linux-toradex.git/include/linux/kthread.h, branch v5.1-rc1 Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules Merge branch 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2019-03-06T16:14:05+00:00 Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org 2019-03-06T16:14:05+00:00 45802da05e666a81b421422d3e302930c0e24e77 Pull scheduler updates from Ingo Molnar: "The main changes in this cycle were: - refcount conversions - Solve the rq->leaf_cfs_rq_list can of worms for real. - improve power-aware scheduling - add sysctl knob for Energy Aware Scheduling - documentation updates - misc other changes" * 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (34 commits) kthread: Do not use TIMER_IRQSAFE kthread: Convert worker lock to raw spinlock sched/fair: Use non-atomic cpumask_{set,clear}_cpu() sched/fair: Remove unused 'sd' parameter from select_idle_smt() sched/wait: Use freezable_schedule() when possible sched/fair: Prune, fix and simplify the nohz_balancer_kick() comment block sched/fair: Explain LLC nohz kick condition sched/fair: Simplify nohz_balancer_kick() sched/topology: Fix percpu data types in struct sd_data & struct s_data sched/fair: Simplify post_init_entity_util_avg() by calling it with a task_struct pointer argument sched/fair: Fix O(nr_cgroups) in the load balancing path sched/fair: Optimize update_blocked_averages() sched/fair: Fix insertion in rq->leaf_cfs_rq_list sched/fair: Add tmp_alone_branch assertion sched/core: Use READ_ONCE()/WRITE_ONCE() in move_queued_task()/task_rq_lock() sched/debug: Initialize sd_sysctl_cpus if !CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK sched/pelt: Skip updating util_est when utilization is higher than CPU's capacity sched/fair: Update scale invariance of PELT sched/fair: Move the rq_of() helper function sched/core: Convert task_struct.stack_refcount to refcount_t ... 
Pull scheduler updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "The main changes in this cycle were:

   - refcount conversions

   - Solve the rq->leaf_cfs_rq_list can of worms for real.

   - improve power-aware scheduling

   - add sysctl knob for Energy Aware Scheduling

   - documentation updates

   - misc other changes"

* 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (34 commits)
  kthread: Do not use TIMER_IRQSAFE
  kthread: Convert worker lock to raw spinlock
  sched/fair: Use non-atomic cpumask_{set,clear}_cpu()
  sched/fair: Remove unused 'sd' parameter from select_idle_smt()
  sched/wait: Use freezable_schedule() when possible
  sched/fair: Prune, fix and simplify the nohz_balancer_kick() comment block
  sched/fair: Explain LLC nohz kick condition
  sched/fair: Simplify nohz_balancer_kick()
  sched/topology: Fix percpu data types in struct sd_data & struct s_data
  sched/fair: Simplify post_init_entity_util_avg() by calling it with a task_struct pointer argument
  sched/fair: Fix O(nr_cgroups) in the load balancing path
  sched/fair: Optimize update_blocked_averages()
  sched/fair: Fix insertion in rq->leaf_cfs_rq_list
  sched/fair: Add tmp_alone_branch assertion
  sched/core: Use READ_ONCE()/WRITE_ONCE() in move_queued_task()/task_rq_lock()
  sched/debug: Initialize sd_sysctl_cpus if !CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK
  sched/pelt: Skip updating util_est when utilization is higher than CPU's capacity
  sched/fair: Update scale invariance of PELT
  sched/fair: Move the rq_of() helper function
  sched/core: Convert task_struct.stack_refcount to refcount_t
  ...
kthread: Do not use TIMER_IRQSAFE 2019-02-28T10:18:38+00:00 Sebastian Andrzej Siewior bigeasy@linutronix.de 2019-02-12T16:25:54+00:00 ad01423aedaa7c6dd62d560b73a3cb39e6da3901 The TIMER_IRQSAFE usage was introduced in commit 22597dc3d97b1 ("kthread: initial support for delayed kthread work") which modelled the delayed kthread code after workqueue's code. The workqueue code requires the flag TIMER_IRQSAFE for synchronisation purpose. This is not true for kthread's delay timer since all operations occur under a lock. Remove TIMER_IRQSAFE from the timer initialisation and use timer_setup() for initialisation purpose which is the official function. Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190212162554.19779-2-bigeasy@linutronix.de 
The TIMER_IRQSAFE usage was introduced in commit 22597dc3d97b1 ("kthread:
initial support for delayed kthread work") which modelled the delayed
kthread code after workqueue's code. The workqueue code requires the flag
TIMER_IRQSAFE for synchronisation purpose. This is not true for kthread's
delay timer since all operations occur under a lock.

