This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.16.3 release. There are 9 patches in this series, all will be posted as a response to this one. If anyone has any issues with these being applied, please let me know.
Responses should be made by Sun, 24 Aug 2025 12:35:08 +0000. Anything received after that time might be too late.
The whole patch series can be found in one patch at: https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v6.x/stable-review/patch-6.16.3-rc1.... or in the git tree and branch at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git linux-6.16.y and the diffstat can be found below.
thanks,
greg k-h
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Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Linux 6.16.3-rc1
Zhang Yi yi.zhang@huawei.com ext4: replace ext4_writepage_trans_blocks()
Zhang Yi yi.zhang@huawei.com ext4: reserved credits for one extent during the folio writeback
Zhang Yi yi.zhang@huawei.com ext4: correct the reserved credits for extent conversion
Zhang Yi yi.zhang@huawei.com ext4: enhance tracepoints during the folios writeback
Zhang Yi yi.zhang@huawei.com ext4: restart handle if credits are insufficient during allocating blocks
Zhang Yi yi.zhang@huawei.com ext4: refactor the block allocation process of ext4_page_mkwrite()
Zhang Yi yi.zhang@huawei.com ext4: fix stale data if it bail out of the extents mapping loop
Zhang Yi yi.zhang@huawei.com ext4: move the calculation of wbc->nr_to_write to mpage_folio_done()
Zhang Yi yi.zhang@huawei.com ext4: process folios writeback in bytes
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Diffstat:
Makefile | 4 +- fs/ext4/ext4.h | 2 +- fs/ext4/extents.c | 6 +- fs/ext4/inline.c | 6 +- fs/ext4/inode.c | 323 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------- fs/ext4/move_extent.c | 3 +- fs/ext4/xattr.c | 2 +- include/trace/events/ext4.h | 47 +++++-- 8 files changed, 251 insertions(+), 142 deletions(-)