Hi Linus, Sorry for late email this time, but could you consider these commits for 7.2-rc1?
The most notable change is the removal of the fscache backend: it has been deprecated for almost two years, mainly because EROFS file-backed mounts and fanotify pre-content hooks (together with erofs-utils) now provide better functionality and simpler codebase. In addition, fscache has depended on netfslib for years, which is undesirable for EROFS since it is a local filesystem. More details are shown in [1]. In addition, sparse support has been added to the pcluster layout, which is helpful for large sparse AI datasets, and map requests for chunk-based inodes have been optimized to be more efficient as well. There are also the usual fixes and cleanups. All commits have been in -next and no potential merge conflict is observed. Thanks, Gao Xiang [1] https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected] The following changes since commit 4549871118cf616eecdd2d939f78e3b9e1dddc48: Linux 7.1-rc7 (2026-06-07 15:37:58 -0700) are available in the Git repository at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xiang/erofs.git tags/erofs-for-7.2-rc1 for you to fetch changes up to 803d09a554055aba160a62abd1e4b1260b899dc1: erofs: handle 48-bit blocks_hi for compressed inodes (2026-06-22 18:50:36 +0800) ---------------------------------------------------------------- Changes since last update: - Report more consecutive chunks of the same type for each iomap request - Add sparse support for the pcluster layout - Update the EROFS documentation overview - Remove the deprecated fscache backend - Various fixes and cleanups ---------------------------------------------------------------- Gao Xiang (7): erofs: clean up erofs_ishare_fill_inode() erofs: update the overview of the documentation erofs: call erofs_exit_ishare() before rcu_barrier() erofs: introduce erofs_map_chunks() erofs: add sparse support to pcluster layout erofs: simplify RCU read critical sections erofs: remove fscache backend entirely Zhan Xusheng (2): erofs: add folio order to trace_erofs_read_folio erofs: handle 48-bit blocks_hi for compressed inodes Documentation/filesystems/erofs.rst | 138 ++++---- fs/erofs/Kconfig | 21 +- fs/erofs/Makefile | 1 - fs/erofs/data.c | 135 ++++---- fs/erofs/erofs_fs.h | 2 + fs/erofs/fscache.c | 664 ------------------------------------ fs/erofs/inode.c | 7 +- fs/erofs/internal.h | 72 +--- fs/erofs/ishare.c | 47 ++- fs/erofs/super.c | 98 ++---- fs/erofs/zdata.c | 38 +-- fs/erofs/zmap.c | 33 +- include/trace/events/erofs.h | 9 +- 13 files changed, 231 insertions(+), 1034 deletions(-) delete mode 100644 fs/erofs/fscache.c
