Merge branch 'next' (accumulated 3.16 merge window patches) into master

Now that 3.15 is released, this merges the 'next' branch into 'master',
bringing us to the normal situation where my 'master' branch is the
merge window.

* accumulated work in next: (6809 commits)
  ufs: sb mutex merge + mutex_destroy
  powerpc: update comments for generic idle conversion
  cris: update comments for generic idle conversion
  idle: remove cpu_idle() forward declarations
  nbd: zero from and len fields in NBD_CMD_DISCONNECT.
  mm: convert some level-less printks to pr_*
  MAINTAINERS: adi-buildroot-devel is moderated
  MAINTAINERS: add linux-api for review of API/ABI changes
  mm/kmemleak-test.c: use pr_fmt for logging
  fs/dlm/debug_fs.c: replace seq_printf by seq_puts
  fs/dlm/lockspace.c: convert simple_str to kstr
  fs/dlm/config.c: convert simple_str to kstr
  mm: mark remap_file_pages() syscall as deprecated
  mm: memcontrol: remove unnecessary memcg argument from soft limit functions
  mm: memcontrol: clean up memcg zoneinfo lookup
  mm/memblock.c: call kmemleak directly from memblock_(alloc|free)
  mm/mempool.c: update the kmemleak stack trace for mempool allocations
  lib/radix-tree.c: update the kmemleak stack trace for radix tree allocations
  mm: introduce kmemleak_update_trace()
  mm/kmemleak.c: use %u to print ->checksum
  ...

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 21 deletions

diff --git a/mm/page-writeback.c b/mm/page-writeback.c
index a4317da6053..7d9a4ef0a07 100644
--- a/mm/page-writeback.c
+++ b/mm/page-writeback.c
@@ -156,24 +156,6 @@ static unsigned long writeout_period_time = 0;
 #define VM_COMPLETIONS_PERIOD_LEN (3*HZ)
 
 /*
- * Work out the current dirty-memory clamping and background writeout
- * thresholds.
- *
- * The main aim here is to lower them aggressively if there is a lot of mapped
- * memory around.  To avoid stressing page reclaim with lots of unreclaimable
- * pages.  It is better to clamp down on writers than to start swapping, and
- * performing lots of scanning.
- *
- * We only allow 1/2 of the currently-unmapped memory to be dirtied.
- *
- * We don't permit the clamping level to fall below 5% - that is getting rather
- * excessive.
- *
- * We make sure that the background writeout level is below the adjusted
- * clamping level.
- */
-
-/*
  * In a memory zone, there is a certain amount of pages we consider
  * available for the page cache, which is essentially the number of
  * free and reclaimable pages, minus some zone reserves to protect
@@ -1623,7 +1605,7 @@ void balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited(struct address_space *mapping)
 	 * 1000+ tasks, all of them start dirtying pages at exactly the same
 	 * time, hence all honoured too large initial task->nr_dirtied_pause.
 	 */
-	p =  &__get_cpu_var(bdp_ratelimits);
+	p =  this_cpu_ptr(&bdp_ratelimits);
 	if (unlikely(current->nr_dirtied >= ratelimit))
 		*p = 0;
 	else if (unlikely(*p >= ratelimit_pages)) {
@@ -1635,7 +1617,7 @@ void balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited(struct address_space *mapping)
 	 * short-lived tasks (eg. gcc invocations in a kernel build) escaping
 	 * the dirty throttling and livelock other long-run dirtiers.
 	 */
-	p = &__get_cpu_var(dirty_throttle_leaks);
+	p = this_cpu_ptr(&dirty_throttle_leaks);
 	if (*p > 0 && current->nr_dirtied < ratelimit) {
 		unsigned long nr_pages_dirtied;
 		nr_pages_dirtied = min(*p, ratelimit - current->nr_dirtied);
@@ -1682,7 +1664,7 @@ void throttle_vm_writeout(gfp_t gfp_mask)
 /*
  * sysctl handler for /proc/sys/vm/dirty_writeback_centisecs
  */
-int dirty_writeback_centisecs_handler(ctl_table *table, int write,
+int dirty_writeback_centisecs_handler(struct ctl_table *table, int write,
 	void __user *buffer, size_t *length, loff_t *ppos)
 {
 	proc_dointvec(table, write, buffer, length, ppos);