The size is always valid, but variable-length arrays generate worse code
for no good reason (unless the function happens to be inlined and the
compiler sees the length for the simple constant it is).

Also, there seems to be some code generation problem on POWER, where
Henrik Bakken reports that register r28 can get corrupted under some
subtle circumstances (interrupt happening at the wrong time?).  That all
indicates some seriously broken compiler issues, but since variable
length arrays are bad regardless, there's little point in trying to
chase it down.

"Just don't do that, then".

Reported-by: Henrik Grindal Bakken <henribak@cisco.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

* 'fixes' of http://ftp.arm.linux.org.uk/pub/linux/arm/kernel/git-cur/linux-2.6-arm:
  ARM: 7128/1: vic: Don't write to the read-only register VIC_IRQ_STATUS
  ARM: 7122/1: localtimer: add header linux/errno.h explicitly
  ARM: 7117/1: perf: fix HW_CACHE_* events on Cortex-A9
  ARM: 7113/1: mm: Align bank start to MAX_ORDER_NR_PAGES

This is unneeded and causes an abort on the SPMP8000 platform.

Acked-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Zoltan Devai <zoss@devai.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>

Per the text in  Documentation/SubmitChecklist as below, we should
explicitly have header linux/errno.h in localtimer.h for ENXIO
reference.

1: If you use a facility then #include the file that defines/declares
   that facility.  Don't depend on other header files pulling in ones
   that you use.

Otherwise, we may run into some compiling error like the following one,
if any file includes localtimer.h without CONFIG_LOCAL_TIMERS defined.

  arch/arm/include/asm/localtimer.h: In function ‘local_timer_setup’:
  arch/arm/include/asm/localtimer.h:53:10: error: ‘ENXIO’ undeclared (first use in this function)

Signed-off-by: Shawn Guo <shawn.guo@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>

Using COHERENT_LINE_{MISS,HIT} for cache misses and references
respectively is completely wrong. Instead, use the L1D events which
are a better and more useful approximation despite ignoring instruction
traffic.

Reported-by: Alasdair Grant <alasdair.grant@arm.com>
Reported-by: Matt Horsnell <matt.horsnell@arm.com>
Reported-by: Michael Williams <michael.williams@arm.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Cc: Jean Pihet <j-pihet@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>

* 'hwmon-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/groeck/linux-staging:
  hwmon: (w83627ehf) Properly report thermal diode sensors

* 'gpio/merge' of git://git.secretlab.ca/git/linux-2.6:
  gpio-pca953x: fix gpio_base
  gpio/omap: fix build error with certain OMAP1 configs

* 'for-linus' of git://oss.sgi.com/xfs/xfs:
  xfs: revert to using a kthread for AIL pushing
  xfs: force the log if we encounter pinned buffers in .iop_pushbuf
  xfs: do not update xa_last_pushed_lsn for locked items

* 'stable' of git://github.com/cmetcalf-tilera/linux-tile:
  tile: revert change from <asm/atomic.h> to <linux/atomic.h> in asm files