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Persistent Reservation API V2

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This series adds support for a simplified Persistent Reservation API
to the block layer.  The intent is that both in-kernel and userspace
consumers can use the API instead of having to hand craft SCSI or NVMe
command through the various pass through interfaces.  It also adds
DM support as getting reservations through dm-multipath is a major
pain with the current scheme.

NVMe support currently isn't included as I don't have a multihost
NVMe setup to test on, but Keith offered to test it and I'll have
a patch for it shortly.

The ioctl API is documented in Documentation/block/pr.txt, but to
fully understand the concept you'll have to read up the SPC spec,
PRs are too complicated that trying to rephrase them into different
terminology is just going to create confusion.

Note that Mike wants to include the DM patches so through the DM
tree, so they are only included for reference.

I also have a set of simple test tools available at:

	git://git.infradead.org/users/hch/pr-tests.git

Changes since V1:
  - rename DM ->ioctl to ->prepare_ioctl
  - rename dm_get_ioctl_table to dm_get_live_table_for_ioctl
  - merge two DM patches into one
  - various spelling fixes

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Persistent Reservation API V2 Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> - 2015-08-12 08:30 +0200
  [PATCH 1/5] block: cleanup blkdev_ioctl Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> - 2015-08-12 08:30 +0200
  [PATCH 2/5] block: add an API for Persistent Reservations Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> - 2015-08-12 08:30 +0200
  [PATCH 4/5] dm: refactor ioctl handling Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> - 2015-08-12 08:30 +0200
  [PATCH 3/5] sd: implement the Persistent Reservation API Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> - 2015-08-12 08:30 +0200
  [PATCH 5/5] dm: add support for passing through persistent reservations Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> - 2015-08-12 08:30 +0200
  Re: Persistent Reservation API V2 Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> - 2015-08-17 21:20 +0200
    Re: Persistent Reservation API V2 Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com> - 2015-08-18 20:00 +0200

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