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Linus Torvalds 0cfcde1faf There are a number of major cleanups in ext4 this cycle:
* The data=journal writepath has been significantly cleaned up and
   simplified, and reduces a large number of data=journal special cases
   by Jan Kara.
 
 * Ojaswin Muhoo has replaced linked list used to track extents that
   have been used for inode preallocation with a red-black tree in the
   multi-block allocator.  This improves performance for workloads
   which do a large number of random allocating writes.
 
 * Thanks to Kemeng Shi for a lot of cleanup and bug fixes in the
   multi-block allocator.
 
 * Matthew wilcox has converted the code paths for reading and writing
   ext4 pages to use folios.
 
 * Jason Yan has continued to factor out ext4_fill_super() into smaller
   functions for improve ease of maintenance and comprehension.
 
 * Josh Triplett has created an uapi header for ext4 userspace API's.
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Merge tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4

Pull ext4 updates from Ted Ts'o:
 "There are a number of major cleanups in ext4 this cycle:

   - The data=journal writepath has been significantly cleaned up and
     simplified, and reduces a large number of data=journal special
     cases by Jan Kara.

   - Ojaswin Muhoo has replaced linked list used to track extents that
     have been used for inode preallocation with a red-black tree in the
     multi-block allocator. This improves performance for workloads
     which do a large number of random allocating writes.

   - Thanks to Kemeng Shi for a lot of cleanup and bug fixes in the
     multi-block allocator.

   - Matthew wilcox has converted the code paths for reading and writing
     ext4 pages to use folios.

   - Jason Yan has continued to factor out ext4_fill_super() into
     smaller functions for improve ease of maintenance and
     comprehension.

   - Josh Triplett has created an uapi header for ext4 userspace API's"

* tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4: (105 commits)
  ext4: Add a uapi header for ext4 userspace APIs
  ext4: remove useless conditional branch code
  ext4: remove unneeded check of nr_to_submit
  ext4: move dax and encrypt checking into ext4_check_feature_compatibility()
  ext4: factor out ext4_block_group_meta_init()
  ext4: move s_reserved_gdt_blocks and addressable checking into ext4_check_geometry()
  ext4: rename two functions with 'check'
  ext4: factor out ext4_flex_groups_free()
  ext4: use ext4_group_desc_free() in ext4_put_super() to save some duplicated code
  ext4: factor out ext4_percpu_param_init() and ext4_percpu_param_destroy()
  ext4: factor out ext4_hash_info_init()
  Revert "ext4: Fix warnings when freezing filesystem with journaled data"
  ext4: Update comment in mpage_prepare_extent_to_map()
  ext4: Simplify handling of journalled data in ext4_bmap()
  ext4: Drop special handling of journalled data from ext4_quota_on()
  ext4: Drop special handling of journalled data from ext4_evict_inode()
  ext4: Fix special handling of journalled data from extent zeroing
  ext4: Drop special handling of journalled data from extent shifting operations
  ext4: Drop special handling of journalled data from ext4_sync_file()
  ext4: Commit transaction before writing back pages in data=journal mode
  ...
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net ACPI updates for 6.4-rc1 2023-04-25 18:37:41 -07:00
rust rust: allow to use INIT_STACK_ALL_ZERO 2023-04-19 19:34:43 +02:00
samples ftrace: Rename _ftrace_direct_multi APIs to _ftrace_direct APIs 2023-03-21 13:43:32 -04:00
scripts asm-generic updates for 6.4 2023-04-25 12:22:11 -07:00
security Commit volume in documentation is relatively low this time, but there is 2023-04-24 12:35:49 -07:00
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tools Power management updates for 6.4-rc1 2023-04-25 18:44:10 -07:00
usr initramfs: Check negative timestamp to prevent broken cpio archive 2023-04-16 17:37:01 +09:00
virt KVM: PPC: Make KVM_CAP_IRQFD_RESAMPLE platform dependent 2023-03-31 11:19:05 -04:00
.clang-format cpumask: re-introduce constant-sized cpumask optimizations 2023-03-05 14:30:34 -08:00
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