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Linus Torvalds 1f7563f743 SCSI sg on 20190709
This topic branch covers a fundamental change in how our sg lists are
 allocated to make mq more efficient by reducing the size of the
 preallocated sg list.  This necessitates a large number of driver
 changes because the previous guarantee that if a driver specified
 SG_ALL as the size of its scatter list, it would get a non-chained
 list and didn't need to bother with scatterlist iterators is now
 broken and every driver *must* use scatterlist iterators.
 
 This was broken out as a separate topic because we need to convert all
 the drivers before pulling the trigger and unconverted drivers kept
 being found, necessitating a rebase.
 
 Signed-off-by: James E.J. Bottomley <jejb@linux.ibm.com>
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Merge tag 'scsi-sg' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi

Pull SCSI scatter-gather list updates from James Bottomley:
 "This topic branch covers a fundamental change in how our sg lists are
  allocated to make mq more efficient by reducing the size of the
  preallocated sg list.

  This necessitates a large number of driver changes because the
  previous guarantee that if a driver specified SG_ALL as the size of
  its scatter list, it would get a non-chained list and didn't need to
  bother with scatterlist iterators is now broken and every driver
  *must* use scatterlist iterators.

  This was broken out as a separate topic because we need to convert all
  the drivers before pulling the trigger and unconverted drivers kept
  being found, necessitating a rebase"

* tag 'scsi-sg' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi: (21 commits)
  scsi: core: don't preallocate small SGL in case of NO_SG_CHAIN
  scsi: lib/sg_pool.c: clear 'first_chunk' in case of no preallocation
  scsi: core: avoid preallocating big SGL for data
  scsi: core: avoid preallocating big SGL for protection information
  scsi: lib/sg_pool.c: improve APIs for allocating sg pool
  scsi: esp: use sg helper to iterate over scatterlist
  scsi: NCR5380: use sg helper to iterate over scatterlist
  scsi: wd33c93: use sg helper to iterate over scatterlist
  scsi: ppa: use sg helper to iterate over scatterlist
  scsi: pcmcia: nsp_cs: use sg helper to iterate over scatterlist
  scsi: imm: use sg helper to iterate over scatterlist
  scsi: aha152x: use sg helper to iterate over scatterlist
  scsi: s390: zfcp_fc: use sg helper to iterate over scatterlist
  scsi: staging: unisys: visorhba: use sg helper to iterate over scatterlist
  scsi: usb: image: microtek: use sg helper to iterate over scatterlist
  scsi: pmcraid: use sg helper to iterate over scatterlist
  scsi: ipr: use sg helper to iterate over scatterlist
  scsi: mvumi: use sg helper to iterate over scatterlist
  scsi: lpfc: use sg helper to iterate over scatterlist
  scsi: advansys: use sg helper to iterate over scatterlist
  ...
2019-07-11 15:17:41 -07:00
arch SCSI misc on 20190709 2019-07-11 15:14:01 -07:00
block for-5.3/block-20190708 2019-07-09 10:45:06 -07:00
certs Revert "Merge tag 'keys-acl-20190703' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-fs" 2019-07-10 18:43:43 -07:00
crypto Merge branch 'linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6 2019-07-08 20:57:08 -07:00
Documentation SCSI misc on 20190709 2019-07-11 15:14:01 -07:00
drivers SCSI sg on 20190709 2019-07-11 15:17:41 -07:00
fs pstore improvements 2019-07-11 14:40:32 -07:00
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init It's been a relatively busy cycle for docs: 2019-07-09 12:34:26 -07:00
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LICENSES LICENSES: Rename other to deprecated 2019-05-03 06:34:32 -06:00
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Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.