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<title>Revert "Staging: wilc1000: coreconfigurator: Drop unneeded wrapper functions"</title>
<updated>2015-11-18T21:22:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Glen Lee</name>
<email>glen.lee@atmel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-11-05T09:51:23+00:00</published>
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The source and destination pointers are misplaced.
This will be like,
ether_addr_copy(data, bssid + ADDR2);
-&gt; ether_addr_copy(bssid, data + ADDR2);
and also to use ether_addr_copy, it has to be proved that src/dst address are
properly aligned(2).

I revert this as author agree to drop this patch.

This reverts commit d4622f68db8095dd54179e3134e97812727f6b89.

Signed-off-by: Glen Lee &lt;glen.lee@atmel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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The source and destination pointers are misplaced.
This will be like,
ether_addr_copy(data, bssid + ADDR2);
-&gt; ether_addr_copy(bssid, data + ADDR2);
and also to use ether_addr_copy, it has to be proved that src/dst address are
properly aligned(2).

I revert this as author agree to drop this patch.

This reverts commit d4622f68db8095dd54179e3134e97812727f6b89.

Signed-off-by: Glen Lee &lt;glen.lee@atmel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'iio-fixes-for-4.4a' of ssh://ra.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jic23/iio into staging-linus</title>
<updated>2015-11-18T21:15:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Greg Kroah-Hartman</name>
<email>gregkh@linuxfoundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-11-18T21:15:50+00:00</published>
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Jonathan writes:

First set of IIO fixes for the 4.4 cycle.

This set does not include those for issues introduced during the merge
window.  Fixes of those will follow in a future series.

* ad5064
  - Make sure the local i2c_write returns 0 on success rather than the
    number of bytes transfered.  Otherwise we report an error on all writes.
  - Fix a shift for ad5629 and ad5669 which gives incorrect DAC output on
    these parts.
* ad7793
  - The product ID on the datasheet is wrong.  Fix it in the driver.
* IIO_DUMMY_EVGEN
  - select IRQ_WORK as a dependency.
* lpc32xx
  - make sure clock is prepared before enabling.
* si7020
  - data byte order was reversed. Fix it.
* vf610
  - Internal temperature calculation was wrong if a different
    reference voltage was used.  Now use a linear interpolation
    function to make it work over the full range.
  - Fix a division by zero in the case of a device tree property
    not being present (same issue two fixes).
* xilinx XADC
  - VREFN scale was wrong - fix it.
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Jonathan writes:

First set of IIO fixes for the 4.4 cycle.

This set does not include those for issues introduced during the merge
window.  Fixes of those will follow in a future series.

* ad5064
  - Make sure the local i2c_write returns 0 on success rather than the
    number of bytes transfered.  Otherwise we report an error on all writes.
  - Fix a shift for ad5629 and ad5669 which gives incorrect DAC output on
    these parts.
* ad7793
  - The product ID on the datasheet is wrong.  Fix it in the driver.
* IIO_DUMMY_EVGEN
  - select IRQ_WORK as a dependency.
* lpc32xx
  - make sure clock is prepared before enabling.
* si7020
  - data byte order was reversed. Fix it.
* vf610
  - Internal temperature calculation was wrong if a different
    reference voltage was used.  Now use a linear interpolation
    function to make it work over the full range.
  - Fix a division by zero in the case of a device tree property
    not being present (same issue two fixes).
* xilinx XADC
  - VREFN scale was wrong - fix it.
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-4.4/io-poll' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block</title>
<updated>2015-11-11T01:23:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-11-11T01:23:49+00:00</published>
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Pull block IO poll support from Jens Axboe:
 "Various groups have been doing experimentation around IO polling for
  (really) fast devices.  The code has been reviewed and has been
  sitting on the side for a few releases, but this is now good enough
  for coordinated benchmarking and further experimentation.

