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<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree</subtitle>
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<title>Merge branch 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2017-07-03T20:08:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-07-03T20:08:04+00:00</published>
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Pull scheduler updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "The main changes in this cycle were:

   - Add the SYSTEM_SCHEDULING bootup state to move various scheduler
     debug checks earlier into the bootup. This turns silent and
     sporadically deadly bugs into nice, deterministic splats. Fix some
     of the splats that triggered. (Thomas Gleixner)

   - A round of restructuring and refactoring of the load-balancing and
     topology code (Peter Zijlstra)

   - Another round of consolidating ~20 of incremental scheduler code
     history: this time in terms of wait-queue nomenclature. (I didn't
     get much feedback on these renaming patches, and we can still
     easily change any names I might have misplaced, so if anyone hates
     a new name, please holler and I'll fix it.) (Ingo Molnar)

   - sched/numa improvements, fixes and updates (Rik van Riel)

   - Another round of x86/tsc scheduler clock code improvements, in hope
     of making it more robust (Peter Zijlstra)

   - Improve NOHZ behavior (Frederic Weisbecker)

   - Deadline scheduler improvements and fixes (Luca Abeni, Daniel
     Bristot de Oliveira)

   - Simplify and optimize the topology setup code (Lauro Ramos
     Venancio)

   - Debloat and decouple scheduler code some more (Nicolas Pitre)

   - Simplify code by making better use of llist primitives (Byungchul
     Park)

   - ... plus other fixes and improvements"

* 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (103 commits)
  sched/cputime: Refactor the cputime_adjust() code
  sched/debug: Expose the number of RT/DL tasks that can migrate
  sched/numa: Hide numa_wake_affine() from UP build
  sched/fair: Remove effective_load()
  sched/numa: Implement NUMA node level wake_affine()
  sched/fair: Simplify wake_affine() for the single socket case
  sched/numa: Override part of migrate_degrades_locality() when idle balancing
  sched/rt: Move RT related code from sched/core.c to sched/rt.c
  sched/deadline: Move DL related code from sched/core.c to sched/deadline.c
  sched/cpuset: Only offer CONFIG_CPUSETS if SMP is enabled
  sched/fair: Spare idle load balancing on nohz_full CPUs
  nohz: Move idle balancer registration to the idle path
  sched/loadavg: Generalize "_idle" naming to "_nohz"
  sched/core: Drop the unused try_get_task_struct() helper function
  sched/fair: WARN() and refuse to set buddy when !se-&gt;on_rq
  sched/debug: Fix SCHED_WARN_ON() to return a value on !CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG as well
  sched/wait: Disambiguate wq_entry-&gt;task_list and wq_head-&gt;task_list naming
  sched/wait: Move bit_wait_table[] and related functionality from sched/core.c to sched/wait_bit.c
  sched/wait: Split out the wait_bit*() APIs from &lt;linux/wait.h&gt; into &lt;linux/wait_bit.h&gt;
  sched/wait: Re-adjust macro line continuation backslashes in &lt;linux/wait.h&gt;
  ...
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Pull scheduler updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "The main changes in this cycle were:

   - Add the SYSTEM_SCHEDULING bootup state to move various scheduler
     debug checks earlier into the bootup. This turns silent and
     sporadically deadly bugs into nice, deterministic splats. Fix some
     of the splats that triggered. (Thomas Gleixner)

   - A round of restructuring and refactoring of the load-balancing and
     topology code (Peter Zijlstra)

   - Another round of consolidating ~20 of incremental scheduler code
     history: this time in terms of wait-queue nomenclature. (I didn't
     get much feedback on these renaming patches, and we can still
     easily change any names I might have misplaced, so if anyone hates
     a new name, please holler and I'll fix it.) (Ingo Molnar)

   - sched/numa improvements, fixes and updates (Rik van Riel)

   - Another round of x86/tsc scheduler clock code improvements, in hope
     of making it more robust (Peter Zijlstra)

   - Improve NOHZ behavior (Frederic Weisbecker)

   - Deadline scheduler improvements and fixes (Luca Abeni, Daniel
     Bristot de Oliveira)

   - Simplify and optimize the topology setup code (Lauro Ramos
     Venancio)

   - Debloat and decouple scheduler code some more (Nicolas Pitre)

   - Simplify code by making better use of llist primitives (Byungchul
     Park)

   - ... plus other fixes and improvements"

