Merge tag 'dm-4.11-changes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/device-mapper/linux-dm

Pull device mapper updates from Mike Snitzer:

 - Fix dm-raid transient device failure processing and other smaller
   tweaks.

 - Add journal support to the DM raid target to close the 'write hole'
   on raid 4/5/6.

 - Fix dm-cache corruption, due to rounding bug, when cache exceeds 2TB.

 - Add 'metadata2' feature to dm-cache to separate the dirty bitset out
   from other cache metadata. This improves speed of shutting down a
   large cache device (which implies writing out dirty bits).

 - Fix a memory leak during dm-stats data structure destruction.

 - Fix a DM multipath round-robin path selector performance regression
   that was caused by less precise balancing across all paths.

 - Lastly, introduce a DM core fix for a long-standing DM snapshot
   deadlock that is rooted in the complexity of the device stack used in
   conjunction with block core maintaining bios on current->bio_list to
   manage recursion in generic_make_request(). A more comprehensive fix
   to block core (and its hook in the cpu scheduler) would be wonderful
   but this DM-specific fix is pragmatic considering how difficult it
   has been to make progress on a generic fix.

* tag 'dm-4.11-changes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/device-mapper/linux-dm: (22 commits)
  dm: flush queued bios when process blocks to avoid deadlock
  dm round robin: revert "use percpu 'repeat_count' and 'current_path'"
  dm stats: fix a leaked s->histogram_boundaries array
  dm space map metadata: constify dm_space_map structures
  dm cache metadata: use cursor api in blocks_are_clean_separate_dirty()
  dm persistent data: add cursor skip functions to the cursor APIs
  dm cache metadata: use dm_bitset_new() to create the dirty bitset in format 2
  dm bitset: add dm_bitset_new()
  dm cache metadata: name the cache block that couldn't be loaded
  dm cache metadata: add "metadata2" feature
  dm cache metadata: use bitset cursor api to load discard bitset
  dm bitset: introduce cursor api
  dm btree: use GFP_NOFS in dm_btree_del()
  dm space map common: memcpy the disk root to ensure it's arch aligned
  dm block manager: add unlikely() annotations on dm_bufio error paths
  dm cache: fix corruption seen when using cache > 2TB
  dm raid: cleanup awkward branching in raid_message() option processing
  dm raid: use mddev rather than rdev->mddev
  dm raid: use read_disk_sb() throughout
  dm raid: add raid4/5/6 journaling support
  ...

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diff --git a/Documentation/device-mapper/dm-raid.txt b/Documentation/device-mapper/dm-raid.txt
index 5e3786fd9ea7..0d199353e477 100644
--- a/Documentation/device-mapper/dm-raid.txt
+++ b/Documentation/device-mapper/dm-raid.txt
@@ -161,6 +161,15 @@ The target is named "raid" and it accepts the following parameters:
 		the RAID type (i.e. the allocation algorithm) as well, e.g.
 		changing from raid5_ls to raid5_n.
 
+	[journal_dev <dev>]
+		This option adds a journal device to raid4/5/6 raid sets and
+		uses it to close the 'write hole' caused by the non-atomic updates
+		to the component devices which can cause data loss during recovery.
+		The journal device is used as writethrough thus causing writes to
+		be throttled versus non-journaled raid4/5/6 sets.
+		Takeover/reshape is not possible with a raid4/5/6 journal device;
+		it has to be deconfigured before requesting these.
+
 <#raid_devs>: The number of devices composing the array.
 	Each device consists of two entries.  The first is the device
 	containing the metadata (if any); the second is the one containing the
@@ -245,6 +254,9 @@ recovery.  Here is a fuller description of the individual fields:
 	<data_offset>   The current data offset to the start of the user data on
 			each component device of a raid set (see the respective
 			raid parameter to support out-of-place reshaping).
+	<journal_char>	'A' - active raid4/5/6 journal device.
+			'D' - dead journal device.
+			'-' - no journal device.
 
 
 Message Interface
@@ -314,3 +326,8 @@ Version History
 1.9.0   Add support for RAID level takeover/reshape/region size
 	and set size reduction.
 1.9.1   Fix activation of existing RAID 4/10 mapped devices
+1.9.2   Don't emit '- -' on the status table line in case the constructor
+	fails reading a superblock. Correctly emit 'maj:min1 maj:min2' and
+	'D' on the status line.  If '- -' is passed into the constructor, emit
+	'- -' on the table line and '-' as the status line health character.
+1.10.0  Add support for raid4/5/6 journal device