  Currently O_DIRECT sync read/write are supported.  A framework is in
  the works that allows scalable stats tracking so we can auto-tune
  this.  And we'll add libaio support as well soon.  Fow now, it's an
  opt-in feature for test purposes"

* 'for-4.4/io-poll' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block:
  direct-io: be sure to assign dio-&gt;bio_bdev for both paths
  directio: add block polling support
  NVMe: add blk polling support
  block: add block polling support
  blk-mq: return tag/queue combo in the make_request_fn handlers
  block: change -&gt;make_request_fn() and users to return a queue cookie
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Pull block IO poll support from Jens Axboe:
 "Various groups have been doing experimentation around IO polling for
  (really) fast devices.  The code has been reviewed and has been
  sitting on the side for a few releases, but this is now good enough
  for coordinated benchmarking and further experimentation.

  Currently O_DIRECT sync read/write are supported.  A framework is in
  the works that allows scalable stats tracking so we can auto-tune
  this.  And we'll add libaio support as well soon.  Fow now, it's an
  opt-in feature for test purposes"

* 'for-4.4/io-poll' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block:
  direct-io: be sure to assign dio-&gt;bio_bdev for both paths
  directio: add block polling support
  NVMe: add blk polling support
  block: add block polling support
  blk-mq: return tag/queue combo in the make_request_fn handlers
  block: change -&gt;make_request_fn() and users to return a queue cookie
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)</title>
<updated>2015-11-07T22:32:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-11-07T22:32:45+00:00</published>
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Merge second patch-bomb from Andrew Morton:

 - most of the rest of MM

 - procfs

 - lib/ updates

 - printk updates

 - bitops infrastructure tweaks

 - checkpatch updates

 - nilfs2 update

 - signals

 - various other misc bits: coredump, seqfile, kexec, pidns, zlib, ipc,
   dma-debug, dma-mapping, ...

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;: (102 commits)
  ipc,msg: drop dst nil validation in copy_msg
  include/linux/zutil.h: fix usage example of zlib_adler32()
  panic: release stale console lock to always get the logbuf printed out
  dma-debug: check nents in dma_sync_sg*
  dma-mapping: tidy up dma_parms default handling
  pidns: fix set/getpriority and ioprio_set/get in PRIO_USER mode
  kexec: use file name as the output message prefix
  fs, seqfile: always allow oom killer
  seq_file: reuse string_escape_str()
  fs/seq_file: use seq_* helpers in seq_hex_dump()
  coredump: change zap_threads() and zap_process() to use for_each_thread()
  coredump: ensure all coredumping tasks have SIGNAL_GROUP_COREDUMP
  signal: remove jffs2_garbage_collect_thread()-&gt;allow_signal(SIGCONT)
  signal: introduce kernel_signal_stop() to fix jffs2_garbage_collect_thread()
  signal: turn dequeue_signal_lock() into kernel_dequeue_signal()
  signals: kill block_all_signals() and unblock_all_signals()
  nilfs2: fix gcc uninitialized-variable warnings in powerpc build
  nilfs2: fix gcc unused-but-set-variable warnings
  MAINTAINERS: nilfs2: add header file for tracing
  nilfs2: add tracepoints for analyzing reading and writing metadata files
  ...
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Merge second patch-bomb from Andrew Morton:

 - most of the rest of MM

 - procfs

 - lib/ updates

 - printk updates

 - bitops infrastructure tweaks

 - checkpatch updates

 - nilfs2 update

 - signals

 - various other misc bits: coredump, seqfile, kexec, pidns, zlib, ipc,
   dma-debug, dma-mapping, ...

