Merge tag 'for-6.14/block-20250118' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux

Pull block updates from Jens Axboe:

 - NVMe pull requests via Keith:
      - Target support for PCI-Endpoint transport (Damien)
      - TCP IO queue spreading fixes (Sagi, Chaitanya)
      - Target handling for "limited retry" flags (Guixen)
      - Poll type fix (Yongsoo)
      - Xarray storage error handling (Keisuke)
      - Host memory buffer free size fix on error (Francis)

 - MD pull requests via Song:
      - Reintroduce md-linear (Yu Kuai)
      - md-bitmap refactor and fix (Yu Kuai)
      - Replace kmap_atomic with kmap_local_page (David Reaver)

 - Quite a few queue freeze and debugfs deadlock fixes

   Ming introduced lockdep support for this in the 6.13 kernel, and it
   has (unsurprisingly) uncovered quite a few issues

 - Use const attributes for IO schedulers

 - Remove bio ioprio wrappers

 - Fixes for stacked device atomic write support

 - Refactor queue affinity helpers, in preparation for better supporting
   isolated CPUs

 - Cleanups of loop O_DIRECT handling

 - Cleanup of BLK_MQ_F_* flags

 - Add rotational support for null_blk

 - Various fixes and cleanups

* tag 'for-6.14/block-20250118' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux: (106 commits)
  block: Don't trim an atomic write
  block: Add common atomic writes enable flag
  md/md-linear: Fix a NULL vs IS_ERR() bug in linear_add()
  block: limit disk max sectors to (LLONG_MAX >> 9)
  block: Change blk_stack_atomic_writes_limits() unit_min check
  block: Ensure start sector is aligned for stacking atomic writes
  blk-mq: Move more error handling into blk_mq_submit_bio()
  block: Reorder the request allocation code in blk_mq_submit_bio()
  nvme: fix bogus kzalloc() return check in nvme_init_effects_log()
  md/md-bitmap: move bitmap_{start, end}write to md upper layer
  md/raid5: implement pers->bitmap_sector()
  md: add a new callback pers->bitmap_sector()
  md/md-bitmap: remove the last parameter for bimtap_ops->endwrite()
  md/md-bitmap: factor behind write counters out from bitmap_{start/end}write()
  md: Replace deprecated kmap_atomic() with kmap_local_page()
  md: reintroduce md-linear
  partitions: ldm: remove the initial kernel-doc notation
  blk-cgroup: rwstat: fix kernel-doc warnings in header file
  blk-cgroup: fix kernel-doc warnings in header file
  nbd: fix partial sending
  ...

include/uapi/linux/raid/md_p.h

@@ -233,7 +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;		/* 0,1,4,5 */
+	__le32	level;		/* 0,1,4,5, -1 (linear) */
 	__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

@@ -103,6 +103,8 @@ typedef struct mdu_array_info_s {
 
 } mdu_array_info_t;
 
+#define LEVEL_LINEAR		(-1)
+
 /* we need a value for 'no level specified' and 0
  * means 'raid0', so we need something else.  This is
  * for internal use only