diff --git a/block/ioctl.c b/block/ioctl.c
index f856963204f4949f5197c1cb0c0a247ca12c95da..656c8c6ed206f876bbdbd0f240dedf9997a88cf0 100644
--- a/block/ioctl.c
+++ b/block/ioctl.c
@@ -45,6 +45,9 @@ static int blkpg_ioctl(struct block_device *bdev, struct blkpg_ioctl_arg __user
 				    || pstart < 0 || plength < 0 || partno > 65535)
 					return -EINVAL;
 			}
+			/* check if partition is aligned to blocksize */
+			if (p.start & (bdev_logical_block_size(bdev) - 1))
+				return -EINVAL;
 
 			mutex_lock(&bdev->bd_mutex);
 
diff --git a/block/scsi_ioctl.c b/block/scsi_ioctl.c
index 0774799942e06a8d890a5c88e40990cd53a15037..c6fee7437be44573ade684d064e161954485301a 100644
--- a/block/scsi_ioctl.c
+++ b/block/scsi_ioctl.c
@@ -182,6 +182,9 @@ static void blk_set_cmd_filter_defaults(struct blk_cmd_filter *filter)
 	__set_bit(WRITE_16, filter->write_ok);
 	__set_bit(WRITE_LONG, filter->write_ok);
 	__set_bit(WRITE_LONG_2, filter->write_ok);
+	__set_bit(WRITE_SAME, filter->write_ok);
+	__set_bit(WRITE_SAME_16, filter->write_ok);
+	__set_bit(WRITE_SAME_32, filter->write_ok);
 	__set_bit(ERASE, filter->write_ok);
 	__set_bit(GPCMD_MODE_SELECT_10, filter->write_ok);
 	__set_bit(MODE_SELECT, filter->write_ok);
diff --git a/drivers/md/bcache/bcache.h b/drivers/md/bcache/bcache.h
index 6b420a55c7459f1af42b9dd9c920dce63bd7d089..c3ea03c9a1a8ef603a25934ccbe32ea4bfca3d66 100644
--- a/drivers/md/bcache/bcache.h
+++ b/drivers/md/bcache/bcache.h
@@ -425,7 +425,7 @@ struct cache {
 	 * until a gc finishes - otherwise we could pointlessly burn a ton of
 	 * cpu
 	 */
-	unsigned		invalidate_needs_gc:1;
+	unsigned		invalidate_needs_gc;
 
 	bool			discard; /* Get rid of? */
 
@@ -593,8 +593,8 @@ struct cache_set {
 
 	/* Counts how many sectors bio_insert has added to the cache */
 	atomic_t		sectors_to_gc;
+	wait_queue_head_t	gc_wait;
 
-	wait_queue_head_t	moving_gc_wait;
 	struct keybuf		moving_gc_keys;
 	/* Number of moving GC bios in flight */
 	struct semaphore	moving_in_flight;
diff --git a/drivers/md/bcache/btree.c b/drivers/md/bcache/btree.c
index 6fdd8e252760cbc11ff8cceb1c38fb85eccbcbad..a43eedd5804dd8a9c13b60d96c5bca59fd355b81 100644
--- a/drivers/md/bcache/btree.c
+++ b/drivers/md/bcache/btree.c
@@ -1757,32 +1757,34 @@ static void bch_btree_gc(struct cache_set *c)
 	bch_moving_gc(c);
 }
 
-static int bch_gc_thread(void *arg)
+static bool gc_should_run(struct cache_set *c)
 {
-	struct cache_set *c = arg;
 	struct cache *ca;
 	unsigned i;
 
-	while (1) {
-again:
-		bch_btree_gc(c);
+	for_each_cache(ca, c, i)
+		if (ca->invalidate_needs_gc)
+			return true;
 
-		set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);
-		if (kthread_should_stop())
-			break;
+	if (atomic_read(&c->sectors_to_gc) < 0)
+		return true;
 
-		mutex_lock(&c->bucket_lock);
+	return false;
+}
 
-		for_each_cache(ca, c, i)
-			if (ca->invalidate_needs_gc) {
-				mutex_unlock(&c->bucket_lock);
-				set_current_state(TASK_RUNNING);
-				goto again;
-			}
+static int bch_gc_thread(void *arg)
+{
+	struct cache_set *c = arg;
 
-		mutex_unlock(&c->bucket_lock);
+	while (1) {
+		wait_event_interruptible(c->gc_wait,
+			   kthread_should_stop() || gc_should_run(c));
 
-		schedule();
+		if (kthread_should_stop())
+			break;
+
+		set_gc_sectors(c);
+		bch_btree_gc(c);
 	}
 
 	return 0;
@@ -1790,11 +1792,10 @@ static int bch_gc_thread(void *arg)
 
 int bch_gc_thread_start(struct cache_set *c)
 {
-	c->gc_thread = kthread_create(bch_gc_thread, c, "bcache_gc");
+	c->gc_thread = kthread_run(bch_gc_thread, c, "bcache_gc");
 	if (IS_ERR(c->gc_thread))
 		return PTR_ERR(c->gc_thread);
 
