80201fe175
Pull block layer updates from Jens Axboe:
"Not a huge amount of changes in this round, the biggest one is that we
finally have Mings multi-page bvec support merged. Apart from that,
this pull request contains:
- Small series that avoids quiescing the queue for sysfs changes that
match what we currently have (Aleksei)
- Series of bcache fixes (via Coly)
- Series of lightnvm fixes (via Mathias)
- NVMe pull request from Christoph. Nothing major, just SPDX/license
cleanups, RR mp policy (Hannes), and little fixes (Bart,
Chaitanya).
- BFQ series (Paolo)
- Save blk-mq cpu -> hw queue mapping, removing a pointer indirection
for the fast path (Jianchao)
- fops->iopoll() added for async IO polling, this is a feature that
the upcoming io_uring interface will use (Christoph, me)
- Partition scan loop fixes (Dongli)
- mtip32xx conversion from managed resource API (Christoph)
- cdrom registration race fix (Guenter)
- MD pull from Song, two minor fixes.
- Various documentation fixes (Marcos)
- Multi-page bvec feature. This brings a lot of nice improvements
with it, like more efficient splitting, larger IOs can be supported
without growing the bvec table size, and so on. (Ming)
- Various little fixes to core and drivers"
* tag 'for-5.1/block-20190302' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (117 commits)
block: fix updating bio's front segment size
block: Replace function name in string with __func__
nbd: propagate genlmsg_reply return code
floppy: remove set but not used variable 'q'
null_blk: fix checking for REQ_FUA
block: fix NULL pointer dereference in register_disk
fs: fix guard_bio_eod to check for real EOD errors
blk-mq: use HCTX_TYPE_DEFAULT but not 0 to index blk_mq_tag_set->map
block: optimize bvec iteration in bvec_iter_advance
block: introduce mp_bvec_for_each_page() for iterating over page
block: optimize blk_bio_segment_split for single-page bvec
block: optimize __blk_segment_map_sg() for single-page bvec
block: introduce bvec_nth_page()
iomap: wire up the iopoll method
block: add bio_set_polled() helper
block: wire up block device iopoll method
fs: add an iopoll method to struct file_operations
loop: set GENHD_FL_NO_PART_SCAN after blkdev_reread_part()
loop: do not print warn message if partition scan is successful
block: bounce: make sure that bvec table is updated
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