Remove TIMER_IRQSAFE from the timer initialisation and use timer_setup()
for initialisation purpose which is the official function.

Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190212162554.19779-2-bigeasy@linutronix.de
kthread: Convert worker lock to raw spinlock 2019-02-28T10:18:38+00:00 Julia Cartwright julia@ni.com 2019-02-12T16:25:53+00:00 fe99a4f4d6022ec92f9b52a5528cb9b77513e7d1 In order to enable the queuing of kthread work items from hardirq context even when PREEMPT_RT_FULL is enabled, convert the worker spin_lock to a raw_spin_lock. This is only acceptable to do because the work performed under the lock is well-bounded and minimal. Reported-by: Steffen Trumtrar <s.trumtrar@pengutronix.de> Reported-by: Tim Sander <tim@krieglstein.org> Signed-off-by: Julia Cartwright <julia@ni.com> Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Tested-by: Steffen Trumtrar <s.trumtrar@pengutronix.de> Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> Cc: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190212162554.19779-1-bigeasy@linutronix.de 
In order to enable the queuing of kthread work items from hardirq context
even when PREEMPT_RT_FULL is enabled, convert the worker spin_lock to a
raw_spin_lock.

This is only acceptable to do because the work performed under the lock is
well-bounded and minimal.

Reported-by: Steffen Trumtrar <s.trumtrar@pengutronix.de>
Reported-by: Tim Sander <tim@krieglstein.org>
Signed-off-by: Julia Cartwright <julia@ni.com>
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Tested-by: Steffen Trumtrar <s.trumtrar@pengutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Cc: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190212162554.19779-1-bigeasy@linutronix.de
kthread: Add __kthread_should_park() 2019-02-10T20:51:39+00:00 Matthias Kaehlcke mka@chromium.org 2019-01-28T23:46:24+00:00 0121805d9d2b1fff371e195c28e9b86ae38b5e47 kthread_should_park() is used to check if the calling kthread ('current') should park, but there is no function to check whether an arbitrary kthread should be parked. The latter is required to plug a CPU hotplug race vs. a parking ksoftirqd thread. The new __kthread_should_park() receives a task_struct as parameter to check if the corresponding kernel thread should be parked. Call __kthread_should_park() from kthread_should_park() to avoid code duplication. Signed-off-by: Matthias Kaehlcke <mka@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: "Paul E . McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> Cc: Douglas Anderson <dianders@chromium.org> Cc: Stephen Boyd <swboyd@chromium.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190128234625.78241-2-mka@chromium.org 
kthread_should_park() is used to check if the calling kthread ('current')
should park, but there is no function to check whether an arbitrary kthread
should be parked. The latter is required to plug a CPU hotplug race vs. a
parking ksoftirqd thread.

The new __kthread_should_park() receives a task_struct as parameter to
check if the corresponding kernel thread should be parked.

Call __kthread_should_park() from kthread_should_park() to avoid code
duplication.

