Merge tty-next into 3.6-rc1

This handles the merge issue in:
	arch/um/drivers/line.c
	arch/um/drivers/line.h
And resolves the duplicate patches that were in both trees do to the
tty-next branch not getting merged into 3.6-rc1.

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

1 files changed, 52 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/mm/swap.c b/mm/swap.c
index 4e7e2ec6707..77825883298 100644
--- a/mm/swap.c
+++ b/mm/swap.c
@@ -236,6 +236,58 @@ void put_pages_list(struct list_head *pages)
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(put_pages_list);
 
+/*
+ * get_kernel_pages() - pin kernel pages in memory
+ * @kiov:	An array of struct kvec structures
+ * @nr_segs:	number of segments to pin
+ * @write:	pinning for read/write, currently ignored
+ * @pages:	array that receives pointers to the pages pinned.
+ *		Should be at least nr_segs long.
+ *
+ * Returns number of pages pinned. This may be fewer than the number
+ * requested. If nr_pages is 0 or negative, returns 0. If no pages
+ * were pinned, returns -errno. Each page returned must be released
+ * with a put_page() call when it is finished with.
+ */
+int get_kernel_pages(const struct kvec *kiov, int nr_segs, int write,
+		struct page **pages)
+{
+	int seg;
+
+	for (seg = 0; seg < nr_segs; seg++) {
+		if (WARN_ON(kiov[seg].iov_len != PAGE_SIZE))
+			return seg;
+
+		pages[seg] = kmap_to_page(kiov[seg].iov_base);
+		page_cache_get(pages[seg]);
+	}
+
+	return seg;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(get_kernel_pages);
+
+/*
+ * get_kernel_page() - pin a kernel page in memory
+ * @start:	starting kernel address
+ * @write:	pinning for read/write, currently ignored
+ * @pages:	array that receives pointer to the page pinned.
+ *		Must be at least nr_segs long.
+ *
+ * Returns 1 if page is pinned. If the page was not pinned, returns
+ * -errno. The page returned must be released with a put_page() call
+ * when it is finished with.
+ */
+int get_kernel_page(unsigned long start, int write, struct page **pages)
+{
+	const struct kvec kiov = {
+		.iov_base = (void *)start,
+		.iov_len = PAGE_SIZE
+	};
+
+	return get_kernel_pages(&kiov, 1, write, pages);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(get_kernel_page);
+
 static void pagevec_lru_move_fn(struct pagevec *pvec,
 	void (*move_fn)(struct page *page, struct lruvec *lruvec, void *arg),
 	void *arg)