Merge branch 'for-3.20/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block

Pull core block IO changes from Jens Axboe:
 "This contains:

   - A series from Christoph that cleans up and refactors various parts
     of the REQ_BLOCK_PC handling.  Contributions in that series from
     Dongsu Park and Kent Overstreet as well.

   - CFQ:
        - A bug fix for cfq for realtime IO scheduling from Jeff Moyer.
        - A stable patch fixing a potential crash in CFQ in OOM
          situations.  From Konstantin Khlebnikov.

   - blk-mq:
        - Add support for tag allocation policies, from Shaohua. This is
          a prep patch enabling libata (and other SCSI parts) to use the
          blk-mq tagging, instead of rolling their own.
        - Various little tweaks from Keith and Mike, in preparation for
          DM blk-mq support.
        - Minor little fixes or tweaks from me.
        - A double free error fix from Tony Battersby.

   - The partition 4k issue fixes from Matthew and Boaz.

   - Add support for zero+unprovision for blkdev_issue_zeroout() from
     Martin"

* 'for-3.20/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (27 commits)
  block: remove unused function blk_bio_map_sg
  block: handle the null_mapped flag correctly in blk_rq_map_user_iov
  blk-mq: fix double-free in error path
  block: prevent request-to-request merging with gaps if not allowed
  blk-mq: make blk_mq_run_queues() static
  dm: fix multipath regression due to initializing wrong request
  cfq-iosched: handle failure of cfq group allocation
  block: Quiesce zeroout wrapper
  block: rewrite and split __bio_copy_iov()
  block: merge __bio_map_user_iov into bio_map_user_iov
  block: merge __bio_map_kern into bio_map_kern
  block: pass iov_iter to the BLOCK_PC mapping functions
  block: add a helper to free bio bounce buffer pages
  block: use blk_rq_map_user_iov to implement blk_rq_map_user
  block: simplify bio_map_kern
  block: mark blk-mq devices as stackable
  block: keep established cmd_flags when cloning into a blk-mq request
  block: add blk-mq support to blk_insert_cloned_request()
  block: require blk_rq_prep_clone() be given an initialized clone request
  blk-mq: add tag allocation policy
  ...

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/xip.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/xip.txt
index 0466ee5..b774729 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/xip.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/xip.txt
@@ -28,12 +28,15 @@ Implementation
 Execute-in-place is implemented in three steps: block device operation,
 address space operation, and file operations.
 
-A block device operation named direct_access is used to retrieve a
-reference (pointer) to a block on-disk. The reference is supposed to be
-cpu-addressable, physical address and remain valid until the release operation
-is performed. A struct block_device reference is used to address the device,
-and a sector_t argument is used to identify the individual block. As an
-alternative, memory technology devices can be used for this.
+A block device operation named direct_access is used to translate the
+block device sector number to a page frame number (pfn) that identifies
+the physical page for the memory.  It also returns a kernel virtual
+address that can be used to access the memory.
+
+The direct_access method takes a 'size' parameter that indicates the
+number of bytes being requested.  The function should return the number
+of bytes that can be contiguously accessed at that offset.  It may also
+return a negative errno if an error occurs.
 
 The block device operation is optional, these block devices support it as of
 today: