I've created a couple of ext4 backport branches which have been uploaded to the ext4 git tree: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4.git http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4.git The master branch contains the latest ext4 patch queue, against Linus's tip; currently, this is versus 2.6.29-rc2. The 'for_linus' tag is located on this branch, and currently contains a number of urgent fixes that I plan to be pushing to Linus after he gets back from linux.conf.au. They are mostly fixes that prevent OOPS or cpu lockups when ext4 mounts an intentionally corrupted filesystem. The ext4-stable branch is based off of 2.6.28, and contains all of the patches which were pushed to linus during the 2.6.29-rc1 merge window, plus the fixes listed above in the 'master' branch. It is designed for people who want the very latest in the ext4 tree versus a stable kernel. The for-stable branch is currently based off of 2.6.28, and contains a candidate set of patches to be included in the 2.6.28.y stable tree. Ext4 developers --- I would appreciate it if you could review the patches on the ext4-stable tree, and see if I missed any patches which in your opinion should be pushed to the 2.6.28.y tree. Furthermore, if some folks could test the for-stable branch and let me know whether or not you found it stable, I would appreciate it. Some of the patches were relatively painful to backport, given the desire to remove "non-critical" patches, so I'm not 100% certain I got the backports completely right. Please test! The for-stable-2.6.27 is currently based off of 2.6.27.11, and it contains a candidate set of patches to be incuded in the 2.6.27.y tree. It was even more difficult to backport these patches to 2.6.27.y, and so I would **really** appreciate if some folks could review and test this branch. In addition, a number of changes (in particular some of Aneesh's resize race condition patches) were painful enough that I decided to abort and not try to do the backport. It was late, and I was getting tired.... If someone would like to try to backport some of these missing patches, I would appreciate it; Aneesh, you might have better luck since they were originally your patches, and they were complicated enough that I was worried that there might have been prerequisites that I had missed so they would function correctly. The patch backports can be summarized in this table below. It contains the original mainline commit ID, the commit ID in the 2.6.28 for-stable branch, and the commit ID in the for-stable-2.6.27 branch. If you see "-----" in the column for the 2.6.27-stable column, those were patches which I did not backport due to lack of valor/courage at 11pm at night. - Ted mainline 2.6.28 2.6.27 commit-description ------------------------------------------------------------------------- f99b2589 485f02f 11599d0 ext4: Add support for non-native signed/unsigned htree hash algorithms 2a21e37e 7426272 8443aef ext4: tone down ext4_da_writepages warnings 791b7f08 2efd58c c7eef47 ext4: Fix the delalloc writepages to allocate blocks at the right offset. 565a9617 ce99b0d b2a193d ext4: avoid ext4_error when mounting a fs with a single bg ff7ef329 3a04ef3 626e5b9 ext4: Widen type of ext4_sb_info.s_mb_maxs[] fd98496f f97e641 dc270b3 jbd2: Add barrier not supported test to journal_wait_on_commit_record 032115fc b9475aa c1944c2 ext4: Don't overwrite allocation_context ac_status e21675d4 c31a2b2 ----- ext4: Add blocks added during resize to bitmap 920313a7 2a4f6ca ----- ext4: Use EXT4_GROUP_INFO_NEED_INIT_BIT during resize c3a326a6 66364e6 24a5c92 ext4: cleanup mballoc header files 7a2fcbf7 39a0b8b ----- ext4: don't use blocks freed but not yet committed in buddy cache init e8134b27 83a082c c712c85 ext4: Fix race between read_block_bitmap() and mark_diskspace_used() 39341867 8e53df4 4d3302c ext4: Fix the race between read_inode_bitmap() and ext4_new_inode() e97fcd95 20d6100 7e081e8 jbd2: Add BH_JBDPrivateStart 2ccb5fb9 92f1c0e ----- ext4: Use new buffer_head flag to check uninit group bitmaps initialization 648f5879 51eef9f 469a48a ext4: mark the blocks/inode bitmap beyond end of group as used 8556e8f3 5a2c7ad 686beef ext4: Don't allow new groups to be added during block allocation 29eaf024 39d994e 0c56383 ext4: Init the complete page while building buddy cache 0087d9fb 808dfdb ----- ext4: Fix s_dirty_blocks_counter if block allocation failed with nodelalloc 4ec11028 cf7da20 ----- ext4: Add sanity checks for the superblock before mounting the filesystem -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
