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    Merge tag 'for-4.16/dm-changes' of... · 0be600a5
    Linus Torvalds authored
    Merge tag 'for-4.16/dm-changes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/device-mapper/linux-dm
    
    Pull device mapper updates from Mike Snitzer:
    
     - DM core fixes to ensure that bio submission follows a depth-first
       tree walk; this is critical to allow forward progress without the
       need to use the bioset's BIOSET_NEED_RESCUER.
    
     - Remove DM core's BIOSET_NEED_RESCUER based dm_offload infrastructure.
    
     - DM core cleanups and improvements to make bio-based DM more efficient
       (e.g. reduced memory footprint as well leveraging per-bio-data more).
    
     - Introduce new bio-based mode (DM_TYPE_NVME_BIO_BASED) that leverages
       the more direct IO submission path in the block layer; this mode is
       used by DM multipath and also optimizes targets like DM thin-pool
       that stack directly on NVMe data device.
    
     - DM multipath improvements to factor out legacy SCSI-only (e.g.
       scsi_dh) code paths to allow for more optimized support for NVMe
       multipath.
    
     - A fix for DM multipath path selectors (service-time and queue-length)
       to select paths in a more balanced way; largely academic but doesn't
       hurt.
    
     - Numerous DM raid target fixes and improvements.
    
     - Add a new DM "unstriped" target that enables Intel to workaround
       firmware limitations in some NVMe drives that are striped internally
       (this target also works when stacked above the DM "striped" target).
    
     - Various Documentation fixes and improvements.
    
     - Misc cleanups and fixes across various DM infrastructure and targets
       (e.g. bufio, flakey, log-writes, snapshot).
    
    * tag 'for-4.16/dm-changes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/device-mapper/linux-dm: (69 commits)
      dm cache: Documentation: update default migration_throttling value
      dm mpath selector: more evenly distribute ties
      dm unstripe: fix target length versus number of stripes size check
      dm thin: fix trailing semicolon in __remap_and_issue_shared_cell
      dm table: fix NVMe bio-based dm_table_determine_type() validation
      dm: various cleanups to md->queue initialization code
      dm mpath: delay the retry of a request if the target responded as busy
      dm mpath: return DM_MAPIO_DELAY_REQUEUE if QUEUE_IO or PG_INIT_REQUIRED
      dm mpath: return DM_MAPIO_REQUEUE on blk-mq rq allocation failure
      dm log writes: fix max length used for kstrndup
      dm: backfill missing calls to mutex_destroy()
      dm snapshot: use mutex instead of rw_semaphore
      dm flakey: check for null arg_name in parse_features()
      dm thin: extend thinpool status format string with omitted fields
      dm thin: fixes in thin-provisioning.txt
      dm thin: document representation of <highest mapped sector> when there is none
      dm thin: fix documentation relative to low water mark threshold
      dm cache: be consistent in specifying sectors and SI units in cache.txt
      dm cache: delete obsoleted paragraph in cache.txt
      dm cache: fix grammar in cache-policies.txt
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