Merge tag 'v3.7-rc1' into staging/for_v3.8

Linux 3.7-rc1

* tag 'v3.7-rc1': (9579 commits)
  Linux 3.7-rc1
  x86, boot: Explicitly include autoconf.h for hostprogs
  perf: Fix UAPI fallout
  ARM: config: make sure that platforms are ordered by option string
  ARM: config: sort select statements alphanumerically
  UAPI: (Scripted) Disintegrate include/linux/byteorder
  UAPI: (Scripted) Disintegrate include/linux
  UAPI: Unexport linux/blk_types.h
  UAPI: Unexport part of linux/ppp-comp.h
  perf: Handle new rbtree implementation
  procfs: don't need a PATH_MAX allocation to hold a string representation of an int
  vfs: embed struct filename inside of names_cache allocation if possible
  audit: make audit_inode take struct filename
  vfs: make path_openat take a struct filename pointer
  vfs: turn do_path_lookup into wrapper around struct filename variant
  audit: allow audit code to satisfy getname requests from its names_list
  vfs: define struct filename and have getname() return it
  btrfs: Fix compilation with user namespace support enabled
  userns: Fix posix_acl_file_xattr_userns gid conversion
  userns: Properly print bluetooth socket uids
  ...

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diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/const.h b/include/uapi/linux/const.h
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..c22c707c455
--- /dev/null
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/const.h
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+/* const.h: Macros for dealing with constants.  */
+
+#ifndef _LINUX_CONST_H
+#define _LINUX_CONST_H
+
+/* Some constant macros are used in both assembler and
+ * C code.  Therefore we cannot annotate them always with
+ * 'UL' and other type specifiers unilaterally.  We
+ * use the following macros to deal with this.
+ *
+ * Similarly, _AT() will cast an expression with a type in C, but
+ * leave it unchanged in asm.
+ */
+
+#ifdef __ASSEMBLY__
+#define _AC(X,Y)	X
+#define _AT(T,X)	X
+#else
+#define __AC(X,Y)	(X##Y)
+#define _AC(X,Y)	__AC(X,Y)
+#define _AT(T,X)	((T)(X))
+#endif
+
+#endif /* !(_LINUX_CONST_H) */