Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew Morton)

Merge first patch-bomb from Andrew Morton: "Quite a lot of other stuff is banked up awaiting further next->mainline merging, but this batch contains: - Lots of random misc patches - OCFS2 - Most of MM - backlight updates - lib/ updates - printk updates - checkpatch updates - epoll tweaking - rtc updates - hfs - hfsplus - documentation - procfs - update gcov to gcc-4.7 format - IPC" * emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (269 commits) ipc, msg: fix message length check for negative values ipc/util.c: remove unnecessary work pending test devpts: plug the memory leak in kill_sb ./Makefile: export initial ramdisk compression config option init/Kconfig: add option to disable kernel compression drivers: w1: make w1_slave::flags long to avoid memory corruption drivers/w1/masters/ds1wm.cuse dev_get_platdata() drivers/memstick/core/ms_block.c: fix unreachable state in h_msb_read_page() drivers/memstick/core/mspro_block.c: fix attributes array allocation drivers/pps/clients/pps-gpio.c: remove redundant of_match_ptr kernel/panic.c: reduce 1 byte usage for print tainted buffer gcov: reuse kbasename helper kernel/gcov/fs.c: use pr_warn() kernel/module.c: use pr_foo() gcov: compile specific gcov implementation based on gcc version gcov: add support for gcc 4.7 gcov format gcov: move gcov structs definitions to a gcc version specific file kernel/taskstats.c: return -ENOMEM when alloc memory fails in add_del_listener() kernel/taskstats.c: add nla_nest_cancel() for failure processing between nla_nest_start() and nla_nest_end() kernel/sysctl_binary.c: use scnprintf() instead of snprintf() ...
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diff --git a/CREDITS b/CREDITS
@@ -2576,7 +2576,7 @@ S: Toronto, Ontario
 S: Canada
 
 N: Zwane Mwaikambo
-E: zwane@arm.linux.org.uk
+E: zwanem@gmail.com
 D: Various driver hacking
 D: Lowlevel x86 kernel hacking
 D: General debugging
@@ -2895,6 +2895,11 @@ S: Framewood Road
 S: Wexham SL3 6PJ
 S: United Kingdom
 
+N: Richard Purdie
+E: rpurdie@rpsys.net
+D: Backlight subsystem maintainer
+S: United Kingdom
+
 N: Daniel Quinlan
 E: quinlan@pathname.com
 W: http://www.pathname.com/~quinlan/

diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/README b/Documentation/ABI/README
@@ -72,3 +72,16 @@ kernel tree without going through the obsolete state first.
 
 It's up to the developer to place their interfaces in the category they
 wish for it to start out in.
+
+
+Notable bits of non-ABI, which should not under any circumstances be considered
+stable:
+
+- Kconfig.  Userspace should not rely on the presence or absence of any
+  particular Kconfig symbol, in /proc/config.gz, in the copy of .config
+  commonly installed to /boot, or in any invocation of the kernel build
+  process.
+
+- Kernel-internal symbols.  Do not rely on the presence, absence, location, or
+  type of any kernel symbol, either in System.map files or the kernel binary
+  itself.  See Documentation/stable_api_nonsense.txt.
diff --git a/Documentation/backlight/lp855x-driver.txt b/Documentation/backlight/lp855x-driver.txt
@@ -4,7 +4,8 @@ Kernel driver lp855x
 Backlight driver for LP855x ICs
 
 Supported chips:
-	Texas Instruments LP8550, LP8551, LP8552, LP8553, LP8556 and LP8557
+	Texas Instruments LP8550, LP8551, LP8552, LP8553, LP8555, LP8556 and
+	LP8557
 
 Author: Milo(Woogyom) Kim <milo.kim@ti.com>
 
@@ -24,7 +25,7 @@ Value : pwm based or register based
 
 2) chip_id
 The lp855x chip id.
-Value : lp8550/lp8551/lp8552/lp8553/lp8556/lp8557
+Value : lp8550/lp8551/lp8552/lp8553/lp8555/lp8556/lp8557
 
 Platform data for lp855x
 ------------------------

diff --git a/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt b/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt
@@ -573,15 +573,19 @@ an memcg since the pages are allowed to be allocated from any physical
 node.  One of the use cases is evaluating application performance by
 combining this information with the application's CPU allocation.
 
