Hi Jens, Here is the collected patches for LightNVM ready for the 4.5 window. They covers cover the following: - Several error handling fixes by Wenwei, and Javier. - Statistics bug reported and fixed by Chao. - Added two preparation patches for host-side write buffering, by Javier. - Fix by Wenwei to correctly place block upon reclaim fail. - Added sync support and introduced nvm_submit_ppa. - Fixed ordering bug when plane ppas were sent before sectors ppas. - Added missing bad block type. - Added mccap and lower page table support to support SLC. - Added on disk initialization to allow specific media manager to be loaded upon device scan. - Added factory reset to erase flash blocks on a device. - Added ioctls for initialization and factory reset. - Several refactoring patches to prepare for initialization and factory reset. They are based on top of 4.4-rc8. Please pick up when convenient. Thank you, Matias Chao Yu (1): lightnvm: fix incorrect nr_free_blocks stat Javier Gonzalez (1): lightnvm: add check after mempool allocation Javier González (2): lightnvm: reference rrpc lun in rrpc block lightnvm: manage open and closed blocks separately Matias Bjørling (15): lightnvm: move ppa erase logic to core lightnvm: refactor rqd ppa list into set/free lightnvm: refactor end_io functions for sync lightnvm: return the get_bb_tbl return value lightnvm: sectors first in ppa list lightnvm: support multiple ppas in nvm_erase_ppa lightnvm: move rq->error to nvm_rq->error lightnvm: introduce nvm_submit_ppa lightnvm: fix missing grown bad block type lightnvm: add mccap support lightnvm: introduce mlc lower page table mappings lightnvm: core on-disk initialization lightnvm: introduce ioctl to initialize device lightnvm: use system block for mm initialization lightnvm: introduce factory reset Wenwei Tao (6): lightnvm: fix bio submission issue lightnvm: unlock rq and free ppa_list on submission fail lightnvm: check bi_error in gc lightnvm: put block back to gc list on its reclaim fail lightnvm: fix locking and mempool in rrpc_lun_gc lightnvm: move the pages per block check out of the loop drivers/block/null_blk.c | 3 +- drivers/lightnvm/Makefile | 2 +- drivers/lightnvm/core.c | 340 ++++++++++++++++++- drivers/lightnvm/gennvm.c | 202 +++++------- drivers/lightnvm/rrpc.c | 104 ++++-- drivers/lightnvm/rrpc.h | 13 +- drivers/lightnvm/sysblk.c | 741 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ drivers/nvme/host/lightnvm.c | 32 +- include/linux/lightnvm.h | 119 ++++++- include/uapi/linux/lightnvm.h | 31 ++ 10 files changed, 1415 insertions(+), 172 deletions(-) create mode 100644 drivers/lightnvm/sysblk.c -- 2.1.4 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-block" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html