx_mtime;
		__u32	stx_rdev_major;
		__u32	stx_rdev_minor;
		__u32	stx_dev_major;
		__u32	stx_dev_minor;
		__u64	__spare2[14];
	};

The defined bits in request_mask and stx_mask are:

	STATX_TYPE		Want/got stx_mode &amp; S_IFMT
	STATX_MODE		Want/got stx_mode &amp; ~S_IFMT
	STATX_NLINK		Want/got stx_nlink
	STATX_UID		Want/got stx_uid
	STATX_GID		Want/got stx_gid
	STATX_ATIME		Want/got stx_atime{,_ns}
	STATX_MTIME		Want/got stx_mtime{,_ns}
	STATX_CTIME		Want/got stx_ctime{,_ns}
	STATX_INO		Want/got stx_ino
	STATX_SIZE		Want/got stx_size
	STATX_BLOCKS		Want/got stx_blocks
	STATX_BASIC_STATS	[The stuff in the normal stat struct]
	STATX_BTIME		Want/got stx_btime{,_ns}
	STATX_ALL		[All currently available stuff]

stx_btime is the file creation time, stx_mask is a bitmask indicating the
data provided and __spares*[] are where as-yet undefined fields can be
placed.

Time fields are structures with separate seconds and nanoseconds fields
plus a reserved field in case we want to add even finer resolution.  Note
that times will be negative if before 1970; in such a case, the nanosecond
fields will also be negative if not zero.

The bits defined in the stx_attributes field convey information about a
file, how it is accessed, where it is and what it does.  The following
attributes map to FS_*_FL flags and are the same numerical value:

	STATX_ATTR_COMPRESSED		File is compressed by the fs
	STATX_ATTR_IMMUTABLE		File is marked immutable
	STATX_ATTR_APPEND		File is append-only
	STATX_ATTR_NODUMP		File is not to be dumped
	STATX_ATTR_ENCRYPTED		File requires key to decrypt in fs

Within the kernel, the supported flags are listed by:

	KSTAT_ATTR_FS_IOC_FLAGS

[Are any other IOC flags of sufficient general interest to be exposed
through this interface?]

New flags include:

	STATX_ATTR_AUTOMOUNT		Object is an automount trigger

These are for the use of GUI tools that might want to mark files specially,
depending on what they are.

Fields in struct statx come in a number of classes:

 (0) stx_dev_*, stx_blksize.

     These are local system information and are always available.

 (1) stx_mode, stx_nlinks, stx_uid, stx_gid, stx_[amc]time, stx_ino,
     stx_size, stx_blocks.

     These will be returned whether the caller asks for them or not.  The
     corresponding bits in stx_mask will be set to indicate whether they
     actually have valid values.

     If the caller didn't ask for them, then they may be approximated.  For
     example, NFS won't waste any time updating them from the server,
     unless as a byproduct of updating something requested.

     If the values don't actually exist for the underlying object (such as
     UID or GID on a DOS file), then the bit won't be set in the stx_mask,
     even if the caller asked for the value.  In such a case, the returned
     value will be a fabrication.

     Note that there are instances where the type might not be valid, for
     instance Windows reparse points.

 (2) stx_rdev_*.

     This will be set only if stx_mode indicates we're looking at a
     blockdev or a chardev, otherwise will be 0.

 (3) stx_btime.

     Similar to (1), except this will be set to 0 if it doesn't exist.

=======
TESTING
=======

The following test program can be used to test the statx system call:

	samples/statx/test-statx.c

Just compile and run, passing it paths to the files you want to examine.
The file is built automatically if CONFIG_SAMPLES is enabled.

Here's some example output.  Firstly, an NFS directory that crosses to
another FSID.  Note that the AUTOMOUNT attribute is set because transiting
this directory will cause d_automount to be invoked by the VFS.

	[root@andromeda ~]# /tmp/test-statx -A /warthog/data
	statx(/warthog/data) = 0
	results=7ff
	  Size: 4096            Blocks: 8          IO Block: 1048576  directory
	Device: 00:26           Inode: 1703937     Links: 125
	Access: (3777/drwxrwxrwx)  Uid:     0   Gid:  4041
	Access: 2016-11-24 09:02:12.219699527+0000
	Modify: 2016-11-17 10:44:36.225653653+0000
	Change: 2016-11-17 10:44:36.225653653+0000
	Attributes: 0000000000001000 (-------- -------- -------- -------- -------- -------- ---m---- --------)

Secondly, the result of automounting on that directory.

