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Pull block updates from Jens Axboe:

 - mq-deadline accounting improvements (Bart)

 - blk-wbt timer fix (Andrea)

 - Untangle the block layer includes (Christoph)

 - Rework the poll support to be bio based, which will enable adding
   support for polling for bio based drivers (Christoph)

 - Block layer core support for multi-actuator drives (Damien)

 - blk-crypto improvements (Eric)

 - Batched tag allocation support (me)

 - Request completion batching support (me)

 - Plugging improvements (me)

 - Shared tag set improvements (John)

 - Concurrent queue quiesce support (Ming)

 - Cache bdev in ->private_data for block devices (Pavel)

 - bdev dio improvements (Pavel)

 - Block device invalidation and block size improvements (Xie)

 - Various cleanups, fixes, and improvements (Christoph, Jackie,
   Masahira, Tejun, Yu, Pavel, Zheng, me)

* tag 'for-5.16/block-2021-10-29' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (174 commits)
  blk-mq-debugfs: Show active requests per queue for shared tags
  block: improve readability of blk_mq_end_request_batch()
  virtio-blk: Use blk_validate_block_size() to validate block size
  loop: Use blk_validate_block_size() to validate block size
  nbd: Use blk_validate_block_size() to validate block size
  block: Add a helper to validate the block size
  block: re-flow blk_mq_rq_ctx_init()
  block: prefetch request to be initialized
  block: pass in blk_mq_tags to blk_mq_rq_ctx_init()
  block: add rq_flags to struct blk_mq_alloc_data
  block: add async version of bio_set_polled
  block: kill DIO_MULTI_BIO
  block: kill unused polling bits in __blkdev_direct_IO()
  block: avoid extra iter advance with async iocb
  block: Add independent access ranges support
  blk-mq: don't issue request directly in case that current is to be blocked
  sbitmap: silence data race warning
  blk-cgroup: synchronize blkg creation against policy deactivation
  block: refactor bio_iov_bvec_set()
  block: add single bio async direct IO helper
  ...