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<title>linux-toradex.git/drivers/ide/ide-gd.c, branch v3.3.4</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>ide: unexport DISK_EVENT_MEDIA_CHANGE for ide-gd and ide-cd</title>
<updated>2011-04-21T17:43:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tejun Heo</name>
<email>tj@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2011-04-21T17:43:59+00:00</published>
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check_events() implementations in both ide-gd and ide-cd are
inadequate for in-kernel event polling.  Both generate media change
events continuously when certain conditions are met causing infinite
event loop between the driver and userland event handler.

As disk event now supports suppression of unlisted events, simply
de-listing DISK_EVENT_MEDIA_CHANGE from disk-&gt;events resolves the
problem.  Internal handling around media revalidation will behave the
same while userland will fall back to userland event polling after
detecting the device doesn't support disk events.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Reported-by: Jens Axboe &lt;jaxboe@fusionio.com&gt;
Acked-by: "David S. Miller" &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;jaxboe@fusionio.com&gt;
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check_events() implementations in both ide-gd and ide-cd are
inadequate for in-kernel event polling.  Both generate media change
events continuously when certain conditions are met causing infinite
event loop between the driver and userland event handler.

As disk event now supports suppression of unlisted events, simply
de-listing DISK_EVENT_MEDIA_CHANGE from disk-&gt;events resolves the
problem.  Internal handling around media revalidation will behave the
same while userland will fall back to userland event polling after
detecting the device doesn't support disk events.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Reported-by: Jens Axboe &lt;jaxboe@fusionio.com&gt;
Acked-by: "David S. Miller" &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;jaxboe@fusionio.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ide: Convert to bdops-&gt;check_events()</title>
<updated>2011-03-09T18:54:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tejun Heo</name>
<email>tj@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2011-03-09T18:54:27+00:00</published>
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Convert -&gt;media_changed() to the new -&gt;check_events() method.  The
conversion is mostly mechanical.  The only notable change is that
cdrom now doesn't generate any event if @slot_nr isn't CDSL_CURRENT.
It used to return -EINVAL which would be treated as media changed.  As
media changer isn't supported anyway, this doesn't make any
difference.

This makes ide emit the standard disk events and allows kernel event
polling.  Currently, only MEDIA_CHANGE event is implemented.  Adding
support for EJECT_REQUEST shouldn't be difficult; however, given that
ide driver is already deprecated, it probably is best to leave it
alone.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Cc: Kay Sievers &lt;kay.sievers@vrfy.org&gt;
Cc: "David S. Miller" &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org
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Convert -&gt;media_changed() to the new -&gt;check_events() method.  The
conversion is mostly mechanical.  The only notable change is that
cdrom now doesn't generate any event if @slot_nr isn't CDSL_CURRENT.
It used to return -EINVAL which would be treated as media changed.  As
media changer isn't supported anyway, this doesn't make any
difference.

This makes ide emit the standard disk events and allows kernel event
polling.  Currently, only MEDIA_CHANGE event is implemented.  Adding
support for EJECT_REQUEST shouldn't be difficult; however, given that
ide driver is already deprecated, it probably is best to leave it
alone.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Cc: Kay Sievers &lt;kay.sievers@vrfy.org&gt;
Cc: "David S. Miller" &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>block: autoconvert trivial BKL users to private mutex</title>
<updated>2010-10-05T13:01:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arnd Bergmann</name>
<email>arnd@arndb.de</email>
</author>
<published>2010-06-02T12:28:52+00:00</published>
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The block device drivers have all gained new lock_kernel
calls from a recent pushdown, and some of the drivers
were already using the BKL before.

This turns the BKL into a set of per-driver mutexes.
Still need to check whether this is safe to do.

file=$1
name=$2
if grep -q lock_kernel ${file} ; then
    if grep -q 'include.*linux.mutex.h' ${file} ; then
            sed -i '/include.*&lt;linux\/smp_lock.h&gt;/d' ${file}
    else
            sed -i 's/include.*&lt;linux\/smp_lock.h&gt;.*$/include &lt;linux\/mutex.h&gt;/g' ${file}
    fi
    sed -i ${file} \
        -e "/^#include.*linux.mutex.h/,$ {
                1,/^\(static\|int\|long\)/ {
                     /^\(static\|int\|long\)/istatic DEFINE_MUTEX(${name}_mutex);

} }"  \
    -e "s/\(un\)*lock_kernel\&gt;[ ]*()/mutex_\1lock(\&amp;${name}_mutex)/g" \
    -e '/[      ]*cycle_kernel_lock();/d'
else
    sed -i -e '/include.*\&lt;smp_lock.h\&gt;/d' ${file}  \
                -e '/cycle_kernel_lock()/d'
fi

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
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The block device drivers have all gained new lock_kernel
calls from a recent pushdown, and some of the drivers
were already using the BKL before.