	[root@andromeda ~]# /tmp/test-statx /warthog/data
	statx(/warthog/data) = 0
	results=7ff
	  Size: 4096            Blocks: 8          IO Block: 1048576  directory
	Device: 00:27           Inode: 2           Links: 125
	Access: (3777/drwxrwxrwx)  Uid:     0   Gid:  4041
	Access: 2016-11-24 09:02:12.219699527+0000
	Modify: 2016-11-17 10:44:36.225653653+0000
	Change: 2016-11-17 10:44:36.225653653+0000

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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Add a system call to make extended file information available, including
file creation and some attribute flags where available through the
underlying filesystem.

The getattr inode operation is altered to take two additional arguments: a
u32 request_mask and an unsigned int flags that indicate the
synchronisation mode.  This change is propagated to the vfs_getattr*()
function.

Functions like vfs_stat() are now inline wrappers around new functions
vfs_statx() and vfs_statx_fd() to reduce stack usage.

========
OVERVIEW
========

The idea was initially proposed as a set of xattrs that could be retrieved
with getxattr(), but the general preference proved to be for a new syscall
with an extended stat structure.

A number of requests were gathered for features to be included.  The
following have been included:

 (1) Make the fields a consistent size on all arches and make them large.

 (2) Spare space, request flags and information flags are provided for
     future expansion.

 (3) Better support for the y2038 problem [Arnd Bergmann] (tv_sec is an
     __s64).

 (4) Creation time: The SMB protocol carries the creation time, which could
     be exported by Samba, which will in turn help CIFS make use of
     FS-Cache as that can be used for coherency data (stx_btime).

     This is also specified in NFSv4 as a recommended attribute and could
     be exported by NFSD [Steve French].

 (5) Lightweight stat: Ask for just those details of interest, and allow a
     netfs (such as NFS) to approximate anything not of interest, possibly
     without going to the server [Trond Myklebust, Ulrich Drepper, Andreas
     Dilger] (AT_STATX_DONT_SYNC).

 (6) Heavyweight stat: Force a netfs to go to the server, even if it thinks
     its cached attributes are up to date [Trond Myklebust]
     (AT_STATX_FORCE_SYNC).

And the following have been left out for future extension:

 (7) Data version number: Could be used by userspace NFS servers [Aneesh
     Kumar].

     Can also be used to modify fill_post_wcc() in NFSD which retrieves
     i_version directly, but has just called vfs_getattr().  It could get
     it from the kstat struct if it used vfs_xgetattr() instead.

     (There's disagreement on the exact semantics of a single field, since
     not all filesystems do this the same way).

 (8) BSD stat compatibility: Including more fields from the BSD stat such
     as creation time (st_btime) and inode generation number (st_gen)
     [Jeremy Allison, Bernd Schubert].

 (9) Inode generation number: Useful for FUSE and userspace NFS servers
     [Bernd Schubert].

     (This was asked for but later deemed unnecessary with the
     open-by-handle capability available and caused disagreement as to
     whether it's a security hole or not).

(10) Extra coherency data may be useful in making backups [Andreas Dilger].

     (No particular data were offered, but things like last backup
     timestamp, the data version number and the DOS archive bit would come
     into this category).

(11) Allow the filesystem to indicate what it can/cannot provide: A
     filesystem can now say it doesn't support a standard stat feature if
     that isn't available, so if, for instance, inode numbers or UIDs don't
     exist or are fabricated locally...

     (This requires a separate system call - I have an fsinfo() call idea
     for this).

(12) Store a 16-byte volume ID in the superblock that can be returned in
     struct xstat [Steve French].

     (Deferred to fsinfo).

(13) Include granularity fields in the time data to indicate the
     granularity of each of the times (NFSv4 time_delta) [Steve French].

     (Deferred to fsinfo).

(14) FS_IOC_GETFLAGS value.  These could be translated to BSD's st_flags.
     Note that the Linux IOC flags are a mess and filesystems such as Ext4
     define flags that aren't in linux/fs.h, so translation in the kernel
     may be a necessity (or, possibly, we provide the filesystem type too).

     (Some attributes are made available in stx_attributes, but the general
     feeling was that the IOC flags were to ext[234]-specific and shouldn't
     be exposed through statx this way).

(15) Mask of features available on file (eg: ACLs, seclabel) [Brad Boyer,
     Michael Kerrisk].

     (Deferred, probably to fsinfo.  Finding out if there's an ACL or
     seclabal might require extra filesystem operations).

(16) Femtosecond-resolution timestamps [Dave Chinner].

     (A __reserved field has been left in the statx_timestamp struct for
     this - if there proves to be a need).

(17) A set multiple attributes syscall to go with this.

