Hi Linus, First of the topic branches, these are on top of core+drivers. This first one adds support for lightnvm, and adds support to NVMe as well. This is pretty exciting, in that it enables new and interesting use cases for compatible flash devices. There's a LWN writeup about an earlier posting here:
https://lwn.net/Articles/641247/ This has been underway for a while, and should be ready for merging at this point. Please pull! git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block.git for-4.4/lightnvm ---------------------------------------------------------------- Dan Carpenter (1): nvme: lightnvm: clean up a data type Matias Bjørling (5): lightnvm: Support for Open-Channel SSDs gennvm: Generic NVM manager rrpc: Round-robin sector target with cost-based gc nvme: LightNVM support lightnvm: refactor phys addrs type to u64 Documentation/ioctl/ioctl-number.txt | 1 + MAINTAINERS | 8 + drivers/Kconfig | 2 + drivers/Makefile | 1 + drivers/lightnvm/Kconfig | 42 ++ drivers/lightnvm/Makefile | 7 + drivers/lightnvm/core.c | 826 +++++++++++++++++++++ drivers/lightnvm/gennvm.c | 485 +++++++++++++ drivers/lightnvm/gennvm.h | 46 ++ drivers/lightnvm/rrpc.c | 1323 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ drivers/lightnvm/rrpc.h | 239 ++++++ drivers/nvme/host/Makefile | 2 +- drivers/nvme/host/lightnvm.c | 526 ++++++++++++++ drivers/nvme/host/nvme.h | 10 + drivers/nvme/host/pci.c | 39 +- include/linux/lightnvm.h | 522 ++++++++++++++ include/uapi/linux/lightnvm.h | 130 ++++ 17 files changed, 4197 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-) create mode 100644 drivers/lightnvm/Kconfig create mode 100644 drivers/lightnvm/Makefile create mode 100644 drivers/lightnvm/core.c create mode 100644 drivers/lightnvm/gennvm.c create mode 100644 drivers/lightnvm/gennvm.h create mode 100644 drivers/lightnvm/rrpc.c create mode 100644 drivers/lightnvm/rrpc.h create mode 100644 drivers/nvme/host/lightnvm.c create mode 100644 include/linux/lightnvm.h create mode 100644 include/uapi/linux/lightnvm.h -- Jens Axboe -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