-We export "total", "file", "anon" and "unevictable" pages per-node for
-each memcg.  The ouput format of memory.numa_stat is:
+Each memcg's numa_stat file includes "total", "file", "anon" and "unevictable"
+per-node page counts including "hierarchical_<counter>" which sums up all
+hierarchical children's values in addition to the memcg's own value.
+
+The ouput format of memory.numa_stat is:
 
 total=<total pages> N0=<node 0 pages> N1=<node 1 pages> ...
 file=<total file pages> N0=<node 0 pages> N1=<node 1 pages> ...
 anon=<total anon pages> N0=<node 0 pages> N1=<node 1 pages> ...
 unevictable=<total anon pages> N0=<node 0 pages> N1=<node 1 pages> ...
+hierarchical_<counter>=<counter pages> N0=<node 0 pages> N1=<node 1 pages> ...
 
-And we have total = file + anon + unevictable.
+The "total" count is sum of file + anon + unevictable.
 
 6. Hierarchy support
 

diff --git a/Documentation/cpu-hotplug.txt b/Documentation/cpu-hotplug.txt
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 			Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
 			Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@in.ibm.com>
 		i386:
-			Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@arm.linux.org.uk>
+			Zwane Mwaikambo <zwanem@gmail.com>
 		ppc64:
 			Nathan Lynch <nathanl@austin.ibm.com>
 			Joel Schopp <jschopp@austin.ibm.com>

diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/video/backlight/lp855x.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/video/backlight/lp855x.txt
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ lp855x bindings
 
 Required properties:
   - compatible: "ti,lp8550", "ti,lp8551", "ti,lp8552", "ti,lp8553",
-                "ti,lp8556", "ti,lp8557"
+                "ti,lp8555", "ti,lp8556", "ti,lp8557"
   - reg: I2C slave address (u8)
   - dev-ctrl: Value of DEVICE CONTROL register (u8). It depends on the device.
 
@@ -15,6 +15,33 @@ Optional properties:
 
 Example:
 
+	/* LP8555 */
+	backlight@2c {
+		compatible = "ti,lp8555";
+		reg = <0x2c>;
+
+		dev-ctrl = /bits/ 8 <0x00>;
+		pwm-period = <10000>;
+
+		/* 4V OV, 4 output LED0 string enabled */
+		rom_14h {
+			rom-addr = /bits/ 8 <0x14>;
+			rom-val = /bits/ 8 <0xcf>;
+		};
+
+		/* Heavy smoothing, 24ms ramp time step */
+		rom_15h {
+			rom-addr = /bits/ 8 <0x15>;
+			rom-val = /bits/ 8 <0xc7>;
+		};
+
+		/* 4 output LED1 string enabled */
+		rom_19h {
+			rom-addr = /bits/ 8 <0x19>;
+			rom-val = /bits/ 8 <0x0f>;
+		};
+	};
+
 	/* LP8556 */
 	backlight@2c {
 		compatible = "ti,lp8556";

diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
@@ -460,6 +460,7 @@ manner. The codes are the following:
     nl  - non-linear mapping
     ar  - architecture specific flag
     dd  - do not include area into core dump
+    sd  - soft-dirty flag
     mm  - mixed map area
     hg  - huge page advise flag
     nh  - no-huge page advise flag

diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt
@@ -307,7 +307,7 @@ the following:
 
                 <proceeding files...>
                 <slot #3, id = 0x43, characters = "h is long">
-                <slot #2, id = 0x02, characters = "xtension which">
+                <slot #2, id = 0x02, characters = "xtension whic">
                 <slot #1, id = 0x01, characters = "My Big File.E">
                 <directory entry, name = "MYBIGFIL.EXT">
 

diff --git a/Documentation/gcov.txt b/Documentation/gcov.txt
@@ -50,6 +50,10 @@ Configure the kernel with:
         CONFIG_DEBUG_FS=y
         CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL=y
 
+select the gcc's gcov format, default is autodetect based on gcc version:
+
+        CONFIG_GCOV_FORMAT_AUTODETECT=y
+
 and to get coverage data for the entire kernel:
 
         CONFIG_GCOV_PROFILE_ALL=y

diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -1070,6 +1070,9 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
 				VIA, nVidia)
 			verbose: show contents of HPET registers during setup
 
+	hpet_mmap=	[X86, HPET_MMAP] Allow userspace to mmap HPET
+			registers.  Default set by CONFIG_HPET_MMAP_DEFAULT.
+
 	hugepages=	[HW,X86-32,IA-64] HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot.
 	hugepagesz=	[HW,IA-64,PPC,X86-64] The size of the HugeTLB pages.
 			On x86-64 and powerpc, this option can be specified
@@ -1775,6 +1778,9 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
 			that the amount of memory usable for all allocations
 			is not too small.
 
