Merge tag 'v3.8-rc1' into staging/for_v3.9

Linux 3.8-rc1

* tag 'v3.8-rc1': (10696 commits)
Linux 3.8-rc1
Revert "nfsd: warn on odd reply state in nfsd_vfs_read"
ARM: dts: fix duplicated build

Merge tag 'v3.8-rc1' into staging/for_v3.9

Linux 3.8-rc1

* tag 'v3.8-rc1': (10696 commits)
Linux 3.8-rc1
Revert "nfsd: warn on odd reply state in nfsd_vfs_read"
ARM: dts: fix duplicated build target and alphabetical sort out for exynos
dm stripe: add WRITE SAME support
dm: remove map_info
dm snapshot: do not use map_context
dm thin: dont use map_context
dm raid1: dont use map_context
dm flakey: dont use map_context
dm raid1: rename read_record to bio_record
dm: move target request nr to dm_target_io
dm snapshot: use per_bio_data
dm verity: use per_bio_data
dm raid1: use per_bio_data
dm: introduce per_bio_data
dm kcopyd: add WRITE SAME support to dm_kcopyd_zero
dm linear: add WRITE SAME support
dm: add WRITE SAME support
dm: prepare to support WRITE SAME
dm ioctl: use kmalloc if possible
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Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal

Pull big execve/kernel_thread/fork unification series from Al Viro:
"All architectures are converted to new mod

Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal

Pull big execve/kernel_thread/fork unification series from Al Viro:
"All architectures are converted to new model. Quite a bit of that
stuff is actually shared with architecture trees; in such cases it's
literally shared branch pulled by both, not a cherry-pick.

A lot of ugliness and black magic is gone (-3KLoC total in this one):

- kernel_thread()/kernel_execve()/sys_execve() redesign.

We don't do syscalls from kernel anymore for either kernel_thread()
or kernel_execve():

kernel_thread() is essentially clone(2) with callback run before we
return to userland, the callbacks either never return or do
successful do_execve() before returning.

kernel_execve() is a wrapper for do_execve() - it doesn't need to
do transition to user mode anymore.

As a result kernel_thread() and kernel_execve() are
arch-independent now - they live in kernel/fork.c and fs/exec.c
resp. sys_execve() is also in fs/exec.c and it's completely
architecture-independent.

- daemonize() is gone, along with its parts in fs/*.c

- struct pt_regs * is no longer passed to do_fork/copy_process/
copy_thread/do_execve/search_binary_handler/->load_binary/do_coredump.

- sys_fork()/sys_vfork()/sys_clone() unified; some architectures
still need wrappers (ones with callee-saved registers not saved in
pt_regs on syscall entry), but the main part of those suckers is in
kernel/fork.c now."

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal: (113 commits)
do_coredump(): get rid of pt_regs argument
print_fatal_signal(): get rid of pt_regs argument
ptrace_signal(): get rid of unused arguments
get rid of ptrace_signal_deliver() arguments
new helper: signal_pt_regs()
unify default ptrace_signal_deliver
flagday: kill pt_regs argument of do_fork()
death to idle_regs()
don't pass regs to copy_process()
flagday: don't pass regs to copy_thread()
bfin: switch to generic vfork, get rid of pointless wrappers
xtensa: switch to generic clone()
openrisc: switch to use of generic fork and clone
unicore32: switch to generic clone(2)
score: switch to generic fork/vfork/clone
c6x: sanitize copy_thread(), get rid of clone(2) wrapper, switch to generic clone()
take sys_fork/sys_vfork/sys_clone prototypes to linux/syscalls.h
mn10300: switch to generic fork/vfork/clone
h8300: switch to generic fork/vfork/clone
tile: switch to generic clone()
...

Conflicts:
arch/microblaze/include/asm/Kbuild

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Merge branches 'no-rebases', 'arch-avr32', 'arch-blackfin', 'arch-cris', 'arch-h8300', 'arch-m32r', 'arch-mn10300', 'arch-score', 'arch-sh' and 'arch-powerpc' into for-next

sh: switch to generic kernel_thread()/kernel_execve()

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

Merge commit 'v2.6.38-rc1' into kbuild/packaging

Merge branches 'sh/wdt', 'sh/pci-express-async' and 'common/serial-rework' into sh-latest

Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6 into common/serial-rework

Conflicts:
arch/sh/kernel/cpu/sh2/setup-sh7619.c
arch/sh/kernel/cpu/sh2a/setup-mxg

Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6 into common/serial-rework

Conflicts:
arch/sh/kernel/cpu/sh2/setup-sh7619.c
arch/sh/kernel/cpu/sh2a/setup-mxg.c
arch/sh/kernel/cpu/sh2a/setup-sh7201.c
arch/sh/kernel/cpu/sh2a/setup-sh7203.c
arch/sh/kernel/cpu/sh2a/setup-sh7206.c
arch/sh/kernel/cpu/sh3/setup-sh7705.c
arch/sh/kernel/cpu/sh3/setup-sh770x.c
arch/sh/kernel/cpu/sh3/setup-sh7710.c
arch/sh/kernel/cpu/sh3/setup-sh7720.c
arch/sh/kernel/cpu/sh4/setup-sh4-202.c
arch/sh/kernel/cpu/sh4/setup-sh7750.c
arch/sh/kernel/cpu/sh4/setup-sh7760.c
arch/sh/kernel/cpu/sh4a/setup-sh7343.c
arch/sh/kernel/cpu/sh4a/setup-sh7366.c
arch/sh/kernel/cpu/sh4a/setup-sh7722.c
arch/sh/kernel/cpu/sh4a/setup-sh7723.c
arch/sh/kernel/cpu/sh4a/setup-sh7724.c
arch/sh/kernel/cpu/sh4a/setup-sh7763.c
arch/sh/kernel/cpu/sh4a/setup-sh7770.c
arch/sh/kernel/cpu/sh4a/setup-sh7780.c
arch/sh/kernel/cpu/sh4a/setup-sh7785.c
arch/sh/kernel/cpu/sh4a/setup-sh7786.c
arch/sh/kernel/cpu/sh4a/setup-shx3.c
arch/sh/kernel/cpu/sh5/setup-sh5.c
drivers/serial/sh-sci.c
drivers/serial/sh-sci.h
include/linux/serial_sci.h

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Merge v2.6.37-rc8 into powerpc/next

Merge commit 'v2.6.37-rc1' into kbuild/kbuild

Merge commit 'v2.6.37-rc1' into for-2.6.37

Merge branch 'for-2.6.37' into for-2.6.38

Merge commit 'v2.6.36' into kbuild/misc

Update to be able to fix a recent change to scripts/basic/docproc.c
(commit eda603f).

Merge branch 'linus' into core/locking

Reason: Pull in the semaphore related changes

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6

Conflicts:
net/mac80211/main.c

Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6

Merge branch 'fix/misc' into topic/misc

Merge commit 'v2.6.36-rc3' into x86/memblock

Conflicts:
arch/x86/kernel/trampoline.c
mm/memblock.c

Merge reason: Resolve the conflicts, update to latest upstream.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <min

Merge commit 'v2.6.36-rc3' into x86/memblock

Conflicts:
arch/x86/kernel/trampoline.c
mm/memblock.c

Merge reason: Resolve the conflicts, update to latest upstream.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

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Merge branch 'linus' into perf/core

Merge reason: pick up perf fixes

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6

Conflicts:
arch/sh/kernel/process_32.c

Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>

Make do_execve() take a const filename pointer

Make do_execve() take a const filename pointer so that kernel_execve() compiles
correctly on ARM:

arch/arm/kernel/sys_arm.c:88: warning: passing argum

Make do_execve() take a const filename pointer

Make do_execve() take a const filename pointer so that kernel_execve() compiles
correctly on ARM:

arch/arm/kernel/sys_arm.c:88: warning: passing argument 1 of 'do_execve' discards qualifiers from pointer target type

This also requires the argv and envp arguments to be consted twice, once for
the pointer array and once for the strings the array points to. This is
because do_execve() passes a pointer to the filename (now const) to
copy_strings_kernel(). A simpler alternative would be to cast the filename
pointer in do_execve() when it's passed to copy_strings_kernel().

do_execve() may not change any of the strings it is passed as part of the argv
or envp lists as they are some of them in .rodata, so marking these strings as
const should be fine.

Further kernel_execve() and sys_execve() need to be changed to match.

This has been test built on x86_64, frv, arm and mips.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Acked-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6

Merge the BIOS workarounds from 2.6.32, and the swiotlb fallback on failure.

Merge commit 'v2.6.32' into reiserfs/kill-bkl

Merge-reason: The tree was based 2.6.31. It's better to be up to date
with 2.6.32. Although no conflicting changes were made in between,
it gives benchm

Merge commit 'v2.6.32' into reiserfs/kill-bkl

Merge-reason: The tree was based 2.6.31. It's better to be up to date
with 2.6.32. Although no conflicting changes were made in between,
it gives benchmarking results closer to the lastest kernel behaviour.

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Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6

Merge branch 'fix/misc' into topic/misc

Merge branch 'linus' into sched/core

Conflicts:
fs/proc/array.c

Merge reason: resolve conflict and queue up dependent patch.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>