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Linus Torvalds 5cea7647e6 Merge branch 'for-4.15' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kdave/linux
Pull btrfs updates from David Sterba:
 "There are some new user features and the usual load of invisible
  enhancements or cleanups.

  New features:

   - extend mount options to specify zlib compression level, -o
     compress=zlib:9

   - v2 of ioctl "extent to inode mapping", addressing a usecase where
     we want to retrieve more but inaccurate results and do the
     postprocessing in userspace, aiding defragmentation or
     deduplication tools

   - populate compression heuristics logic, do data sampling and try to
     guess compressibility by: looking for repeated patterns, counting
     unique byte values and distribution, calculating Shannon entropy;
     this will need more benchmarking and possibly fine tuning, but the
     base should be good enough

   - enable indexing for btrfs as lower filesystem in overlayfs

   - speedup page cache readahead during send on large files

  Internal enhancements:

   - more sanity checks of b-tree items when reading them from disk

   - more EINVAL/EUCLEAN fixups, missing BLK_STS_* conversion, other
     errno or error handling fixes

   - remove some homegrown IO-related logic, that's been obsoleted by
     core block layer changes (batching, plug/unplug, own counters)

   - add ref-verify, optional debugging feature to verify extent
     reference accounting

   - simplify code handling outstanding extents, make it more clear
     where and how the accounting is done

   - make delalloc reservations per-inode, simplify the code and make
     the logic more straightforward

   - extensive cleanup of delayed refs code

  Notable fixes:

   - fix send ioctl on 32bit with 64bit kernel"

* 'for-4.15' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kdave/linux: (102 commits)
  btrfs: Fix bug for misused dev_t when lookup in dev state hash table.
  Btrfs: heuristic: add Shannon entropy calculation
  Btrfs: heuristic: add byte core set calculation
  Btrfs: heuristic: add byte set calculation
  Btrfs: heuristic: add detection of repeated data patterns
  Btrfs: heuristic: implement sampling logic
  Btrfs: heuristic: add bucket and sample counters and other defines
  Btrfs: compression: separate heuristic/compression workspaces
  btrfs: move btrfs_truncate_block out of trans handle
  btrfs: don't call btrfs_start_delalloc_roots in flushoncommit
  btrfs: track refs in a rb_tree instead of a list
  btrfs: add a comp_refs() helper
  btrfs: switch args for comp_*_refs
  btrfs: make the delalloc block rsv per inode
  btrfs: add tracepoints for outstanding extents mods
  Btrfs: rework outstanding_extents
  btrfs: increase output size for LOGICAL_INO_V2 ioctl
  btrfs: add a flags argument to LOGICAL_INO and call it LOGICAL_INO_V2
  btrfs: add a flag to iterate_inodes_from_logical to find all extent refs for uncompressed extents
  btrfs: send: remove unused code
  ...
2017-11-14 13:35:29 -08:00
arch Merge branch 'linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6 2017-11-14 10:52:09 -08:00
block Merge branch 'linus' into locking/core, to resolve conflicts 2017-11-07 10:32:44 +01:00
certs License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
crypto Merge branch 'linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6 2017-11-14 10:52:09 -08:00
Documentation fscrypt: lots of cleanups, mostly courtesy by Eric Biggers 2017-11-14 11:35:15 -08:00
drivers Merge branch 'linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6 2017-11-14 10:52:09 -08:00
firmware License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
fs Merge branch 'for-4.15' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kdave/linux 2017-11-14 13:35:29 -08:00
include Merge branch 'for-4.15' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kdave/linux 2017-11-14 13:35:29 -08:00
init Merge branch 'x86-apic-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-11-13 18:29:23 -08:00
ipc License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
kernel Merge branch 'linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6 2017-11-14 10:52:09 -08:00
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samples Merge branch 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-11-13 13:05:08 -08:00
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security Merge branch 'linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6 2017-11-14 10:52:09 -08:00
sound Merge branch 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-11-13 17:56:58 -08:00
tools USB/PHY patches for 4.15-rc1 2017-11-13 21:14:07 -08:00
usr initramfs: fix initramfs rebuilds w/ compression after disabling 2017-11-03 07:39:19 -07:00
virt Merge branch 'linus' into locking/core, to resolve conflicts 2017-11-07 10:32:44 +01:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore Add hch to .get_maintainer.ignore 2015-08-21 14:30:10 -07:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: set git diff driver for C source code files 2016-10-07 18:46:30 -07:00
.gitignore kbuild: Add support to generate LLVM assembly files 2017-04-25 08:13:52 +09:00
.mailmap .mailmap: Add Maciej W. Rozycki's Imagination e-mail address 2017-11-10 12:16:15 -08:00
COPYING [PATCH] update FSF address in COPYING 2005-09-10 10:06:29 -07:00
CREDITS MAINTAINERS: update TPM driver infrastructure changes 2017-11-09 17:58:40 -08:00
Kbuild License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
Kconfig License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
MAINTAINERS fscrypt: lots of cleanups, mostly courtesy by Eric Biggers 2017-11-14 11:35:15 -08:00
Makefile Merge branch 'x86-asm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-11-13 14:13:48 -08:00
README README: add a new README file, pointing to the Documentation/ 2016-10-24 08:12:35 -02:00

Linux kernel
============

This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst

Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users.
These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.