===============
NEW SYSTEM CALL
===============

The new system call is:

	int ret = statx(int dfd,
			const char *filename,
			unsigned int flags,
			unsigned int mask,
			struct statx *buffer);

The dfd, filename and flags parameters indicate the file to query, in a
similar way to fstatat().  There is no equivalent of lstat() as that can be
emulated with statx() by passing AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW in flags.  There is
also no equivalent of fstat() as that can be emulated by passing a NULL
filename to statx() with the fd of interest in dfd.

Whether or not statx() synchronises the attributes with the backing store
can be controlled by OR'ing a value into the flags argument (this typically
only affects network filesystems):

 (1) AT_STATX_SYNC_AS_STAT tells statx() to behave as stat() does in this
     respect.

 (2) AT_STATX_FORCE_SYNC will require a network filesystem to synchronise
     its attributes with the server - which might require data writeback to
     occur to get the timestamps correct.

 (3) AT_STATX_DONT_SYNC will suppress synchronisation with the server in a
     network filesystem.  The resulting values should be considered
     approximate.

mask is a bitmask indicating the fields in struct statx that are of
interest to the caller.  The user should set this to STATX_BASIC_STATS to
get the basic set returned by stat().  It should be noted that asking for
more information may entail extra I/O operations.

buffer points to the destination for the data.  This must be 256 bytes in
size.

======================
MAIN ATTRIBUTES RECORD
======================

The following structures are defined in which to return the main attribute
set:

	struct statx_timestamp {
		__s64	tv_sec;
		__s32	tv_nsec;
		__s32	__reserved;
	};

	struct statx {
		__u32	stx_mask;
		__u32	stx_blksize;
		__u64	stx_attributes;
		__u32	stx_nlink;
		__u32	stx_uid;
		__u32	stx_gid;
		__u16	stx_mode;
		__u16	__spare0[1];
		__u64	stx_ino;
		__u64	stx_size;
		__u64	stx_blocks;
		__u64	__spare1[1];
		struct statx_timestamp	stx_atime;
		struct statx_timestamp	stx_btime;
		struct statx_timestamp	stx_ctime;
		struct statx_timestamp	stx_mtime;
		__u32	stx_rdev_major;
		__u32	stx_rdev_minor;
		__u32	stx_dev_major;
		__u32	stx_dev_minor;
		__u64	__spare2[14];
	};

The defined bits in request_mask and stx_mask are:

	STATX_TYPE		Want/got stx_mode &amp; S_IFMT
	STATX_MODE		Want/got stx_mode &amp; ~S_IFMT
	STATX_NLINK		Want/got stx_nlink
	STATX_UID		Want/got stx_uid
	STATX_GID		Want/got stx_gid
	STATX_ATIME		Want/got stx_atime{,_ns}
	STATX_MTIME		Want/got stx_mtime{,_ns}
	STATX_CTIME		Want/got stx_ctime{,_ns}
	STATX_INO		Want/got stx_ino
	STATX_SIZE		Want/got stx_size
	STATX_BLOCKS		Want/got stx_blocks
	STATX_BASIC_STATS	[The stuff in the normal stat struct]
	STATX_BTIME		Want/got stx_btime{,_ns}
	STATX_ALL		[All currently available stuff]

stx_btime is the file creation time, stx_mask is a bitmask indicating the
data provided and __spares*[] are where as-yet undefined fields can be
placed.

Time fields are structures with separate seconds and nanoseconds fields
plus a reserved field in case we want to add even finer resolution.  Note
that times will be negative if before 1970; in such a case, the nanosecond
fields will also be negative if not zero.

The bits defined in the stx_attributes field convey information about a
file, how it is accessed, where it is and what it does.  The following
attributes map to FS_*_FL flags and are the same numerical value:

	STATX_ATTR_COMPRESSED		File is compressed by the fs
	STATX_ATTR_IMMUTABLE		File is marked immutable
	STATX_ATTR_APPEND		File is append-only
	STATX_ATTR_NODUMP		File is not to be dumped
	STATX_ATTR_ENCRYPTED		File requires key to decrypt in fs

Within the kernel, the supported flags are listed by:

	KSTAT_ATTR_FS_IOC_FLAGS

[Are any other IOC flags of sufficient general interest to be exposed
through this interface?]

New flags include:

	STATX_ATTR_AUTOMOUNT		Object is an automount trigger

These are for the use of GUI tools that might want to mark files specially,
depending on what they are.

Fields in struct statx come in a number of classes:

 (0) stx_dev_*, stx_blksize.

     These are local system information and are always available.

 (1) stx_mode, stx_nlinks, stx_uid, stx_gid, stx_[amc]time, stx_ino,
     stx_size, stx_blocks.