+	movable_node	[KNL,X86] Boot-time switch to enable the effects
+			of CONFIG_MOVABLE_NODE=y. See mm/Kconfig for details.
+
 	MTD_Partition=	[MTD]
 			Format: <name>,<region-number>,<size>,<offset>
 

diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt
@@ -290,13 +290,24 @@ Default value is "/sbin/hotplug".
 kptr_restrict:
 
 This toggle indicates whether restrictions are placed on
-exposing kernel addresses via /proc and other interfaces.  When
-kptr_restrict is set to (0), there are no restrictions.  When
-kptr_restrict is set to (1), the default, kernel pointers
-printed using the %pK format specifier will be replaced with 0's
-unless the user has CAP_SYSLOG.  When kptr_restrict is set to
-(2), kernel pointers printed using %pK will be replaced with 0's
-regardless of privileges.
+exposing kernel addresses via /proc and other interfaces.
+
+When kptr_restrict is set to (0), the default, there are no restrictions.
+
+When kptr_restrict is set to (1), kernel pointers printed using the %pK
+format specifier will be replaced with 0's unless the user has CAP_SYSLOG
+and effective user and group ids are equal to the real ids. This is
+because %pK checks are done at read() time rather than open() time, so
+if permissions are elevated between the open() and the read() (e.g via
+a setuid binary) then %pK will not leak kernel pointers to unprivileged
+users. Note, this is a temporary solution only. The correct long-term
+solution is to do the permission checks at open() time. Consider removing
+world read permissions from files that use %pK, and using dmesg_restrict
+to protect against uses of %pK in dmesg(8) if leaking kernel pointer
+values to unprivileged users is a concern.
+
+When kptr_restrict is set to (2), kernel pointers printed using
+%pK will be replaced with 0's regardless of privileges.
 
 ==============================================================
 

diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt
@@ -119,8 +119,11 @@ other appears as 0 when read.
 
 dirty_background_ratio
 
-Contains, as a percentage of total system memory, the number of pages at which
-the background kernel flusher threads will start writing out dirty data.
+Contains, as a percentage of total available memory that contains free pages
+and reclaimable pages, the number of pages at which the background kernel
+flusher threads will start writing out dirty data.
+
+The total avaiable memory is not equal to total system memory.
 
 ==============================================================
 
@@ -151,9 +154,11 @@ interval will be written out next time a flusher thread wakes up.
 
 dirty_ratio
 
-Contains, as a percentage of total system memory, the number of pages at which
-a process which is generating disk writes will itself start writing out dirty
-data.
+Contains, as a percentage of total available memory that contains free pages
+and reclaimable pages, the number of pages at which a process which is
+generating disk writes will itself start writing out dirty data.
+
+The total avaiable memory is not equal to total system memory.
 
 ==============================================================
 

diff --git a/Documentation/trace/tracepoints.txt b/Documentation/trace/tracepoints.txt
@@ -114,3 +114,8 @@ core kernel image or in modules.
 If the tracepoint has to be used in kernel modules, an
 EXPORT_TRACEPOINT_SYMBOL_GPL() or EXPORT_TRACEPOINT_SYMBOL() can be
 used to export the defined tracepoints.
+
+Note: The convenience macro TRACE_EVENT provides an alternative way to
+      define tracepoints. Check http://lwn.net/Articles/379903,
+      http://lwn.net/Articles/381064 and http://lwn.net/Articles/383362
+      for a series of articles with more details.
diff --git a/Documentation/vm/zswap.txt b/Documentation/vm/zswap.txt
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ significant performance improvement if reads from the compressed cache are
 faster than reads from a swap device.
 
 NOTE: Zswap is a new feature as of v3.11 and interacts heavily with memory
-reclaim.  This interaction has not be fully explored on the large set of
+reclaim.  This interaction has not been fully explored on the large set of
 potential configurations and workloads that exist.  For this reason, zswap
 is a work in progress and should be considered experimental.
 
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ Some potential benefits:
     drastically reducing life-shortening writes.
 
 Zswap evicts pages from compressed cache on an LRU basis to the backing swap
-device when the compressed pool reaches it size limit.  This requirement had
+device when the compressed pool reaches its size limit.  This requirement had
 been identified in prior community discussions.
 
 To enabled zswap, the "enabled" attribute must be set to 1 at boot time.  e.g.
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ the backing swap device in the case that the compressed pool is full.
 
 Zswap makes use of zbud for the managing the compressed memory pool.  Each
 allocation in zbud is not directly accessible by address.  Rather, a handle is
-return by the allocation routine and that handle must be mapped before being
+returned by the allocation routine and that handle must be mapped before being
 accessed.  The compressed memory pool grows on demand and shrinks as compressed
 pages are freed.  The pool is not preallocated.
 
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ in the swap_map goes to 0) the swap code calls the zswap invalidate function,
 via frontswap, to free the compressed entry.
 