* 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (103 commits)
  sched/cputime: Refactor the cputime_adjust() code
  sched/debug: Expose the number of RT/DL tasks that can migrate
  sched/numa: Hide numa_wake_affine() from UP build
  sched/fair: Remove effective_load()
  sched/numa: Implement NUMA node level wake_affine()
  sched/fair: Simplify wake_affine() for the single socket case
  sched/numa: Override part of migrate_degrades_locality() when idle balancing
  sched/rt: Move RT related code from sched/core.c to sched/rt.c
  sched/deadline: Move DL related code from sched/core.c to sched/deadline.c
  sched/cpuset: Only offer CONFIG_CPUSETS if SMP is enabled
  sched/fair: Spare idle load balancing on nohz_full CPUs
  nohz: Move idle balancer registration to the idle path
  sched/loadavg: Generalize "_idle" naming to "_nohz"
  sched/core: Drop the unused try_get_task_struct() helper function
  sched/fair: WARN() and refuse to set buddy when !se-&gt;on_rq
  sched/debug: Fix SCHED_WARN_ON() to return a value on !CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG as well
  sched/wait: Disambiguate wq_entry-&gt;task_list and wq_head-&gt;task_list naming
  sched/wait: Move bit_wait_table[] and related functionality from sched/core.c to sched/wait_bit.c
  sched/wait: Split out the wait_bit*() APIs from &lt;linux/wait.h&gt; into &lt;linux/wait_bit.h&gt;
  sched/wait: Re-adjust macro line continuation backslashes in &lt;linux/wait.h&gt;
  ...
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<entry>
<title>sched/wait: Rename wait_queue_t =&gt; wait_queue_entry_t</title>
<updated>2017-06-20T10:18:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ingo Molnar</name>
<email>mingo@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-06-20T10:06:13+00:00</published>
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Rename:

	wait_queue_t		=&gt;	wait_queue_entry_t

'wait_queue_t' was always a slight misnomer: its name implies that it's a "queue",
but in reality it's a queue *entry*. The 'real' queue is the wait queue head,
which had to carry the name.

Start sorting this out by renaming it to 'wait_queue_entry_t'.

This also allows the real structure name 'struct __wait_queue' to
lose its double underscore and become 'struct wait_queue_entry',
which is the more canonical nomenclature for such data types.

Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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Rename:

	wait_queue_t		=&gt;	wait_queue_entry_t

'wait_queue_t' was always a slight misnomer: its name implies that it's a "queue",
but in reality it's a queue *entry*. The 'real' queue is the wait queue head,
which had to carry the name.

Start sorting this out by renaming it to 'wait_queue_entry_t'.

This also allows the real structure name 'struct __wait_queue' to
lose its double underscore and become 'struct wait_queue_entry',
which is the more canonical nomenclature for such data types.

Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>bcache: use kmalloc to allocate bio in bch_data_verify()</title>
<updated>2017-06-18T18:40:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>NeilBrown</name>
<email>neilb@suse.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-06-18T04:38:59+00:00</published>
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This function allocates a bio, then a collection
of pages.  It copes with failure.

It currently uses a mempool() to allocate the bio,
but alloc_page() to allocate the pages.  These fail
in different ways, so the usage is inconsistent.

Change the bio_clone() to bio_clone_kmalloc()
so that no pool is used either for the bio or the pages.

Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Acked-by: Kent Overstreet &lt;kent.overstreet@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by : Ming Lei &lt;ming.lei@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown &lt;neilb@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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This function allocates a bio, then a collection
of pages.  It copes with failure.

It currently uses a mempool() to allocate the bio,
but alloc_page() to allocate the pages.  These fail
in different ways, so the usage is inconsistent.

Change the bio_clone() to bio_clone_kmalloc()
so that no pool is used either for the bio or the pages.

Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Acked-by: Kent Overstreet &lt;kent.overstreet@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by : Ming Lei &lt;ming.lei@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown &lt;neilb@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>blk: make the bioset rescue_workqueue optional.</title>
<updated>2017-06-18T18:40:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>NeilBrown</name>
<email>neilb@suse.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-06-18T04:38:57+00:00</published>
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This patch converts bioset_create() to not create a workqueue by
default, so alloctions will never trigger punt_bios_to_rescuer().  It
also introduces a new flag BIOSET_NEED_RESCUER which tells
bioset_create() to preserve the old behavior.

All callers of bioset_create() that are inside block device drivers,
are given the BIOSET_NEED_RESCUER flag.

biosets used by filesystems or other top-level users do not
need rescuing as the bio can never be queued behind other
bios.  This includes fs_bio_set, blkdev_dio_pool,
btrfs_bioset, xfs_ioend_bioset, and one allocated by
target_core_iblock.c.

biosets used by md/raid do not need rescuing as
their usage was recently audited and revised to never
risk deadlock.

It is hoped that most, if not all, of the remaining biosets
can end up being the non-rescued version.

Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Credit-to: Ming Lei &lt;ming.lei@redhat.com&gt; (minor fixes)
Reviewed-by: Ming Lei &lt;ming.lei@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown &lt;neilb@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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This patch converts bioset_create() to not create a workqueue by
default, so alloctions will never trigger punt_bios_to_rescuer().  It
also introduces a new flag BIOSET_NEED_RESCUER which tells
bioset_create() to preserve the old behavior.

