block: ensure that bio_add_page() always accepts a page for an empty bio

With commit 762380ad9322 added support for chunk sizes and no merging
across them, it broke the rule of always allowing addin

block: ensure that bio_add_page() always accepts a page for an empty bio

With commit 762380ad9322 added support for chunk sizes and no merging
across them, it broke the rule of always allowing adding of a single
page to an empty bio. So relax the restriction a bit to allow for that,
similarly to what we have always done.

This fixes a crash with mkfs.xfs and 512b sector sizes on NVMe.

Reported-by: Keith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>

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Merge branch 'for-3.16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup

Pull cgroup updates from Tejun Heo:
"A lot of activities on cgroup side. Heavy restructuring including
locking

Merge branch 'for-3.16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup

Pull cgroup updates from Tejun Heo:
"A lot of activities on cgroup side. Heavy restructuring including
locking simplification took place to improve the code base and enable
implementation of the unified hierarchy, which currently exists behind
a __DEVEL__ mount option. The core support is mostly complete but
individual controllers need further work. To explain the design and
rationales of the the unified hierarchy

Documentation/cgroups/unified-hierarchy.txt

is added.

Another notable change is css (cgroup_subsys_state - what each
controller uses to identify and interact with a cgroup) iteration
update. This is part of continuing updates on css object lifetime and
visibility. cgroup started with reference count draining on removal
way back and is now reaching a point where csses behave and are
iterated like normal refcnted objects albeit with some complexities to
allow distinguishing the state where they're being deleted. The css
iteration update isn't taken advantage of yet but is planned to be
used to simplify memcg significantly"

* 'for-3.16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup: (77 commits)
cgroup: disallow disabled controllers on the default hierarchy
cgroup: don't destroy the default root
cgroup: disallow debug controller on the default hierarchy
cgroup: clean up MAINTAINERS entries
cgroup: implement css_tryget()
device_cgroup: use css_has_online_children() instead of has_children()
cgroup: convert cgroup_has_live_children() into css_has_online_children()
cgroup: use CSS_ONLINE instead of CGRP_DEAD
cgroup: iterate cgroup_subsys_states directly
cgroup: introduce CSS_RELEASED and reduce css iteration fallback window
cgroup: move cgroup->serial_nr into cgroup_subsys_state
cgroup: link all cgroup_subsys_states in their sibling lists
cgroup: move cgroup->sibling and ->children into cgroup_subsys_state
cgroup: remove cgroup->parent
device_cgroup: remove direct access to cgroup->children
memcg: update memcg_has_children() to use css_next_child()
memcg: remove tasks/children test from mem_cgroup_force_empty()
cgroup: remove css_parent()
cgroup: skip refcnting on normal root csses and cgrp_dfl_root self css
cgroup: use cgroup->self.refcnt for cgroup refcnting
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Merge branch 'next' (accumulated 3.16 merge window patches) into master

Now that 3.15 is released, this merges the 'next' branch into 'master',
bringing us to the normal situation where my 'master'

Merge branch 'next' (accumulated 3.16 merge window patches) into master

Now that 3.15 is released, this merges the 'next' branch into 'master',
bringing us to the normal situation where my 'master' branch is the
merge window.

* accumulated work in next: (6809 commits)
ufs: sb mutex merge + mutex_destroy
powerpc: update comments for generic idle conversion
cris: update comments for generic idle conversion
idle: remove cpu_idle() forward declarations
nbd: zero from and len fields in NBD_CMD_DISCONNECT.
mm: convert some level-less printks to pr_*
MAINTAINERS: adi-buildroot-devel is moderated
MAINTAINERS: add linux-api for review of API/ABI changes
mm/kmemleak-test.c: use pr_fmt for logging
fs/dlm/debug_fs.c: replace seq_printf by seq_puts
fs/dlm/lockspace.c: convert simple_str to kstr
fs/dlm/config.c: convert simple_str to kstr
mm: mark remap_file_pages() syscall as deprecated
mm: memcontrol: remove unnecessary memcg argument from soft limit functions
mm: memcontrol: clean up memcg zoneinfo lookup
mm/memblock.c: call kmemleak directly from memblock_(alloc|free)
mm/mempool.c: update the kmemleak stack trace for mempool allocations
lib/radix-tree.c: update the kmemleak stack trace for radix tree allocations
mm: introduce kmemleak_update_trace()
mm/kmemleak.c: use %u to print ->checksum
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block: add notion of a chunk size for request merging

Some drivers have different limits on what size a request should
optimally be, depending on the offset of the request. Similar to
dividing a dev

block: add notion of a chunk size for request merging

Some drivers have different limits on what size a request should
optimally be, depending on the offset of the request. Similar to
dividing a device into chunks. Add a setting that allows the driver
to inform the block layer of such a chunk size. The block layer will
then prevent merging across the chunks.

