Merge commit 'v2.6.36-rc1' into HEAD

67 files changed, 4676 insertions, 818 deletions

diff --git a/scripts/Makefile.build b/scripts/Makefile.build
index 0b94d2fa3a88..a1a5cf95a68d 100644
--- a/scripts/Makefile.build
+++ b/scripts/Makefile.build
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ ifneq ($(strip $(lib-y) $(lib-m) $(lib-n) $(lib-)),)
 lib-target := $(obj)/lib.a
 endif
 
-ifneq ($(strip $(obj-y) $(obj-m) $(obj-n) $(obj-) $(lib-target)),)
+ifneq ($(strip $(obj-y) $(obj-m) $(obj-n) $(obj-) $(subdir-m) $(lib-target)),)
 builtin-target := $(obj)/built-in.o
 endif
 
@@ -115,7 +115,10 @@ endif
 # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 # Default is built-in, unless we know otherwise
-modkern_cflags = $(if $(part-of-module), $(CFLAGS_MODULE), $(CFLAGS_KERNEL))
+modkern_cflags =                                          \
+	$(if $(part-of-module),                           \
+		$(KBUILD_CFLAGS_MODULE) $(CFLAGS_MODULE), \
+		$(KBUILD_CFLAGS_KERNEL) $(CFLAGS_KERNEL))
 quiet_modtag := $(empty)   $(empty)
 
 $(real-objs-m)        : part-of-module := y
@@ -156,14 +159,14 @@ $(obj)/%.i: $(src)/%.c FORCE
 
 cmd_gensymtypes =                                                           \
     $(CPP) -D__GENKSYMS__ $(c_flags) $< |                                   \
-    $(GENKSYMS) -T $@ -a $(ARCH)                                            \
+    $(GENKSYMS) $(if $(1), -T $(2)) -a $(ARCH)                              \
      $(if $(KBUILD_PRESERVE),-p)                                            \
-     $(if $(1),-r $(firstword $(wildcard $(@:.symtypes=.symref) /dev/null)))
+     -r $(firstword $(wildcard $(2:.symtypes=.symref) /dev/null))
 
 quiet_cmd_cc_symtypes_c = SYM $(quiet_modtag) $@
 cmd_cc_symtypes_c =                                                         \
     set -e;                                                                 \
-    $(call cmd_gensymtypes, true) >/dev/null;                               \
+    $(call cmd_gensymtypes,true,$@) >/dev/null;                             \
     test -s $@ || rm -f $@
 
 $(obj)/%.symtypes : $(src)/%.c FORCE
@@ -192,16 +195,16 @@ else
 #   the actual value of the checksum generated by genksyms
 
 cmd_cc_o_c = $(CC) $(c_flags) -c -o $(@D)/.tmp_$(@F) $<
-cmd_modversions =							\
-	if $(OBJDUMP) -h $(@D)/.tmp_$(@F) | grep -q __ksymtab; then	\
-		$(call cmd_gensymtypes, $(KBUILD_SYMTYPES))		\
-		    > $(@D)/.tmp_$(@F:.o=.ver);				\
-									\
-		$(LD) $(LDFLAGS) -r -o $@ $(@D)/.tmp_$(@F) 		\
-			-T $(@D)/.tmp_$(@F:.o=.ver);			\
-		rm -f $(@D)/.tmp_$(@F) $(@D)/.tmp_$(@F:.o=.ver);	\
-	else								\
-		mv -f $(@D)/.tmp_$(@F) $@;				\
+cmd_modversions =								\
+	if $(OBJDUMP) -h $(@D)/.tmp_$(@F) | grep -q __ksymtab; then		\
+		$(call cmd_gensymtypes,$(KBUILD_SYMTYPES),$(@:.o=.symtypes))	\
+		    > $(@D)/.tmp_$(@F:.o=.ver);					\
+										\
+		$(LD) $(LDFLAGS) -r -o $@ $(@D)/.tmp_$(@F) 			\
+			-T $(@D)/.tmp_$(@F:.o=.ver);				\
+		rm -f $(@D)/.tmp_$(@F) $(@D)/.tmp_$(@F:.o=.ver);		\
+	else									\
+		mv -f $(@D)/.tmp_$(@F) $@;					\
 	fi;
 endif
 
