Pull timer code update from Thomas Gleixner:
 - armada SoC clocksource overhaul with a trivial merge conflict
 - Minor improvements to various SoC clocksource drivers

* 'timers/core' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  clocksource: armada-370-xp: Add detailed clock requirements in devicetree binding
  clocksource: armada-370-xp: Get reference fixed-clock by name
  clocksource: armada-370-xp: Replace WARN_ON with BUG_ON
  clocksource: armada-370-xp: Fix device-tree binding
  clocksource: armada-370-xp: Introduce new compatibles
  clocksource: armada-370-xp: Use CLOCKSOURCE_OF_DECLARE
  clocksource: armada-370-xp: Simplify TIMER_CTRL register access
  clocksource: armada-370-xp: Use BIT()
  ARM: timer-sp: Set dynamic irq affinity
  ARM: nomadik: add dynamic irq flag to the timer
  clocksource: sh_cmt: 32-bit control register support
  clocksource: em_sti: Convert to devm_* managed helpers

Pull CIFS fixes from Steve French:
 "Two minor cifs fixes and a minor documentation cleanup for cifs.txt"

* 'for-next' of git://git.samba.org/sfrench/cifs-2.6:
  cifs: update cifs.txt and remove some outdated infos
  cifs: Avoid calling unlock_page() twice in cifs_readpage() when using fscache
  cifs: Do not take a reference to the page in cifs_readpage_worker()

Pull UBI fixes from Artem Bityutskiy:
 "Just a single fastmap fix plus a regression fix"

* tag 'upstream-3.12-rc1' of git://git.infradead.org/linux-ubi:
  UBI: Fix invalidate_fastmap()
  UBI: Fix PEB leak in wear_leveling_worker()

Pull ubifs fix from Artem Bityutskiy:
 "Just one patch which fixes the power-cut recovery testing mode.

  I'll start using a single UBI/UBIFS tree instead of 2 trees from now
  on.  So in the future you'll get 1 small pull request instead of 2
  tiny ones"

* tag 'upstream-3.12-rc1' of git://git.infradead.org/linux-ubifs:
  UBIFS: remove invalid warn msg with tst_recovery enabled

Pull MIPS fixes from Ralf Baechle:
 "These are four patches for three construction sites:

   - Fix register decoding for the combination of multi-core processors
     and multi-threading.

   - Two more fixes that are part of the ongoing DECstation resurrection
     work.  One of these touches a DECstation-only network driver.

   - Finally Markos' trivial build fix for the AP/SP support.

  (With this applied now all MIPS defconfigs are building again)"

* 'upstream' of git://git.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/ralf/upstream-linus:
  MIPS: kernel: vpe: Make vpe_attrs an array of pointers.
  MIPS: Fix SMP core calculations when using MT support.
  MIPS: DECstation I/O ASIC DMA interrupt handling fix
  MIPS: DECstation HRT initialization rearrangement

Pull x86 platform updates from Matthew Garrett:
 "Nothing amazing here, almost entirely cleanups and minor bugfixes and
  one bit of hardware enablement in the amilo-rfkill driver"

* 'for_linus' of git://cavan.codon.org.uk/platform-drivers-x86:
  platform/x86: panasonic-laptop: reuse module_acpi_driver
  samsung-laptop: fix config build error
  platform: x86: remove unnecessary platform_set_drvdata()
  amilo-rfkill: Enable using amilo-rfkill with the FSC Amilo L1310.
  wmi: parse_wdg() should return kernel error codes
  hp_wmi: Fix unregister order in hp_wmi_rfkill_setup()
  platform: replace strict_strto*() with kstrto*()
  x86: irst: use module_acpi_driver to simplify the code
  x86: smartconnect: use module_acpi_driver to simplify the code
  platform samsung-q10: use ACPI instead of direct EC calls
  thinkpad_acpi: add the ability setting TPACPI_LED_NONE by quirk
  thinkpad_acpi: return -NODEV while operating uninitialized LEDs

Pull misc SCSI driver updates from James Bottomley:
 "This patch set is a set of driver updates (megaraid_sas, fnic, lpfc,
  ufs, hpsa) we also have a couple of bug fixes (sd out of bounds and
  ibmvfc error handling) and the first round of esas2r checker fixes and
  finally the much anticipated big endian additions for megaraid_sas"

* tag 'scsi-misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi: (47 commits)
  [SCSI] fnic: fnic Driver Tuneables Exposed through CLI
  [SCSI] fnic: Kernel panic while running sh/nosh with max lun cfg
  [SCSI] fnic: Hitting BUG_ON(io_req->abts_done) in fnic_rport_exch_reset
  [SCSI] fnic: Remove QUEUE_FULL handling code
  [SCSI] fnic: On system with >1.1TB RAM, VIC fails multipath after boot up
  [SCSI] fnic: FC stat param seconds_since_last_reset not getting updated
  [SCSI] sd: Fix potential out-of-bounds access
  [SCSI] lpfc 8.3.42: Update lpfc version to driver version 8.3.42
  [SCSI] lpfc 8.3.42: Fixed issue of task management commands having a fixed timeout
  [SCSI] lpfc 8.3.42: Fixed inconsistent spin lock usage.
  [SCSI] lpfc 8.3.42: Fix driver's abort loop functionality to skip IOs already getting aborted
  [SCSI] lpfc 8.3.42: Fixed failure to allocate SCSI buffer on PPC64 platform for SLI4 devices
  [SCSI] lpfc 8.3.42: Fix WARN_ON when driver unloads
  [SCSI] lpfc 8.3.42: Avoided making pci bar ioremap call during dual-chute WQ/RQ pci bar selection
  [SCSI] lpfc 8.3.42: Fixed driver iocbq structure's iocb_flag field running out of space
  [SCSI] lpfc 8.3.42: Fix crash on driver load due to cpu affinity logic
  [SCSI] lpfc 8.3.42: Fixed logging format of setting driver sysfs attributes hard to interpret
  [SCSI] lpfc 8.3.42: Fixed back to back RSCNs discovery failure.
  [SCSI] lpfc 8.3.42: Fixed race condition between BSG I/O dispatch and timeout handling
  [SCSI] lpfc 8.3.42: Fixed function mode field defined too small for not recognizing dual-chute mode
  ...

Pull SLAB update from Pekka Enberg:
 "Nothing terribly exciting here apart from Christoph's kmalloc
  unification patches that brings sl[aou]b implementations closer to
  each other"

* 'slab/next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/linux:
  slab: Use correct GFP_DMA constant
  slub: remove verify_mem_not_deleted()
  mm/sl[aou]b: Move kmallocXXX functions to common code
  mm, slab_common: add 'unlikely' to size check of kmalloc_slab()
  mm/slub.c: beautify code for removing redundancy 'break' statement.
  slub: Remove unnecessary page NULL check
  slub: don't use cpu partial pages on UP
  mm/slub: beautify code for 80 column limitation and tab alignment
  mm/slub: remove 'per_cpu' which is useless variable

Pull input update from Dmitry Torokhov:
 "The only change is David Hermann's new EVIOCREVOKE evdev ioctl that
  allows safely passing file descriptors to input devices to session
  processes and later being able to stop delivery of events through
  these fds so that inactive sessions will no longer receive user input
  that does not belong to them"

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input:
  Input: evdev - add EVIOCREVOKE ioctl