     These will be returned whether the caller asks for them or not.  The
     corresponding bits in stx_mask will be set to indicate whether they
     actually have valid values.

     If the caller didn't ask for them, then they may be approximated.  For
     example, NFS won't waste any time updating them from the server,
     unless as a byproduct of updating something requested.

     If the values don't actually exist for the underlying object (such as
     UID or GID on a DOS file), then the bit won't be set in the stx_mask,
     even if the caller asked for the value.  In such a case, the returned
     value will be a fabrication.

     Note that there are instances where the type might not be valid, for
     instance Windows reparse points.

 (2) stx_rdev_*.

     This will be set only if stx_mode indicates we're looking at a
     blockdev or a chardev, otherwise will be 0.

 (3) stx_btime.

     Similar to (1), except this will be set to 0 if it doesn't exist.

=======
TESTING
=======

The following test program can be used to test the statx system call:

	samples/statx/test-statx.c

Just compile and run, passing it paths to the files you want to examine.
The file is built automatically if CONFIG_SAMPLES is enabled.

Here's some example output.  Firstly, an NFS directory that crosses to
another FSID.  Note that the AUTOMOUNT attribute is set because transiting
this directory will cause d_automount to be invoked by the VFS.

	[root@andromeda ~]# /tmp/test-statx -A /warthog/data
	statx(/warthog/data) = 0
	results=7ff
	  Size: 4096            Blocks: 8          IO Block: 1048576  directory
	Device: 00:26           Inode: 1703937     Links: 125
	Access: (3777/drwxrwxrwx)  Uid:     0   Gid:  4041
	Access: 2016-11-24 09:02:12.219699527+0000
	Modify: 2016-11-17 10:44:36.225653653+0000
	Change: 2016-11-17 10:44:36.225653653+0000
	Attributes: 0000000000001000 (-------- -------- -------- -------- -------- -------- ---m---- --------)

Secondly, the result of automounting on that directory.

	[root@andromeda ~]# /tmp/test-statx /warthog/data
	statx(/warthog/data) = 0
	results=7ff
	  Size: 4096            Blocks: 8          IO Block: 1048576  directory
	Device: 00:27           Inode: 2           Links: 125
	Access: (3777/drwxrwxrwx)  Uid:     0   Gid:  4041
	Access: 2016-11-24 09:02:12.219699527+0000
	Modify: 2016-11-17 10:44:36.225653653+0000
	Change: 2016-11-17 10:44:36.225653653+0000

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>sched/headers: Prepare to move signal wakeup &amp; sigpending methods from &lt;linux/sched.h&gt; into &lt;linux/sched/signal.h&gt;</title>
<updated>2017-03-02T07:42:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ingo Molnar</name>
<email>mingo@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-02-02T18:15:33+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=174cd4b1e5fbd0d74c68cf3a74f5bd4923485512'/>
<id>174cd4b1e5fbd0d74c68cf3a74f5bd4923485512</id>
<content type='text'>
Fix up affected files that include this signal functionality via sched.h.

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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Fix up affected files that include this signal functionality via sched.h.

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 to remove &lt;linux/cred.h&gt; inclusion from &lt;linux/sched.h&gt;</title>
<updated>2017-03-02T07:42:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ingo Molnar</name>
<email>mingo@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-02-02T16:54:15+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=5b825c3af1d8a0af4deb4a5eb349d0d0050c62e5'/>
<id>5b825c3af1d8a0af4deb4a5eb349d0d0050c62e5</id>
<content type='text'>
Add #include &lt;linux/cred.h&gt; dependencies to all .c files rely on sched.h
doing that for them.

Note that even if the count where we need to add extra headers seems high,
it's still a net win, because &lt;linux/sched.h&gt; is included in over
2,200 files ...

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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Add #include &lt;linux/cred.h&gt; dependencies to all .c files rely on sched.h
doing that for them.

Note that even if the count where we need to add extra headers seems high,
it's still a net win, because &lt;linux/sched.h&gt; is included in over
2,200 files ...

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>mm, fs: reduce fault, page_mkwrite, and pfn_mkwrite to take only vmf</title>
<updated>2017-02-25T01:46:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dave Jiang</name>
<email>dave.jiang@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-02-24T22:56:41+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=11bac80004499ea59f361ef2a5516c84b6eab675'/>
<id>11bac80004499ea59f361ef2a5516c84b6eab675</id>
<content type='text'>
-&gt;fault(), -&gt;page_mkwrite(), and -&gt;pfn_mkwrite() calls do not need to
take a vma and vmf parameter when the vma already resides in vmf.

Remove the vma parameter to simplify things.

