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Merge tag 'for-6.2-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kdave/linux

Pull btrfs updates from David Sterba:
 "This round there are a lot of cleanups and moved code so the diffstat
  looks huge, otherwise there are some nice performance improvements and
  an update to raid56 reliability.

  User visible features:

   - raid56 reliability vs performance trade off:
      - fix destructive RMW for raid5 data (raid6 still needs work): do
        full checksum verification for all data during RMW cycle, this
        should prevent rewriting potentially corrupted data without
        notice
      - stripes are cached in memory which should reduce the performance
        impact but still can hurt some workloads
      - checksums are verified after repair again
      - this is the last option without introducing additional features
        (write intent bitmap, journal, another tree), the extra checksum
        read/verification was supposed to be avoided by the original
        implementation exactly for performance reasons but that caused
        all the reliability problems

   - discard=async by default for devices that support it

   - implement emergency flush reserve to avoid almost all unnecessary
     transaction aborts due to ENOSPC in cases where there are too many
     delayed refs or delayed allocation

   - skip block group synchronization if there's no change in used
     bytes, can reduce transaction commit count for some workloads

  Performance improvements:

   - fiemap and lseek:
      - overall speedup due to skipping unnecessary or duplicate
        searches (-40% run time)
      - cache some data structures and sharedness of extents (-30% run
        time)

   - send:
      - faster backref resolution when finding clones
      - cached leaf to root mapping for faster backref walking
      - improved clone/sharing detection
      - overall run time improvements (-70%)

  Core:

   - module initialization converted to a table of function pointers run
     in a sequence

   - preparation for fscrypt, extend passing file names across calls,
     dir item can store encryption status

   - raid56 updates:
      - more accurate error tracking of sectors within stripe
      - simplify recovery path and remove dedicated endio worker kthread
      - simplify scrub call paths
      - refactoring to support the extra data checksum verification
        during RMW cycle

   - tree block parentness checks consolidated and done at metadata read
     time

   - improved error handling

   - cleanups:
      - move a lot of code for better synchronization between kernel and
        user space sources, split big files
      - enum cleanups
      - GFP flag cleanups
      - header file cleanups, prototypes, dependencies
      - redundant parameter cleanups
      - inline extent handling simplifications
      - inode parameter conversion
      - data structure cleanups, reductions, renames, merges"

* tag 'for-6.2-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kdave/linux: (249 commits)
  btrfs: print transaction aborted messages with an error level
  btrfs: sync some cleanups from progs into uapi/btrfs.h
  btrfs: do not BUG_ON() on ENOMEM when dropping extent items for a range
  btrfs: fix extent map use-after-free when handling missing device in read_one_chunk
  btrfs: remove outdated logic from overwrite_item() and add assertion
  btrfs: unify overwrite_item() and do_overwrite_item()
  btrfs: replace strncpy() with strscpy()
  btrfs: fix uninitialized variable in find_first_clear_extent_bit
  btrfs: fix uninitialized parent in insert_state
  btrfs: add might_sleep() annotations
  btrfs: add stack helpers for a few btrfs items
  btrfs: add nr_global_roots to the super block definition
  btrfs: remove BTRFS_LEAF_DATA_OFFSET
  btrfs: add helpers for manipulating leaf items and data
  btrfs: add eb to btrfs_node_key_ptr_offset
  btrfs: pass the extent buffer for the btrfs_item_nr helpers
  btrfs: move the csum helpers into ctree.h
  btrfs: move eb offset helpers into extent_io.h
  btrfs: move file_extent_item helpers into file-item.h
  btrfs: move leaf_data_end into ctree.c
  ...
2022-12-12 20:47:51 -08:00
Documentation Changes since the last update: 2022-12-12 20:14:04 -08:00
LICENSES LICENSES/LGPL-2.1: Add LGPL-2.1-or-later as valid identifiers 2021-12-16 14:33:10 +01:00
arch iov_iter work; most of that is about getting rid of 2022-12-12 18:29:54 -08:00
block fscrypt updates for 6.2 2022-12-12 20:03:50 -08:00
certs certs: make system keyring depend on built-in x509 parser 2022-09-24 04:31:18 +09:00
crypto iov_iter work; most of that is about getting rid of 2022-12-12 18:29:54 -08:00
drivers iov_iter work; most of that is about getting rid of 2022-12-12 18:29:54 -08:00
fs for-6.2-tag 2022-12-12 20:47:51 -08:00
include for-6.2-tag 2022-12-12 20:47:51 -08:00
init Non-MM patches for 6.2-rc1. 2022-12-12 17:28:58 -08:00
io_uring fs.idmapped.mnt_idmap.v6.2 2022-12-12 19:30:18 -08:00
ipc Non-MM patches for 6.2-rc1. 2022-12-12 17:28:58 -08:00
kernel fs.vfsuid.conversion.v6.2 2022-12-12 19:20:05 -08:00
lib iov_iter work; most of that is about getting rid of 2022-12-12 18:29:54 -08:00
mm A large number of cleanups and bug fixes, with many of the bug fixes 2022-12-12 19:56:37 -08:00
net iov_iter work; most of that is about getting rid of 2022-12-12 18:29:54 -08:00
rust rust: types: add `Opaque` type 2022-12-04 01:59:16 +01:00
samples rust: macros: take string literals in `module!` 2022-12-04 01:59:15 +01:00
scripts Non-MM patches for 6.2-rc1. 2022-12-12 17:28:58 -08:00
security fs.vfsuid.conversion.v6.2 2022-12-12 19:20:05 -08:00
sound ASoC: Fixes for v6.1 2022-11-30 17:26:55 +01:00
tools Non-MM patches for 6.2-rc1. 2022-12-12 17:28:58 -08:00
usr usr/gen_init_cpio.c: remove unnecessary -1 values from int file 2022-10-03 14:21:44 -07:00
virt Merge branch 'kvm-dwmw2-fixes' into HEAD 2022-11-23 18:59:45 -05:00
.clang-format printk changes for 6.2 2022-12-12 09:01:36 -08:00
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.gitignore kbuild: Cleanup DT Overlay intermediate files as appropriate 2022-11-18 14:45:30 -06:00
.mailmap Non-MM patches for 6.2-rc1. 2022-12-12 17:28:58 -08:00
.rustfmt.toml rust: add `.rustfmt.toml` 2022-09-28 09:02:20 +02:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS MAINTAINERS: Remove Michal Marek from Kbuild maintainers 2022-11-16 14:53:00 +09:00
Kbuild Kbuild updates for v6.1 2022-10-10 12:00:45 -07:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
MAINTAINERS Assorted JFS fixes for 6.2 2022-12-12 20:38:28 -08:00
Makefile This was a not-too-busy cycle for documentation; highlights include: 2022-12-12 17:18:50 -08:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

README

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.