Merge branch 'akpm' (updates from Andrew Morton)

Merge first patch-bomb from Andrew Morton:
 - various misc bits
 - I'm been patchmonkeying ocfs2 for a while, as Joel and Mark have been
   distracted.  There has been quite a bit of activity.
 - About half the MM queue
 - Some backlight bits
 - Various lib/ updates
 - checkpatch updates
 - zillions more little rtc patches
 - ptrace
 - signals
 - exec
 - procfs
 - rapidio
 - nbd
 - aoe
 - pps
 - memstick
 - tools/testing/selftests updates

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (445 commits)
  tools/testing/selftests: don't assume the x bit is set on scripts
  selftests: add .gitignore for kcmp
  selftests: fix clean target in kcmp Makefile
  selftests: add .gitignore for vm
  selftests: add hugetlbfstest
  self-test: fix make clean
  selftests: exit 1 on failure
  kernel/resource.c: remove the unneeded assignment in function __find_resource
  aio: fix wrong comment in aio_complete()
  drivers/w1/slaves/w1_ds2408.c: add magic sequence to disable P0 test mode
  drivers/memstick/host/r592.c: convert to module_pci_driver
  drivers/memstick/host/jmb38x_ms: convert to module_pci_driver
  pps-gpio: add device-tree binding and support
  drivers/pps/clients/pps-gpio.c: convert to module_platform_driver
  drivers/pps/clients/pps-gpio.c: convert to devm_* helpers
  drivers/parport/share.c: use kzalloc
  Documentation/accounting/getdelays.c: avoid strncpy in accounting tool
  aoe: update internal version number to v83
  aoe: update copyright date
  aoe: perform I/O completions in parallel
  ...

1 files changed, 35 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/mmzone.h b/include/linux/mmzone.h
index 5c76737d836b..ae19af5ec02c 100644
--- a/include/linux/mmzone.h
+++ b/include/linux/mmzone.h
@@ -474,10 +474,16 @@ struct zone {
 	 * frequently read in proximity to zone->lock.  It's good to
 	 * give them a chance of being in the same cacheline.
 	 *
-	 * Write access to present_pages and managed_pages at runtime should
-	 * be protected by lock_memory_hotplug()/unlock_memory_hotplug().
-	 * Any reader who can't tolerant drift of present_pages and
-	 * managed_pages should hold memory hotplug lock to get a stable value.
+	 * Write access to present_pages at runtime should be protected by
+	 * lock_memory_hotplug()/unlock_memory_hotplug().  Any reader who can't
+	 * tolerant drift of present_pages should hold memory hotplug lock to
+	 * get a stable value.
+	 *
+	 * Read access to managed_pages should be safe because it's unsigned
+	 * long. Write access to zone->managed_pages and totalram_pages are
+	 * protected by managed_page_count_lock at runtime. Idealy only
+	 * adjust_managed_page_count() should be used instead of directly
+	 * touching zone->managed_pages and totalram_pages.
 	 */
 	unsigned long		spanned_pages;
 	unsigned long		present_pages;
@@ -495,6 +501,13 @@ typedef enum {
 	ZONE_CONGESTED,			/* zone has many dirty pages backed by
 					 * a congested BDI
 					 */
+	ZONE_TAIL_LRU_DIRTY,		/* reclaim scanning has recently found
+					 * many dirty file pages at the tail
+					 * of the LRU.
+					 */
+	ZONE_WRITEBACK,			/* reclaim scanning has recently found
+					 * many pages under writeback
+					 */
 } zone_flags_t;
 
 static inline void zone_set_flag(struct zone *zone, zone_flags_t flag)
@@ -517,6 +530,16 @@ static inline int zone_is_reclaim_congested(const struct zone *zone)
 	return test_bit(ZONE_CONGESTED, &zone->flags);
 }
 
+static inline int zone_is_reclaim_dirty(const struct zone *zone)
+{
+	return test_bit(ZONE_TAIL_LRU_DIRTY, &zone->flags);
+}
+
+static inline int zone_is_reclaim_writeback(const struct zone *zone)
+{
+	return test_bit(ZONE_WRITEBACK, &zone->flags);
+}
+
 static inline int zone_is_reclaim_locked(const struct zone *zone)
 {
 	return test_bit(ZONE_RECLAIM_LOCKED, &zone->flags);
@@ -716,7 +739,10 @@ typedef struct pglist_data {
 	 * or node_spanned_pages stay constant.  Holding this will also
 	 * guarantee that any pfn_valid() stays that way.
 	 *
-	 * Nests above zone->lock and zone->size_seqlock.
+	 * pgdat_resize_lock() and pgdat_resize_unlock() are provided to
+	 * manipulate node_size_lock without checking for CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG.
+	 *
+	 * Nests above zone->lock and zone->span_seqlock
 	 */
 	spinlock_t node_size_lock;
 #endif
@@ -1111,6 +1137,10 @@ struct mem_section {
 	struct page_cgroup *page_cgroup;
 	unsigned long pad;
 #endif
+	/*
+	 * WARNING: mem_section must be a power-of-2 in size for the
+	 * calculation and use of SECTION_ROOT_MASK to make sense.
+	 */
 };
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_EXTREME