Signed-off-by: Matthias Kaehlcke <mka@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: "Paul E . McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Cc: Douglas Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>
Cc: Stephen Boyd <swboyd@chromium.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190128234625.78241-2-mka@chromium.org
kthread, sched/core: Fix kthread_parkme() (again...) 2018-07-03T07:17:30+00:00 Peter Zijlstra peterz@infradead.org 2018-06-07T09:45:49+00:00 1cef1150ef40ec52f507436a14230cbc2623299c Gaurav reports that commit: 85f1abe0019f ("kthread, sched/wait: Fix kthread_parkme() completion issue") isn't working for him. Because of the following race: > controller Thread CPUHP Thread > takedown_cpu > kthread_park > kthread_parkme > Set KTHREAD_SHOULD_PARK > smpboot_thread_fn > set Task interruptible > > > wake_up_process > if (!(p->state & state)) > goto out; > > Kthread_parkme > SET TASK_PARKED > schedule > raw_spin_lock(&rq->lock) > ttwu_remote > waiting for __task_rq_lock > context_switch > > finish_lock_switch > > > > Case TASK_PARKED > kthread_park_complete > > > SET Running Furthermore, Oleg noticed that the whole scheduler TASK_PARKED handling is buggered because the TASK_DEAD thing is done with preemption disabled, the current code can still complete early on preemption :/ So basically revert that earlier fix and go with a variant of the alternative mentioned in the commit. Promote TASK_PARKED to special state to avoid the store-store issue on task->state leading to the WARN in kthread_unpark() -> __kthread_bind(). But in addition, add wait_task_inactive() to kthread_park() to ensure the task really is PARKED when we return from kthread_park(). This avoids the whole kthread still gets migrated nonsense -- although it would be really good to get this done differently. Reported-by: Gaurav Kohli <gkohli@codeaurora.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Fixes: 85f1abe0019f ("kthread, sched/wait: Fix kthread_parkme() completion issue") Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> 
Gaurav reports that commit:

  85f1abe0019f ("kthread, sched/wait: Fix kthread_parkme() completion issue")

isn't working for him. Because of the following race:

> controller Thread                               CPUHP Thread
> takedown_cpu
> kthread_park
> kthread_parkme
> Set KTHREAD_SHOULD_PARK
>                                                 smpboot_thread_fn
>                                                 set Task interruptible
>
>
> wake_up_process
>  if (!(p->state & state))
>                 goto out;
>
>                                                 Kthread_parkme
>                                                 SET TASK_PARKED
>                                                 schedule
>                                                 raw_spin_lock(&rq->lock)
> ttwu_remote
> waiting for __task_rq_lock
>                                                 context_switch
>
>                                                 finish_lock_switch
>
>
>
>                                                 Case TASK_PARKED
>                                                 kthread_park_complete
>
>
> SET Running

Furthermore, Oleg noticed that the whole scheduler TASK_PARKED
handling is buggered because the TASK_DEAD thing is done with
preemption disabled, the current code can still complete early on
preemption :/

So basically revert that earlier fix and go with a variant of the
alternative mentioned in the commit. Promote TASK_PARKED to special
state to avoid the store-store issue on task->state leading to the
WARN in kthread_unpark() -> __kthread_bind().

But in addition, add wait_task_inactive() to kthread_park() to ensure
the task really is PARKED when we return from kthread_park(). This
avoids the whole kthread still gets migrated nonsense -- although it
would be really good to get this done differently.

