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    Merge tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4 · 0cfcde1f
    Linus Torvalds authored
    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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