Merge commit '8700c95adb03' into timers/nohz

The full dynticks tree needs the latest RCU and sched
upstream updates in order to fix some dependencies.

Merge a common upstream merge point that has these
updates.

Conflicts:
	include/linux/perf_event.h
	kernel/rcutree.h
	kernel/rcutree_plugin.h

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>

1 files changed, 29 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/fs/read_write.c b/fs/read_write.c
index a698eff457fb..7a648911246b 100644
--- a/fs/read_write.c
+++ b/fs/read_write.c
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@
 #include <linux/splice.h>
 #include <linux/compat.h>
 #include "read_write.h"
+#include "internal.h"
 
 #include <asm/uaccess.h>
 #include <asm/unistd.h>
@@ -127,7 +128,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(generic_file_llseek_size);
  *
  * This is a generic implemenation of ->llseek useable for all normal local
  * filesystems.  It just updates the file offset to the value specified by
- * @offset and @whence under i_mutex.
+ * @offset and @whence.
  */
 loff_t generic_file_llseek(struct file *file, loff_t offset, int whence)
 {
@@ -417,6 +418,33 @@ ssize_t do_sync_write(struct file *filp, const char __user *buf, size_t len, lof
 
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(do_sync_write);
 
+ssize_t __kernel_write(struct file *file, const char *buf, size_t count, loff_t *pos)
+{
+	mm_segment_t old_fs;
+	const char __user *p;
+	ssize_t ret;
+
+	if (!file->f_op || (!file->f_op->write && !file->f_op->aio_write))
+		return -EINVAL;
+
+	old_fs = get_fs();
+	set_fs(get_ds());
+	p = (__force const char __user *)buf;
+	if (count > MAX_RW_COUNT)
+		count =  MAX_RW_COUNT;
+	if (file->f_op->write)
+		ret = file->f_op->write(file, p, count, pos);
+	else
+		ret = do_sync_write(file, p, count, pos);
+	set_fs(old_fs);
+	if (ret > 0) {
+		fsnotify_modify(file);
+		add_wchar(current, ret);
+	}
+	inc_syscw(current);
+	return ret;
+}
+
 ssize_t vfs_write(struct file *file, const char __user *buf, size_t count, loff_t *pos)
 {
 	ssize_t ret;