[GIT PULL] Generic block reservation support

[GIT PULL] Generic block reservation support

[Jens Axboe]

Hi Linus,

Last topic branch for now, this is support at the block level for
persistent reservations. This branch adds support at the core, as well
as for sd and NVMe.

Please pull!


  git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block.git for-4.4/reservations


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Christoph Hellwig (4):
      block: cleanup blkdev_ioctl
      block: add an API for Persistent Reservations
      sd: implement the Persistent Reservation API
      nvme: add missing endianess annotations in nvme_pr_command

Dan Carpenter (1):
      NVMe: Precedence error in nvme_pr_clear()

Keith Busch (1):
      NVMe: Add persistent reservation ops

 Documentation/block/pr.txt | 119 ++++++++++++++++
 block/ioctl.c              | 330 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
 drivers/nvme/host/pci.c    |  95 +++++++++++++
 drivers/scsi/sd.c          |  96 +++++++++++++
 include/linux/blkdev.h     |   2 +
 include/linux/pr.h         |  18 +++
 include/uapi/linux/pr.h    |  48 +++++++
 7 files changed, 608 insertions(+), 100 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 Documentation/block/pr.txt
 create mode 100644 include/linux/pr.h
 create mode 100644 include/uapi/linux/pr.h

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Jens Axboe