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;: (102 commits)
  ipc,msg: drop dst nil validation in copy_msg
  include/linux/zutil.h: fix usage example of zlib_adler32()
  panic: release stale console lock to always get the logbuf printed out
  dma-debug: check nents in dma_sync_sg*
  dma-mapping: tidy up dma_parms default handling
  pidns: fix set/getpriority and ioprio_set/get in PRIO_USER mode
  kexec: use file name as the output message prefix
  fs, seqfile: always allow oom killer
  seq_file: reuse string_escape_str()
  fs/seq_file: use seq_* helpers in seq_hex_dump()
  coredump: change zap_threads() and zap_process() to use for_each_thread()
  coredump: ensure all coredumping tasks have SIGNAL_GROUP_COREDUMP
  signal: remove jffs2_garbage_collect_thread()-&gt;allow_signal(SIGCONT)
  signal: introduce kernel_signal_stop() to fix jffs2_garbage_collect_thread()
  signal: turn dequeue_signal_lock() into kernel_dequeue_signal()
  signals: kill block_all_signals() and unblock_all_signals()
  nilfs2: fix gcc uninitialized-variable warnings in powerpc build
  nilfs2: fix gcc unused-but-set-variable warnings
  MAINTAINERS: nilfs2: add header file for tracing
  nilfs2: add tracepoints for analyzing reading and writing metadata files
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dledford/rdma</title>
<updated>2015-11-07T21:33:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-11-07T21:33:07+00:00</published>
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Pull rdma updates from Doug Ledford:
 "This is my initial round of 4.4 merge window patches.  There are a few
  other things I wish to get in for 4.4 that aren't in this pull, as
  this represents what has gone through merge/build/run testing and not
  what is the last few items for which testing is not yet complete.

   - "Checksum offload support in user space" enablement
   - Misc cxgb4 fixes, add T6 support
   - Misc usnic fixes
   - 32 bit build warning fixes
   - Misc ocrdma fixes
   - Multicast loopback prevention extension
   - Extend the GID cache to store and return attributes of GIDs
   - Misc iSER updates
   - iSER clustering update
   - Network NameSpace support for rdma CM
   - Work Request cleanup series
   - New Memory Registration API"

* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dledford/rdma: (76 commits)
  IB/core, cma: Make __attribute_const__ declarations sparse-friendly
  IB/core: Remove old fast registration API
  IB/ipath: Remove fast registration from the code
  IB/hfi1: Remove fast registration from the code
  RDMA/nes: Remove old FRWR API
  IB/qib: Remove old FRWR API
  iw_cxgb4: Remove old FRWR API
  RDMA/cxgb3: Remove old FRWR API
  RDMA/ocrdma: Remove old FRWR API
  IB/mlx4: Remove old FRWR API support
  IB/mlx5: Remove old FRWR API support
  IB/srp: Dont allocate a page vector when using fast_reg
  IB/srp: Remove srp_finish_mapping
  IB/srp: Convert to new registration API
  IB/srp: Split srp_map_sg
  RDS/IW: Convert to new memory registration API
  svcrdma: Port to new memory registration API
  xprtrdma: Port to new memory registration API
  iser-target: Port to new memory registration API
  IB/iser: Port to new fast registration API
  ...
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Pull rdma updates from Doug Ledford:
 "This is my initial round of 4.4 merge window patches.  There are a few
  other things I wish to get in for 4.4 that aren't in this pull, as
  this represents what has gone through merge/build/run testing and not
  what is the last few items for which testing is not yet complete.

   - "Checksum offload support in user space" enablement
   - Misc cxgb4 fixes, add T6 support
   - Misc usnic fixes
   - 32 bit build warning fixes
   - Misc ocrdma fixes
   - Multicast loopback prevention extension
   - Extend the GID cache to store and return attributes of GIDs
   - Misc iSER updates
   - iSER clustering update
   - Network NameSpace support for rdma CM
   - Work Request cleanup series
   - New Memory Registration API"

* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dledford/rdma: (76 commits)
  IB/core, cma: Make __attribute_const__ declarations sparse-friendly
  IB/core: Remove old fast registration API
  IB/ipath: Remove fast registration from the code
  IB/hfi1: Remove fast registration from the code
  RDMA/nes: Remove old FRWR API
  IB/qib: Remove old FRWR API
  iw_cxgb4: Remove old FRWR API
  RDMA/cxgb3: Remove old FRWR API
  RDMA/ocrdma: Remove old FRWR API
  IB/mlx4: Remove old FRWR API support
  IB/mlx5: Remove old FRWR API support
  IB/srp: Dont allocate a page vector when using fast_reg
  IB/srp: Remove srp_finish_mapping
  IB/srp: Convert to new registration API
  IB/srp: Split srp_map_sg
  RDS/IW: Convert to new memory registration API
  svcrdma: Port to new memory registration API
  xprtrdma: Port to new memory registration API
  iser-target: Port to new memory registration API
  IB/iser: Port to new fast registration API
  ...
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<entry>
<title>block: change -&gt;make_request_fn() and users to return a queue cookie</title>
<updated>2015-11-07T17:40:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jens Axboe</name>
<email>axboe@fb.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-11-05T17:41:16+00:00</published>
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No functional changes in this patch, but it prepares us for returning
a more useful cookie related to the IO that was queued up.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Acked-by: Keith Busch &lt;keith.busch@intel.com&gt;
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No functional changes in this patch, but it prepares us for returning
a more useful cookie related to the IO that was queued up.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Acked-by: Keith Busch &lt;keith.busch@intel.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>mm, page_alloc: rename __GFP_WAIT to __GFP_RECLAIM</title>
<updated>2015-11-07T01:50:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mel Gorman</name>
<email>mgorman@techsingularity.net</email>
</author>
<published>2015-11-07T00:28:28+00:00</published>
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__GFP_WAIT was used to signal that the caller was in atomic context and
could not sleep.  Now it is possible to distinguish between true atomic
context and callers that are not willing to sleep.  The latter should
clear __GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM so kswapd will still wake.  As clearing
__GFP_WAIT behaves differently, there is a risk that people will clear the
wrong flags.  This patch renames __GFP_WAIT to __GFP_RECLAIM to clearly
indicate what it does -- setting it allows all reclaim activity, clearing
them prevents it.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix build]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@techsingularity.net&gt;
Acked-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Cc: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux.com&gt;
Acked-by: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Cc: Vitaly Wool &lt;vitalywool@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.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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__GFP_WAIT was used to signal that the caller was in atomic context and
could not sleep.  Now it is possible to distinguish between true atomic
context and callers that are not willing to sleep.  The latter should
clear __GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM so kswapd will still wake.  As clearing
__GFP_WAIT behaves differently, there is a risk that people will clear the
wrong flags.  This patch renames __GFP_WAIT to __GFP_RECLAIM to clearly
indicate what it does -- setting it allows all reclaim activity, clearing
them prevents it.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix build]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@techsingularity.net&gt;
Acked-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Cc: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux.com&gt;
Acked-by: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Cc: Vitaly Wool &lt;vitalywool@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.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>
<title>mm: page_alloc: remove GFP_IOFS</title>
<updated>2015-11-07T01:50:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mel Gorman</name>
<email>mgorman@techsingularity.net</email>
</author>
<published>2015-11-07T00:28:25+00:00</published>
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GFP_IOFS was intended to be shorthand for clearing two flags, not a set of
allocation flags.  There is only one user of this flag combination now and
there appears to be no reason why Lustre had to be protected from reclaim
stalls.  As none of the sites appear to be atomic, this patch simply
deletes GFP_IOFS and converts Lustre to using GFP_KERNEL, GFP_NOFS or
GFP_NOIO as appropriate.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@techsingularity.net&gt;
Cc: Oleg Drokin &lt;oleg.drokin@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Andreas Dilger &lt;andreas.dilger@intel.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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GFP_IOFS was intended to be shorthand for clearing two flags, not a set of
allocation flags.  There is only one user of this flag combination now and
there appears to be no reason why Lustre had to be protected from reclaim
stalls.  As none of the sites appear to be atomic, this patch simply
deletes GFP_IOFS and converts Lustre to using GFP_KERNEL, GFP_NOFS or
GFP_NOIO as appropriate.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@techsingularity.net&gt;
Cc: Oleg Drokin &lt;oleg.drokin@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Andreas Dilger &lt;andreas.dilger@intel.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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</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm, page_alloc: distinguish between being unable to sleep, unwilling to sleep and avoiding waking kswapd</title>
<updated>2015-11-07T01:50:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mel Gorman</name>
<email>mgorman@techsingularity.net</email>
</author>
<published>2015-11-07T00:28:21+00:00</published>
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__GFP_WAIT has been used to identify atomic context in callers that hold
spinlocks or are in interrupts.  They are expected to be high priority and
have access one of two watermarks lower than "min" which can be referred
to as the "atomic reserve".  __GFP_HIGH users get access to the first
lower watermark and can be called the "high priority reserve".