[arnd@arndb.de: fix ARM build]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170125223558.1451224-1-arnd@arndb.de
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/148521301778.19116.10840599906674778980.stgit@djiang5-desk3.ch.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Dave Jiang &lt;dave.jiang@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Ross Zwisler &lt;ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Cc: Darrick J. Wong &lt;darrick.wong@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox &lt;mawilcox@microsoft.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Cc: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</content>
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<pre>
-&gt;fault(), -&gt;page_mkwrite(), and -&gt;pfn_mkwrite() calls do not need to
take a vma and vmf parameter when the vma already resides in vmf.

Remove the vma parameter to simplify things.

[arnd@arndb.de: fix ARM build]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170125223558.1451224-1-arnd@arndb.de
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/148521301778.19116.10840599906674778980.stgit@djiang5-desk3.ch.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Dave Jiang &lt;dave.jiang@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Ross Zwisler &lt;ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Cc: Darrick J. Wong &lt;darrick.wong@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox &lt;mawilcox@microsoft.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Cc: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.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>Merge tag 'gfs2-4.11.addendum' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gfs2/linux-gfs2</title>
<updated>2017-02-23T17:36:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-02-23T17:36:04+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=15192b029509316af4977d2cd389c1eb11183d13'/>
<id>15192b029509316af4977d2cd389c1eb11183d13</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull GFS2 fix from Bob Peterson:
 "This is an addendum for the 4.11 merge window.

  Andy Price wrote this patch to close a nasty race condition that
  allows access to glocks that are being destroyed. Without this patch,
  GFS2 is vulnerable to random corruption and kernel panic"

* tag 'gfs2-4.11.addendum' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gfs2/linux-gfs2:
  gfs2: Add missing rcu locking for glock	lookup
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<pre>
Pull GFS2 fix from Bob Peterson:
 "This is an addendum for the 4.11 merge window.

  Andy Price wrote this patch to close a nasty race condition that
  allows access to glocks that are being destroyed. Without this patch,
  GFS2 is vulnerable to random corruption and kernel panic"

* tag 'gfs2-4.11.addendum' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gfs2/linux-gfs2:
  gfs2: Add missing rcu locking for glock	lookup
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>gfs2: Add missing rcu locking for glock	lookup</title>
<updated>2017-02-23T15:06:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andrew Price</name>
<email>anprice@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-02-22T17:05:03+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=f38e5fb95a1f8feda88531eedc98f69b24748712'/>
<id>f38e5fb95a1f8feda88531eedc98f69b24748712</id>
<content type='text'>
We must hold the rcu read lock across looking up glocks and trying to
bump their refcount to prevent the glocks from being freed in between.

Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # 4.3+
Signed-off-by: Andrew Price &lt;anprice@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher &lt;agruenba@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson &lt;rpeterso@redhat.com&gt;
</content>
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<pre>
We must hold the rcu read lock across looking up glocks and trying to
bump their refcount to prevent the glocks from being freed in between.

Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # 4.3+
Signed-off-by: Andrew Price &lt;anprice@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher &lt;agruenba@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson &lt;rpeterso@redhat.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next</title>
<updated>2017-02-22T18:15:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-02-22T18:15:09+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=3051bf36c25d5153051704291782f8d44e744d36'/>
<id>3051bf36c25d5153051704291782f8d44e744d36</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull networking updates from David Miller:
 "Highlights:

   1) Support TX_RING in AF_PACKET TPACKET_V3 mode, from Sowmini
      Varadhan.

   2) Simplify classifier state on sk_buff in order to shrink it a bit.
      From Willem de Bruijn.

   3) Introduce SIPHASH and it's usage for secure sequence numbers and
      syncookies. From Jason A. Donenfeld.

   4) Reduce CPU usage for ICMP replies we are going to limit or
      suppress, from Jesper Dangaard Brouer.

   5) Introduce Shared Memory Communications socket layer, from Ursula
      Braun.

   6) Add RACK loss detection and allow it to actually trigger fast
      recovery instead of just assisting after other algorithms have
      triggered it. From Yuchung Cheng.

   7) Add xmit_more and BQL support to mvneta driver, from Simon Guinot.

   8) skb_cow_data avoidance in esp4 and esp6, from Steffen Klassert.

   9) Export MPLS packet stats via netlink, from Robert Shearman.

  10) Significantly improve inet port bind conflict handling, especially
      when an application is restarted and changes it's setting of
      reuseport. From Josef Bacik.

  11) Implement TX batching in vhost_net, from Jason Wang.

  12) Extend the dummy device so that VF (virtual function) features,
      such as configuration, can be more easily tested. From Phil
      Sutter.

