DM targets to properly advertise discard limits that blk_queue_split()
looks at when dtermining to split discard. Whereby allowing DM core's
own 'split_discard_bios' to be removed.
- Improve DM cache target to provide support for discard passdown to the
origin device.
- Introduce support to directly boot to a DM mapped device from init by
using dm-mod.create= module param. This eliminates the need for an
elaborate initramfs that is otherwise needed to create DM devices.
This feature's implementation has been worked on for quite some time
(got up to v12) and is of particular interest to Android and other
more embedded platforms (e.g. ARM).
- Rate limit errors from the DM integrity target that were identified as
the cause for recent NMI hangs due to console limitations.
- Add sanity checks for user input to thin-pool and external snapshot
creation.
- Remove some unused leftover kmem caches from when old .request_fn
request-based support was removed.
- Various small cleanups and fixes to targets (e.g. typos, needless
unlikely() annotations, use struct_size(), remove needless
.direct_access method from dm-snapshot)
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Merge tag 'for-5.1/dm-changes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/device-mapper/linux-dm
Pull device mapper updates from Mike Snitzer:
- Update bio-based DM core to always call blk_queue_split() and update
DM targets to properly advertise discard limits that
blk_queue_split() looks at when dtermining to split discard. Whereby
allowing DM core's own 'split_discard_bios' to be removed.
- Improve DM cache target to provide support for discard passdown to
the origin device.
- Introduce support to directly boot to a DM mapped device from init by
using dm-mod.create= module param. This eliminates the need for an
elaborate initramfs that is otherwise needed to create DM devices.
This feature's implementation has been worked on for quite some time
(got up to v12) and is of particular interest to Android and other
more embedded platforms (e.g. ARM).
- Rate limit errors from the DM integrity target that were identified
as the cause for recent NMI hangs due to console limitations.
- Add sanity checks for user input to thin-pool and external snapshot
creation.
- Remove some unused leftover kmem caches from when old .request_fn
request-based support was removed.
- Various small cleanups and fixes to targets (e.g. typos, needless
unlikely() annotations, use struct_size(), remove needless
.direct_access method from dm-snapshot)
* tag 'for-5.1/dm-changes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/device-mapper/linux-dm:
dm integrity: limit the rate of error messages
dm snapshot: don't define direct_access if we don't support it
dm cache: add support for discard passdown to the origin device
dm writecache: fix typo in name for writeback_wq
dm: add support to directly boot to a mapped device
dm thin: add sanity checks to thin-pool and external snapshot creation
dm block manager: remove redundant unlikely annotation
dm verity fec: remove redundant unlikely annotation
dm integrity: remove redundant unlikely annotation
dm: always call blk_queue_split() in dm_process_bio()
dm: fix to_sector() for 32bit
dm switch: use struct_size() in kzalloc()
dm: remove unused _rq_tio_cache and _rq_cache
dm: eliminate 'split_discard_bios' flag from DM target interface
dm: update dm_process_bio() to split bio if in ->make_request_fn()
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