Merge tag 'for-5.12/block-2021-02-17' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block

Pull core block updates from Jens Axboe:
 "Another nice round of removing more code than what is added, mostly
  due to Christoph's relentless pursuit of tech debt removal/cleanups.
  This pull request contains:

   - Two series of BFQ improvements (Paolo, Jan, Jia)

   - Block iov_iter improvements (Pavel)

   - bsg error path fix (Pan)

   - blk-mq scheduler improvements (Jan)

   - -EBUSY discard fix (Jan)

   - bvec allocation improvements (Ming, Christoph)

   - bio allocation and init improvements (Christoph)

   - Store bdev pointer in bio instead of gendisk + partno (Christoph)

   - Block trace point cleanups (Christoph)

   - hard read-only vs read-only split (Christoph)

   - Block based swap cleanups (Christoph)

   - Zoned write granularity support (Damien)

   - Various fixes/tweaks (Chunguang, Guoqing, Lei, Lukas, Huhai)"

* tag 'for-5.12/block-2021-02-17' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (104 commits)
  mm: simplify swapdev_block
  sd_zbc: clear zone resources for non-zoned case
  block: introduce blk_queue_clear_zone_settings()
  zonefs: use zone write granularity as block size
  block: introduce zone_write_granularity limit
  block: use blk_queue_set_zoned in add_partition()
  nullb: use blk_queue_set_zoned() to setup zoned devices
  nvme: cleanup zone information initialization
  block: document zone_append_max_bytes attribute
  block: use bi_max_vecs to find the bvec pool
  md/raid10: remove dead code in reshape_request
  block: mark the bio as cloned in bio_iov_bvec_set
  block: set BIO_NO_PAGE_REF in bio_iov_bvec_set
  block: remove a layer of indentation in bio_iov_iter_get_pages
  block: turn the nr_iovecs argument to bio_alloc* into an unsigned short
  block: remove the 1 and 4 vec bvec_slabs entries
  block: streamline bvec_alloc
  block: factor out a bvec_alloc_gfp helper
  block: move struct biovec_slab to bio.c
  block: reuse BIO_INLINE_VECS for integrity bvecs
  ...

Documentation/filesystems/f2fs.rst

@@ -179,7 +179,6 @@ fault_type=%d		 Support configuring fault injection type, should be
 			 FAULT_KVMALLOC		  0x000000002
 			 FAULT_PAGE_ALLOC	  0x000000004
 			 FAULT_PAGE_GET		  0x000000008
-			 FAULT_ALLOC_BIO	  0x000000010
 			 FAULT_ALLOC_NID	  0x000000020
 			 FAULT_ORPHAN		  0x000000040
 			 FAULT_BLOCK		  0x000000080

Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst

@@ -865,3 +865,19 @@ no matter what.  Everything is handled by the caller.
 
 clone_private_mount() returns a longterm mount now, so the proper destructor of
 its result is kern_unmount() or kern_unmount_array().
+
+---
+
+**mandatory**
+
+zero-length bvec segments are disallowed, they must be filtered out before
+passed on to an iterator.
+
+---
+
+**mandatory**
+
+For bvec based itererators bio_iov_iter_get_pages() now doesn't copy bvecs but
+uses the one provided. Anyone issuing kiocb-I/O should ensure that the bvec and
+page references stay until I/O has completed, i.e. until ->ki_complete() has
+been called or returned with non -EIOCBQUEUED code.