Pull block updates from Jens Axboe:

 - MD changes via Song:
      - md-bitmap refactoring (Yu Kuai)
      - raid5 performance optimization (Artur Paszkiewicz)
      - Other small fixes (Yu Kuai, Chen Ni)
      - Add a sysfs entry 'new_level' (Xiao Ni)
      - Improve information reported in /proc/mdstat (Mateusz Kusiak)

 - NVMe changes via Keith:
      - Asynchronous namespace scanning (Stuart)
      - TCP TLS updates (Hannes)
      - RDMA queue controller validation (Niklas)
      - Align field names to the spec (Anuj)
      - Metadata support validation (Puranjay)
      - A syntax cleanup (Shen)
      - Fix a Kconfig linking error (Arnd)
      - New queue-depth quirk (Keith)

 - Add missing unplug trace event (Keith)

 - blk-iocost fixes (Colin, Konstantin)

 - t10-pi modular removal and fixes (Alexey)

 - Fix for potential BLKSECDISCARD overflow (Alexey)

 - bio splitting cleanups and fixes (Christoph)

 - Deal with folios rather than rather than pages, speeding up how the
   block layer handles bigger IOs (Kundan)

 - Use spinlocks rather than bit spinlocks in zram (Sebastian, Mike)

 - Reduce zoned device overhead in ublk (Ming)

 - Add and use sendpages_ok() for drbd and nvme-tcp (Ofir)

 - Fix regression in partition error pointer checking (Riyan)

 - Add support for write zeroes and rotational status in nbd (Wouter)

 - Add Yu Kuai as new BFQ maintainer. The scheduler has been
   unmaintained for quite a while.

 - Various sets of fixes for BFQ (Yu Kuai)

 - Misc fixes and cleanups (Alvaro, Christophe, Li, Md Haris, Mikhail,
   Yang)

* tag 'for-6.12/block-20240913' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux: (120 commits)
  nvme-pci: qdepth 1 quirk
  block: fix potential invalid pointer dereference in blk_add_partition
  blk_iocost: make read-only static array vrate_adj_pct const
  block: unpin user pages belonging to a folio at once
  mm: release number of pages of a folio
  block: introduce folio awareness and add a bigger size from folio
  block: Added folio-ized version of bio_add_hw_page()
  block, bfq: factor out a helper to split bfqq in bfq_init_rq()
  block, bfq: remove local variable 'bfqq_already_existing' in bfq_init_rq()
  block, bfq: remove local variable 'split' in bfq_init_rq()
  block, bfq: remove bfq_log_bfqg()
  block, bfq: merge bfq_release_process_ref() into bfq_put_cooperator()
  block, bfq: fix procress reference leakage for bfqq in merge chain
  block, bfq: fix uaf for accessing waker_bfqq after splitting
  blk-throttle: support prioritized processing of metadata
  blk-throttle: remove last_low_overflow_time
  drbd: Add NULL check for net_conf to prevent dereference in state validation
  nvme-tcp: fix link failure for TCP auth
  blk-mq: add missing unplug trace event
  mtip32xx: Remove redundant null pointer checks in mtip_hw_debugfs_init()
  ...