This is needed to optimally support NVMe with a non-zero stripe size.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>

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Merge branch 'for-3.16/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block into next

Pull block core updates from Jens Axboe:
"It's a big(ish) round this time, lots of development effort has gone
into blk-m

Merge branch 'for-3.16/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block into next

Pull block core updates from Jens Axboe:
"It's a big(ish) round this time, lots of development effort has gone
into blk-mq in the last 3 months. Generally we're heading to where
3.16 will be a feature complete and performant blk-mq. scsi-mq is
progressing nicely and will hopefully be in 3.17. A nvme port is in
progress, and the Micron pci-e flash driver, mtip32xx, is converted
and will be sent in with the driver pull request for 3.16.

This pull request contains:

- Lots of prep and support patches for scsi-mq have been integrated.
All from Christoph.

- API and code cleanups for blk-mq from Christoph.

- Lots of good corner case and error handling cleanup fixes for
blk-mq from Ming Lei.

- A flew of blk-mq updates from me:

* Provide strict mappings so that the driver can rely on the CPU
to queue mapping. This enables optimizations in the driver.

* Provided a bitmap tagging instead of percpu_ida, which never
really worked well for blk-mq. percpu_ida relies on the fact
that we have a lot more tags available than we really need, it
fails miserably for cases where we exhaust (or are close to
exhausting) the tag space.

* Provide sane support for shared tag maps, as utilized by scsi-mq

* Various fixes for IO timeouts.

* API cleanups, and lots of perf tweaks and optimizations.

- Remove 'buffer' from struct request. This is ancient code, from
when requests were always virtually mapped. Kill it, to reclaim
some space in struct request. From me.

- Remove 'magic' from blk_plug. Since we store these on the stack
and since we've never caught any actual bugs with this, lets just
get rid of it. From me.

- Only call part_in_flight() once for IO completion, as includes two
atomic reads. Hopefully we'll get a better implementation soon, as
the part IO stats are now one of the more expensive parts of doing
IO on blk-mq. From me.

- File migration of block code from {mm,fs}/ to block/. This
includes bio.c, bio-integrity.c, bounce.c, and ioprio.c. From me,
from a discussion on lkml.

That should describe the meat of the pull request. Also has various
little fixes and cleanups from Dave Jones, Shaohua Li, Duan Jiong,
Fengguang Wu, Fabian Frederick, Randy Dunlap, Robert Elliott, and Sam
Bradshaw"

* 'for-3.16/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (100 commits)
blk-mq: push IPI or local end_io decision to __blk_mq_complete_request()
blk-mq: remember to start timeout handler for direct queue
block: ensure that the timer is always added
blk-mq: blk_mq_unregister_hctx() can be static
blk-mq: make the sysfs mq/ layout reflect current mappings
blk-mq: blk_mq_tag_to_rq should handle flush request
block: remove dead code in scsi_ioctl:blk_verify_command
blk-mq: request initialization optimizations
block: add queue flag for disabling SG merging
block: remove 'magic' from struct blk_plug
blk-mq: remove alloc_hctx and free_hctx methods
blk-mq: add file comments and update copyright notices
blk-mq: remove blk_mq_alloc_request_pinned
blk-mq: do not use blk_mq_alloc_request_pinned in blk_mq_map_request
blk-mq: remove blk_mq_wait_for_tags
blk-mq: initialize request in __blk_mq_alloc_request
blk-mq: merge blk_mq_alloc_reserved_request into blk_mq_alloc_request
blk-mq: add helper to insert requests from irq context
blk-mq: remove stale comment for blk_mq_complete_request()
blk-mq: allow non-softirq completions
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Merge branch 'for-3.16/core' into for-3.16/drivers

mtip32xx uses blk_mq_alloc_reserved_request(), so pull in the
core changes so we have a properly merged end result.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axb

Merge branch 'for-3.16/core' into for-3.16/drivers

mtip32xx uses blk_mq_alloc_reserved_request(), so pull in the
core changes so we have a properly merged end result.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>

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block: move bio.c and bio-integrity.c from fs/ to block/

They really belong in block/, especially now since it's not in
drivers/block/ anymore. Additionally, the get_maintainer script
gets it wrong

block: move bio.c and bio-integrity.c from fs/ to block/

They really belong in block/, especially now since it's not in
drivers/block/ anymore. Additionally, the get_maintainer script
gets it wrong when in fs/.

Suggested-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>

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