Pull device mapper VDO target from Mike Snitzer:
"Introduce the DM vdo target which provides block-level deduplication,
compression, and thin provisioning. Please see:
Documentation/admin-guide/device-mapper/vdo.rst
Documentation/admin-guide/device-mapper/vdo-design.rst
The DM vdo target handles its concurrency by pinning an IO, and
subsequent stages of handling that IO, to a particular VDO thread.
This aspect of VDO is "unique" but its overall implementation is very
tightly coupled to its mostly lockless threading model. As such, VDO
is not easily changed to use more traditional finer-grained locking
and Linux workqueues. Please see the "Zones and Threading" section of
vdo-design.rst
The DM vdo target has been used in production for many years but has
seen significant changes over the past ~6 years to prepare it for
upstream inclusion. The codebase is still large but it is isolated to
drivers/md/dm-vdo/ and has been made considerably more approachable
and maintainable.
Matt Sakai has been added to the MAINTAINERS file to reflect that he
will send VDO changes upstream through the DM subsystem maintainers"
* tag 'for-6.9/dm-vdo' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/device-mapper/linux-dm: (142 commits)
dm vdo: document minimum metadata size requirements
dm vdo: remove meaningless version number constant
dm vdo: remove vdo_perform_once
dm vdo block-map: Remove stray semicolon
dm vdo string-utils: change from uds_ to vdo_ namespace
dm vdo logger: change from uds_ to vdo_ namespace
dm vdo funnel-queue: change from uds_ to vdo_ namespace
dm vdo indexer: fix use after free
dm vdo logger: remove log level to string conversion code
dm vdo: document log_level parameter
dm vdo: add 'log_level' module parameter
dm vdo: remove all sysfs interfaces
dm vdo target: eliminate inappropriate uses of UDS_SUCCESS
dm vdo indexer: update ASSERT and ASSERT_LOG_ONLY usage
dm vdo encodings: update some stale comments
dm vdo permassert: audit all of ASSERT to test for VDO_SUCCESS
dm-vdo funnel-workqueue: return VDO_SUCCESS from make_simple_work_queue
dm vdo thread-utils: return VDO_SUCCESS on vdo_create_thread success
dm vdo int-map: return VDO_SUCCESS on success
dm vdo: check for VDO_SUCCESS return value from memory-alloc functions
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