@@ -248,10 +251,10 @@ $(obj)/%.lst: $(src)/%.c FORCE
 # Compile assembler sources (.S)
 # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
-modkern_aflags := $(AFLAGS_KERNEL)
+modkern_aflags := $(KBUILD_AFLAGS_KERNEL) $(AFLAGS_KERNEL)
 
-$(real-objs-m)      : modkern_aflags := $(AFLAGS_MODULE)
-$(real-objs-m:.o=.s): modkern_aflags := $(AFLAGS_MODULE)
+$(real-objs-m)      : modkern_aflags := $(KBUILD_AFLAGS_MODULE) $(AFLAGS_MODULE)
+$(real-objs-m:.o=.s): modkern_aflags := $(KBUILD_AFLAGS_MODULE) $(AFLAGS_MODULE)
 
 quiet_cmd_as_s_S = CPP $(quiet_modtag) $@
 cmd_as_s_S       = $(CPP) $(a_flags)   -o $@ $< 
diff --git a/scripts/Makefile.headersinst b/scripts/Makefile.headersinst
index 0fcd83838771..f89cb87f5c01 100644
--- a/scripts/Makefile.headersinst
+++ b/scripts/Makefile.headersinst
@@ -3,7 +3,6 @@
 #
 # header-y  - list files to be installed. They are preprocessed
 #             to remove __KERNEL__ section of the file
-# unifdef-y - Same as header-y. Obsolete
 # objhdr-y  - Same as header-y but for generated files
 #
 # ==========================================================================
@@ -20,7 +19,7 @@ include scripts/Kbuild.include
 
 install       := $(INSTALL_HDR_PATH)/$(_dst)
 
-header-y      := $(sort $(header-y) $(unifdef-y))
+header-y      := $(sort $(header-y))
 subdirs       := $(patsubst %/,%,$(filter %/, $(header-y)))
 header-y      := $(filter-out %/, $(header-y))
 
diff --git a/scripts/Makefile.help b/scripts/Makefile.help
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..d03608f5db04
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/Makefile.help
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+
+checker-help:
+	@echo  '  coccicheck      - Check with Coccinelle.'
diff --git a/scripts/Makefile.lib b/scripts/Makefile.lib
index cbcd654215e6..54fd1b700131 100644
--- a/scripts/Makefile.lib
+++ b/scripts/Makefile.lib
@@ -241,7 +241,7 @@ cmd_lzma = (cat $(filter-out FORCE,$^) | \
 	lzma -9 && $(call size_append, $(filter-out FORCE,$^))) > $@ || \
 	(rm -f $@ ; false)
 
-quiet_cmd_lzo = LZO    $@
+quiet_cmd_lzo = LZO     $@
 cmd_lzo = (cat $(filter-out FORCE,$^) | \
 	lzop -9 && $(call size_append, $(filter-out FORCE,$^))) > $@ || \
 	(rm -f $@ ; false)
diff --git a/scripts/Makefile.modbuiltin b/scripts/Makefile.modbuiltin
index 102a276f6eea..1adb974e6950 100644
--- a/scripts/Makefile.modbuiltin
+++ b/scripts/Makefile.modbuiltin
@@ -14,6 +14,11 @@ __modbuiltin:
 
 include scripts/Kbuild.include
 
+ifneq ($(KBUILD_SRC),)
+# Create output directory if not already present
+_dummy := $(shell [ -d $(obj) ] || mkdir -p $(obj))
+endif
+
 # The filename Kbuild has precedence over Makefile
 kbuild-dir := $(if $(filter /%,$(src)),$(src),$(srctree)/$(src))
 kbuild-file := $(if $(wildcard $(kbuild-dir)/Kbuild),$(kbuild-dir)/Kbuild,$(kbuild-dir)/Makefile)
diff --git a/scripts/Makefile.modpost b/scripts/Makefile.modpost
index 8f14c81abbc7..7d22056582c1 100644
--- a/scripts/Makefile.modpost
+++ b/scripts/Makefile.modpost
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
 #     - See include/linux/module.h for more details
 