All callers of bioset_create() that are inside block device drivers,
are given the BIOSET_NEED_RESCUER flag.

biosets used by filesystems or other top-level users do not
need rescuing as the bio can never be queued behind other
bios.  This includes fs_bio_set, blkdev_dio_pool,
btrfs_bioset, xfs_ioend_bioset, and one allocated by
target_core_iblock.c.

biosets used by md/raid do not need rescuing as
their usage was recently audited and revised to never
risk deadlock.

It is hoped that most, if not all, of the remaining biosets
can end up being the non-rescued version.

Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Credit-to: Ming Lei &lt;ming.lei@redhat.com&gt; (minor fixes)
Reviewed-by: Ming Lei &lt;ming.lei@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown &lt;neilb@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>blk: replace bioset_create_nobvec() with a flags arg to bioset_create()</title>
<updated>2017-06-18T18:40:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>NeilBrown</name>
<email>neilb@suse.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-06-18T04:38:57+00:00</published>
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"flags" arguments are often seen as good API design as they allow
easy extensibility.
bioset_create_nobvec() is implemented internally as a variation in
flags passed to __bioset_create().

To support future extension, make the internal structure part of the
API.
i.e. add a 'flags' argument to bioset_create() and discard
bioset_create_nobvec().

Note that the bio_split allocations in drivers/md/raid* do not need
the bvec mempool - they should have used bioset_create_nobvec().

Suggested-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Ming Lei &lt;ming.lei@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown &lt;neilb@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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"flags" arguments are often seen as good API design as they allow
easy extensibility.
bioset_create_nobvec() is implemented internally as a variation in
flags passed to __bioset_create().

To support future extension, make the internal structure part of the
API.
i.e. add a 'flags' argument to bioset_create() and discard
bioset_create_nobvec().

Note that the bio_split allocations in drivers/md/raid* do not need
the bvec mempool - they should have used bioset_create_nobvec().

Suggested-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Ming Lei &lt;ming.lei@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown &lt;neilb@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>block: switch bios to blk_status_t</title>
<updated>2017-06-09T15:27:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Hellwig</name>
<email>hch@lst.de</email>
</author>
<published>2017-06-03T07:38:06+00:00</published>
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Replace bi_error with a new bi_status to allow for a clear conversion.
Note that device mapper overloaded bi_error with a private value, which
we'll have to keep arround at least for now and thus propagate to a
proper blk_status_t value.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
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Replace bi_error with a new bi_status to allow for a clear conversion.
Note that device mapper overloaded bi_error with a private value, which
we'll have to keep arround at least for now and thus propagate to a
proper blk_status_t value.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>drivers/md/bcache/super.c: use kvmalloc</title>
<updated>2017-05-09T00:15:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michal Hocko</name>
<email>mhocko@suse.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-05-08T22:57:37+00:00</published>
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bcache_device_init uses kmalloc for small requests and vmalloc for those
which are larger than 64 pages.  This alone is a strange criterion.
Moreover kmalloc can fallback to vmalloc on the failure.  Let's simply
use kvmalloc instead as it knows how to handle the fallback properly

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170306103327.2766-5-mhocko@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Kent Overstreet &lt;kent.overstreet@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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bcache_device_init uses kmalloc for small requests and vmalloc for those
which are larger than 64 pages.  This alone is a strange criterion.
Moreover kmalloc can fallback to vmalloc on the failure.  Let's simply
use kvmalloc instead as it knows how to handle the fallback properly

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170306103327.2766-5-mhocko@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Kent Overstreet &lt;kent.overstreet@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>treewide: use kv[mz]alloc* rather than opencoded variants</title>
<updated>2017-05-09T00:15:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michal Hocko</name>
<email>mhocko@suse.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-05-08T22:57:27+00:00</published>
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There are many code paths opencoding kvmalloc.  Let's use the helper
instead.  The main difference to kvmalloc is that those users are
usually not considering all the aspects of the memory allocator.  E.g.
allocation requests &lt;= 32kB (with 4kB pages) are basically never failing
and invoke OOM killer to satisfy the allocation.  This sounds too
disruptive for something that has a reasonable fallback - the vmalloc.
On the other hand those requests might fallback to vmalloc even when the
memory allocator would succeed after several more reclaim/compaction
attempts previously.  There is no guarantee something like that happens
though.