  13) Avoid two atomic ops per page on x86 in bnx2x driver, from Eric
      Dumazet.

  14) Add new bpf MAP, implementing a longest prefix match trie. From
      Daniel Mack.

  15) Packet sample offloading support in mlxsw driver, from Yotam Gigi.

  16) Add new aquantia driver, from David VomLehn.

  17) Add bpf tracepoints, from Daniel Borkmann.

  18) Add support for port mirroring to b53 and bcm_sf2 drivers, from
      Florian Fainelli.

  19) Remove custom busy polling in many drivers, it is done in the core
      networking since 4.5 times. From Eric Dumazet.

  20) Support XDP adjust_head in virtio_net, from John Fastabend.

  21) Fix several major holes in neighbour entry confirmation, from
      Julian Anastasov.

  22) Add XDP support to bnxt_en driver, from Michael Chan.

  23) VXLAN offloads for enic driver, from Govindarajulu Varadarajan.

  24) Add IPVTAP driver (IP-VLAN based tap driver) from Sainath Grandhi.

  25) Support GRO in IPSEC protocols, from Steffen Klassert"

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next: (1764 commits)
  Revert "ath10k: Search SMBIOS for OEM board file extension"
  net: socket: fix recvmmsg not returning error from sock_error
  bnxt_en: use eth_hw_addr_random()
  bpf: fix unlocking of jited image when module ronx not set
  arch: add ARCH_HAS_SET_MEMORY config
  net: napi_watchdog() can use napi_schedule_irqoff()
  tcp: Revert "tcp: tcp_probe: use spin_lock_bh()"
  net/hsr: use eth_hw_addr_random()
  net: mvpp2: enable building on 64-bit platforms
  net: mvpp2: switch to build_skb() in the RX path
  net: mvpp2: simplify MVPP2_PRS_RI_* definitions
  net: mvpp2: fix indentation of MVPP2_EXT_GLOBAL_CTRL_DEFAULT
  net: mvpp2: remove unused register definitions
  net: mvpp2: simplify mvpp2_bm_bufs_add()
  net: mvpp2: drop useless fields in mvpp2_bm_pool and related code
  net: mvpp2: remove unused 'tx_skb' field of 'struct mvpp2_tx_queue'
  net: mvpp2: release reference to txq_cpu[] entry after unmapping
  net: mvpp2: handle too large value in mvpp2_rx_time_coal_set()
  net: mvpp2: handle too large value handling in mvpp2_rx_pkts_coal_set()
  net: mvpp2: remove useless arguments in mvpp2_rx_{pkts, time}_coal_set
  ...
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<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Pull networking updates from David Miller:
 "Highlights:

   1) Support TX_RING in AF_PACKET TPACKET_V3 mode, from Sowmini
      Varadhan.

   2) Simplify classifier state on sk_buff in order to shrink it a bit.
      From Willem de Bruijn.

   3) Introduce SIPHASH and it's usage for secure sequence numbers and
      syncookies. From Jason A. Donenfeld.

   4) Reduce CPU usage for ICMP replies we are going to limit or
      suppress, from Jesper Dangaard Brouer.

   5) Introduce Shared Memory Communications socket layer, from Ursula
      Braun.

   6) Add RACK loss detection and allow it to actually trigger fast
      recovery instead of just assisting after other algorithms have
      triggered it. From Yuchung Cheng.

   7) Add xmit_more and BQL support to mvneta driver, from Simon Guinot.

   8) skb_cow_data avoidance in esp4 and esp6, from Steffen Klassert.

   9) Export MPLS packet stats via netlink, from Robert Shearman.

  10) Significantly improve inet port bind conflict handling, especially
      when an application is restarted and changes it's setting of
      reuseport. From Josef Bacik.

  11) Implement TX batching in vhost_net, from Jason Wang.

  12) Extend the dummy device so that VF (virtual function) features,
      such as configuration, can be more easily tested. From Phil
      Sutter.

  13) Avoid two atomic ops per page on x86 in bnx2x driver, from Eric
      Dumazet.

  14) Add new bpf MAP, implementing a longest prefix match trie. From
      Daniel Mack.

  15) Packet sample offloading support in mlxsw driver, from Yotam Gigi.

  16) Add new aquantia driver, from David VomLehn.

  17) Add bpf tracepoints, from Daniel Borkmann.

  18) Add support for port mirroring to b53 and bcm_sf2 drivers, from
      Florian Fainelli.

  19) Remove custom busy polling in many drivers, it is done in the core
      networking since 4.5 times. From Eric Dumazet.

  20) Support XDP adjust_head in virtio_net, from John Fastabend.

  21) Fix several major holes in neighbour entry confirmation, from
      Julian Anastasov.