-	set_task_state(c->gc_thread, TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);
 	return 0;
 }
 
diff --git a/drivers/md/bcache/btree.h b/drivers/md/bcache/btree.h
index 5c391fa01bedbfba3f1dea062605460ccadc1c6a..9b80417cd547f52c264c1b4b993f3ee2155405f2 100644
--- a/drivers/md/bcache/btree.h
+++ b/drivers/md/bcache/btree.h
@@ -260,8 +260,7 @@ void bch_initial_mark_key(struct cache_set *, int, struct bkey *);
 
 static inline void wake_up_gc(struct cache_set *c)
 {
-	if (c->gc_thread)
-		wake_up_process(c->gc_thread);
+	wake_up(&c->gc_wait);
 }
 
 #define MAP_DONE	0
diff --git a/drivers/md/bcache/request.c b/drivers/md/bcache/request.c
index f49c5417527dcbb8e0a839a32ec5d354323d63a4..76d20875503c17c6f5956d7f7bfde4eaa90ffbcd 100644
--- a/drivers/md/bcache/request.c
+++ b/drivers/md/bcache/request.c
@@ -196,10 +196,8 @@ static void bch_data_insert_start(struct closure *cl)
 	struct data_insert_op *op = container_of(cl, struct data_insert_op, cl);
 	struct bio *bio = op->bio, *n;
 
-	if (atomic_sub_return(bio_sectors(bio), &op->c->sectors_to_gc) < 0) {
-		set_gc_sectors(op->c);
+	if (atomic_sub_return(bio_sectors(bio), &op->c->sectors_to_gc) < 0)
 		wake_up_gc(op->c);
-	}
 
 	if (op->bypass)
 		return bch_data_invalidate(cl);
diff --git a/drivers/md/bcache/super.c b/drivers/md/bcache/super.c
index 2fb5bfeb43e2e1668051667d6582a087b6bb14ad..3a19cbc8b230e5a7b77cafa89427b8e282c251dc 100644
--- a/drivers/md/bcache/super.c
+++ b/drivers/md/bcache/super.c
@@ -58,6 +58,7 @@ static wait_queue_head_t unregister_wait;
 struct workqueue_struct *bcache_wq;
 
 #define BTREE_MAX_PAGES		(256 * 1024 / PAGE_SIZE)
+#define BCACHE_MINORS		16 /* partition support */
 
 /* Superblock */
 
@@ -783,8 +784,10 @@ static int bcache_device_init(struct bcache_device *d, unsigned block_size,
 	if (minor < 0)
 		return minor;
 
+	minor *= BCACHE_MINORS;
+
 	if (!(d->bio_split = bioset_create(4, offsetof(struct bbio, bio))) ||
-	    !(d->disk = alloc_disk(1))) {
+	    !(d->disk = alloc_disk(BCACHE_MINORS))) {
 		ida_simple_remove(&bcache_minor, minor);
 		return -ENOMEM;
 	}
@@ -1489,6 +1492,7 @@ struct cache_set *bch_cache_set_alloc(struct cache_sb *sb)
 	mutex_init(&c->bucket_lock);
 	init_waitqueue_head(&c->btree_cache_wait);
 	init_waitqueue_head(&c->bucket_wait);
+	init_waitqueue_head(&c->gc_wait);
 	sema_init(&c->uuid_write_mutex, 1);
 
 	spin_lock_init(&c->btree_gc_time.lock);
@@ -1548,6 +1552,7 @@ static void run_cache_set(struct cache_set *c)
 
 	for_each_cache(ca, c, i)
 		c->nbuckets += ca->sb.nbuckets;
+	set_gc_sectors(c);
 
 	if (CACHE_SYNC(&c->sb)) {
 		LIST_HEAD(journal);
diff --git a/drivers/nvme/host/pci.c b/drivers/nvme/host/pci.c
index 2fd7dc2e8fc4b742f505b7c54961f1be4dc927de..3d21a154dce79deceeff77cd16ef5c6bf2a71978 100644
--- a/drivers/nvme/host/pci.c
+++ b/drivers/nvme/host/pci.c
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@
 #define NVME_AQ_DEPTH		256
 #define SQ_SIZE(depth)		(depth * sizeof(struct nvme_command))
 #define CQ_SIZE(depth)		(depth * sizeof(struct nvme_completion))
-		
+
 /*
  * We handle AEN commands ourselves and don't even let the
  * block layer know about them.
@@ -1349,7 +1349,7 @@ static ssize_t nvme_cmb_show(struct device *dev,
 {
 	struct nvme_dev *ndev = to_nvme_dev(dev_get_drvdata(dev));
 
-	return snprintf(buf, PAGE_SIZE, "cmbloc : x%08x\ncmbsz  : x%08x\n",
+	return scnprintf(buf, PAGE_SIZE, "cmbloc : x%08x\ncmbsz  : x%08x\n",
 		       ndev->cmbloc, ndev->cmbsz);
 }
 static DEVICE_ATTR(cmb, S_IRUGO, nvme_cmb_show, NULL);
diff --git a/include/linux/blkdev.h b/include/linux/blkdev.h
index 286b2a2643833615633e82d7d9e667b66abbfaef..83695641bd5ec272551857c448cc9b4f354898b8 100644
--- a/include/linux/blkdev.h
+++ b/include/linux/blkdev.h
@@ -288,7 +288,6 @@ enum blk_queue_state {
 struct blk_queue_tag {
 	struct request **tag_index;	/* map of busy tags */
 	unsigned long *tag_map;		/* bit map of free/busy tags */
-	int busy;			/* current depth */
 	int max_depth;			/* what we will send to device */
 	int real_max_depth;		/* what the array can hold */
 	atomic_t refcnt;		/* map can be shared */