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Pull block driver updates from Jens Axboe:
 "On top of the core pull request, this is the drivers pull request for
  this merge window.  This contains:

   - Switch drivers to the new write back cache API, and kill off the
     flush flags.  From me.

   - Kill the discard support for the STEC pci-e flash driver.  It's
     trivially broken, and apparently unmaintained, so it's safer to
     just remove it.  From Jeff Moyer.

   - A set of lightnvm updates from the usual suspects (Matias/Javier,
     and Simon), and fixes from Arnd, Jeff Mahoney, Sagi, and Wenwei
     Tao.

   - A set of updates for NVMe:

        - Turn the controller state management into a proper state
          machine.  From Christoph.

        - Shuffling of code in preparation for NVMe-over-fabrics, also
          from Christoph.

        - Cleanup of the command prep part from Ming Lin.

        - Rewrite of the discard support from Ming Lin.

        - Deadlock fix for namespace removal from Ming Lin.

        - Use the now exported blk-mq tag helper for IO termination.
          From Sagi.

        - Various little fixes from Christoph, Guilherme, Keith, Ming
          Lin, Wang Sheng-Hui.

   - Convert mtip32xx to use the now exported blk-mq tag iter function,
     from Keith"

* 'for-4.7/drivers' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (74 commits)
  lightnvm: reserved space calculation incorrect
  lightnvm: rename nr_pages to nr_ppas on nvm_rq
  lightnvm: add is_cached entry to struct ppa_addr
  lightnvm: expose gennvm_mark_blk to targets
  lightnvm: remove mgt targets on mgt removal
  lightnvm: pass dma address to hardware rather than pointer
  lightnvm: do not assume sequential lun alloc.
  nvme/lightnvm: Log using the ctrl named device
  lightnvm: rename dma helper functions
  lightnvm: enable metadata to be sent to device
  lightnvm: do not free unused metadata on rrpc
  lightnvm: fix out of bound ppa lun id on bb tbl
  lightnvm: refactor set_bb_tbl for accepting ppa list
  lightnvm: move responsibility for bad blk mgmt to target
  lightnvm: make nvm_set_rqd_ppalist() aware of vblks
  lightnvm: remove struct factory_blks
  lightnvm: refactor device ops->get_bb_tbl()
  lightnvm: introduce nvm_for_each_lun_ppa() macro
  lightnvm: refactor dev->online_target to global nvm_targets
  lightnvm: rename nvm_targets to nvm_tgt_type
  ...