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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2020-04-05 10:54:03 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2020-04-05 10:54:03 -0700
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Merge tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4
Pull ext4 updates from Ted Ts'o: - Replace ext4's bmap and iopoll implementations to use iomap. - Clean up extent tree handling. - Other cleanups and miscellaneous bug fixes * tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4: (31 commits) ext4: save all error info in save_error_info() and drop ext4_set_errno() ext4: fix incorrect group count in ext4_fill_super error message ext4: fix incorrect inodes per group in error message ext4: don't set dioread_nolock by default for blocksize < pagesize ext4: disable dioread_nolock whenever delayed allocation is disabled ext4: do not commit super on read-only bdev ext4: avoid ENOSPC when avoiding to reuse recently deleted inodes ext4: unregister sysfs path before destroying jbd2 journal ext4: check for non-zero journal inum in ext4_calculate_overhead ext4: remove map_from_cluster from ext4_ext_map_blocks ext4: clean up ext4_ext_insert_extent() call in ext4_ext_map_blocks() ext4: mark block bitmap corrupted when found instead of BUGON ext4: use flexible-array member for xattr structs ext4: use flexible-array member in struct fname Documentation: correct the description of FIEMAP_EXTENT_LAST ext4: move ext4_fiemap to use iomap framework ext4: make ext4_ind_map_blocks work with fiemap ext4: move ext4 bmap to use iomap infrastructure ext4: optimize ext4_ext_precache for 0 depth ext4: add IOMAP_F_MERGED for non-extent based mapping ...
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/fiemap.txt6
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/fiemap.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/fiemap.txt
index f6d9c99103a4..ac87e6fda842 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/fiemap.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/fiemap.txt
@@ -115,8 +115,10 @@ data. Note that the opposite is not true - it would be valid for
FIEMAP_EXTENT_NOT_ALIGNED to appear alone.
* FIEMAP_EXTENT_LAST
-This is the last extent in the file. A mapping attempt past this
-extent will return nothing.
+This is generally the last extent in the file. A mapping attempt past
+this extent may return nothing. Some implementations set this flag to
+indicate this extent is the last one in the range queried by the user
+(via fiemap->fm_length).
* FIEMAP_EXTENT_UNKNOWN
The location of this extent is currently unknown. This may indicate