Cleaning DMESG junk logs, we need to see real things, not same junk every 5 sec.
switch lseek to COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
introduce generic sys_sigaltstack(), switch x86 and um to it

Conditional on CONFIG_GENERIC_SIGALTSTACK; architectures that do not
select it are completely unaffected

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
sanitize rt_sigaction() situation a bit

	Switch from __ARCH_WANT_SYS_RT_SIGACTION to opposite
(!CONFIG_ODD_RT_SIGACTION); the only two architectures that
need it are alpha and sparc.  The reason for use of CONFIG_...
instead of __ARCH_... is that it's needed only kernel-side
and doing it that way avoids a mess with include order on many
architectures.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
old sigsuspend variants in kernel/signal.c

conditional on OLD_SIGSUSPEND/OLD_SIGSUSPEND3, depending on which
variety of that fossil is needed.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
take sys_rt_sigsuspend() prototype to linux/syscalls.h

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
get rid of duplicate logics in __SC_....[1-6] definitions

All those guys have the same form - "take a list of type/name pairs,
apply some macro to each of them".  Abstract that part away, convert
all __SC_FOO##x(__VA_ARGS__) to __MAP(x,__SC_FOO,__VA_ARGS__).

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
teach SYSCALL_DEFINE<n> how to deal with long long/unsigned long long

... and convert a bunch of SYSCALL_DEFINE ones to SYSCALL_DEFINE<n>,
killing the boilerplate crap around them.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
convert sendfile{,64} to COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Don't bother with redoing rw_verify_area() from default_file_splice_from()

default_file_splice_from() ends up calling vfs_write() (via very convoluted
callchain).  It's an overkill, since we already have done rw_verify_area()
in the caller by the time we call vfs_write() we are under set_fs(KERNEL_DS),
so access_ok() is also pointless.  Add a new helper (__kernel_write()),
use it instead of kernel_write() in there.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
vfs/splice: Fix missed checks in new __kernel_write() helper

Commit 06ae43f34bcc ("Don't bother with redoing rw_verify_area() from
default_file_splice_from()") lost the checks to test existence of the
write/aio_write methods.  My apologies ;-/

Eventually, we want that in fs/splice.c side of things (no point
repeating it for every buffer, after all), but for now this is the
obvious minimal fix.

Reported-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
lift sb_start_write/sb_end_write out of ->aio_write()

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
switch compat readv/writev variants to COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE

... and take to fs/read_write.c

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
lift sb_start_write() out of ->write()

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
fs/read_write.c: fix generic_file_llseek() comment

Commit ef3d0fd27e90 ("vfs: do (nearly) lockless generic_file_llseek")
has removed i_mutex from generic_file_llseek, so update the comment
accordingly.

Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
kill fs/read_write.h

fs/compat.c doesn't need it anymore, so let's just move the remaining
contents (two typedefs) into fs/read_write.c

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2 Commits!  switch simple cases of fget_light to fdget

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

++++++++++++++++++++

aio: remove retry-based AIO

This removes the retry-based AIO infrastructure now that nothing in tree
is using it.

We want to remove retry-based AIO because it is fundemantally unsafe.
It retries IO submission from a kernel thread that has only assumed the
mm of the submitting task.  All other task_struct references in the IO
submission path will see the kernel thread, not the submitting task.
This design flaw means that nothing of any meaningful complexity can use
retry-based AIO.

This removes all the code and data associated with the retry machinery.
The most significant benefit of this is the removal of the locking
around the unused run list in the submission path.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Zach Brown <zab@redhat.com>
Cc: Zach Brown <zab@redhat.com>
Cc: Felipe Balbi <balbi@ti.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
Cc: Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Asai Thambi S P <asamymuthupa@micron.com>
Cc: Selvan Mani <smani@micron.com>
Cc: Sam Bradshaw <sbradshaw@micron.com>
Acked-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
Reviewed-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
+ "mm-drop_swap_cache_aggressively.patch" -> http://ck.kolivas.org/patches/3.0/3.9/3.9-ck1/patches/mm-drop_swap_cache_aggressively.patch
aio: remove retry-based AIO

This removes the retry-based AIO infrastructure now that nothing in tree
is using it.

We want to remove retry-based AIO because it is fundemantally unsafe.
It retries IO submission from a kernel thread that has only assumed the
mm of the submitting task.  All other task_struct references in the IO
submission path will see the kernel thread, not the submitting task.
This design flaw means that nothing of any meaningful complexity can use
retry-based AIO.

This removes all the code and data associated with the retry machinery.
The most significant benefit of this is the removal of the locking
around the unused run list in the submission path.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Zach Brown <zab@redhat.com>
Cc: Zach Brown <zab@redhat.com>
Cc: Felipe Balbi <balbi@ti.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
Cc: Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Asai Thambi S P <asamymuthupa@micron.com>
Cc: Selvan Mani <smani@micron.com>
Cc: Sam Bradshaw <sbradshaw@micron.com>
Acked-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
Reviewed-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
make SYSCALL_DEFINE<n>-generated wrappers do asmlinkage_protect

... and switch i386 to HAVE_SYSCALL_WRAPPERS, killing open-coded
uses of asmlinkage_protect() in a bunch of syscalls.

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