Reported-by: Gaurav Kohli <gkohli@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Fixes: 85f1abe0019f ("kthread, sched/wait: Fix kthread_parkme() completion issue")
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
kthread, sched/wait: Fix kthread_parkme() completion issue 2018-05-03T05:38:05+00:00 Peter Zijlstra peterz@infradead.org 2018-05-01T16:14:45+00:00 85f1abe0019fcb3ea10df7029056cf42702283a8 Even with the wait-loop fixed, there is a further issue with kthread_parkme(). Upon hotplug, when we do takedown_cpu(), smpboot_park_threads() can return before all those threads are in fact blocked, due to the placement of the complete() in __kthread_parkme(). When that happens, sched_cpu_dying() -> migrate_tasks() can end up migrating such a still runnable task onto another CPU. Normally the task will have hit schedule() and gone to sleep by the time we do kthread_unpark(), which will then do __kthread_bind() to re-bind the task to the correct CPU. However, when we loose the initial TASK_PARKED store to the concurrent wakeup issue described previously, do the complete(), get migrated, it is possible to either: - observe kthread_unpark()'s clearing of SHOULD_PARK and terminate the park and set TASK_RUNNING, or - __kthread_bind()'s wait_task_inactive() to observe the competing TASK_RUNNING store. Either way the WARN() in __kthread_bind() will trigger and fail to correctly set the CPU affinity. Fix this by only issuing the complete() when the kthread has scheduled out. This does away with all the icky 'still running' nonsense. The alternative is to promote TASK_PARKED to a special state, this guarantees wait_task_inactive() cannot observe a 'stale' TASK_RUNNING and we'll end up doing the right thing, but this preserves the whole icky business of potentially migating the still runnable thing. Reported-by: Gaurav Kohli <gkohli@codeaurora.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> 
Even with the wait-loop fixed, there is a further issue with
kthread_parkme(). Upon hotplug, when we do takedown_cpu(),
smpboot_park_threads() can return before all those threads are in fact
blocked, due to the placement of the complete() in __kthread_parkme().

When that happens, sched_cpu_dying() -> migrate_tasks() can end up
migrating such a still runnable task onto another CPU.

Normally the task will have hit schedule() and gone to sleep by the
time we do kthread_unpark(), which will then do __kthread_bind() to
re-bind the task to the correct CPU.

However, when we loose the initial TASK_PARKED store to the concurrent
wakeup issue described previously, do the complete(), get migrated, it
is possible to either:

 - observe kthread_unpark()'s clearing of SHOULD_PARK and terminate
   the park and set TASK_RUNNING, or

 - __kthread_bind()'s wait_task_inactive() to observe the competing
   TASK_RUNNING store.

Either way the WARN() in __kthread_bind() will trigger and fail to
correctly set the CPU affinity.

Fix this by only issuing the complete() when the kthread has scheduled
out. This does away with all the icky 'still running' nonsense.

The alternative is to promote TASK_PARKED to a special state, this
guarantees wait_task_inactive() cannot observe a 'stale' TASK_RUNNING
and we'll end up doing the right thing, but this preserves the whole
icky business of potentially migating the still runnable thing.

Reported-by: Gaurav Kohli <gkohli@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
treewide: Remove TIMER_FUNC_TYPE and TIMER_DATA_TYPE casts 2017-11-22T00:35:54+00:00 Kees Cook keescook@chromium.org 2017-10-23T07:40:42+00:00 841b86f3289dbe858daeceec36423d4ea286fac2 With all callbacks converted, and the timer callback prototype switched over, the TIMER_FUNC_TYPE cast is no longer needed, so remove it. Conversion was done with the following scripts: perl -pi -e 's|\(TIMER_FUNC_TYPE\)||g' \ $(git grep TIMER_FUNC_TYPE | cut -d: -f1 | sort -u) perl -pi -e 's|\(TIMER_DATA_TYPE\)||g' \ $(git grep TIMER_DATA_TYPE | cut -d: -f1 | sort -u) The now unused macros are also dropped from include/linux/timer.h. Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> 
With all callbacks converted, and the timer callback prototype
switched over, the TIMER_FUNC_TYPE cast is no longer needed,
so remove it. Conversion was done with the following scripts:

    perl -pi -e 's|\(TIMER_FUNC_TYPE\)||g' \
        $(git grep TIMER_FUNC_TYPE | cut -d: -f1 | sort -u)

    perl -pi -e 's|\(TIMER_DATA_TYPE\)||g' \
        $(git grep TIMER_DATA_TYPE | cut -d: -f1 | sort -u)

The now unused macros are also dropped from include/linux/timer.h.

