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
------------- Pseudo-Shortlog of commits:
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(-)
Hi
no regressions here on x86_64 (RKL, Intel 11th Gen. CPU)
Thanks
Tested-by: Ronald Warsow rwarsow@gmx.de
Hi Greg
On Fri, Aug 22, 2025 at 9:39 PM Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org wrote:
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
6.16.3-rc1 tested.
Build successfully completed. Boot successfully completed. No dmesg regressions. Video output normal. Sound output normal.
Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen10(Intel i7-1260P(x86_64) arch linux)
[ 0.000000] Linux version 6.16.3-rc1rv-g3fb8628191b4 (takeshi@ThinkPadX1Gen10J0764) (gcc (GCC) 15.2.1 20250813, GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.45.0) #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Fri Aug 22 23:37:39 JST 2025
Thanks
Tested-by: Takeshi Ogasawara takeshi.ogasawara@futuring-girl.com
On 8/22/25 05:37, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
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
On ARCH_BRCMSTB using 32-bit and 64-bit ARM kernels, build tested on BMIPS_GENERIC:
Tested-by: Florian Fainelli florian.fainelli@broadcom.com
Am 22.08.2025 um 14:37 schrieb Greg Kroah-Hartman:
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.
Builds, boots and works on my 2-socket Ivy Bridge Xeon E5-2697 v2 server. No dmesg oddities or regressions found.
Tested-by: Peter Schneider pschneider1968@googlemail.com
Beste Grüße, Peter Schneider
On Fri, 22 Aug 2025 at 18:07, Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org wrote:
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
Results from Linaro’s test farm. No regressions on arm64, arm, x86_64, and i386.
Tested-by: Linux Kernel Functional Testing lkft@linaro.org
NOTE: The reported warning has been resolved in this review cycle. WARNING: fs/jbd2/transaction.c:334 at start_this_handle
## Build * kernel: 6.16.3-rc1 * git: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git * git commit: 3fb8628191b4a7d912baf880840804056f3f44ad * git describe: v6.16.2-10-g3fb8628191b4 * test details: https://qa-reports.linaro.org/lkft/linux-stable-rc-linux-6.16.y/build/v6.16....
## Test Regressions (compared to v6.16-1186-gb81166f7d590)
## Metric Regressions (compared to v6.16-1186-gb81166f7d590)
## Test Fixes (compared to v6.16-1186-gb81166f7d590)
## Metric Fixes (compared to v6.16-1186-gb81166f7d590)
## Test result summary total: 348595, pass: 321612, fail: 6867, skip: 20116, xfail: 0
## Build Summary * arc: 5 total, 5 passed, 0 failed * arm: 139 total, 138 passed, 1 failed * arm64: 57 total, 56 passed, 1 failed * i386: 18 total, 18 passed, 0 failed * mips: 34 total, 27 passed, 7 failed * parisc: 4 total, 4 passed, 0 failed * powerpc: 40 total, 39 passed, 1 failed * riscv: 25 total, 24 passed, 1 failed * s390: 22 total, 22 passed, 0 failed * sh: 5 total, 5 passed, 0 failed * sparc: 4 total, 3 passed, 1 failed * x86_64: 49 total, 48 passed, 1 failed
## Test suites summary * boot * commands * kselftest-arm64 * kselftest-breakpoints * kselftest-capabilities * kselftest-cgroup * kselftest-clone3 * kselftest-core * kselftest-cpu-hotplug * kselftest-cpufreq * kselftest-efivarfs * kselftest-exec * kselftest-fpu * kselftest-ftrace * kselftest-futex * kselftest-gpio * kselftest-intel_pstate * kselftest-ipc * kselftest-kcmp * kselftest-kvm * kselftest-livepatch * kselftest-membarrier * kselftest-memfd * kselftest-mincore * kselftest-mm * kselftest-mqueue * kselftest-net * kselftest-net-mptcp * kselftest-openat2 * kselftest-ptrace * kselftest-rseq * kselftest-rtc * kselftest-rust * kselftest-seccomp * kselftest-sigaltstack * kselftest-size * kselftest-tc-testing * kselftest-timers * kselftest-tmpfs * kselftest-tpm2 * kselftest-user_events * kselftest-vDSO * kselftest-x86 * kunit * kvm-unit-tests * lava * libgpiod * libhugetlbfs * log-parser-boot * log-parser-build-clang * log-parser-build-gcc * log-parser-test * ltp-capability * ltp-commands * ltp-containers * ltp-controllers * ltp-cpuhotplug * ltp-crypto * ltp-cve * ltp-dio * ltp-fcntl-locktests * ltp-fs * ltp-fs_bind * ltp-fs_perms_simple * ltp-hugetlb * ltp-math * ltp-mm * ltp-nptl * ltp-pty * ltp-sched * ltp-smoke * ltp-syscalls * ltp-tracing * modules * perf * rcutorture * rt-tests-cyclicdeadline * rt-tests-pi-stress * rt-tests-pmqtest * rt-tests-rt-migrate-test * rt-tests-signaltest
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