This turns the BKL into a set of per-driver mutexes.
Still need to check whether this is safe to do.

file=$1
name=$2
if grep -q lock_kernel ${file} ; then
    if grep -q 'include.*linux.mutex.h' ${file} ; then
            sed -i '/include.*&lt;linux\/smp_lock.h&gt;/d' ${file}
    else
            sed -i 's/include.*&lt;linux\/smp_lock.h&gt;.*$/include &lt;linux\/mutex.h&gt;/g' ${file}
    fi
    sed -i ${file} \
        -e "/^#include.*linux.mutex.h/,$ {
                1,/^\(static\|int\|long\)/ {
                     /^\(static\|int\|long\)/istatic DEFINE_MUTEX(${name}_mutex);

} }"  \
    -e "s/\(un\)*lock_kernel\&gt;[ ]*()/mutex_\1lock(\&amp;${name}_mutex)/g" \
    -e '/[      ]*cycle_kernel_lock();/d'
else
    sed -i -e '/include.*\&lt;smp_lock.h\&gt;/d' ${file}  \
                -e '/cycle_kernel_lock()/d'
fi

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-2.6.36' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block</title>
<updated>2010-08-10T22:22:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2010-08-10T22:22:42+00:00</published>
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* 'for-2.6.36' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: (149 commits)
  block: make sure that REQ_* types are seen even with CONFIG_BLOCK=n
  xen-blkfront: fix missing out label
  blkdev: fix blkdev_issue_zeroout return value
  block: update request stacking methods to support discards
  block: fix missing export of blk_types.h
  writeback: fix bad _bh spinlock nesting
  drbd: revert "delay probes", feature is being re-implemented differently
  drbd: Initialize all members of sync_conf to their defaults [Bugz 315]
  drbd: Disable delay probes for the upcomming release
  writeback: cleanup bdi_register
  writeback: add new tracepoints
  writeback: remove unnecessary init_timer call
  writeback: optimize periodic bdi thread wakeups
  writeback: prevent unnecessary bdi threads wakeups
  writeback: move bdi threads exiting logic to the forker thread
  writeback: restructure bdi forker loop a little
  writeback: move last_active to bdi
  writeback: do not remove bdi from bdi_list
  writeback: simplify bdi code a little
  writeback: do not lose wake-ups in bdi threads
  ...

Fixed up pretty trivial conflicts in drivers/block/virtio_blk.c and
drivers/scsi/scsi_error.c as per Jens.
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* 'for-2.6.36' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: (149 commits)
  block: make sure that REQ_* types are seen even with CONFIG_BLOCK=n
  xen-blkfront: fix missing out label
  blkdev: fix blkdev_issue_zeroout return value
  block: update request stacking methods to support discards
  block: fix missing export of blk_types.h
  writeback: fix bad _bh spinlock nesting
  drbd: revert "delay probes", feature is being re-implemented differently
  drbd: Initialize all members of sync_conf to their defaults [Bugz 315]
  drbd: Disable delay probes for the upcomming release
  writeback: cleanup bdi_register
  writeback: add new tracepoints
  writeback: remove unnecessary init_timer call
  writeback: optimize periodic bdi thread wakeups
  writeback: prevent unnecessary bdi threads wakeups
  writeback: move bdi threads exiting logic to the forker thread
  writeback: restructure bdi forker loop a little
  writeback: move last_active to bdi
  writeback: do not remove bdi from bdi_list
  writeback: simplify bdi code a little
  writeback: do not lose wake-ups in bdi threads
  ...

Fixed up pretty trivial conflicts in drivers/block/virtio_blk.c and
drivers/scsi/scsi_error.c as per Jens.
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>block: push down BKL into .open and .release</title>
<updated>2010-08-07T16:25:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arnd Bergmann</name>
<email>arnd@arndb.de</email>
</author>
<published>2010-08-07T16:25:34+00:00</published>
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The open and release block_device_operations are currently
called with the BKL held. In order to change that, we must
first make sure that all drivers that currently rely
on this have no regressions.

