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<title>kernel/drivers/s390/block/dcssblk.c, branch linux-4.3.y</title>
<subtitle>Hosts the 0x221E linux distro kernel.</subtitle>
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<title>Merge tag 'libnvdimm-for-4.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm</title>
<updated>2015-09-08T21:35:59Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-09-08T21:35:59Z</published>
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Pull libnvdimm updates from Dan Williams:
 "This update has successfully completed a 0day-kbuild run and has
  appeared in a linux-next release.  The changes outside of the typical
  drivers/nvdimm/ and drivers/acpi/nfit.[ch] paths are related to the
  removal of IORESOURCE_CACHEABLE, the introduction of memremap(), and
  the introduction of ZONE_DEVICE + devm_memremap_pages().

  Summary:

   - Introduce ZONE_DEVICE and devm_memremap_pages() as a generic
     mechanism for adding device-driver-discovered memory regions to the
     kernel's direct map.

     This facility is used by the pmem driver to enable pfn_to_page()
     operations on the page frames returned by DAX ('direct_access' in
     'struct block_device_operations').

     For now, the 'memmap' allocation for these "device" pages comes
     from "System RAM".  Support for allocating the memmap from device
     memory will arrive in a later kernel.

   - Introduce memremap() to replace usages of ioremap_cache() and
     ioremap_wt().  memremap() drops the __iomem annotation for these
     mappings to memory that do not have i/o side effects.  The
     replacement of ioremap_cache() with memremap() is limited to the
     pmem driver to ease merging the api change in v4.3.

     Completion of the conversion is targeted for v4.4.

   - Similar to the usage of memcpy_to_pmem() + wmb_pmem() in the pmem
     driver, update the VFS DAX implementation and PMEM api to provide
     persistence guarantees for kernel operations on a DAX mapping.

   - Convert the ACPI NFIT 'BLK' driver to map the block apertures as
     cacheable to improve performance.

   - Miscellaneous updates and fixes to libnvdimm including support for
     issuing "address range scrub" commands, clarifying the optimal
     'sector size' of pmem devices, a clarification of the usage of the
     ACPI '_STA' (status) property for DIMM devices, and other minor
     fixes"

* tag 'libnvdimm-for-4.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm: (34 commits)
  libnvdimm, pmem: direct map legacy pmem by default
  libnvdimm, pmem: 'struct page' for pmem
  libnvdimm, pfn: 'struct page' provider infrastructure
  x86, pmem: clarify that ARCH_HAS_PMEM_API implies PMEM mapped WB
  add devm_memremap_pages
  mm: ZONE_DEVICE for "device memory"
  mm: move __phys_to_pfn and __pfn_to_phys to asm/generic/memory_model.h
  dax: drop size parameter to -&gt;direct_access()
  nd_blk: change aperture mapping from WC to WB
  nvdimm: change to use generic kvfree()
  pmem, dax: have direct_access use __pmem annotation
  dax: update I/O path to do proper PMEM flushing
  pmem: add copy_from_iter_pmem() and clear_pmem()
  pmem, x86: clean up conditional pmem includes
  pmem: remove layer when calling arch_has_wmb_pmem()
  pmem, x86: move x86 PMEM API to new pmem.h header
  libnvdimm, e820: make CONFIG_X86_PMEM_LEGACY a tristate option
  pmem: switch to devm_ allocations
  devres: add devm_memremap
  libnvdimm, btt: write and validate parent_uuid
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-4.3/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block</title>
<updated>2015-09-02T20:10:25Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-09-02T20:10:25Z</published>
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Pull core block updates from Jens Axboe:
 "This first core part of the block IO changes contains:

   - Cleanup of the bio IO error signaling from Christoph.  We used to
     rely on the uptodate bit and passing around of an error, now we
     store the error in the bio itself.

   - Improvement of the above from myself, by shrinking the bio size
     down again to fit in two cachelines on x86-64.

   - Revert of the max_hw_sectors cap removal from a revision again,
     from Jeff Moyer.  This caused performance regressions in various
     tests.  Reinstate the limit, bump it to a more reasonable size
     instead.

   - Make /sys/block/&lt;dev&gt;/queue/discard_max_bytes writeable, by me.
     Most devices have huge trim limits, which can cause nasty latencies
     when deleting files.  Enable the admin to configure the size down.
     We will look into having a more sane default instead of UINT_MAX
     sectors.

   - Improvement of the SGP gaps logic from Keith Busch.

   - Enable the block core to handle arbitrarily sized bios, which
     enables a nice simplification of bio_add_page() (which is an IO hot
     path).  From Kent.

   - Improvements to the partition io stats accounting, making it
     faster.  From Ming Lei.

   - Also from Ming Lei, a basic fixup for overflow of the sysfs pending
     file in blk-mq, as well as a fix for a blk-mq timeout race
     condition.

   - Ming Lin has been carrying Kents above mentioned patches forward
     for a while, and testing them.  Ming also did a few fixes around
     that.