  22) Add XDP support to bnxt_en driver, from Michael Chan.

  23) VXLAN offloads for enic driver, from Govindarajulu Varadarajan.

  24) Add IPVTAP driver (IP-VLAN based tap driver) from Sainath Grandhi.

  25) Support GRO in IPSEC protocols, from Steffen Klassert"

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next: (1764 commits)
  Revert "ath10k: Search SMBIOS for OEM board file extension"
  net: socket: fix recvmmsg not returning error from sock_error
  bnxt_en: use eth_hw_addr_random()
  bpf: fix unlocking of jited image when module ronx not set
  arch: add ARCH_HAS_SET_MEMORY config
  net: napi_watchdog() can use napi_schedule_irqoff()
  tcp: Revert "tcp: tcp_probe: use spin_lock_bh()"
  net/hsr: use eth_hw_addr_random()
  net: mvpp2: enable building on 64-bit platforms
  net: mvpp2: switch to build_skb() in the RX path
  net: mvpp2: simplify MVPP2_PRS_RI_* definitions
  net: mvpp2: fix indentation of MVPP2_EXT_GLOBAL_CTRL_DEFAULT
  net: mvpp2: remove unused register definitions
  net: mvpp2: simplify mvpp2_bm_bufs_add()
  net: mvpp2: drop useless fields in mvpp2_bm_pool and related code
  net: mvpp2: remove unused 'tx_skb' field of 'struct mvpp2_tx_queue'
  net: mvpp2: release reference to txq_cpu[] entry after unmapping
  net: mvpp2: handle too large value in mvpp2_rx_time_coal_set()
  net: mvpp2: handle too large value handling in mvpp2_rx_pkts_coal_set()
  net: mvpp2: remove useless arguments in mvpp2_rx_{pkts, time}_coal_set
  ...
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'for-4.11/linus-merge-signed' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block</title>
<updated>2017-02-21T18:57:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-02-21T18:57:33+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=772c8f6f3bbd3ceb94a89373473083e3e1113554'/>
<id>772c8f6f3bbd3ceb94a89373473083e3e1113554</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull block layer updates from Jens Axboe:

 - blk-mq scheduling framework from me and Omar, with a port of the
   deadline scheduler for this framework. A port of BFQ from Paolo is in
   the works, and should be ready for 4.12.

 - Various fixups and improvements to the above scheduling framework
   from Omar, Paolo, Bart, me, others.

 - Cleanup of the exported sysfs blk-mq data into debugfs, from Omar.
   This allows us to export more information that helps debug hangs or
   performance issues, without cluttering or abusing the sysfs API.

 - Fixes for the sbitmap code, the scalable bitmap code that was
   migrated from blk-mq, from Omar.

 - Removal of the BLOCK_PC support in struct request, and refactoring of
   carrying SCSI payloads in the block layer. This cleans up the code
   nicely, and enables us to kill the SCSI specific parts of struct
   request, shrinking it down nicely. From Christoph mainly, with help
   from Hannes.

 - Support for ranged discard requests and discard merging, also from
   Christoph.

 - Support for OPAL in the block layer, and for NVMe as well. Mainly
   from Scott Bauer, with fixes/updates from various others folks.

 - Error code fixup for gdrom from Christophe.

 - cciss pci irq allocation cleanup from Christoph.

 - Making the cdrom device operations read only, from Kees Cook.

 - Fixes for duplicate bdi registrations and bdi/queue life time
   problems from Jan and Dan.

 - Set of fixes and updates for lightnvm, from Matias and Javier.

 - A few fixes for nbd from Josef, using idr to name devices and a
   workqueue deadlock fix on receive. Also marks Josef as the current
   maintainer of nbd.

 - Fix from Josef, overwriting queue settings when the number of
   hardware queues is updated for a blk-mq device.

 - NVMe fix from Keith, ensuring that we don't repeatedly mark and IO
   aborted, if we didn't end up aborting it.

 - SG gap merging fix from Ming Lei for block.

 - Loop fix also from Ming, fixing a race and crash between setting loop
   status and IO.

 - Two block race fixes from Tahsin, fixing request list iteration and
   fixing a race between device registration and udev device add
   notifiations.

 - Double free fix from cgroup writeback, from Tejun.

 - Another double free fix in blkcg, from Hou Tao.

 - Partition overflow fix for EFI from Alden Tondettar.

