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

Pull ext4 updates from Ted Ts'o:
 "New features for 3.12:

   - Added aggressive extent caching using the extent status tree.  This
     can actually decrease memory usage in read-mostly workloads since
     the information is much more compactly stored in the extent status
     tree than if we had to keep the extent tree metadata blocks in the
     buffer cache.  This also improves Asynchronous I/O since it is it
     makes much less likely that we need to do metadata I/O to lookup
     the extent tree information.

   - Improve the recovery after corrupted allocation bitmaps are found
     when running in errors=ignore mode.

  Also fixed some writeback vs truncate races when using a blocksize
  less than the page size"

* tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4: (25 commits)
  ext4: allow specifying external journal by pathname mount option
  ext4: mark group corrupt on group descriptor checksum
  ext4: mark block group as corrupt on inode bitmap error
  ext4: mark block group as corrupt on block bitmap error
  ext4: fix type declaration of ext4_validate_block_bitmap
  ext4: error out if verifying the block bitmap fails
  jbd2: Fix endian mixing problems in the checksumming code
  ext4: isolate ext4_extents.h file
  ext4: Fix misspellings using 'codespell' tool
  ext4: convert write_begin methods to stable_page_writes semantics
  ext4: fix use of potentially uninitialized variables in debugging code
  ext4: fix lost truncate due to race with writeback
  ext4: simplify truncation code in ext4_setattr()
  ext4: fix ext4_writepages() in presence of truncate
  ext4: move test whether extent to map can be extended to one place
  ext4: fix warning in ext4_da_update_reserve_space()
  quota: provide interface for readding allocated space into reserved space
  ext4: avoid reusing recently deleted inodes in no journal mode
  ext4: allocate delayed allocation blocks before rename
  ext4: start handle at least possible moment when renaming files
  ...

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt
index f7cbf574a875..b91cfaaf6a0f 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt
@@ -144,11 +144,12 @@ journal_async_commit	Commit block can be written to disk without waiting
 			mount the device. This will enable 'journal_checksum'
 			internally.
 
+journal_path=path
 journal_dev=devnum	When the external journal device's major/minor numbers
-			have changed, this option allows the user to specify
+			have changed, these options allow the user to specify
 			the new journal location.  The journal device is
-			identified through its new major/minor numbers encoded
-			in devnum.
+			identified through either its new major/minor numbers
+			encoded in devnum, or via a path to the device.
 
 norecovery		Don't load the journal on mounting.  Note that
 noload			if the filesystem was not unmounted cleanly,