Merge tag 'for-6.8/block-2024-01-08' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux

Pull block updates from Jens Axboe:
 "Pretty quiet round this time around. This contains:

   - NVMe updates via Keith:
        - nvme fabrics spec updates (Guixin, Max)
        - nvme target udpates (Guixin, Evan)
        - nvme attribute refactoring (Daniel)
        - nvme-fc numa fix (Keith)

   - MD updates via Song:
        - Fix/Cleanup RCU usage from conf->disks[i].rdev (Yu Kuai)
        - Fix raid5 hang issue (Junxiao Bi)
        - Add Yu Kuai as Reviewer of the md subsystem
        - Remove deprecated flavors (Song Liu)
        - raid1 read error check support (Li Nan)
        - Better handle events off-by-1 case (Alex Lyakas)

   - Efficiency improvements for passthrough (Kundan)

   - Support for mapping integrity data directly (Keith)

   - Zoned write fix (Damien)

   - rnbd fixes (Kees, Santosh, Supriti)

   - Default to a sane discard size granularity (Christoph)

   - Make the default max transfer size naming less confusing
     (Christoph)

   - Remove support for deprecated host aware zoned model (Christoph)

   - Misc fixes (me, Li, Matthew, Min, Ming, Randy, liyouhong, Daniel,
     Bart, Christoph)"

* tag 'for-6.8/block-2024-01-08' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux: (78 commits)
  block: Treat sequential write preferred zone type as invalid
  block: remove disk_clear_zoned
  sd: remove the !ZBC && blk_queue_is_zoned case in sd_read_block_characteristics
  drivers/block/xen-blkback/common.h: Fix spelling typo in comment
  blk-cgroup: fix rcu lockdep warning in blkg_lookup()
  blk-cgroup: don't use removal safe list iterators
  block: floor the discard granularity to the physical block size
  mtd_blkdevs: use the default discard granularity
  bcache: use the default discard granularity
  zram: use the default discard granularity
  null_blk: use the default discard granularity
  nbd: use the default discard granularity
  ubd: use the default discard granularity
  block: default the discard granularity to sector size
  bcache: discard_granularity should not be smaller than a sector
  block: remove two comments in bio_split_discard
  block: rename and document BLK_DEF_MAX_SECTORS
  loop: don't abuse BLK_DEF_MAX_SECTORS
  aoe: don't abuse BLK_DEF_MAX_SECTORS
  null_blk: don't cap max_hw_sectors to BLK_DEF_MAX_SECTORS
  ...

include/uapi/linux/raid/md_p.h

@@ -2,15 +2,11 @@
 /*
    md_p.h : physical layout of Linux RAID devices
           Copyright (C) 1996-98 Ingo Molnar, Gadi Oxman
-	  
+
    This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
    it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
    the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
    any later version.
-   
-   You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
-   (for example /usr/src/linux/COPYING); if not, write to the Free
-   Software Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.  
 */
 
 #ifndef _MD_P_H
@@ -237,7 +233,7 @@ struct mdp_superblock_1 {
 	char	set_name[32];	/* set and interpreted by user-space */
 
 	__le64	ctime;		/* lo 40 bits are seconds, top 24 are microseconds or 0*/
-	__le32	level;		/* -4 (multipath), -1 (linear), 0,1,4,5 */
+	__le32	level;		/* 0,1,4,5 */
 	__le32	layout;		/* only for raid5 and raid10 currently */
 	__le64	size;		/* used size of component devices, in 512byte sectors */
 

include/uapi/linux/raid/md_u.h

@@ -2,15 +2,11 @@
 /*
    md_u.h : user <=> kernel API between Linux raidtools and RAID drivers
           Copyright (C) 1998 Ingo Molnar
-	  
+
    This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
    it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
    the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
    any later version.
-   
-   You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
-   (for example /usr/src/linux/COPYING); if not, write to the Free
-   Software Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.  
 */
 
 #ifndef _UAPI_MD_U_H
@@ -107,11 +103,6 @@ typedef struct mdu_array_info_s {
 
 } mdu_array_info_t;
 
-/* non-obvious values for 'level' */
-#define	LEVEL_MULTIPATH		(-4)
-#define	LEVEL_LINEAR		(-1)
-#define	LEVEL_FAULTY		(-5)
-
 /* we need a value for 'no level specified' and 0
  * means 'raid0', so we need something else.  This is
  * for internal use only