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Commit 2cfa582b authored by Linus Torvalds's avatar Linus Torvalds
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Merge tag 'for-5.14/dm-changes' of...

Merge tag 'for-5.14/dm-changes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/device-mapper/linux-dm

Pull device mapper updates from Mike Snitzer:

 - Various DM persistent-data library improvements and fixes that
   benefit both the DM thinp and cache targets.

 - A few small DM kcopyd efficiency improvements.

 - Significant zoned related block core, DM core and DM zoned target
   changes that culminate with adding zoned append emulation (which is
   required to properly fix DM crypt's zoned support).

 - Various DM writecache target changes that improve efficiency. Adds an
   optional "metadata_only" feature that only promotes bios flagged with
   REQ_META. But the most significant improvement is writecache's
   ability to pause writeback, for a confiurable time, if/when the
   working set is larger than the cache (and the cache is full) -- this
   ensures performance is no worse than the slower origin device.

* tag 'for-5.14/dm-changes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/device-mapper/linux-dm: (35 commits)
  dm writecache: make writeback pause configurable
  dm writecache: pause writeback if cache full and origin being written directly
  dm io tracker: factor out IO tracker
  dm btree remove: assign new_root only when removal succeeds
  dm zone: fix dm_revalidate_zones() memory allocation
  dm ps io affinity: remove redundant continue statement
  dm writecache: add optional "metadata_only" parameter
  dm writecache: add "cleaner" and "max_age" to Documentation
  dm writecache: write at least 4k when committing
  dm writecache: flush origin device when writing and cache is full
  dm writecache: have ssd writeback wait if the kcopyd workqueue is busy
  dm writecache: use list_move instead of list_del/list_add in writecache_writeback()
  dm writecache: commit just one block, not a full page
  dm writecache: remove unused gfp_t argument from wc_add_block()
  dm crypt: Fix zoned block device support
  dm: introduce zone append emulation
  dm: rearrange core declarations for extended use from dm-zone.c
  block: introduce BIO_ZONE_WRITE_LOCKED bio flag
  block: introduce bio zone helpers
  block: improve handling of all zones reset operation
  ...
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