Linus Torvalds
3be20b6fc1
Pull more ext4 updates from Ted Ts'o:
"This is the second round of ext4 commits for 5.8 merge window [1].
It includes the per-inode DAX support, which was dependant on the DAX
infrastructure which came in via the XFS tree, and a number of
regression and bug fixes; most notably the "BUG: using
smp_processor_id() in preemptible code in ext4_mb_new_blocks" reported
by syzkaller"
[1] The pull request actually came in 15 minutes after I had tagged the
rc1 release. Tssk, tssk, late.. - Linus
* tag 'ext4-for-linus-5.8-rc1-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4:
ext4, jbd2: ensure panic by fix a race between jbd2 abort and ext4 error handlers
ext4: support xattr gnu.* namespace for the Hurd
ext4: mballoc: Use this_cpu_read instead of this_cpu_ptr
ext4: avoid utf8_strncasecmp() with unstable name
ext4: stop overwrite the errcode in ext4_setup_super
ext4: fix partial cluster initialization when splitting extent
ext4: avoid race conditions when remounting with options that change dax
Documentation/dax: Update DAX enablement for ext4
fs/ext4: Introduce DAX inode flag
fs/ext4: Remove jflag variable
fs/ext4: Make DAX mount option a tri-state
fs/ext4: Only change S_DAX on inode load
fs/ext4: Update ext4_should_use_dax()
fs/ext4: Change EXT4_MOUNT_DAX to EXT4_MOUNT_DAX_ALWAYS
fs/ext4: Disallow verity if inode is DAX
fs/ext4: Narrow scope of DAX check in setflags
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