block driver bits for 3.7

Hi Linus,

Later than I would have liked, but I was traveling around the merge window and then a fixes snuck in past that and I wanted to ensure that everything was fully baked again. There was a particular issue around a floppy regression due to the genhd change, which has now gotten reverted. So without further ado, here are the driver updates queued up for 3.7. It contains:

- Updates to the Micron mtip32xx real-ssd card from Micron.
- A few fixes for loop, from Dave Chinner and Eric Biederman.
- A round of floppy fixes, and a subsequent revert of genhd part since it caused regressions.
- The usual round of drbd updates/fixes.
- A single xen-blkback fixup.
- A few other minor fixes and/or code cleanups.
- memstick driver and later revert, this isn't well reviewed enough yet to go directly in.

Please pull!

git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block.git for-3.7/drivers

for you to fetch changes up to a13c29ddf73d3be4fbb2b1bbced64014986cd87a:

Merge branch 'for-jens' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/linux-block into for-3.7/drivers (2012-10-29 19:20:25 +0100)

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Akinobu Mita (1):
cciss: select CONFIG_CHECK_SIGNATURE

Asai Thambi S P (6):
mtip32xx: Add support for new devices
mtip32xx: Handle NCQ commands during the security locked state
mtip32xx: Increase timeout for standby command
mtip32xx: Proper reporting of write protect status on big-endian
mtip32xx: Change printk to pr_xxxx
mtip32xx: Remove dead code

Ben Hutchings (1):
genhd: Make put_disk() safe for disks that have not been registered

Dave Chinner (1):
loop: Make explicit loop device destruction lazy

David Milburn (1):
mtip32xx: fix user_buffer check in exec_drive_command

Eric W. Biederman (1):
userns: Convert loop to use kuid_t instead of uid_t

Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski (5):
floppy: don't call alloc_ordered_workqueue inside the alloc_disk loop
floppy: do put_disk on current dr if blk_init_queue fails
floppy: properly handle failure on add_disk loop
floppy: use common function to check if floppies can be registered
floppy: remove dr, reuse drive on do_floppy_init

Jens Axboe (6):
Merge branch 'stable/for-jens-3.7' of git://git.kernel.org/.../konrad/xen into for-3.7/drivers Merge branch 'for-jens' of git://git.kernel.org/.../jikos/linux-block into for-3.7/drivers Merge branch 'stable/for-jens-3.7' of git://git.kernel.org/.../konrad/xen into for-3.7/drivers Merge branch 'for-3.7/core' into for-3.7/drivers
Revert "memstick: add support for legacy memorysticks"
Merge branch 'for-jens' of git://git.kernel.org/.../jikos/linux-block into for-3.7/drivers

Jiri Kosina (3):
pktcdvd: update MAINTAINERS
Merge branches 'floppy' and 'pktcdvd' into for-jens
Revert "genhd: Make put_disk() safe for disks that have not been registered"

Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk (1):
xen/blkback: Fix compile warning

Lars Ellenberg (8):
drbd: introduce stop-sector to online verify
drbd: panic on delayed completion of aborted requests
drbd: fix potential deadlock during bitmap (re-)allocation
drbd: a few more GFP_KERNEL -> GFP_NOIO
drbd: wait for meta data IO completion even with failed disk, unless force-detached
drbd: prepare for more than 32 bit flags
drbd: always write bitmap on detach
drbd: log request sector offset and size for IO errors

Maxim Levitsky (1):
memstick: add support for legacy memorysticks

Oliver Chick (1):
xen/blkback: Change xen_vbd's flush_support and discard_secure to have type unsigned int, rather than bool

Philipp Reisner (4):
drbd: Protect accesses to the uuid set with a spinlock
drbd: Fix a potential issue with the DISCARD_CONCURRENT flag
drbd: Avoid NetworkFailure state during disconnect
drbd: Remove dead code

Selvan Mani (1):
mtip32xx:Added appropriate timeout value for secure erase

Wei Yongjun (2):
xen/blkback: use kmem_cache_zalloc instead of kmem_cache_alloc/memset
cciss: remove unneeded memset()

 MAINTAINERS                        |    2 +-
 drivers/block/Kconfig              |    1 +
 drivers/block/cciss.c              |    1 -
 drivers/block/drbd/drbd_actlog.c   |   19 ++--
 drivers/block/drbd/drbd_bitmap.c   |   24 ++---
 drivers/block/drbd/drbd_int.h      |  108 +++++++++++++++++------
 drivers/block/drbd/drbd_main.c     |  170 ++++++++++++++++++++++++------------
 drivers/block/drbd/drbd_nl.c       |   74 +++++++++-------
 drivers/block/drbd/drbd_proc.c     |   14 ++-
 drivers/block/drbd/drbd_receiver.c |  147 ++++++++++++++++---------------
 drivers/block/drbd/drbd_req.c      |   43 ++++++---
 drivers/block/drbd/drbd_worker.c   |   87 ++++++++++++++----
 drivers/block/floppy.c             |   86 ++++++++++--------
 drivers/block/loop.c               |   21 ++++-
 drivers/block/mtip32xx/mtip32xx.c  |   57 ++++++++----
 drivers/block/mtip32xx/mtip32xx.h  |   13 ++-
 drivers/block/xen-blkback/common.h |    4 +-
 drivers/block/xen-blkback/xenbus.c |    9 +-
 include/linux/drbd.h               |    4 +-
 include/linux/drbd_nl.h            |    1 +
 include/linux/loop.h               |    2 +-
 init/Kconfig                       |    1 -
 22 files changed, 575 insertions(+), 313 deletions(-)

Jens Axboe

Didn't we agree last time that drbd just wasn't important enough to *constantly* cause these kinds of "lots of late fixes"?

In fact, they aren't even fixes. There's a single small commit during the merge window since v3.6 touching that driver, and it wasn't even drbd-specific.

In other words, I see absolutely no reason to pull this stuff at this time. It's so far out of the merge window that it's not funny, and it has absolutely nothing about it that says "fixes".

So mind sending just the actual *fixes* for actual regressions, and then you can re-push this for the next merge window?

Linus

It was actually the floppy part that caused a delay on my end. But sure, I can distill this down given the time. I'll send out a new one tomorrow.

Jens Axboe