Pull core block/IO updates from Jens Axboe:
"This is the main pull request for the block layer for 4.13. Not a huge
round in terms of features, but there's a lot of churn related to some
core cleanups.
Note this depends on the UUID tree pull request, that Christoph
already sent out.
This pull request contains:
- A series from Christoph, unifying the error/stats codes in the
block layer. We now use blk_status_t everywhere, instead of using
different schemes for different places.
- Also from Christoph, some cleanups around request allocation and IO
scheduler interactions in blk-mq.
- And yet another series from Christoph, cleaning up how we handle
and do bounce buffering in the block layer.
- A blk-mq debugfs series from Bart, further improving on the support
we have for exporting internal information to aid debugging IO
hangs or stalls.
- Also from Bart, a series that cleans up the request initialization
differences across types of devices.
- A series from Goldwyn Rodrigues, allowing the block layer to return
failure if we will block and the user asked for non-blocking.
- Patch from Hannes for supporting setting loop devices block size to
that of the underlying device.
- Two series of patches from Javier, fixing various issues with
lightnvm, particular around pblk.
- A series from me, adding support for write hints. This comes with
NVMe support as well, so applications can help guide data placement
on flash to improve performance, latencies, and write
amplification.
- A series from Ming, improving and hardening blk-mq support for
stopping/starting and quiescing hardware queues.
- Two pull requests for NVMe updates. Nothing major on the feature
side, but lots of cleanups and bug fixes. From the usual crew.
- A series from Neil Brown, greatly improving the bio rescue set
support. Most notably, this kills the bio rescue work queues, if we
don't really need them.
- Lots of other little bug fixes that are all over the place"
* 'for-4.13/block' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (217 commits)
lightnvm: pblk: set line bitmap check under debug
lightnvm: pblk: verify that cache read is still valid
lightnvm: pblk: add initialization check
lightnvm: pblk: remove target using async. I/Os
lightnvm: pblk: use vmalloc for GC data buffer
lightnvm: pblk: use right metadata buffer for recovery
lightnvm: pblk: schedule if data is not ready
lightnvm: pblk: remove unused return variable
lightnvm: pblk: fix double-free on pblk init
lightnvm: pblk: fix bad le64 assignations
nvme: Makefile: remove dead build rule
blk-mq: map all HWQ also in hyperthreaded system
nvmet-rdma: register ib_client to not deadlock in device removal
nvme_fc: fix error recovery on link down.
nvmet_fc: fix crashes on bad opcodes
nvme_fc: Fix crash when nvme controller connection fails.
nvme_fc: replace ioabort msleep loop with completion
nvme_fc: fix double calls to nvme_cleanup_cmd()
nvme-fabrics: verify that a controller returns the correct NQN
nvme: simplify nvme_dev_attrs_are_visible
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