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diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/ext4.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/ext4.rst
index 9443fcef1876..4c559e08d11e 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/ext4.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/ext4.rst
@@ -392,9 +392,16 @@ When mounting an ext4 filesystem, the following option are accepted:
dax
Use direct access (no page cache). See
- Documentation/filesystems/dax.txt. Note that this option is
+ Documentation/filesystems/dax.rst. Note that this option is
incompatible with data=journal.
+ inlinecrypt
+ When possible, encrypt/decrypt the contents of encrypted files using the
+ blk-crypto framework rather than filesystem-layer encryption. This
+ allows the use of inline encryption hardware. The on-disk format is
+ unaffected. For more details, see
+ Documentation/block/inline-encryption.rst.
+
Data Mode
=========
There are 3 different data modes:
@@ -482,6 +489,9 @@ Files in /sys/fs/ext4/<devname>:
multiple of this tuning parameter if the stripe size is not set in the
ext4 superblock
+ mb_max_inode_prealloc
+ The maximum length of per-inode ext4_prealloc_space list.
+
mb_max_to_scan
The maximum number of extents the multiblock allocator will search to
find the best extent.
@@ -522,21 +532,21 @@ Files in /sys/fs/ext4/<devname>:
Ioctls
======
-There is some Ext4 specific functionality which can be accessed by applications
-through the system call interfaces. The list of all Ext4 specific ioctls are
-shown in the table below.
+Ext4 implements various ioctls which can be used by applications to access
+ext4-specific functionality. An incomplete list of these ioctls is shown in the
+table below. This list includes truly ext4-specific ioctls (``EXT4_IOC_*``) as
+well as ioctls that may have been ext4-specific originally but are now supported
+by some other filesystem(s) too (``FS_IOC_*``).
-Table of Ext4 specific ioctls
+Table of Ext4 ioctls
- EXT4_IOC_GETFLAGS
+ FS_IOC_GETFLAGS
Get additional attributes associated with inode. The ioctl argument is
- an integer bitfield, with bit values described in ext4.h. This ioctl is
- an alias for FS_IOC_GETFLAGS.
+ an integer bitfield, with bit values described in ext4.h.
- EXT4_IOC_SETFLAGS
+ FS_IOC_SETFLAGS
Set additional attributes associated with inode. The ioctl argument is
- an integer bitfield, with bit values described in ext4.h. This ioctl is
- an alias for FS_IOC_SETFLAGS.
+ an integer bitfield, with bit values described in ext4.h.
EXT4_IOC_GETVERSION, EXT4_IOC_GETVERSION_OLD
Get the inode i_generation number stored for each inode. The
@@ -611,7 +621,7 @@ kernel source: <file:fs/ext4/>
programs: http://e2fsprogs.sourceforge.net/
-useful links: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ext3-devel
+useful links: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ext3-devel
http://www.bullopensource.org/ext4/
http://ext4.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Main_Page
- http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Ext4
+ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Ext4