Merge tag 'io_uring-7.3-20261002' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/axboe/linuxgrafted

Pull io_uring fixes from Jens Axboe:

 - Fix a task_work add use-after-free with SQPOLL.

   The sqpoll thread could pop and complete the last request while
   io_req_normal_work_add() was still looking at them after the mpscq
   push.

   Use the same approach as DEFER_TASKRUN to protect from that, holding
   an RCU read lock across the add, and have exit wait for an RCU grace
   period for SQPOLL rings as well.

 - CQE32 ring fixes: correct the free entry check for 32b CQEs, zero the
   big_cqe for aux CQEs, and only post the dummy skip CQE on CQE_MIXED
   rings

 - Mark the source filter table as COW when cloning bpf filters, so
   registering another filter on the source doesn't modify the shared
   table in place

 - Initialize the task context before running the BPF loop

 - Requeue zcrx multishot receives stopped by a local resource

 - End a TX_TIMESTAMP multishot cmd when the CQ is full (lollipopkit)

* tag 'io_uring-7.3-20261002' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/axboe/linux:
  io_uring: fix task_work add use-after-free with SQPOLL
  io_uring/cmd_net: end TX_TIMESTAMP multishot when the CQ is full
  io_uring/zcrx: requeue multishot receives stopped by a local resource
  io_uring: initialize task context before running the BPF loop
  io_uring: zero big_cqe for aux CQEs on CQE32 rings
  io_uring: fix free entry check for 32b CQEs on CQE32 rings
  io_uring: only post the dummy skip CQE on CQE_MIXED rings
  io_uring/bpf_filter: mark source as COW when cloning filters

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+.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+
+Bigalloc
+--------
+
+At the moment, the default size of a block is 4KiB, which is a commonly
+supported page size on most MMU-capable hardware. This is fortunate, as
+ext4 code is not prepared to handle the case where the block size
+exceeds the page size. However, for a filesystem of mostly huge files,
+it is desirable to be able to allocate disk blocks in units of multiple
+blocks to reduce both fragmentation and metadata overhead. The
+bigalloc feature provides exactly this ability.
+
+The bigalloc feature (EXT4_FEATURE_RO_COMPAT_BIGALLOC) changes ext4 to
+use clustered allocation, so that each bit in the ext4 block allocation
+bitmap addresses a power of two number of blocks. For example, if the
+file system is mainly going to be storing large files in the 4-32
+megabyte range, it might make sense to set a cluster size of 1 megabyte.
+This means that each bit in the block allocation bitmap now addresses
+256 4k blocks. This shrinks the total size of the block allocation
+bitmaps for a 2T file system from 64 megabytes to 256 kilobytes. It also
+means that a block group addresses 32 gigabytes instead of 128 megabytes,
+also shrinking the amount of file system overhead for metadata.
+
+The administrator can set a block cluster size at mkfs time (which is
+stored in the s_log_cluster_size field in the superblock); from then
+on, the block bitmaps track clusters, not individual blocks. This means
+that block groups can be several gigabytes in size (instead of just
+128MiB); however, the minimum allocation unit becomes a cluster, not a
+block, even for directories. TaoBao had a patchset to extend the “use
+units of clusters instead of blocks” to the extent tree, though it is
+not clear where those patches went-- they eventually morphed into
+“extent tree v2” but that code has not landed as of May 2015.
+