Merge tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4

Pull ext4 updates from Ted Ts'o:

 - further restructure ext4 documentation

 - fix up ext4's delayed allocation for bigalloc file systems

 - fix up some syzbot-detected races in EXT4_IOC_MOVE_EXT,
   EXT4_IOC_SWAP_BOOT, and ext4_remount

 - ... and a few other miscellaneous bugs and optimizations.

* tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4: (21 commits)
  ext4: fix use-after-free race in ext4_remount()'s error path
  ext4: cache NULL when both default_acl and acl are NULL
  docs: promote the ext4 data structures book to top level
  docs: move ext4 administrative docs to admin-guide/
  jbd2: fix use after free in jbd2_log_do_checkpoint()
  ext4: propagate error from dquot_initialize() in EXT4_IOC_FSSETXATTR
  ext4: fix setattr project check in fssetxattr ioctl
  docs: make ext4 readme tables readable
  docs: fix ext4 documentation table formatting problems
  docs: generate a separate ext4 pdf file from the documentation
  ext4: convert fault handler to use vm_fault_t type
  ext4: initialize retries variable in ext4_da_write_inline_data_begin()
  ext4: fix EXT4_IOC_SWAP_BOOT
  ext4: fix build error when DX_DEBUG is defined
  ext4: fix argument checking in EXT4_IOC_MOVE_EXT
  ext4: fix reserved cluster accounting at page invalidation time
  ext4: adjust reserved cluster count when removing extents
  ext4: reduce reserved cluster count by number of allocated clusters
  ext4: fix reserved cluster accounting at delayed write time
  ext4: add new pending reservation mechanism
  ...

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+.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+
+Inline Data
+-----------
+
+The inline data feature was designed to handle the case that a file's
+data is so tiny that it readily fits inside the inode, which
+(theoretically) reduces disk block consumption and reduces seeks. If the
+file is smaller than 60 bytes, then the data are stored inline in
+``inode.i_block``. If the rest of the file would fit inside the extended
+attribute space, then it might be found as an extended attribute
+“system.data” within the inode body (“ibody EA”). This of course
+constrains the amount of extended attributes one can attach to an inode.
+If the data size increases beyond i\_block + ibody EA, a regular block
+is allocated and the contents moved to that block.
+
+Pending a change to compact the extended attribute key used to store
+inline data, one ought to be able to store 160 bytes of data in a
+256-byte inode (as of June 2015, when i\_extra\_isize is 28). Prior to
+that, the limit was 156 bytes due to inefficient use of inode space.
+
+The inline data feature requires the presence of an extended attribute
+for “system.data”, even if the attribute value is zero length.
+
+Inline Directories
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+The first four bytes of i\_block are the inode number of the parent
+directory. Following that is a 56-byte space for an array of directory
+entries; see ``struct ext4_dir_entry``. If there is a “system.data”
+attribute in the inode body, the EA value is an array of
+``struct ext4_dir_entry`` as well. Note that for inline directories, the
+i\_block and EA space are treated as separate dirent blocks; directory
+entries cannot span the two.
+
+Inline directory entries are not checksummed, as the inode checksum
+should protect all inline data contents.