 Zswap seeks to be simple in its policies.  Sysfs attributes allow for one user
-controlled policies:
+controlled policy:
 * max_pool_percent - The maximum percentage of memory that the compressed
     pool can occupy.
 

diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -1661,7 +1661,6 @@ S:	Maintained
 F:	drivers/net/wireless/b43legacy/
 
 BACKLIGHT CLASS/SUBSYSTEM
-M:	Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>
 M:	Jingoo Han <jg1.han@samsung.com>
 S:	Maintained
 F:	drivers/video/backlight/
@@ -2373,7 +2372,7 @@ F:	kernel/cpuset.c
 
 CRAMFS FILESYSTEM
 W:	http://sourceforge.net/projects/cramfs/
-S:	Orphan
+S:	Orphan / Obsolete
 F:	Documentation/filesystems/cramfs.txt
 F:	fs/cramfs/
 
@@ -7320,7 +7319,7 @@ S:	Odd Fixes
 F:	drivers/media/usb/tlg2300/
 
 SC1200 WDT DRIVER
-M:	Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@arm.linux.org.uk>
+M:	Zwane Mwaikambo <zwanem@gmail.com>
 S:	Maintained
 F:	drivers/watchdog/sc1200wdt.c
 

diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
@@ -720,6 +720,22 @@ mod_strip_cmd = true
 endif # INSTALL_MOD_STRIP
 export mod_strip_cmd
 
+# Select initial ramdisk compression format, default is gzip(1).
+# This shall be used by the dracut(8) tool while creating an initramfs image.
+#
+INITRD_COMPRESS=gzip
+ifeq ($(CONFIG_RD_BZIP2), y)
+        INITRD_COMPRESS=bzip2
+else ifeq ($(CONFIG_RD_LZMA), y)
+        INITRD_COMPRESS=lzma
+else ifeq ($(CONFIG_RD_XZ), y)
+        INITRD_COMPRESS=xz
+else ifeq ($(CONFIG_RD_LZO), y)
+        INITRD_COMPRESS=lzo
+else ifeq ($(CONFIG_RD_LZ4), y)
+        INITRD_COMPRESS=lz4
+endif
+export INITRD_COMPRESS
 
 ifdef CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_ALL
 MODSECKEY = ./signing_key.priv

diff --git a/arch/alpha/include/uapi/asm/errno.h b/arch/alpha/include/uapi/asm/errno.h
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@
 
 #define	EUSERS		68	/* Too many users */
 #define	EDQUOT		69	/* Quota exceeded */
-#define	ESTALE		70	/* Stale NFS file handle */
+#define	ESTALE		70	/* Stale file handle */
 #define	EREMOTE		71	/* Object is remote */
 
 #define	ENOLCK		77	/* No record locks available */

diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/module.c b/arch/arm/kernel/module.c
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@
 void *module_alloc(unsigned long size)
 {
 	return __vmalloc_node_range(size, 1, MODULES_VADDR, MODULES_END,
-				GFP_KERNEL, PAGE_KERNEL_EXEC, -1,
+				GFP_KERNEL, PAGE_KERNEL_EXEC, NUMA_NO_NODE,
 				__builtin_return_address(0));
 }
 #endif

diff --git a/arch/arm/mach-davinci/sram.c b/arch/arm/mach-davinci/sram.c
@@ -25,21 +25,14 @@ struct gen_pool *sram_get_gen_pool(void)
 
 void *sram_alloc(size_t len, dma_addr_t *dma)
 {
-	unsigned long vaddr;
 	dma_addr_t dma_base = davinci_soc_info.sram_dma;
 
 	if (dma)
 		*dma = 0;
 	if (!sram_pool || (dma && !dma_base))
 		return NULL;
 
-	vaddr = gen_pool_alloc(sram_pool, len);
-	if (!vaddr)
-		return NULL;
-
-	if (dma)
-		*dma = gen_pool_virt_to_phys(sram_pool, vaddr);
-	return (void *)vaddr;
+	return gen_pool_dma_alloc(sram_pool, len, dma);
 
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(sram_alloc);

diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/module.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/module.c
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@
 void *module_alloc(unsigned long size)
 {
 	return __vmalloc_node_range(size, 1, MODULES_VADDR, MODULES_END,
-				    GFP_KERNEL, PAGE_KERNEL_EXEC, -1,
+				    GFP_KERNEL, PAGE_KERNEL_EXEC, NUMA_NO_NODE,
 				    __builtin_return_address(0));
 }
 

diff --git a/arch/cris/include/asm/io.h b/arch/cris/include/asm/io.h
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 
 #include <asm/page.h>   /* for __va, __pa */
 #include <arch/io.h>
+#include <asm-generic/iomap.h>
 #include <linux/kernel.h>
 
 struct cris_io_operations