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

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
  ...