 # Step 4 is solely used to allow module versioning in external modules,
-# where the CRC of each module is retrieved from the Module.symers file.
+# where the CRC of each module is retrieved from the Module.symvers file.
 
 # KBUILD_MODPOST_WARN can be set to avoid error out in case of undefined
 # symbols in the final module linking stage
@@ -107,7 +107,7 @@ $(modules:.ko=.mod.c): __modpost ;
 modname = $(notdir $(@:.mod.o=))
 
 quiet_cmd_cc_o_c = CC      $@
-      cmd_cc_o_c = $(CC) $(c_flags) $(CFLAGS_MODULE)	\
+      cmd_cc_o_c = $(CC) $(c_flags) $(KBUILD_CFLAGS_MODULE) $(CFLAGS_MODULE) \
 		   -c -o $@ $<
 
 $(modules:.ko=.mod.o): %.mod.o: %.mod.c FORCE
@@ -117,8 +117,9 @@ targets += $(modules:.ko=.mod.o)
 
 # Step 6), final link of the modules
 quiet_cmd_ld_ko_o = LD [M]  $@
-      cmd_ld_ko_o = $(LD) -r $(LDFLAGS) $(LDFLAGS_MODULE) -o $@		\
-			  $(filter-out FORCE,$^)
+      cmd_ld_ko_o = $(LD) -r $(LDFLAGS)                                 \
+                             $(KBUILD_LDFLAGS_MODULE) $(LDFLAGS_MODULE) \
+                             -o $@ $(filter-out FORCE,$^)
 
 $(modules): %.ko :%.o %.mod.o FORCE
 	$(call if_changed,ld_ko_o)
diff --git a/scripts/checkincludes.pl b/scripts/checkincludes.pl
index 676ddc07d6fa..97b2c6143fe4 100755
--- a/scripts/checkincludes.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkincludes.pl
@@ -11,6 +11,8 @@
 # you do have real dups and do not have them under #ifdef's. You
 # could also just review the results.
 
+use strict;
+
 sub usage {
 	print "Usage: checkincludes.pl [-r]\n";
 	print "By default we just warn of duplicates\n";
@@ -35,23 +37,24 @@ if ($#ARGV >= 1) {
 	}
 }
 
-foreach $file (@ARGV) {
-	open(FILE, $file) or die "Cannot open $file: $!.\n";
+foreach my $file (@ARGV) {
+	open(my $f, '<', $file)
+	    or die "Cannot open $file: $!.\n";
 
 	my %includedfiles = ();
 	my @file_lines = ();
 
-	while (<FILE>) {
+	while (<$f>) {
 		if (m/^\s*#\s*include\s*[<"](\S*)[>"]/o) {
 			++$includedfiles{$1};
 		}
 		push(@file_lines, $_);
 	}
 
-	close(FILE);
+	close($f);
 
 	if (!$remove) {
-		foreach $filename (keys %includedfiles) {
+		foreach my $filename (keys %includedfiles) {
 			if ($includedfiles{$filename} > 1) {
 				print "$file: $filename is included more than once.\n";
 			}
@@ -59,27 +62,28 @@ foreach $file (@ARGV) {
 		next;
 	}
 
