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    Merge branch 'for-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/shli/md · a682e003
    Linus Torvalds authored
    Pull md updates from Shaohua Li:
     "Mainly fixes bugs and improves performance:
    
       - Improve scalability for raid1 from Coly
    
       - Improve raid5-cache read performance, disk efficiency and IO
         pattern from Song and me
    
       - Fix a race condition of disk hotplug for linear from Coly
    
       - A few cleanup patches from Ming and Byungchul
    
       - Fix a memory leak from Neil
    
       - Fix WRITE SAME IO failure from me
    
       - Add doc for raid5-cache from me"
    
    * 'for-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/shli/md: (23 commits)
      md/raid1: fix write behind issues introduced by bio_clone_bioset_partial
      md/raid1: handle flush request correctly
      md/linear: shutup lockdep warnning
      md/raid1: fix a use-after-free bug
      RAID1: avoid unnecessary spin locks in I/O barrier code
      RAID1: a new I/O barrier implementation to remove resync window
      md/raid5: Don't reinvent the wheel but use existing llist API
      md: fast clone bio in bio_clone_mddev()
      md: remove unnecessary check on mddev
      md/raid1: use bio_clone_bioset_partial() in case of write behind
      md: fail if mddev->bio_set can't be created
      block: introduce bio_clone_bioset_partial()
      md: disable WRITE SAME if it fails in underlayer disks
      md/raid5-cache: exclude reclaiming stripes in reclaim check
      md/raid5-cache: stripe reclaim only counts valid stripes
      MD: add doc for raid5-cache
      Documentation: move MD related doc into a separate dir
      md: ensure md devices are freed before module is unloaded.
      md/r5cache: improve journal device efficiency
      md/r5cache: enable chunk_aligned_read with write back cache
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