Over time, callers had a requirement to not block when fallback options
were available.  Some have abused __GFP_WAIT leading to a situation where
an optimisitic allocation with a fallback option can access atomic
reserves.

This patch uses __GFP_ATOMIC to identify callers that are truely atomic,
cannot sleep and have no alternative.  High priority users continue to use
__GFP_HIGH.  __GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM identifies callers that can sleep and
are willing to enter direct reclaim.  __GFP_KSWAPD_RECLAIM to identify
callers that want to wake kswapd for background reclaim.  __GFP_WAIT is
redefined as a caller that is willing to enter direct reclaim and wake
kswapd for background reclaim.

This patch then converts a number of sites

o __GFP_ATOMIC is used by callers that are high priority and have memory
  pools for those requests. GFP_ATOMIC uses this flag.

o Callers that have a limited mempool to guarantee forward progress clear
  __GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM but keep __GFP_KSWAPD_RECLAIM. bio allocations fall
  into this category where kswapd will still be woken but atomic reserves
  are not used as there is a one-entry mempool to guarantee progress.

o Callers that are checking if they are non-blocking should use the
  helper gfpflags_allow_blocking() where possible. This is because
  checking for __GFP_WAIT as was done historically now can trigger false
  positives. Some exceptions like dm-crypt.c exist where the code intent
  is clearer if __GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM is used instead of the helper due to
  flag manipulations.

o Callers that built their own GFP flags instead of starting with GFP_KERNEL
  and friends now also need to specify __GFP_KSWAPD_RECLAIM.

The first key hazard to watch out for is callers that removed __GFP_WAIT
and was depending on access to atomic reserves for inconspicuous reasons.
In some cases it may be appropriate for them to use __GFP_HIGH.

The second key hazard is callers that assembled their own combination of
GFP flags instead of starting with something like GFP_KERNEL.  They may
now wish to specify __GFP_KSWAPD_RECLAIM.  It's almost certainly harmless
if it's missed in most cases as other activity will wake kswapd.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@techsingularity.net&gt;
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Acked-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Cc: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux.com&gt;
Cc: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Cc: Vitaly Wool &lt;vitalywool@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.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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__GFP_WAIT has been used to identify atomic context in callers that hold
spinlocks or are in interrupts.  They are expected to be high priority and
have access one of two watermarks lower than "min" which can be referred
to as the "atomic reserve".  __GFP_HIGH users get access to the first
lower watermark and can be called the "high priority reserve".

Over time, callers had a requirement to not block when fallback options
were available.  Some have abused __GFP_WAIT leading to a situation where
an optimisitic allocation with a fallback option can access atomic
reserves.

This patch uses __GFP_ATOMIC to identify callers that are truely atomic,
cannot sleep and have no alternative.  High priority users continue to use
__GFP_HIGH.  __GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM identifies callers that can sleep and
are willing to enter direct reclaim.  __GFP_KSWAPD_RECLAIM to identify
callers that want to wake kswapd for background reclaim.  __GFP_WAIT is
redefined as a caller that is willing to enter direct reclaim and wake
kswapd for background reclaim.

This patch then converts a number of sites

o __GFP_ATOMIC is used by callers that are high priority and have memory
  pools for those requests. GFP_ATOMIC uses this flag.

o Callers that have a limited mempool to guarantee forward progress clear
  __GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM but keep __GFP_KSWAPD_RECLAIM. bio allocations fall
  into this category where kswapd will still be woken but atomic reserves
  are not used as there is a one-entry mempool to guarantee progress.

o Callers that are checking if they are non-blocking should use the
  helper gfpflags_allow_blocking() where possible. This is because
  checking for __GFP_WAIT as was done historically now can trigger false
  positives. Some exceptions like dm-crypt.c exist where the code intent
  is clearer if __GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM is used instead of the helper due to
  flag manipulations.

o Callers that built their own GFP flags instead of starting with GFP_KERNEL
  and friends now also need to specify __GFP_KSWAPD_RECLAIM.