-	open(FILE,">$file") || die("Cannot write to $file: $!");
+	open($f, '>', $file)
+	    or die("Cannot write to $file: $!");
 
 	my $dups = 0;
 	foreach (@file_lines) {
 		if (m/^\s*#\s*include\s*[<"](\S*)[>"]/o) {
-			foreach $filename (keys %includedfiles) {
+			foreach my $filename (keys %includedfiles) {
 				if ($1 eq $filename) {
 					if ($includedfiles{$filename} > 1) {
 						$includedfiles{$filename}--;
 						$dups++;
 					} else {
-						print FILE $_;
+						print {$f} $_;
 					}
 				}
 			}
 		} else {
-			print FILE $_;
+			print {$f} $_;
 		}
 	}
 	if ($dups > 0) {
 		print "$file: removed $dups duplicate includes\n";
 	}
-	close(FILE);
+	close($f);
 }
diff --git a/scripts/checkkconfigsymbols.sh b/scripts/checkkconfigsymbols.sh
index 46be3c5a62b7..2ca49bb31efc 100755
--- a/scripts/checkkconfigsymbols.sh
+++ b/scripts/checkkconfigsymbols.sh
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ find $paths -name '*.[chS]' -o -name 'Makefile' -o -name 'Makefile*[^~]'| while
 do
 	# Output the bare Kconfig variable and the filename; the _MODULE part at
 	# the end is not removed here (would need perl an not-hungry regexp for that).
-	sed -ne 's!^.*\<\(UML_\)\?CONFIG_\([0-9A-Z_]\+\).*!\2 '$i'!p' < $i
+	sed -ne 's!^.*\<\(UML_\)\?CONFIG_\([0-9A-Za-z_]\+\).*!\2 '$i'!p' < $i
 done | \
 # Smart "sort|uniq" implemented in awk and tuned to collect the names of all
 # files which use a given symbol
diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index bd88f11b0953..2039acdf5122 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -195,7 +195,7 @@ our $typeTypedefs = qr{(?x:
 our $logFunctions = qr{(?x:
 	printk|
 	pr_(debug|dbg|vdbg|devel|info|warning|err|notice|alert|crit|emerg|cont)|
-	dev_(printk|dbg|vdbg|info|warn|err|notice|alert|crit|emerg|WARN)|
+	(dev|netdev|netif)_(printk|dbg|vdbg|info|warn|err|notice|alert|crit|emerg|WARN)|
 	WARN|
 	panic
 )};
@@ -224,6 +224,12 @@ our @modifierList = (
 	qr{fastcall},
 );
 
+our $allowed_asm_includes = qr{(?x:
+	irq|
+	memory
+)};
+# memory.h: ARM has a custom one
+
 sub build_types {
 	my $mods = "(?x:  \n" . join("|\n  ", @modifierList) . "\n)";
 	my $all = "(?x:  \n" . join("|\n  ", @typeList) . "\n)";
@@ -552,6 +558,9 @@ sub ctx_statement_block {
 			$type = ($level != 0)? '{' : '';
 
 			if ($level == 0) {
+				if (substr($blk, $off + 1, 1) eq ';') {
+					$off++;
+				}
 				last;
 			}
 		}
@@ -1403,7 +1412,8 @@ sub process {
 #80 column limit
 		if ($line =~ /^\+/ && $prevrawline !~ /\/\*\*/ &&
 		    $rawline !~ /^.\s*\*\s*\@$Ident\s/ &&
-		    $line !~ /^\+\s*$logFunctions\s*\(\s*(?:KERN_\S+\s*)?"[X\t]*"\s*(?:,|\)\s*;)\s*$/ &&
+		    !($line =~ /^\+\s*$logFunctions\s*\(\s*(?:(KERN_\S+\s*|[^"]*))?"[X\t]*"\s*(?:,|\)\s*;)\s*$/ ||
+		    $line =~ /^\+\s*"[^"]*"\s*(?:\s*|,|\)\s*;)\s*$/) &&
 		    $length > 80)
 		{
 			WARN("line over 80 characters\n" . $herecurr);
@@ -1448,6 +1458,13 @@ sub process {
 			WARN("please, no space before tabs\n" . $herevet);
 		}
 
