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Commit 0e6acf02 authored by Linus Torvalds's avatar Linus Torvalds
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Merge tag 'xfs-for-linus-4.8-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dgc/linux-xfs

Pull xfs updates from Dave Chinner:
 "The major addition is the new iomap based block mapping
  infrastructure.  We've been kicking this about locally for years, but
  there are other filesystems want to use it too (e.g. gfs2).  Now it
  is fully working, reviewed and ready for merge and be used by other
  filesystems.

  There are a lot of other fixes and cleanups in the tree, but those are
  XFS internal things and none are of the scale or visibility of the
  iomap changes.  See below for details.

  I am likely to send another pull request next week - we're just about
  ready to merge some new functionality (on disk block->owner reverse
  mapping infrastructure), but that's a huge chunk of code (74 files
  changed, 7283 insertions(+), 1114 deletions(-)) so I'm keeping that
  separate to all the "normal" pull request changes so they don't get
  lost in the noise.

  Summary of changes in this update:
   - ge...
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