* tag 'for-4.11/linus-merge-signed' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (156 commits)
  nvme: Check for Security send/recv support before issuing commands.
  block/sed-opal: allocate struct opal_dev dynamically
  block/sed-opal: tone down not supported warnings
  block: don't defer flushes on blk-mq + scheduling
  blk-mq-sched: ask scheduler for work, if we failed dispatching leftovers
  blk-mq: don't special case flush inserts for blk-mq-sched
  blk-mq-sched: don't add flushes to the head of requeue queue
  blk-mq: have blk_mq_dispatch_rq_list() return if we queued IO or not
  block: do not allow updates through sysfs until registration completes
  lightnvm: set default lun range when no luns are specified
  lightnvm: fix off-by-one error on target initialization
  Maintainers: Modify SED list from nvme to block
  Move stack parameters for sed_ioctl to prevent oversized stack with CONFIG_KASAN
  uapi: sed-opal fix IOW for activate lsp to use correct struct
  cdrom: Make device operations read-only
  elevator: fix loading wrong elevator type for blk-mq devices
  cciss: switch to pci_irq_alloc_vectors
  block/loop: fix race between I/O and set_status
  blk-mq-sched: don't hold queue_lock when calling exit_icq
  block: set make_request_fn manually in blk_mq_update_nr_hw_queues
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Pull block layer updates from Jens Axboe:

 - blk-mq scheduling framework from me and Omar, with a port of the
   deadline scheduler for this framework. A port of BFQ from Paolo is in
   the works, and should be ready for 4.12.

 - Various fixups and improvements to the above scheduling framework
   from Omar, Paolo, Bart, me, others.

 - Cleanup of the exported sysfs blk-mq data into debugfs, from Omar.
   This allows us to export more information that helps debug hangs or
   performance issues, without cluttering or abusing the sysfs API.

 - Fixes for the sbitmap code, the scalable bitmap code that was
   migrated from blk-mq, from Omar.

 - Removal of the BLOCK_PC support in struct request, and refactoring of
   carrying SCSI payloads in the block layer. This cleans up the code
   nicely, and enables us to kill the SCSI specific parts of struct
   request, shrinking it down nicely. From Christoph mainly, with help
   from Hannes.

 - Support for ranged discard requests and discard merging, also from
   Christoph.

 - Support for OPAL in the block layer, and for NVMe as well. Mainly
   from Scott Bauer, with fixes/updates from various others folks.

 - Error code fixup for gdrom from Christophe.

 - cciss pci irq allocation cleanup from Christoph.

 - Making the cdrom device operations read only, from Kees Cook.

 - Fixes for duplicate bdi registrations and bdi/queue life time
   problems from Jan and Dan.

 - Set of fixes and updates for lightnvm, from Matias and Javier.

 - A few fixes for nbd from Josef, using idr to name devices and a
   workqueue deadlock fix on receive. Also marks Josef as the current
   maintainer of nbd.

 - Fix from Josef, overwriting queue settings when the number of
   hardware queues is updated for a blk-mq device.

 - NVMe fix from Keith, ensuring that we don't repeatedly mark and IO
   aborted, if we didn't end up aborting it.

 - SG gap merging fix from Ming Lei for block.

 - Loop fix also from Ming, fixing a race and crash between setting loop
   status and IO.

 - Two block race fixes from Tahsin, fixing request list iteration and
   fixing a race between device registration and udev device add
   notifiations.

 - Double free fix from cgroup writeback, from Tejun.

 - Another double free fix in blkcg, from Hou Tao.

 - Partition overflow fix for EFI from Alden Tondettar.

* tag 'for-4.11/linus-merge-signed' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (156 commits)
  nvme: Check for Security send/recv support before issuing commands.
  block/sed-opal: allocate struct opal_dev dynamically
  block/sed-opal: tone down not supported warnings
  block: don't defer flushes on blk-mq + scheduling
  blk-mq-sched: ask scheduler for work, if we failed dispatching leftovers
  blk-mq: don't special case flush inserts for blk-mq-sched
  blk-mq-sched: don't add flushes to the head of requeue queue
  blk-mq: have blk_mq_dispatch_rq_list() return if we queued IO or not
  block: do not allow updates through sysfs until registration completes
  lightnvm: set default lun range when no luns are specified
  lightnvm: fix off-by-one error on target initialization
  Maintainers: Modify SED list from nvme to block
  Move stack parameters for sed_ioctl to prevent oversized stack with CONFIG_KASAN
  uapi: sed-opal fix IOW for activate lsp to use correct struct
  cdrom: Make device operations read-only
  elevator: fix loading wrong elevator type for blk-mq devices
  cciss: switch to pci_irq_alloc_vectors
  block/loop: fix race between I/O and set_status
  blk-mq-sched: don't hold queue_lock when calling exit_icq
  block: set make_request_fn manually in blk_mq_update_nr_hw_queues
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