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| author | Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org> | 2026-08-05 07:52:36 -0700 |
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| committer | Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> | 2026-08-10 11:47:20 -1000 |
| commit | a5bde5d8fde8a8cb28e59a672d5ddc5b9c1e7656 (patch) | |
| tree | 39f5b258386e1127d253d293194e9a2991bf3c34 /Documentation/filesystems/ext4/eainode.rst | |
| download | linux-stable-a5bde5d8fde8a8cb28e59a672d5ddc5b9c1e7656.tar.gz linux-stable-a5bde5d8fde8a8cb28e59a672d5ddc5b9c1e7656.zip | |
workqueue: skip the node_nr_active update for non-unbound workqueuesgrafted
apply_wqattrs_commit() updates node_nr_active->max unconditionally.
wq->node_nr_active[] is only allocated for unbound workqueues, so guard
the call before per-cpu workqueues start using this path.
No functional change: only unbound workqueues reach apply_wqattrs_*()
today.
Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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1 files changed, 18 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/ext4/eainode.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/ext4/eainode.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000..7a2ef26b0 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/ext4/eainode.rst @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 + +Large Extended Attribute Values +------------------------------- + +To enable ext4 to store extended attribute values that do not fit in the +inode or in the single extended attribute block attached to an inode, +the EA_INODE feature allows us to store the value in the data blocks of +a regular file inode. This “EA inode” is linked only from the extended +attribute name index and must not appear in a directory entry. The +inode's i_atime field is used to store a checksum of the xattr value; +and i_ctime/i_version store a 64-bit reference count, which enables +sharing of large xattr values between multiple owning inodes. For +backward compatibility with older versions of this feature, the +i_mtime/i_generation *may* store a back-reference to the inode number +and i_generation of the **one** owning inode (in cases where the EA +inode is not referenced by multiple inodes) to verify that the EA inode +is the correct one being accessed. |