The first key hazard to watch out for is callers that removed __GFP_WAIT
and was depending on access to atomic reserves for inconspicuous reasons.
In some cases it may be appropriate for them to use __GFP_HIGH.

The second key hazard is callers that assembled their own combination of
GFP flags instead of starting with something like GFP_KERNEL.  They may
now wish to specify __GFP_KSWAPD_RECLAIM.  It's almost certainly harmless
if it's missed in most cases as other activity will wake kswapd.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@techsingularity.net&gt;
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Acked-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Cc: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux.com&gt;
Cc: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Cc: Vitaly Wool &lt;vitalywool@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.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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<title>Merge tag 'for-linus-20151106' of git://git.infradead.org/linux-mtd</title>
<updated>2015-11-06T19:50:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-11-06T19:50:24+00:00</published>
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Pull MTD updates from Brian Norris:
 "Core:

   - WARN (in some cases) when a struct mtd_info is registered multiple
     times; in the past this was "supported", but it's still error prone
     for future development.  There's only one ugly case of this left in
     the tree (that we're aware of) and the owners are aware of the
     problems there.

   - fix potential deadlock in the blkdev removal path NOTE: the
     (potential) deadlock was introduced in a for-stable patch.  This
     one is also marked for -stable.

   - ioctl(BLKPG) compat_ioctl support; resolves issues with 32-bit user
     space vs 64-bit kernel space

   - Set MTD parent device correctly throughout the tree, so the tree
     structure appears correctly in sysfs; many drivers were missing
     this (soft) requirement

   - Move device tree partitions (ofpart) into a dedicated 'partitions'
     subnode; this helps to disambiguate whether a node is a partition
     or some other auxiliary data

   - Improve error handling for partitioning failures

  NAND:

   - General: Increase timeout period, for corner-case systems with
     less-than-accurate jiffies

   - Fix OF-based autoloading of several NAND drivers when built as
     modules

   - pxa3xx_nand:
      - Rework timing configuration to be more dynamic
      - Refactor PM support

   - brcmnand: prepare for NorthStar 2 support (ARM64, 16-bit NAND
     chips)

   - sunxi_nand: refactoring and a few bug fixes

   - vf610: new NAND driver

   - FSMC: add SW BCH support; support common NAND DT bindings

   - lpc32xx_slc: refactor and improve timing calculations logic

   - denali: support for rev 5.1

  SPI NOR:

   - Layering improvements

   - Added Winbond lock/unlock support

   - Added mtd_is_locked() (i.e., ioctl(MEMISLOCKED)) support

   - Increase full-chip-erase timeout linearly with flash size

   - fsl-quadspi: fix compile for non-ARM architectures

   - New flash support"

* tag 'for-linus-20151106' of git://git.infradead.org/linux-mtd: (169 commits)
  mtd: don't WARN about overloaded users of mtd-&gt;reboot_notifier.notifier_call
  mtd: nand: sunxi: avoid retrieving data before ECC pass
  mtd: nand: sunxi: fix sunxi_nfc_hw_ecc_read/write_chunk()
  mtd: blkdevs: fix potential deadlock + lockdep warnings
  mtd: ofpart: move ofpart partitions to a dedicated dt node
  doc: dt: mtd: support partitions in a special 'partitions' subnode
  mtd: brcmnand: Force 8bit mode before doing nand_scan_ident()
  mtd: brcmnand: factor out CFG and CFG_EXT bitfields
  mtd: mtdpart: Do not fail mtd probe when parsing partitions fails
  mtd: fsl-quadspi: fix macro collision problems with READ/WRITE
  mtd: warn when registering the same master many times
  mtd: fixup corner case error handling in mtd_device_parse_register()
  mtd: tests: Replace timeval with ktime_t
  mtd: fsmc_nand: Add BCH4 SW ECC support for SPEAr600
  mtd: nand: vf610_nfc: use nand_check_erased_ecc_chunk() helper
  mtd: nand: increase ready wait timeout and report timeouts
  mtd: docg3: off by one in doc_register_sysfs()
  mtd: pxa3xx_nand: clean up the pxa3xx timings
  mtd: pxa3xx_nand: rework flash detection and timing setup
  mtd: pxa3xx_nand: add helpers to setup the timings
  ...
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Pull MTD updates from Brian Norris:
 "Core:

