Merge branch 'for-4.7/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block

Pull core block layer updates from Jens Axboe:
 "This is the core block IO changes for this merge window.  Nothing
  earth shattering in here, it's mostly just fixes.  In detail:

   - Fix for a long standing issue where wrong ordering in blk-mq caused
     order_to_size() to spew a warning.  From Bart.

   - Async discard support from Christoph.  Basically just splitting our
     sync interface into a submit + wait part.

   - Add a cleaner interface for flagging whether a device has a write
     back cache or not.  We've previously overloaded blk_queue_flush()
     with this, but let's make it more explicit.  Drivers cleaned up and
     updated in the drivers pull request.  From me.

   - Fix for a double check for whether IO accounting is enabled or not.
     From Michael Callahan.

   - Fix for the async discard from Mike Snitzer, reinstating the early
     EOPNOTSUPP return if the device doesn't support discards.

   - Also from Mike, export bio_inc_remaining() so dm can drop it's
     private copy of it.

   - From Ming Lin, add support for passing in an offset for request
     payloads.

   - Tag function export from Sagi, which will be used in NVMe in the
     drivers pull.

   - Two blktrace related fixes from Shaohua.

   - Propagate NOMERGE flag when making a request from a bio, also from
     Shaohua.

   - An optimization to not parse cgroup paths in blk-throttle, if we
     don't need to.  From Shaohua"

* 'for-4.7/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block:
  blk-mq: fix undefined behaviour in order_to_size()
  blk-throttle: don't parse cgroup path if trace isn't enabled
  blktrace: add missed mask name
  blktrace: delete garbage for message trace
  block: make bio_inc_remaining() interface accessible again
  block: reinstate early return of -EOPNOTSUPP from blkdev_issue_discard
  block: Minor blk_account_io_start usage cleanup
  block: add __blkdev_issue_discard
  block: remove struct bio_batch
  block: copy NOMERGE flag from bio to request
  block: add ability to flag write back caching on a device
  blk-mq: Export tagset iter function
  block: add offset in blk_add_request_payload()
  writeback: Fix performance regression in wb_over_bg_thresh()

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/block/queue-sysfs.txt b/Documentation/block/queue-sysfs.txt
index e5d914845be6..dce25d848d92 100644
--- a/Documentation/block/queue-sysfs.txt
+++ b/Documentation/block/queue-sysfs.txt
@@ -141,6 +141,15 @@ control of this block device to that new IO scheduler. Note that writing
 an IO scheduler name to this file will attempt to load that IO scheduler
 module, if it isn't already present in the system.
 
+write_cache (RW)
+----------------
+When read, this file will display whether the device has write back
+caching enabled or not. It will return "write back" for the former
+case, and "write through" for the latter. Writing to this file can
+change the kernels view of the device, but it doesn't alter the
+device state. This means that it might not be safe to toggle the
+setting from "write back" to "write through", since that will also
+eliminate cache flushes issued by the kernel.
 
 
 Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>, February 2009