[dm-devel] [git pull] device-mapper updates for 3.5

[Alasdair G Kergon]

Revised version dealing with a couple of symbols reported by Fengguang Wu.

Please pull from:
 
  git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/agk/linux-dm tags/dm-3.5-changes-1
 
to get the following device-mapper updates for 3.5.
  
Thanks,
Alasdair

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Improve multipath's retrying mechanism in some defined circumstances
and provide a simple reserve/release mechanism for userspace tools to
access thin provisioning metadata while the pool is in use.

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Joe Thornber (1):
      dm thin: provide userspace access to pool metadata

Mike Christie (1):
      dm mpath: delay retry of bypassed pg

Mike Snitzer (2):
      dm mpath: reduce size of struct multipath
      dm thin: use slab mempools

Mikulas Patocka (1):
      dm mpath: allow ioctls to trigger pg init

 Documentation/device-mapper/thin-provisioning.txt  |   11 ++
 drivers/md/dm-mpath.c                              |   47 +++--
 drivers/md/dm-thin-metadata.c                      |  136 ++++++++++++-
 drivers/md/dm-thin-metadata.h                      |   13 +-
 drivers/md/dm-thin.c                               |  203 ++++++++++++++------
 .../md/persistent-data/dm-transaction-manager.c    |    2 +
 6 files changed, 322 insertions(+), 90 deletions(-)