Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew Morton)

Merge first patch-bomb from Andrew Morton:
 - Some pidns/fork/exec tweaks
 - OCFS2 updates
 - Most of MM - there remain quite a few memcg parts which depend on
   pending core cgroups changes.  Which might have been already merged -
   I'll check tomorrow...
 - Various misc stuff all over the place
 - A few block bits which I never got around to sending to Jens -
   relatively minor things.
 - MAINTAINERS maintenance
 - A small number of lib/ updates
 - checkpatch updates
 - epoll
 - firmware/dmi-scan
 - Some kprobes work for S390
 - drivers/rtc updates
 - hfsplus feature work
 - vmcore feature work
 - rbtree upgrades
 - AOE updates
 - pktcdvd cleanups
 - PPS
 - memstick
 - w1
 - New "inittmpfs" feature, which does the obvious
 - More IPC work from Davidlohr.

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (303 commits)
  lz4: fix compression/decompression signedness mismatch
  ipc: drop ipc_lock_check
  ipc, shm: drop shm_lock_check
  ipc: drop ipc_lock_by_ptr
  ipc, shm: guard against non-existant vma in shmdt(2)
  ipc: document general ipc locking scheme
  ipc,msg: drop msg_unlock
  ipc: rename ids->rw_mutex
  ipc,shm: shorten critical region for shmat
  ipc,shm: cleanup do_shmat pasta
  ipc,shm: shorten critical region for shmctl
  ipc,shm: make shmctl_nolock lockless
  ipc,shm: introduce shmctl_nolock
  ipc: drop ipcctl_pre_down
  ipc,shm: shorten critical region in shmctl_down
  ipc,shm: introduce lockless functions to obtain the ipc object
  initmpfs: use initramfs if rootfstype= or root= specified
  initmpfs: make rootfs use tmpfs when CONFIG_TMPFS enabled
  initmpfs: move rootfs code from fs/ramfs/ to init/
  initmpfs: move bdi setup from init_rootfs to init_ramfs
  ...

1 files changed, 43 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/cmdline-parser.h b/include/linux/cmdline-parser.h
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..98e892ef6d5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/include/linux/cmdline-parser.h
@@ -0,0 +1,43 @@
+/*
+ * Parsing command line, get the partitions information.
+ *
+ * Written by Cai Zhiyong <caizhiyong@huawei.com>
+ *
+ */
+#ifndef CMDLINEPARSEH
+#define CMDLINEPARSEH
+
+#include <linux/blkdev.h>
+
+/* partition flags */
+#define PF_RDONLY                   0x01 /* Device is read only */
+#define PF_POWERUP_LOCK             0x02 /* Always locked after reset */
+
+struct cmdline_subpart {
+	char name[BDEVNAME_SIZE]; /* partition name, such as 'rootfs' */
+	sector_t from;
+	sector_t size;
+	int flags;
+	struct cmdline_subpart *next_subpart;
+};
+
+struct cmdline_parts {
+	char name[BDEVNAME_SIZE]; /* block device, such as 'mmcblk0' */
+	unsigned int nr_subparts;
+	struct cmdline_subpart *subpart;
+	struct cmdline_parts *next_parts;
+};
+
+void cmdline_parts_free(struct cmdline_parts **parts);
+
+int cmdline_parts_parse(struct cmdline_parts **parts, const char *cmdline);
+
+struct cmdline_parts *cmdline_parts_find(struct cmdline_parts *parts,
+					 const char *bdev);
+
+void cmdline_parts_set(struct cmdline_parts *parts, sector_t disk_size,
+		       int slot,
+		       int (*add_part)(int, struct cmdline_subpart *, void *),
+		       void *param);
+
+#endif /* CMDLINEPARSEH */