Re: [GIT PULL] Core block IO changes for 3.14

From: Jens Axboe
Date: Tue Jan 28 2014 - 17:52:36 EST


On Tue, Jan 28 2014, Jens Axboe wrote:
> Hi Linus,
>
> This is the pull request for the core block IO changes for 3.14. The
> major piece in here is the immutable bio_ve series from Kent, the rest
> is fairly minor. It was supposed to go in last round, but various issues
> pushed it to this release instead. The pull request contains:
>
>
> - Various smaller blk-mq fixes from different folks. Nothing major here,
> just minor fixes and cleanups.
>
> - Fix for a memory leak in the error path in the block ioctl code from
> Christian Engelmayer.
>
> - Header export fix from CaiZhiyong.
>
> - Finally the immutable biovec changes from Kent Overstreet. This
> enables some nice future work on making arbitrarily sized bios
> possible, and splitting more efficient. Related fixes to immutable
> bio_vecs:
>
> - dm-cache immutable fixup from Mike Snitzer.
> - btrfs immutable fixup from Muthu Kumar.
>
> - bio-integrity fix from Nic Bellinger, which is also going to stable.
>
>
> Please pull! There will be a bit of merge work for you, but it should be
> fairly straight forward. It's mostly related to changin:
>
> bio->bi_sector -> bio->bi_iter.bi_sector
> bio->bi_size -> bio->bi_iter.bi_size
>
>
> git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block.git for-3.14/core

BTW, let me know if you want me to merge this. The above has been in
for-next since forever, and Stephen has carried a fix or two for new
merges.


--
Jens Axboe

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