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Merge tag 'for-6.18-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kdave/linux

Pull btrfs updates from David Sterba:
 "There are no new features, the changes are in the core code, notably
  tree-log error handling and reporting improvements, and initial
  support for block size > page size.

  Performance improvements:

   - search data checksums in the commit root (previous transaction) to
     avoid locking contention, this improves parallelism of read
     heavy/low write workloads, and also reduces transaction commit
     time; on real and reproducer workload the sync time went from
     minutes to tens of seconds (workload and numbers are in the
     changelog)

  Core:

   - tree-log updates:
      - error handling improvements, transaction aborts
      - add new error state 'O' (printed in status messages) when log
        replay fails and is aborted
      - reduced number of btrfs_path allocations when traversing the
        tree

   - 'block size > page size' support
      - basic implementation with limitations, under experimental build
      - limitations: no direct io, raid56, encoded read (standalone and
        in send ioctl), encoded write
      - preparatory work for compression, removing implicit assumptions
        of page and block sizes
      - compression workspaces are now per-filesystem, we cannot assume
        common block size for work memory among different filesystems

   - tree-checker now verifies INODE_EXTREF item (which is implementing
     hardlinks)

   - tree leaf pretty printer updates, there were missing data from
     items, keys/items

   - move config option CONFIG_BTRFS_REF_VERIFY to CONFIG_BTRFS_DEBUG,
     it's a debugging feature and not needed to be enabled separately

   - more struct btrfs_path auto free updates

   - use ref_tracker API for tracking delayed inodes, enabled by mount
     option 'ref_verify', allowing to better pinpoint leaking references

   - in zoned mode, avoid selecting data relocation zoned for ordinary
     data block groups

   - updated and enhanced error messages

   - lots of cleanups and refactoring"

* tag 'for-6.18-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kdave/linux: (113 commits)
  btrfs: use smp_mb__after_atomic() when forcing COW in create_pending_snapshot()
  btrfs: add unlikely annotations to branches leading to transaction abort
  btrfs: add unlikely annotations to branches leading to EIO
  btrfs: add unlikely annotations to branches leading to EUCLEAN
  btrfs: more trivial BTRFS_PATH_AUTO_FREE conversions
  btrfs: zoned: don't fail mount needlessly due to too many active zones
  btrfs: use kmalloc_array() for open-coded arithmetic in kmalloc()
  btrfs: enable experimental bs > ps support
  btrfs: add extra ASSERT()s to catch unaligned bios
  btrfs: fix symbolic link reading when bs > ps
  btrfs: prepare scrub to support bs > ps cases
  btrfs: prepare zlib to support bs > ps cases
  btrfs: prepare lzo to support bs > ps cases
  btrfs: prepare zstd to support bs > ps cases
  btrfs: prepare compression folio alloc/free for bs > ps cases
  btrfs: fix the incorrect max_bytes value for find_lock_delalloc_range()
  btrfs: remove pointless key offset setup in create_pending_snapshot()
  btrfs: annotate btrfs_is_testing() as unlikely and make it return bool
  btrfs: make the rule checking more readable for should_cow_block()
  btrfs: simplify inline extent end calculation at replay_one_extent()
  ...
2025-09-30 08:14:49 -07:00
arch xen: branch for v6.18-rc1 2025-09-29 19:42:03 -07:00
block namespace-6.18-rc1 2025-09-29 11:20:29 -07:00
certs sign-file,extract-cert: use pkcs11 provider for OPENSSL MAJOR >= 3 2024-09-20 19:52:48 +03:00
crypto Crypto library updates for 6.18 2025-09-29 15:48:56 -07:00
Documentation powerpc updates for 6.18 2025-09-29 19:28:50 -07:00
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init s390 updates for 6.18 merge window 2025-09-29 19:14:25 -07:00
io_uring io_uring-6.17-20250919 2025-09-19 12:10:49 -07:00
ipc namespace-6.18-rc1 2025-09-29 11:20:29 -07:00
kernel powerpc updates for 6.18 2025-09-29 19:28:50 -07:00
lib RISC-V updates for the v6.18 merge window (part one) 2025-09-29 19:01:08 -07:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Replace the obsolete address of the FSF in the GFDL-1.2 2025-07-24 11:15:39 +02:00
mm arm64 updates for 6.18 2025-09-29 18:48:39 -07:00
net vfs-6.18-rc1.async 2025-09-29 11:55:15 -07:00
rust vfs-6.18-rc1.rust 2025-09-29 10:23:02 -07:00
samples 15 hotfixes. 11 are cc:stable and the remainder address post-6.16 issues 2025-09-17 21:34:26 -07:00
scripts hardening updates for v6.18-rc1 2025-09-29 17:48:27 -07:00
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sound ALSA: hda/realtek: Fix mute led for HP Laptop 15-dw4xx 2025-09-18 21:10:05 +02:00
tools powerpc updates for 6.18 2025-09-29 19:28:50 -07:00
usr usr/include: openrisc: don't HDRTEST bpf_perf_event.h 2025-05-12 15:03:17 +09:00
virt Merge tag 'kvm-x86-no_assignment-6.17' of https://github.com/kvm-x86/linux into HEAD 2025-07-29 08:36:42 -04:00
.clang-format Linux 6.15-rc5 2025-05-06 16:39:25 +10:00
.clippy.toml rust: clean Rust 1.88.0's warning about clippy::disallowed_macros configuration 2025-05-07 00:11:47 +02:00
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.gitignore gitignore: allow .pylintrc to be tracked 2025-07-02 17:10:04 -06:00
.mailmap 7 hotfixes. 4 are cc:stable and the remainder address post-6.16 issues or 2025-09-28 09:32:00 -07:00
.pylintrc docs: add a .pylintrc file with sys path for docs scripts 2025-04-09 12:10:33 -06:00
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Kbuild drm: ensure drm headers are self-contained and pass kernel-doc 2025-02-12 10:44:43 +02:00
Kconfig io_uring: Rename KConfig to Kconfig 2025-02-19 14:53:27 -07:00
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