73ba2fb33c
Pull block updates from Jens Axboe:
"First pull request for this merge window, there will also be a
followup request with some stragglers.
This pull request contains:
- Fix for a thundering heard issue in the wbt block code (Anchal
Agarwal)
- A few NVMe pull requests:
* Improved tracepoints (Keith)
* Larger inline data support for RDMA (Steve Wise)
* RDMA setup/teardown fixes (Sagi)
* Effects log suppor for NVMe target (Chaitanya Kulkarni)
* Buffered IO suppor for NVMe target (Chaitanya Kulkarni)
* TP4004 (ANA) support (Christoph)
* Various NVMe fixes
- Block io-latency controller support. Much needed support for
properly containing block devices. (Josef)
- Series improving how we handle sense information on the stack
(Kees)
- Lightnvm fixes and updates/improvements (Mathias/Javier et al)
- Zoned device support for null_blk (Matias)
- AIX partition fixes (Mauricio Faria de Oliveira)
- DIF checksum code made generic (Max Gurtovoy)
- Add support for discard in iostats (Michael Callahan / Tejun)
- Set of updates for BFQ (Paolo)
- Removal of async write support for bsg (Christoph)
- Bio page dirtying and clone fixups (Christoph)
- Set of bcache fix/changes (via Coly)
- Series improving blk-mq queue setup/teardown speed (Ming)
- Series improving merging performance on blk-mq (Ming)
- Lots of other fixes and cleanups from a slew of folks"
* tag 'for-4.19/block-20180812' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (190 commits)
blkcg: Make blkg_root_lookup() work for queues in bypass mode
bcache: fix error setting writeback_rate through sysfs interface
null_blk: add lock drop/acquire annotation
Blk-throttle: reduce tail io latency when iops limit is enforced
block: paride: pd: mark expected switch fall-throughs
block: Ensure that a request queue is dissociated from the cgroup controller
block: Introduce blk_exit_queue()
blkcg: Introduce blkg_root_lookup()
block: Remove two superfluous #include directives
blk-mq: count the hctx as active before allocating tag
block: bvec_nr_vecs() returns value for wrong slab
bcache: trivial - remove tailing backslash in macro BTREE_FLAG
bcache: make the pr_err statement used for ENOENT only in sysfs_attatch section
bcache: set max writeback rate when I/O request is idle
bcache: add code comments for bset.c
bcache: fix mistaken comments in request.c
bcache: fix mistaken code comments in bcache.h
bcache: add a comment in super.c
bcache: avoid unncessary cache prefetch bch_btree_node_get()
bcache: display rate debug parameters to 0 when writeback is not running
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