linux-kernel - [GIT PULL] ext4 bug and regression fixes for v6.0

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Date:   Sat, 24 Sep 2022 21:55:03 -0400
From:   "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>
To:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [GIT PULL] ext4 bug and regression fixes for v6.0

The following changes since commit 7e18e42e4b280c85b76967a9106a13ca61c16179:

  Linux 6.0-rc4 (2022-09-04 13:10:01 -0700)

are available in the Git repository at:

  https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4.git tags/ext4_for_linus_stable

for you to fetch changes up to 80fa46d6b9e7b1527bfd2197d75431fd9c382161:

  ext4: limit the number of retries after discarding preallocations blocks (2022-09-22 10:51:19 -0400)

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Ext4 regression and bug fixes:

- Performance regression fix from 5.18 on a Rasberry Pi

- Fix extent parsing bug which triggers a BUG_ON when a (corrupted)
  extent tree has has a non-root node when zero entries.

- Fix a livelock where in the right (wrong) circumstances a large
  number of nfsd threads can try to write to a nearly full file
  system, and retry for hours(!)

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Jan Kara (5):
      ext4: make mballoc try target group first even with mb_optimize_scan
      ext4: avoid unnecessary spreading of allocations among groups
      ext4: make directory inode spreading reflect flexbg size
      ext4: use locality group preallocation for small closed files
      ext4: use buckets for cr 1 block scan instead of rbtree

Luís Henriques (1):
      ext4: fix bug in extents parsing when eh_entries == 0 and eh_depth > 0

Theodore Ts'o (1):
      ext4: limit the number of retries after discarding preallocations blocks

 fs/ext4/ext4.h    |  10 +-
 fs/ext4/extents.c |   4 +
 fs/ext4/ialloc.c  |   2 +-
 fs/ext4/mballoc.c | 318 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------------------------
 fs/ext4/mballoc.h |   1 -
 5 files changed, 154 insertions(+), 181 deletions(-)