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Linus Torvalds 96485e4462 The siginificant new ext4 feature this time around is Harshad's new
fast_commit mode.  In addition, thanks to Mauricio for fixing a race
 where mmap'ed pages that are being changed in parallel with a
 data=journal transaction commit could result in bad checksums in the
 failure that could cause journal replays to fail.  Also notable is
 Ritesh's buffered write optimization which can result in significant
 improvements on parallel write workloads.  (The kernel test robot
 reported a 330.6% improvement on fio.write_iops on a 96 core system
 using DAX[1].)
 
 Besides that, we have the usual miscellaneous cleanups and bug fixes.
 
 [1] https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200925071217.GO28663@shao2-debian
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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:
 "The siginificant new ext4 feature this time around is Harshad's new
  fast_commit mode.

  In addition, thanks to Mauricio for fixing a race where mmap'ed pages
  that are being changed in parallel with a data=journal transaction
  commit could result in bad checksums in the failure that could cause
  journal replays to fail.

  Also notable is Ritesh's buffered write optimization which can result
  in significant improvements on parallel write workloads. (The kernel
  test robot reported a 330.6% improvement on fio.write_iops on a 96
  core system using DAX)

  Besides that, we have the usual miscellaneous cleanups and bug fixes"

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200925071217.GO28663@shao2-debian

* tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4: (46 commits)
  ext4: fix invalid inode checksum
  ext4: add fast commit stats in procfs
  ext4: add a mount opt to forcefully turn fast commits on
  ext4: fast commit recovery path
  jbd2: fast commit recovery path
  ext4: main fast-commit commit path
  jbd2: add fast commit machinery
  ext4 / jbd2: add fast commit initialization
  ext4: add fast_commit feature and handling for extended mount options
  doc: update ext4 and journalling docs to include fast commit feature
  ext4: Detect already used quota file early
  jbd2: avoid transaction reuse after reformatting
  ext4: use the normal helper to get the actual inode
  ext4: fix bs < ps issue reported with dioread_nolock mount opt
  ext4: data=journal: write-protect pages on j_submit_inode_data_buffers()
  ext4: data=journal: fixes for ext4_page_mkwrite()
  jbd2, ext4, ocfs2: introduce/use journal callbacks j_submit|finish_inode_data_buffers()
  jbd2: introduce/export functions jbd2_journal_submit|finish_inode_data_buffers()
  ext4: introduce ext4_sb_bread_unmovable() to replace sb_bread_unmovable()
  ext4: use ext4_sb_bread() instead of sb_bread()
  ...
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README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

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.