   - WARN (in some cases) when a struct mtd_info is registered multiple
     times; in the past this was "supported", but it's still error prone
     for future development.  There's only one ugly case of this left in
     the tree (that we're aware of) and the owners are aware of the
     problems there.

   - fix potential deadlock in the blkdev removal path NOTE: the
     (potential) deadlock was introduced in a for-stable patch.  This
     one is also marked for -stable.

   - ioctl(BLKPG) compat_ioctl support; resolves issues with 32-bit user
     space vs 64-bit kernel space

   - Set MTD parent device correctly throughout the tree, so the tree
     structure appears correctly in sysfs; many drivers were missing
     this (soft) requirement

   - Move device tree partitions (ofpart) into a dedicated 'partitions'
     subnode; this helps to disambiguate whether a node is a partition
     or some other auxiliary data

   - Improve error handling for partitioning failures

  NAND:

   - General: Increase timeout period, for corner-case systems with
     less-than-accurate jiffies

   - Fix OF-based autoloading of several NAND drivers when built as
     modules

   - pxa3xx_nand:
      - Rework timing configuration to be more dynamic
      - Refactor PM support

   - brcmnand: prepare for NorthStar 2 support (ARM64, 16-bit NAND
     chips)

   - sunxi_nand: refactoring and a few bug fixes

   - vf610: new NAND driver

   - FSMC: add SW BCH support; support common NAND DT bindings

   - lpc32xx_slc: refactor and improve timing calculations logic

   - denali: support for rev 5.1

  SPI NOR:

   - Layering improvements

   - Added Winbond lock/unlock support

   - Added mtd_is_locked() (i.e., ioctl(MEMISLOCKED)) support

   - Increase full-chip-erase timeout linearly with flash size

   - fsl-quadspi: fix compile for non-ARM architectures

   - New flash support"

* tag 'for-linus-20151106' of git://git.infradead.org/linux-mtd: (169 commits)
  mtd: don't WARN about overloaded users of mtd-&gt;reboot_notifier.notifier_call
  mtd: nand: sunxi: avoid retrieving data before ECC pass
  mtd: nand: sunxi: fix sunxi_nfc_hw_ecc_read/write_chunk()
  mtd: blkdevs: fix potential deadlock + lockdep warnings
  mtd: ofpart: move ofpart partitions to a dedicated dt node
  doc: dt: mtd: support partitions in a special 'partitions' subnode
  mtd: brcmnand: Force 8bit mode before doing nand_scan_ident()
  mtd: brcmnand: factor out CFG and CFG_EXT bitfields
  mtd: mtdpart: Do not fail mtd probe when parsing partitions fails
  mtd: fsl-quadspi: fix macro collision problems with READ/WRITE
  mtd: warn when registering the same master many times
  mtd: fixup corner case error handling in mtd_device_parse_register()
  mtd: tests: Replace timeval with ktime_t
  mtd: fsmc_nand: Add BCH4 SW ECC support for SPEAr600
  mtd: nand: vf610_nfc: use nand_check_erased_ecc_chunk() helper
  mtd: nand: increase ready wait timeout and report timeouts
  mtd: docg3: off by one in doc_register_sysfs()
  mtd: pxa3xx_nand: clean up the pxa3xx timings
  mtd: pxa3xx_nand: rework flash detection and timing setup
  mtd: pxa3xx_nand: add helpers to setup the timings
  ...
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