   - Sasha Levin found and fixed a use-after-free problem introduced by
     the bio-&gt;bi_error changes from Christoph.

   - Small blk cgroup cleanup from Viresh Kumar"

* 'for-4.3/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (26 commits)
  blk: Fix bio_io_vec index when checking bvec gaps
  block: Replace SG_GAPS with new queue limits mask
  block: bump BLK_DEF_MAX_SECTORS to 2560
  Revert "block: remove artifical max_hw_sectors cap"
  blk-mq: fix race between timeout and freeing request
  blk-mq: fix buffer overflow when reading sysfs file of 'pending'
  Documentation: update notes in biovecs about arbitrarily sized bios
  block: remove bio_get_nr_vecs()
  fs: use helper bio_add_page() instead of open coding on bi_io_vec
  block: kill merge_bvec_fn() completely
  md/raid5: get rid of bio_fits_rdev()
  md/raid5: split bio for chunk_aligned_read
  block: remove split code in blkdev_issue_{discard,write_same}
  btrfs: remove bio splitting and merge_bvec_fn() calls
  bcache: remove driver private bio splitting code
  block: simplify bio_add_page()
  block: make generic_make_request handle arbitrarily sized bios
  blk-cgroup: Drop unlikely before IS_ERR(_OR_NULL)
  block: don't access bio-&gt;bi_error after bio_put()
  block: shrink struct bio down to 2 cache lines again
  ...
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<title>dax: drop size parameter to -&gt;direct_access()</title>
<updated>2015-08-27T23:40:58Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Dan Williams</name>
<email>dan.j.williams@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-08-07T21:41:00Z</published>
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None of the implementations currently use it.  The common
bdev_direct_access() entry point handles all the size checks before
calling -&gt;direct_access().

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
</content>
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<entry>
<title>pmem, dax: have direct_access use __pmem annotation</title>
<updated>2015-08-20T18:07:24Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Ross Zwisler</name>
<email>ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-08-18T19:55:41Z</published>
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Update the annotation for the kaddr pointer returned by direct_access()
so that it is a __pmem pointer.  This is consistent with the PMEM driver
and with how this direct_access() pointer is used in the DAX code.

Signed-off-by: Ross Zwisler &lt;ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>s390/dcssblk: correct out of bounds array indexes</title>
<updated>2015-08-19T08:48:49Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Martin Schwidefsky</name>
<email>schwidefsky@de.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-08-19T08:42:23Z</published>
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Fix a couple of warnings like this:

[linux-4.2-rc7/drivers/s390/block/dcssblk.c:553]:
   (style) Array index 'j' is used before limits check.

Reported-by: David Binderman &lt;dcb314@hotmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>block: make generic_make_request handle arbitrarily sized bios</title>
<updated>2015-08-13T18:31:33Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Kent Overstreet</name>
<email>kent.overstreet@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-04-24T05:37:18Z</published>
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The way the block layer is currently written, it goes to great lengths
to avoid having to split bios; upper layer code (such as bio_add_page())
checks what the underlying device can handle and tries to always create
bios that don't need to be split.

But this approach becomes unwieldy and eventually breaks down with
stacked devices and devices with dynamic limits, and it adds a lot of
complexity. If the block layer could split bios as needed, we could
eliminate a lot of complexity elsewhere - particularly in stacked
drivers. Code that creates bios can then create whatever size bios are
convenient, and more importantly stacked drivers don't have to deal with
both their own bio size limitations and the limitations of the
(potentially multiple) devices underneath them.  In the future this will
let us delete merge_bvec_fn and a bunch of other code.

We do this by adding calls to blk_queue_split() to the various
make_request functions that need it - a few can already handle arbitrary
size bios. Note that we add the call _after_ any call to
blk_queue_bounce(); this means that blk_queue_split() and
blk_recalc_rq_segments() don't need to be concerned with bouncing
affecting segment merging.

Some make_request_fn() callbacks were simple enough to audit and verify
they don't need blk_queue_split() calls. The skipped ones are:

 * nfhd_make_request (arch/m68k/emu/nfblock.c)
 * axon_ram_make_request (arch/powerpc/sysdev/axonram.c)
 * simdisk_make_request (arch/xtensa/platforms/iss/simdisk.c)
 * brd_make_request (ramdisk - drivers/block/brd.c)
 * mtip_submit_request (drivers/block/mtip32xx/mtip32xx.c)
 * loop_make_request
 * null_queue_bio
 * bcache's make_request fns

Some others are almost certainly safe to remove now, but will be left
for future patches.

