Merge mainline/master into arm/fixes

This brings in the mainline tree right after armsoc contents was merged
this release cycle, so that we can re-run savedefconfig, etc.

Signed-off-by: Olof Johansson <[email protected]>

1 files changed, 14 insertions, 12 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/kernel.h b/include/linux/kernel.h
index d83d403dac2e..3adcb39fa6f5 100644
--- a/include/linux/kernel.h
+++ b/include/linux/kernel.h
@@ -328,13 +328,6 @@ extern int oops_may_print(void);
 void do_exit(long error_code) __noreturn;
 void complete_and_exit(struct completion *, long) __noreturn;
 
-#ifdef CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_REFCOUNT
-void refcount_error_report(struct pt_regs *regs, const char *err);
-#else
-static inline void refcount_error_report(struct pt_regs *regs, const char *err)
-{ }
-#endif
-
 /* Internal, do not use. */
 int __must_check _kstrtoul(const char *s, unsigned int base, unsigned long *res);
 int __must_check _kstrtol(const char *s, unsigned int base, long *res);
@@ -355,8 +348,7 @@ int __must_check kstrtoll(const char *s, unsigned int base, long long *res);
  * @res: Where to write the result of the conversion on success.
  *
  * Returns 0 on success, -ERANGE on overflow and -EINVAL on parsing error.
- * Used as a replacement for the obsolete simple_strtoull. Return code must
- * be checked.
+ * Used as a replacement for the simple_strtoull. Return code must be checked.
 */
 static inline int __must_check kstrtoul(const char *s, unsigned int base, unsigned long *res)
 {
@@ -384,8 +376,7 @@ static inline int __must_check kstrtoul(const char *s, unsigned int base, unsign
  * @res: Where to write the result of the conversion on success.
  *
  * Returns 0 on success, -ERANGE on overflow and -EINVAL on parsing error.
- * Used as a replacement for the obsolete simple_strtoull. Return code must
- * be checked.
+ * Used as a replacement for the simple_strtoull. Return code must be checked.
  */
 static inline int __must_check kstrtol(const char *s, unsigned int base, long *res)
 {
@@ -461,7 +452,18 @@ static inline int __must_check kstrtos32_from_user(const char __user *s, size_t
 	return kstrtoint_from_user(s, count, base, res);
 }
 
-/* Obsolete, do not use.  Use kstrto<foo> instead */
+/*
+ * Use kstrto<foo> instead.
+ *
+ * NOTE: simple_strto<foo> does not check for the range overflow and,
+ *	 depending on the input, may give interesting results.
+ *
+ * Use these functions if and only if you cannot use kstrto<foo>, because
+ * the conversion ends on the first non-digit character, which may be far
+ * beyond the supported range. It might be useful to parse the strings like
+ * 10x50 or 12:21 without altering original string or temporary buffer in use.
+ * Keep in mind above caveat.
+ */
 
 extern unsigned long simple_strtoul(const char *,char **,unsigned int);
 extern long simple_strtol(const char *,char **,unsigned int);