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
timer: Remove redundant __setup_timer*() macros 2017-11-21T23:57:15+00:00 Kees Cook keescook@chromium.org 2017-10-23T01:48:43+00:00 919b250f8570618e84af544c3e18dad5210eb9b6 With __init_timer*() now matching __setup_timer*(), remove the redundant internal interface, clean up the resulting definitions and add more documentation. Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai@gmail.com> Cc: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> 
With __init_timer*() now matching __setup_timer*(), remove the redundant
internal interface, clean up the resulting definitions and add more
documentation.

Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai@gmail.com>
Cc: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
timer: Remove unused data arguments from macros 2017-11-21T23:57:14+00:00 Kees Cook keescook@chromium.org 2017-10-23T01:22:50+00:00 1fe66ba572b455270dc35a2c099dd7328cec9e4c With the .data field removed, the ignored data arguments in timer macros can be removed. Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai@gmail.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> 
With the .data field removed, the ignored data arguments in timer macros
can be removed.

Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai@gmail.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Merge branch 'for-4.15/block' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block 2017-11-14T23:32:19+00:00 Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org 2017-11-14T23:32:19+00:00 e2c5923c349c1738fe8fda980874d93f6fb2e5b6 Pull core block layer updates from Jens Axboe: "This is the main pull request for block storage for 4.15-rc1. Nothing out of the ordinary in here, and no API changes or anything like that. Just various new features for drivers, core changes, etc. In particular, this pull request contains: - A patch series from Bart, closing the whole on blk/scsi-mq queue quescing. - A series from Christoph, building towards hidden gendisks (for multipath) and ability to move bio chains around. - NVMe - Support for native multipath for NVMe (Christoph). - Userspace notifications for AENs (Keith). - Command side-effects support (Keith). - SGL support (Chaitanya Kulkarni) - FC fixes and improvements (James Smart) - Lots of fixes and tweaks (Various) - bcache - New maintainer (Michael Lyle) - Writeback control improvements (Michael) - Various fixes (Coly, Elena, Eric, Liang, et al) - lightnvm updates, mostly centered around the pblk interface (Javier, Hans, and Rakesh). - Removal of unused bio/bvec kmap atomic interfaces (me, Christoph) - Writeback series that fix the much discussed hundreds of millions of sync-all units. This goes all the way, as discussed previously (me). - Fix for missing wakeup on writeback timer adjustments (Yafang Shao). - Fix laptop mode on blk-mq (me). - {mq,name} tupple lookup for IO schedulers, allowing us to have alias names. This means you can use 'deadline' on both !mq and on mq (where it's called mq-deadline). (me). - blktrace race fix, oopsing on sg load (me). - blk-mq optimizations (me). - Obscure waitqueue race fix for kyber (Omar). - NBD fixes (Josef). - Disable writeback throttling by default on bfq, like we do on cfq (Luca Miccio). - Series from Ming that enable us to treat flush requests on blk-mq like any other request. This is a really nice cleanup. - Series from Ming that improves merging on blk-mq with schedulers, getting us closer to flipping the switch on scsi-mq again. - BFQ updates (Paolo). - blk-mq atomic flags memory ordering fixes (Peter Z). - Loop cgroup support (Shaohua). - Lots of minor fixes from lots of different folks, both for core and driver code" * 'for-4.15/block' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (294 commits) nvme: fix visibility of "uuid" ns attribute blk-mq: fixup some comment typos and lengths ide: ide-atapi: fix compile error with defining macro DEBUG blk-mq: improve tag waiting setup for non-shared tags brd: remove unused brd_mutex blk-mq: only run the hardware queue if IO is pending block: avoid null pointer dereference on null disk fs: guard_bio_eod() needs to consider partitions xtensa/simdisk: fix compile error nvme: expose subsys attribute to sysfs nvme: create 'slaves' and 'holders' entries for hidden controllers block: create 'slaves' and 'holders' entries for hidden gendisks nvme: also expose the namespace identification sysfs files for mpath nodes nvme: implement multipath access to nvme subsystems nvme: track shared namespaces nvme: introduce a nvme_ns_ids structure nvme: track subsystems block, nvme: Introduce blk_mq_req_flags_t block, scsi: Make SCSI quiesce and resume work reliably block: Add the QUEUE_FLAG_PREEMPT_ONLY request queue flag ... 
Pull core block layer updates from Jens Axboe:
 "This is the main pull request for block storage for 4.15-rc1.

