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Linus Torvalds 0be600a5ad - 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).
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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
  ...
2018-01-31 11:05:47 -08:00
arch Merge branch 'work.get_user_pages_fast' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2018-01-31 10:01:08 -08:00
block Merge branch 'misc.poll' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2018-01-30 17:58:07 -08:00
certs License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
crypto Merge branch 'misc.poll' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2018-01-30 17:58:07 -08:00
Documentation - DM core fixes to ensure that bio submission follows a depth-first tree 2018-01-31 11:05:47 -08:00
drivers - DM core fixes to ensure that bio submission follows a depth-first tree 2018-01-31 11:05:47 -08:00
firmware kbuild: remove all dummy assignments to obj- 2017-11-18 11:46:06 +09:00
fs New in this version: 2018-01-31 10:18:00 -08:00
include - DM core fixes to ensure that bio submission follows a depth-first tree 2018-01-31 11:05:47 -08:00
init init_task out-of-lining 2018-01-29 09:08:34 -08:00
ipc Merge branch 'work.mqueue' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2018-01-30 18:32:21 -08:00
kernel Merge branch 'work.mqueue' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2018-01-30 18:32:21 -08:00
lib Merge branch 'work.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2018-01-31 09:25:20 -08:00
mm Merge branch 'work.get_user_pages_fast' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2018-01-31 10:01:08 -08:00
net Merge branch 'work.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2018-01-31 09:25:20 -08:00
samples Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf 2017-12-03 13:08:30 -05:00
scripts Merge branch 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2018-01-30 10:15:30 -08:00
security Merge branch 'misc.poll' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2018-01-30 17:58:07 -08:00
sound Merge branch 'work.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2018-01-31 09:25:20 -08:00
tools Merge branch 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2018-01-30 11:15:14 -08:00
usr initramfs: fix initramfs rebuilds w/ compression after disabling 2017-11-03 07:39:19 -07:00
virt Merge branch 'work.get_user_pages_fast' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2018-01-31 10:01:08 -08:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
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.gitignore Kbuild misc updates for v4.15 2017-11-17 17:51:33 -08:00
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Linux kernel
============

This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst

Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users.
These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.