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6.16.3-rc1 review

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#Subject and filesSizeRepliesApplied
1/9ext4: process folios writeback in bytesfs/ext4/inode.c include/trace/events/ext4.h+42 -410 replies
2/9ext4: move the calculation of wbc->nr_to_write to mpage_folio_done()fs/ext4/inode.c+1 -20 replies
3/9ext4: fix stale data if it bail out of the extents mapping loopfs/ext4/inode.c+50 -10 replies
4/9ext4: refactor the block allocation process of ext4_page_mkwrite()fs/ext4/inode.c+50 -450 replies
5/9ext4: restart handle if credits are insufficient during allocating blocksfs/ext4/inode.c+36 -50 replies
6/9ext4: enhance tracepoints during the folios writebackfs/ext4/inode.c include/trace/events/ext4.h+41 -60 replies
7/9ext4: correct the reserved credits for extent conversionfs/ext4/inode.c+3 -30 replies
8/9ext4: reserved credits for one extent during the folio writebackfs/ext4/inode.c+8 -170 replies
9/9ext4: replace ext4_writepage_trans_blocks()fs/ext4/ext4.h fs/ext4/extents.c fs/ext4/inline.c +3 more+25 -270 replies

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All 9 patches have a Reviewed-by or Acked-by.

PatchJan KaraBaokun LiRonald WarsowMarkus ReicheltTakeshi OgasawaraFlorian FainelliPeter SchneiderLinux Kernel Functional TestingBrett A C Sheffield
SeriesT-b T-b T-b T-b T-b T-b T-b
1/9R-b
2/9R-b R-b
3/9R-b
4/9R-b
5/9R-b
6/9R-b
7/9R-b R-b
8/9R-b
9/9R-b

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Cover letter [PATCH 6.16 0/9] 6.16.3-rc1 review

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.gz

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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Pseudo-Shortlog of commits:

Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>

    Linux 6.16.3-rc1

Zhang Yi <[email protected]>
ext4: replace ext4_writepage_trans_blocks()

Zhang Yi <[email protected]>
ext4: reserved credits for one extent during the folio writeback

Zhang Yi <[email protected]>
ext4: correct the reserved credits for extent conversion

Zhang Yi <[email protected]>
ext4: enhance tracepoints during the folios writeback

Zhang Yi <[email protected]>
ext4: restart handle if credits are insufficient during allocating blocks

Zhang Yi <[email protected]>
ext4: refactor the block allocation process of ext4_page_mkwrite()

Zhang Yi <[email protected]>
ext4: fix stale data if it bail out of the extents mapping loop

Zhang Yi <[email protected]>

    ext4: move the calculation of wbc->nr_to_write to mpage_folio_done()

Zhang Yi <[email protected]>
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(-)