Cc: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Ming Lei &lt;ming.lei@canonical.com&gt;
Cc: Neil Brown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Alasdair Kergon &lt;agk@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: dm-devel@redhat.com
Cc: Lars Ellenberg &lt;drbd-dev@lists.linbit.com&gt;
Cc: drbd-user@lists.linbit.com
Cc: Jiri Kosina &lt;jkosina@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Geoff Levand &lt;geoff@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Jim Paris &lt;jim@jtan.com&gt;
Cc: Philip Kelleher &lt;pjk1939@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Minchan Kim &lt;minchan@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Nitin Gupta &lt;ngupta@vflare.org&gt;
Cc: Oleg Drokin &lt;oleg.drokin@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Andreas Dilger &lt;andreas.dilger@intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: NeilBrown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt; (for the 'md/md.c' bits)
Acked-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen &lt;martin.petersen@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet &lt;kent.overstreet@gmail.com&gt;
[dpark: skip more mq-based drivers, resolve merge conflicts, etc.]
Signed-off-by: Dongsu Park &lt;dpark@posteo.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ming Lin &lt;ming.l@ssi.samsung.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
</content>
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<entry>
<title>block: add a bi_error field to struct bio</title>
<updated>2015-07-29T14:55:15Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Hellwig</name>
<email>hch@lst.de</email>
</author>
<published>2015-07-20T13:29:37Z</published>
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Currently we have two different ways to signal an I/O error on a BIO:

 (1) by clearing the BIO_UPTODATE flag
 (2) by returning a Linux errno value to the bi_end_io callback

The first one has the drawback of only communicating a single possible
error (-EIO), and the second one has the drawback of not beeing persistent
when bios are queued up, and are not passed along from child to parent
bio in the ever more popular chaining scenario.  Having both mechanisms
available has the additional drawback of utterly confusing driver authors
and introducing bugs where various I/O submitters only deal with one of
them, and the others have to add boilerplate code to deal with both kinds
of error returns.

So add a new bi_error field to store an errno value directly in struct
bio and remove the existing mechanisms to clean all this up.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke &lt;hare@suse.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: NeilBrown &lt;neilb@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
</content>
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<entry>
<title>s390/dcss: array index 'i' is used before limits check.</title>
<updated>2015-02-26T08:24:48Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Ameen Ali</name>
<email>ameenali023@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-02-24T16:41:50Z</published>
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Avoid out-of-bounds-read by checking count before indexing.

Signed-off-by : Ameen Ali &lt;Ameenali023@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
</content>
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-3.20/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block</title>
<updated>2015-02-12T22:13:23Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-02-12T22:13:23Z</published>
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Pull core block IO changes from Jens Axboe:
 "This contains:

   - A series from Christoph that cleans up and refactors various parts
     of the REQ_BLOCK_PC handling.  Contributions in that series from
     Dongsu Park and Kent Overstreet as well.

   - CFQ:
        - A bug fix for cfq for realtime IO scheduling from Jeff Moyer.
        - A stable patch fixing a potential crash in CFQ in OOM
          situations.  From Konstantin Khlebnikov.

   - blk-mq:
        - Add support for tag allocation policies, from Shaohua. This is
          a prep patch enabling libata (and other SCSI parts) to use the
          blk-mq tagging, instead of rolling their own.
        - Various little tweaks from Keith and Mike, in preparation for
          DM blk-mq support.
        - Minor little fixes or tweaks from me.
        - A double free error fix from Tony Battersby.

   - The partition 4k issue fixes from Matthew and Boaz.

   - Add support for zero+unprovision for blkdev_issue_zeroout() from
     Martin"

* 'for-3.20/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (27 commits)
  block: remove unused function blk_bio_map_sg
  block: handle the null_mapped flag correctly in blk_rq_map_user_iov
  blk-mq: fix double-free in error path
  block: prevent request-to-request merging with gaps if not allowed
  blk-mq: make blk_mq_run_queues() static
  dm: fix multipath regression due to initializing wrong request
  cfq-iosched: handle failure of cfq group allocation
  block: Quiesce zeroout wrapper
  block: rewrite and split __bio_copy_iov()
  block: merge __bio_map_user_iov into bio_map_user_iov
  block: merge __bio_map_kern into bio_map_kern
  block: pass iov_iter to the BLOCK_PC mapping functions
  block: add a helper to free bio bounce buffer pages
  block: use blk_rq_map_user_iov to implement blk_rq_map_user
  block: simplify bio_map_kern
  block: mark blk-mq devices as stackable
  block: keep established cmd_flags when cloning into a blk-mq request
  block: add blk-mq support to blk_insert_cloned_request()
  block: require blk_rq_prep_clone() be given an initialized clone request
  blk-mq: add tag allocation policy
  ...
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>dcssblk: issue warning when trying to save SN/EN type DCSS</title>
<updated>2015-01-22T11:16:04Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Gerald Schaefer</name>
<email>gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-01-16T17:29:04Z</published>
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The content of a DCSS of type SN or EN cannot be saved. Issue a warning when
trying to save such a DCSS. Depending on the setup, this may be a user error
or intended behaviour e.g. with a multi-DCSS device.

Signed-off-by: Gerald Schaefer &lt;gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
</content>
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