Merge branch 'for-3.19/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block

Pull block driver core update from Jens Axboe:
 "This is the pull request for the core block IO changes for 3.19.  Not
  a huge round this time, mostly lots of little good fixes:

   - Fix a bug in sysfs blktrace interface causing a NULL pointer
     dereference, when enabled/disabled through that API.  From Arianna
     Avanzini.

   - Various updates/fixes/improvements for blk-mq:

        - A set of updates from Bart, mostly fixing buts in the tag
          handling.

        - Cleanup/code consolidation from Christoph.

        - Extend queue_rq API to be able to handle batching issues of IO
          requests. NVMe will utilize this shortly. From me.

        - A few tag and request handling updates from me.

        - Cleanup of the preempt handling for running queues from Paolo.

        - Prevent running of unmapped hardware queues from Ming Lei.

        - Move the kdump memory limiting check to be in the correct
          location, from Shaohua.

        - Initialize all software queues at init time from Takashi. This
          prevents a kobject warning when CPUs are brought online that
          weren't online when a queue was registered.

   - Single writeback fix for I_DIRTY clearing from Tejun.  Queued with
     the core IO changes, since it's just a single fix.

   - Version X of the __bio_add_page() segment addition retry from
     Maurizio.  Hope the Xth time is the charm.

   - Documentation fixup for IO scheduler merging from Jan.

   - Introduce (and use) generic IO stat accounting helpers for non-rq
     drivers, from Gu Zheng.

   - Kill off artificial limiting of max sectors in a request from
     Christoph"

* 'for-3.19/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (26 commits)
  bio: modify __bio_add_page() to accept pages that don't start a new segment
  blk-mq: Fix uninitialized kobject at CPU hotplugging
  blktrace: don't let the sysfs interface remove trace from running list
  blk-mq: Use all available hardware queues
  blk-mq: Micro-optimize bt_get()
  blk-mq: Fix a race between bt_clear_tag() and bt_get()
  blk-mq: Avoid that __bt_get_word() wraps multiple times
  blk-mq: Fix a use-after-free
  blk-mq: prevent unmapped hw queue from being scheduled
  blk-mq: re-check for available tags after running the hardware queue
  blk-mq: fix hang in bt_get()
  blk-mq: move the kdump check to blk_mq_alloc_tag_set
  blk-mq: cleanup tag free handling
  blk-mq: use 'nr_cpu_ids' as highest CPU ID count for hwq <-> cpu map
  blk: introduce generic io stat accounting help function
  blk-mq: handle the single queue case in blk_mq_hctx_next_cpu
  genhd: check for int overflow in disk_expand_part_tbl()
  blk-mq: add blk_mq_free_hctx_request()
  blk-mq: export blk_mq_free_request()
  blk-mq: use get_cpu/put_cpu instead of preempt_disable/preempt_enable
  ...

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/block/biodoc.txt b/Documentation/block/biodoc.txt
index 6b972b287795..5aabc08de811 100644
--- a/Documentation/block/biodoc.txt
+++ b/Documentation/block/biodoc.txt
@@ -942,7 +942,11 @@ elevator_allow_merge_fn		called whenever the block layer determines
 				request safely. The io scheduler may still
 				want to stop a merge at this point if it
 				results in some sort of conflict internally,
-				this hook allows it to do that.
+				this hook allows it to do that. Note however
+				that two *requests* can still be merged at later
+				time. Currently the io scheduler has no way to
+				prevent that. It can only learn about the fact
+				from elevator_merge_req_fn callback.
 
 elevator_dispatch_fn*		fills the dispatch queue with ready requests.
 				I/O schedulers are free to postpone requests by