[PATCH 6.16 0/9] 6.16.3-rc1 review

[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.

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 <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
    Linux 6.16.3-rc1

Zhang Yi <yi.zhang@xxxxxxxxxx>
    ext4: replace ext4_writepage_trans_blocks()

Zhang Yi <yi.zhang@xxxxxxxxxx>
    ext4: reserved credits for one extent during the folio writeback

Zhang Yi <yi.zhang@xxxxxxxxxx>
    ext4: correct the reserved credits for extent conversion

Zhang Yi <yi.zhang@xxxxxxxxxx>
    ext4: enhance tracepoints during the folios writeback

Zhang Yi <yi.zhang@xxxxxxxxxx>
    ext4: restart handle if credits are insufficient during allocating blocks

Zhang Yi <yi.zhang@xxxxxxxxxx>
    ext4: refactor the block allocation process of ext4_page_mkwrite()

Zhang Yi <yi.zhang@xxxxxxxxxx>
    ext4: fix stale data if it bail out of the extents mapping loop

Zhang Yi <yi.zhang@xxxxxxxxxx>
    ext4: move the calculation of wbc->nr_to_write to mpage_folio_done()

Zhang Yi <yi.zhang@xxxxxxxxxx>
    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(-)