Merge tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4

Pull ext4 updates from Ted Ts'o:
 "Mostly performance and bug fixes, plus some cleanups.  The one new
  feature this merge window is a new ioctl EXT4_IOC_SWAP_BOOT which
  allows installation of a hidden inode designed for boot loaders."

* tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4: (50 commits)
  ext4: fix type-widening bug in inode table readahead code
  ext4: add check for inodes_count overflow in new resize ioctl
  ext4: fix Kconfig documentation for CONFIG_EXT4_DEBUG
  ext4: fix online resizing for ext3-compat file systems
  jbd2: trace when lock_buffer in do_get_write_access takes a long time
  ext4: mark metadata blocks using bh flags
  buffer: add BH_Prio and BH_Meta flags
  ext4: mark all metadata I/O with REQ_META
  ext4: fix readdir error in case inline_data+^dir_index.
  ext4: fix readdir error in the case of inline_data+dir_index
  jbd2: use kmem_cache_zalloc instead of kmem_cache_alloc/memset
  ext4: mext_insert_extents should update extent block checksum
  ext4: move quota initialization out of inode allocation transaction
  ext4: reserve xattr index for Rich ACL support
  jbd2: reduce journal_head size
  ext4: clear buffer_uninit flag when submitting IO
  ext4: use io_end for multiple bios
  ext4: make ext4_bio_write_page() use BH_Async_Write flags
  ext4: Use kstrtoul() instead of parse_strtoul()
  ext4: defragmentation code cleanup
  ...

1 files changed, 21 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt
index 34ea4f1fa6ea..f7cbf574a875 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt
@@ -494,6 +494,17 @@ Files in /sys/fs/ext4/<devname>
  session_write_kbytes         This file is read-only and shows the number of
                               kilobytes of data that have been written to this
                               filesystem since it was mounted.
+
+ reserved_clusters            This is RW file and contains number of reserved
+                              clusters in the file system which will be used
+                              in the specific situations to avoid costly
+                              zeroout, unexpected ENOSPC, or possible data
+                              loss. The default is 2% or 4096 clusters,
+                              whichever is smaller and this can be changed
+                              however it can never exceed number of clusters
+                              in the file system. If there is not enough space
+                              for the reserved space when mounting the file
+                              mount will _not_ fail.
 ..............................................................................
 
 Ioctls
@@ -587,6 +598,16 @@ Table of Ext4 specific ioctls
 			      bitmaps and inode table, the userspace tool thus
 			      just passes the new number of blocks.
 
+EXT4_IOC_SWAP_BOOT	      Swap i_blocks and associated attributes
+			      (like i_blocks, i_size, i_flags, ...) from
+			      the specified inode with inode
+			      EXT4_BOOT_LOADER_INO (#5). This is typically
+			      used to store a boot loader in a secure part of
+			      the filesystem, where it can't be changed by a
+			      normal user by accident.
+			      The data blocks of the previous boot loader
+			      will be associated with the given inode.
+
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