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Linus Torvalds 70ef8f0d37 for-f2fs-4.12
In this round, we've focused on enhancing performance with regards to block
 allocation, GC, and discard/in-place-update IO controls. There are a bunch
 of clean-ups as well as minor bug fixes.
 
 = Enhancement
 - disable heap-based allocation by default
 - issue small-sized discard commands by default
 - change the policy of data hotness for logging
 - distinguish IOs in terms of size and wbc type
 - start SSR earlier to avoid foreground GC
 - enhance data structures managing discard commands
 - enhance in-place update flow
 - add some more fault injection routines
 - secure one more xattr entry
 
 = Bug fix
 - calculate victim cost for GC correctly
 - remain correct victim segment number for GC
 - race condition in nid allocator and initializer
 - stale pointer produced by atomic_writes
 - fix missing REQ_SYNC for flush commands
 - handle missing errors in more corner cases
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Merge tag 'for-f2fs-4.12' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jaegeuk/f2fs

Pull f2fs updates from Jaegeuk Kim:
 "In this round, we've focused on enhancing performance with regards to
  block allocation, GC, and discard/in-place-update IO controls. There
  are a bunch of clean-ups as well as minor bug fixes.

  Enhancements:
   - disable heap-based allocation by default
   - issue small-sized discard commands by default
   - change the policy of data hotness for logging
   - distinguish IOs in terms of size and wbc type
   - start SSR earlier to avoid foreground GC
   - enhance data structures managing discard commands
   - enhance in-place update flow
   - add some more fault injection routines
   - secure one more xattr entry

  Bug fixes:
   - calculate victim cost for GC correctly
   - remain correct victim segment number for GC
   - race condition in nid allocator and initializer
   - stale pointer produced by atomic_writes
   - fix missing REQ_SYNC for flush commands
   - handle missing errors in more corner cases"

* tag 'for-f2fs-4.12' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jaegeuk/f2fs: (111 commits)
  f2fs: fix a mount fail for wrong next_scan_nid
  f2fs: enhance scalability of trace macro
  f2fs: relocate inode_{,un}lock in F2FS_IOC_SETFLAGS
  f2fs: Make flush bios explicitely sync
  f2fs: show available_nids in f2fs/status
  f2fs: flush dirty nats periodically
  f2fs: introduce CP_TRIMMED_FLAG to avoid unneeded discard
  f2fs: allow cpc->reason to indicate more than one reason
  f2fs: release cp and dnode lock before IPU
  f2fs: shrink size of struct discard_cmd
  f2fs: don't hold cmd_lock during waiting discard command
  f2fs: nullify fio->encrypted_page for each writes
  f2fs: sanity check segment count
  f2fs: introduce valid_ipu_blkaddr to clean up
  f2fs: lookup extent cache first under IPU scenario
  f2fs: reconstruct code to write a data page
  f2fs: introduce __wait_discard_cmd
  f2fs: introduce __issue_discard_cmd
  f2fs: enable small discard by default
  f2fs: delay awaking discard thread
  ...
2017-05-08 12:24:17 -07:00
arch DeviceTree for 4.12: 2017-05-05 19:33:07 -07:00
block Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block 2017-05-06 11:25:08 -07:00
certs KEYS: Use structure to capture key restriction function and data 2017-04-04 14:10:10 -07:00
crypto Merge branch 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security 2017-05-03 08:50:52 -07:00
Documentation docs: complete bumping minimal GNU Make version to 3.81 2017-05-06 18:49:09 -07:00
drivers Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block 2017-05-06 11:25:08 -07:00
firmware WHENCE: use https://linuxtv.org for LinuxTV URLs 2015-12-04 10:35:11 -02:00
fs for-f2fs-4.12 2017-05-08 12:24:17 -07:00
include for-f2fs-4.12 2017-05-08 12:24:17 -07:00
init initramfs: avoid "label at end of compound statement" error 2017-05-06 10:27:13 -07:00
ipc Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace 2017-05-05 11:08:43 -07:00
kernel powerpc updates for 4.12 part 1. 2017-05-05 11:36:44 -07:00
lib refcount: change EXPORT_SYMBOL markings 2017-05-06 11:01:34 -07:00
mm Add GETFSMAP support; some performance improvements for very large 2017-05-08 11:30:05 -07:00
net Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace 2017-05-05 11:08:43 -07:00
samples char/misc patches for 4.12-rc1 2017-05-04 19:15:35 -07:00
scripts DeviceTree for 4.12: 2017-05-05 19:33:07 -07:00
security Merge branch 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security 2017-05-03 08:50:52 -07:00
sound sound updates for 4.12-rc1 2017-05-03 11:58:59 -07:00
tools libnvdimm for 4.12 2017-05-05 18:49:20 -07:00
usr kbuild: initramfs cleanup, set target from Kconfig 2017-01-05 09:40:16 -08:00
virt arm64 updates for 4.12: 2017-05-05 12:11:37 -07:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore Add hch to .get_maintainer.ignore 2015-08-21 14:30:10 -07:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: set git diff driver for C source code files 2016-10-07 18:46:30 -07:00
.gitignore Merge branch 'misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild 2016-08-02 16:48:52 -04:00
.mailmap Staging/IIO patches for 4.12-rc1 2017-05-05 18:16:23 -07:00
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CREDITS avr32: remove support for AVR32 architecture 2017-05-01 09:27:15 +02:00
Kbuild scripts/gdb: provide linux constants 2016-05-23 17:04:14 -07:00
Kconfig
MAINTAINERS Only bug fixes and cleanups for this merge window. 2017-05-08 11:40:34 -07:00
Makefile A reasonably busy cycle for documentation this time around. There is a new 2017-05-02 10:21:17 -07:00
README README: add a new README file, pointing to the Documentation/ 2016-10-24 08:12:35 -02:00

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This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst

Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users.
These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
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There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
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See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

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.