Merge tag 'for-linus-20190112' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block

Pull block fixes from Jens Axboe:

 - NVMe pull request from Christoph, with little fixes all over the map

 - Loop caching fix for offset/bs change (Jaegeuk Kim)

 - Block documentation tweaks (Jeff, Jon, Weiping, John)

 - null_blk zoned tweak (John)

 - ahch mvebu suspend/resume support. Should have gone into the merge
   window, but there was some confusion on which tree had it. (Miquel)

* tag 'for-linus-20190112' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (22 commits)
  ata: ahci: mvebu: request PHY suspend/resume for Armada 3700
  ata: ahci: mvebu: add Armada 3700 initialization needed for S2RAM
  ata: ahci: mvebu: do Armada 38x configuration only on relevant SoCs
  ata: ahci: mvebu: remove stale comment
  ata: libahci_platform: comply to PHY framework
  loop: drop caches if offset or block_size are changed
  block: fix kerneldoc comment for blk_attempt_plug_merge()
  nvme: don't initlialize ctrl->cntlid twice
  nvme: introduce NVME_QUIRK_IGNORE_DEV_SUBNQN
  nvme: pad fake subsys NQN vid and ssvid with zeros
  nvme-multipath: zero out ANA log buffer
  nvme-fabrics: unset write/poll queues for discovery controllers
  nvme-tcp: don't ask if controller is fabrics
  nvme-tcp: remove dead code
  nvme-pci: fix out of bounds access in nvme_cqe_pending
  nvme-pci: rerun irq setup on IO queue init errors
  nvme-pci: use the same attributes when freeing host_mem_desc_bufs.
  nvme-pci: fix the wrong setting of nr_maps
  block: doc: add slice_idle_us to bfq documentation
  block: clarify documentation for blk_{start|finish}_plug
  ...

4 files changed, 25 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-block b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-block
index 7710d4022b19..dfad7427817c 100644
--- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-block
+++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-block
@@ -279,3 +279,12 @@ Description:
 		size in 512B sectors of the zones of the device, with
 		the eventual exception of the last zone of the device
 		which may be smaller.
+
+What:		/sys/block/<disk>/queue/io_timeout
+Date:		November 2018
+Contact:	Weiping Zhang <zhangweiping@didiglobal.com>
+Description:
+		io_timeout is the request timeout in milliseconds. If a request
+		does not complete in this time then the block driver timeout
+		handler is invoked. That timeout handler can decide to retry
+		the request, to fail it or to start a device recovery strategy.
diff --git a/Documentation/block/bfq-iosched.txt b/Documentation/block/bfq-iosched.txt
index 8d8d8f06cab2..98a8dd5ee385 100644
--- a/Documentation/block/bfq-iosched.txt
+++ b/Documentation/block/bfq-iosched.txt
@@ -357,6 +357,13 @@ video playing/streaming, a very low drop rate may be more important
 than maximum throughput. In these cases, consider setting the
 strict_guarantees parameter.
 
+slice_idle_us
+-------------
+
+Controls the same tuning parameter as slice_idle, but in microseconds.
+Either tunable can be used to set idling behavior.  Afterwards, the
+other tunable will reflect the newly set value in sysfs.
+
 strict_guarantees
 -----------------
 
diff --git a/Documentation/block/null_blk.txt b/Documentation/block/null_blk.txt
index ea2dafe49ae8..4cad1024fff7 100644
--- a/Documentation/block/null_blk.txt
+++ b/Documentation/block/null_blk.txt
@@ -88,7 +88,8 @@ shared_tags=[0/1]: Default: 0
 
 zoned=[0/1]: Default: 0
   0: Block device is exposed as a random-access block device.
-  1: Block device is exposed as a host-managed zoned block device.
+  1: Block device is exposed as a host-managed zoned block device. Requires
+     CONFIG_BLK_DEV_ZONED.
 
 zone_size=[MB]: Default: 256
   Per zone size when exposed as a zoned block device. Must be a power of two.
diff --git a/Documentation/block/queue-sysfs.txt b/Documentation/block/queue-sysfs.txt
index 39e286d7afc9..83b457e24bba 100644
--- a/Documentation/block/queue-sysfs.txt
+++ b/Documentation/block/queue-sysfs.txt
@@ -67,6 +67,13 @@ If set to a value larger than 0, the kernel will put the process issuing
 IO to sleep for this amount of microseconds before entering classic
 polling.
 
+io_timeout (RW)
+---------------
+io_timeout is the request timeout in milliseconds. If a request does not
+complete in this time then the block driver timeout handler is invoked.
+That timeout handler can decide to retry the request, to fail it or to start
+a device recovery strategy.
+
 iostats (RW)
 -------------
 This file is used to control (on/off) the iostats accounting of the