+# check for spaces at the beginning of a line.
+		if ($rawline =~ /^\+ / && $rawline !~ /\+ +\*/)  {
+			my $herevet = "$here\n" . cat_vet($rawline) . "\n";
+			WARN("please, no space for starting a line, \
+				excluding comments\n" . $herevet);
+		}
+
 # check we are in a valid C source file if not then ignore this hunk
 		next if ($realfile !~ /\.(h|c)$/);
 
@@ -1778,9 +1795,9 @@ sub process {
 			WARN("EXPORT_SYMBOL(foo); should immediately follow its function/variable\n" . $herecurr);
 		}
 
-# check for external initialisers.
+# check for global initialisers.
 		if ($line =~ /^.$Type\s*$Ident\s*(?:\s+$Modifier)*\s*=\s*(0|NULL|false)\s*;/) {
-			ERROR("do not initialise externals to 0 or NULL\n" .
+			ERROR("do not initialise globals to 0 or NULL\n" .
 				$herecurr);
 		}
 # check for static initialisers.
@@ -2308,7 +2325,7 @@ sub process {
 			my $checkfile = "include/linux/$file";
 			if (-f "$root/$checkfile" &&
 			    $realfile ne $checkfile &&
-			    $1 ne 'irq')
+			    $1 !~ /$allowed_asm_includes/)
 			{
 				if ($realfile =~ m{^arch/}) {
 					CHK("Consider using #include <linux/$file> instead of <asm/$file>\n" . $herecurr);
@@ -2570,6 +2587,21 @@ sub process {
 			}
 		}
 
+# prefer usleep_range over udelay
+		if ($line =~ /\budelay\s*\(\s*(\w+)\s*\)/) {
+			# ignore udelay's < 10, however
+			if (! (($1 =~ /(\d+)/) && ($1 < 10)) ) {
+				CHK("usleep_range is preferred over udelay; see Documentation/timers/timers-howto.txt\n" . $line);
+			}
+		}
+
+# warn about unexpectedly long msleep's
+		if ($line =~ /\bmsleep\s*\((\d+)\);/) {
+			if ($1 < 20) {
+				WARN("msleep < 20ms can sleep for up to 20ms; see Documentation/timers/timers-howto.txt\n" . $line);
+			}
+		}
+
 # warn about #ifdefs in C files
 #		if ($line =~ /^.\s*\#\s*if(|n)def/ && ($realfile =~ /\.c$/)) {
 #			print "#ifdef in C files should be avoided\n";
diff --git a/scripts/checkstack.pl b/scripts/checkstack.pl
index 14ee68e991dd..1afff6658a7d 100755
--- a/scripts/checkstack.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkstack.pl
@@ -21,6 +21,8 @@
 #
 #	TODO :	Port to all architectures (one regex per arch)
 
+use strict;
+
 # check for arch
 #
 # $re is used for two matches:
@@ -104,19 +106,11 @@ my (@stack, $re, $dre, $x, $xs);
 	}
 }
 
-sub bysize($) {
-	my ($asize, $bsize);
-	($asize = $a) =~ s/.*:	*(.*)$/$1/;
-	($bsize = $b) =~ s/.*:	*(.*)$/$1/;
-	$bsize <=> $asize
-}
-
 #
 # main()
 #
 my $funcre = qr/^$x* <(.*)>:$/;
-my $func;
-my $file, $lastslash;
+my ($func, $file, $lastslash);
 
 while (my $line = <STDIN>) {
 	if ($line =~ m/$funcre/) {
@@ -173,4 +167,6 @@ while (my $line = <STDIN>) {
 	}
 }
 