This patch converts many of those places to kv[mz]alloc* helpers because
they are more conservative.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170306103327.2766-2-mhocko@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Boris Ostrovsky &lt;boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com&gt; # Xen bits
Acked-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Acked-by: Andreas Dilger &lt;andreas.dilger@intel.com&gt; # Lustre
Acked-by: Christian Borntraeger &lt;borntraeger@de.ibm.com&gt; # KVM/s390
Acked-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt; # nvdim
Acked-by: David Sterba &lt;dsterba@suse.com&gt; # btrfs
Acked-by: Ilya Dryomov &lt;idryomov@gmail.com&gt; # Ceph
Acked-by: Tariq Toukan &lt;tariqt@mellanox.com&gt; # mlx4
Acked-by: Leon Romanovsky &lt;leonro@mellanox.com&gt; # mlx5
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
Cc: Anton Vorontsov &lt;anton@enomsg.org&gt;
Cc: Colin Cross &lt;ccross@android.com&gt;
Cc: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" &lt;rjw@rjwysocki.net&gt;
Cc: Ben Skeggs &lt;bskeggs@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Kent Overstreet &lt;kent.overstreet@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Santosh Raspatur &lt;santosh@chelsio.com&gt;
Cc: Hariprasad S &lt;hariprasad@chelsio.com&gt;
Cc: Yishai Hadas &lt;yishaih@mellanox.com&gt;
Cc: Oleg Drokin &lt;oleg.drokin@intel.com&gt;
Cc: "Yan, Zheng" &lt;zyan@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Eric Dumazet &lt;eric.dumazet@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: David Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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There are many code paths opencoding kvmalloc.  Let's use the helper
instead.  The main difference to kvmalloc is that those users are
usually not considering all the aspects of the memory allocator.  E.g.
allocation requests &lt;= 32kB (with 4kB pages) are basically never failing
and invoke OOM killer to satisfy the allocation.  This sounds too
disruptive for something that has a reasonable fallback - the vmalloc.
On the other hand those requests might fallback to vmalloc even when the
memory allocator would succeed after several more reclaim/compaction
attempts previously.  There is no guarantee something like that happens
though.

This patch converts many of those places to kv[mz]alloc* helpers because
they are more conservative.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170306103327.2766-2-mhocko@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Boris Ostrovsky &lt;boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com&gt; # Xen bits
Acked-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Acked-by: Andreas Dilger &lt;andreas.dilger@intel.com&gt; # Lustre
Acked-by: Christian Borntraeger &lt;borntraeger@de.ibm.com&gt; # KVM/s390
Acked-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt; # nvdim
Acked-by: David Sterba &lt;dsterba@suse.com&gt; # btrfs
Acked-by: Ilya Dryomov &lt;idryomov@gmail.com&gt; # Ceph
Acked-by: Tariq Toukan &lt;tariqt@mellanox.com&gt; # mlx4
Acked-by: Leon Romanovsky &lt;leonro@mellanox.com&gt; # mlx5
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
Cc: Anton Vorontsov &lt;anton@enomsg.org&gt;
Cc: Colin Cross &lt;ccross@android.com&gt;
Cc: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" &lt;rjw@rjwysocki.net&gt;
Cc: Ben Skeggs &lt;bskeggs@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Kent Overstreet &lt;kent.overstreet@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Santosh Raspatur &lt;santosh@chelsio.com&gt;
Cc: Hariprasad S &lt;hariprasad@chelsio.com&gt;
Cc: Yishai Hadas &lt;yishaih@mellanox.com&gt;
Cc: Oleg Drokin &lt;oleg.drokin@intel.com&gt;
Cc: "Yan, Zheng" &lt;zyan@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Eric Dumazet &lt;eric.dumazet@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: David Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>drivers/md/bcache/util.h: remove duplicate inclusion of blkdev.h</title>
<updated>2017-03-10T01:01:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Masanari Iida</name>
<email>standby24x7@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-03-10T00:17:03+00:00</published>
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Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170226060230.11555-1-standby24x7@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Masanari Iida &lt;standby24x7@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Coly Li &lt;colyli@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Kent Overstreet &lt;kent.overstreet@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170226060230.11555-1-standby24x7@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Masanari Iida &lt;standby24x7@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Coly Li &lt;colyli@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Kent Overstreet &lt;kent.overstreet@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>sched/headers: Prepare to use &lt;linux/rcuupdate.h&gt; instead of &lt;linux/rculist.h&gt; in &lt;linux/sched.h&gt;</title>
<updated>2017-03-02T07:42:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ingo Molnar</name>
<email>mingo@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-02-04T00:27:20+00:00</published>
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We don't actually need the full rculist.h header in sched.h anymore,
we will be able to include the smaller rcupdate.h header instead.

But first update code that relied on the implicit header inclusion.

Acked-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Mike Galbraith &lt;efault@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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We don't actually need the full rculist.h header in sched.h anymore,
we will be able to include the smaller rcupdate.h header instead.

But first update code that relied on the implicit header inclusion.

Acked-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Mike Galbraith &lt;efault@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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