  Nothing out of the ordinary in here, and no API changes or anything
  like that. Just various new features for drivers, core changes, etc.
  In particular, this pull request contains:

   - A patch series from Bart, closing the whole on blk/scsi-mq queue
     quescing.

   - A series from Christoph, building towards hidden gendisks (for
     multipath) and ability to move bio chains around.

   - NVMe
        - Support for native multipath for NVMe (Christoph).
        - Userspace notifications for AENs (Keith).
        - Command side-effects support (Keith).
        - SGL support (Chaitanya Kulkarni)
        - FC fixes and improvements (James Smart)
        - Lots of fixes and tweaks (Various)

   - bcache
        - New maintainer (Michael Lyle)
        - Writeback control improvements (Michael)
        - Various fixes (Coly, Elena, Eric, Liang, et al)

   - lightnvm updates, mostly centered around the pblk interface
     (Javier, Hans, and Rakesh).

   - Removal of unused bio/bvec kmap atomic interfaces (me, Christoph)

   - Writeback series that fix the much discussed hundreds of millions
     of sync-all units. This goes all the way, as discussed previously
     (me).

   - Fix for missing wakeup on writeback timer adjustments (Yafang
     Shao).

   - Fix laptop mode on blk-mq (me).

   - {mq,name} tupple lookup for IO schedulers, allowing us to have
     alias names. This means you can use 'deadline' on both !mq and on
     mq (where it's called mq-deadline). (me).

   - blktrace race fix, oopsing on sg load (me).

   - blk-mq optimizations (me).

   - Obscure waitqueue race fix for kyber (Omar).

   - NBD fixes (Josef).

   - Disable writeback throttling by default on bfq, like we do on cfq
     (Luca Miccio).

   - Series from Ming that enable us to treat flush requests on blk-mq
     like any other request. This is a really nice cleanup.

   - Series from Ming that improves merging on blk-mq with schedulers,
     getting us closer to flipping the switch on scsi-mq again.

   - BFQ updates (Paolo).

   - blk-mq atomic flags memory ordering fixes (Peter Z).

   - Loop cgroup support (Shaohua).

   - Lots of minor fixes from lots of different folks, both for core and
     driver code"

* 'for-4.15/block' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (294 commits)
  nvme: fix visibility of "uuid" ns attribute
  blk-mq: fixup some comment typos and lengths
  ide: ide-atapi: fix compile error with defining macro DEBUG
  blk-mq: improve tag waiting setup for non-shared tags
  brd: remove unused brd_mutex
  blk-mq: only run the hardware queue if IO is pending
  block: avoid null pointer dereference on null disk
  fs: guard_bio_eod() needs to consider partitions
  xtensa/simdisk: fix compile error
  nvme: expose subsys attribute to sysfs
  nvme: create 'slaves' and 'holders' entries for hidden controllers
  block: create 'slaves' and 'holders' entries for hidden gendisks
  nvme: also expose the namespace identification sysfs files for mpath nodes
  nvme: implement multipath access to nvme subsystems
  nvme: track shared namespaces
  nvme: introduce a nvme_ns_ids structure
  nvme: track subsystems
  block, nvme: Introduce blk_mq_req_flags_t
  block, scsi: Make SCSI quiesce and resume work reliably
  block: Add the QUEUE_FLAG_PREEMPT_ONLY request queue flag
  ...