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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2020-08-21 11:03:38 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2020-08-21 11:03:38 -0700
commitd723b99ec9e502a414a96a51ec229333f807b47e (patch)
tree2602310329eb4ecc3438a450c38781e1d44bf81d /Documentation
parent5e0b17b026eb7c6de9baa9b0d45a51b05f05abe1 (diff)
parent27bc446e2def38db3244a6eb4bb1d6312936610a (diff)
Merge tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4
Pull ext4 updates from Ted Ts'o: "Improvements to ext4's block allocator performance for very large file systems, especially when the file system or files which are highly fragmented. There is a new mount option, prefetch_block_bitmaps which will pull in the block bitmaps and set up the in-memory buddy bitmaps when the file system is initially mounted. Beyond that, a lot of bug fixes and cleanups. In particular, a number of changes to make ext4 more robust in the face of write errors or file system corruptions" * tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4: (46 commits) ext4: limit the length of per-inode prealloc list ext4: reorganize if statement of ext4_mb_release_context() ext4: add mb_debug logging when there are lost chunks ext4: Fix comment typo "the the". jbd2: clean up checksum verification in do_one_pass() ext4: change to use fallthrough macro ext4: remove unused parameter of ext4_generic_delete_entry function mballoc: replace seq_printf with seq_puts ext4: optimize the implementation of ext4_mb_good_group() ext4: delete invalid comments near ext4_mb_check_limits() ext4: fix typos in ext4_mb_regular_allocator() comment ext4: fix checking of directory entry validity for inline directories fs: prevent BUG_ON in submit_bh_wbc() ext4: correctly restore system zone info when remount fails ext4: handle add_system_zone() failure in ext4_setup_system_zone() ext4: fold ext4_data_block_valid_rcu() into the caller ext4: check journal inode extents more carefully ext4: don't allow overlapping system zones ext4: handle error of ext4_setup_system_zone() on remount ext4: delete the invalid BUGON in ext4_mb_load_buddy_gfp() ...
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/admin-guide/ext4.rst23
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/ext4/about.rst2
2 files changed, 14 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/ext4.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/ext4.rst
index a683976fad6d..d2795ca6821e 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/ext4.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/ext4.rst
@@ -489,6 +489,9 @@ Files in /sys/fs/ext4/<devname>:
multiple of this tuning parameter if the stripe size is not set in the
ext4 superblock
+ mb_max_inode_prealloc
+ The maximum length of per-inode ext4_prealloc_space list.
+
mb_max_to_scan
The maximum number of extents the multiblock allocator will search to
find the best extent.
@@ -529,21 +532,21 @@ Files in /sys/fs/ext4/<devname>:
Ioctls
======
-There is some Ext4 specific functionality which can be accessed by applications
-through the system call interfaces. The list of all Ext4 specific ioctls are
-shown in the table below.
+Ext4 implements various ioctls which can be used by applications to access
+ext4-specific functionality. An incomplete list of these ioctls is shown in the
+table below. This list includes truly ext4-specific ioctls (``EXT4_IOC_*``) as
+well as ioctls that may have been ext4-specific originally but are now supported
+by some other filesystem(s) too (``FS_IOC_*``).
-Table of Ext4 specific ioctls
+Table of Ext4 ioctls
- EXT4_IOC_GETFLAGS
+ FS_IOC_GETFLAGS
Get additional attributes associated with inode. The ioctl argument is
- an integer bitfield, with bit values described in ext4.h. This ioctl is
- an alias for FS_IOC_GETFLAGS.
+ an integer bitfield, with bit values described in ext4.h.
- EXT4_IOC_SETFLAGS
+ FS_IOC_SETFLAGS
Set additional attributes associated with inode. The ioctl argument is
- an integer bitfield, with bit values described in ext4.h. This ioctl is
- an alias for FS_IOC_SETFLAGS.
+ an integer bitfield, with bit values described in ext4.h.
EXT4_IOC_GETVERSION, EXT4_IOC_GETVERSION_OLD
Get the inode i_generation number stored for each inode. The
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/ext4/about.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/ext4/about.rst
index 0aadba052264..cc76b577d2f4 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/ext4/about.rst
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/ext4/about.rst
@@ -39,6 +39,6 @@ entry.
Other References
----------------
-Also see http://www.nongnu.org/ext2-doc/ for quite a collection of
+Also see https://www.nongnu.org/ext2-doc/ for quite a collection of
information about ext2/3. Here's another old reference:
http://wiki.osdev.org/Ext2