-print sort bysize @stack;
+# Sort output by size (last field)
+print sort { ($b =~ /:\t*(\d+)$/)[0] <=> ($a =~ /:\t*(\d+)$/)[0] } @stack;
+
diff --git a/scripts/checksyscalls.sh b/scripts/checksyscalls.sh
index 66ad375612f2..6bb42e72e0e5 100755
--- a/scripts/checksyscalls.sh
+++ b/scripts/checksyscalls.sh
@@ -183,7 +183,6 @@ cat << EOF
 #define __IGNORE_ustat		/* statfs */
 #define __IGNORE_utime		/* utimes */
 #define __IGNORE_vfork		/* clone */
-#define __IGNORE_wait4		/* waitid */
 
 /* sync_file_range had a stupid ABI. Allow sync_file_range2 instead */
 #ifdef __NR_sync_file_range2
diff --git a/scripts/checkversion.pl b/scripts/checkversion.pl
index ec7d21161bdc..b444e89a0095 100755
--- a/scripts/checkversion.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkversion.pl
@@ -5,23 +5,22 @@
 # including <linux/version.h> that don't need it.
 # Copyright (C) 2003, Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
 
+use strict;
+
 $| = 1;
 
-my $debugging = 0;
+my $debugging;
 
-foreach $file (@ARGV)
-{
+foreach my $file (@ARGV) {
     # Open this file.
-    open(FILE, $file) || die "Can't open $file: $!\n";
+    open( my $f, '<', $file )
+      or die "Can't open $file: $!\n";
 
     # Initialize variables.
-    my $fInComment   = 0;
-    my $fInString    = 0;
-    my $fUseVersion   = 0;
+    my ($fInComment, $fInString, $fUseVersion);
     my $iLinuxVersion = 0;
 
-    LINE: while ( <FILE> )
-    {
+    while (<$f>) {
 	# Strip comments.
 	$fInComment && (s+^.*?\*/+ +o ? ($fInComment = 0) : next);
 	m+/\*+o && (s+/\*.*?\*/+ +go, (s+/\*.*$+ +o && ($fInComment = 1)));
@@ -43,8 +42,8 @@ foreach $file (@ARGV)
 	# Look for uses: LINUX_VERSION_CODE, KERNEL_VERSION, UTS_RELEASE
 	if (($_ =~ /LINUX_VERSION_CODE/) || ($_ =~ /\WKERNEL_VERSION/)) {
 	    $fUseVersion = 1;
-	    last LINE if $iLinuxVersion;
-	}
+            last if $iLinuxVersion;
+        }
     }
 
     # Report used version IDs without include?
@@ -67,5 +66,5 @@ foreach $file (@ARGV)
         }
     }
 
-    close(FILE);
+    close($f);
 }
diff --git a/scripts/coccicheck b/scripts/coccicheck
new file mode 100755
index 000000000000..b8bcf1f7bed7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/coccicheck
@@ -0,0 +1,80 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+SPATCH="`which ${SPATCH:=spatch}`"
+
+if [ "$C" = "1" -o "$C" = "2" ]; then
+    ONLINE=1
+
+# This requires Coccinelle >= 0.2.3
+#    FLAGS="-ignore_unknown_options -very_quiet"
+#    OPTIONS=$*
+
+# Workaround for Coccinelle < 0.2.3
+    FLAGS="-I $srctree/include -very_quiet"
+    shift $(( $# - 1 ))
+    OPTIONS=$1
+else
+    ONLINE=0
+    FLAGS="-very_quiet"
+fi
+
+if [ ! -x "$SPATCH" ]; then
+    echo 'spatch is part of the Coccinelle project and is available at http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/'
+    exit 1
+fi
+
+if [ "$MODE" = "" ] ; then
+    if [ "$ONLINE" = "0" ] ; then
+	echo 'You have not explicitly specify the mode to use. Fallback to "report".'
+	echo 'You can specify the mode with "make coccicheck MODE=<mode>"'
+	echo 'Available modes are: report, patch, context, org'
+    fi
+    MODE="report"
+fi
+
+if [ "$ONLINE" = "0" ] ; then
+    echo ''
+    echo 'Please check for false positives in the output before submitting a patch.'
+    echo 'When using "patch" mode, carefully review the patch before submitting