This blindly pushes the BKL into all .open and .release
operations for all block drivers to prepare for the
next step. The drivers can subsequently replace the BKL
with their own locks or remove it completely when it can
be shown that it is not needed.

The functions blkdev_get and blkdev_put are the only
remaining users of the big kernel lock in the block
layer, besides a few uses in the ioctl code, none
of which need to serialize with blkdev_{get,put}.

Most of these two functions is also under the protection
of bdev-&gt;bd_mutex, including the actual calls to
-&gt;open and -&gt;release, and the common code does not
access any global data structures that need the BKL.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;jaxboe@fusionio.com&gt;
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The open and release block_device_operations are currently
called with the BKL held. In order to change that, we must
first make sure that all drivers that currently rely
on this have no regressions.

This blindly pushes the BKL into all .open and .release
operations for all block drivers to prepare for the
next step. The drivers can subsequently replace the BKL
with their own locks or remove it completely when it can
be shown that it is not needed.

The functions blkdev_get and blkdev_put are the only
remaining users of the big kernel lock in the block
layer, besides a few uses in the ioctl code, none
of which need to serialize with blkdev_{get,put}.

Most of these two functions is also under the protection
of bdev-&gt;bd_mutex, including the actual calls to
-&gt;open and -&gt;release, and the common code does not
access any global data structures that need the BKL.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;jaxboe@fusionio.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>block: push down BKL into .locked_ioctl</title>
<updated>2010-08-07T16:25:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arnd Bergmann</name>
<email>arnd@arndb.de</email>
</author>
<published>2010-07-08T08:18:46+00:00</published>
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As a preparation for the removal of the big kernel
lock in the block layer, this removes the BKL
from the common ioctl handling code, moving it
into every single driver still using it.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;jaxboe@fusionio.com&gt;
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As a preparation for the removal of the big kernel
lock in the block layer, this removes the BKL
from the common ioctl handling code, moving it
into every single driver still using it.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;jaxboe@fusionio.com&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'master' into for-next</title>
<updated>2010-06-16T16:08:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jiri Kosina</name>
<email>jkosina@suse.cz</email>
</author>
<published>2010-06-16T16:08:13+00:00</published>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>fix typos concerning "initiali[zs]e"</title>
<updated>2010-06-16T16:05:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Uwe Kleine-König</name>
<email>u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2010-06-11T10:17:00+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König &lt;u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina &lt;jkosina@suse.cz&gt;
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<pre>
Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König &lt;u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina &lt;jkosina@suse.cz&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>block,ide: simplify bdops-&gt;set_capacity() to -&gt;unlock_native_capacity()</title>
<updated>2010-05-21T18:01:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tejun Heo</name>
<email>tj@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2010-05-15T18:09:29+00:00</published>
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bdops-&gt;set_capacity() is unnecessarily generic.  All that's required
is a simple one way notification to lower level driver telling it to
try to unlock native capacity.  There's no reason to pass in target
capacity or return the new capacity.  The former is always the
inherent native capacity and the latter can be handled via the usual
device resize / revalidation path.  In fact, the current API is always
used that way.

Replace -&gt;set_capacity() with -&gt;unlock_native_capacity() which take
only @disk and doesn't return anything.  IDE which is the only current
user of the API is converted accordingly.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz &lt;bzolnier@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;jens.axboe@oracle.com&gt;
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bdops-&gt;set_capacity() is unnecessarily generic.  All that's required
is a simple one way notification to lower level driver telling it to
try to unlock native capacity.  There's no reason to pass in target
capacity or return the new capacity.  The former is always the
inherent native capacity and the latter can be handled via the usual
device resize / revalidation path.  In fact, the current API is always
used that way.

Replace -&gt;set_capacity() with -&gt;unlock_native_capacity() which take
only @disk and doesn't return anything.  IDE which is the only current
user of the API is converted accordingly.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz &lt;bzolnier@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;jens.axboe@oracle.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h</title>
<updated>2010-03-30T13:02:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tejun Heo</name>
<email>tj@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2010-03-24T08:04:11+00:00</published>
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percpu.h is included by sched.h and module.h and thus ends up being
included when building most .c files.  percpu.h includes slab.h which
in turn includes gfp.h making everything defined by the two files
universally available and complicating inclusion dependencies.

percpu.h -&gt; slab.h dependency is about to be removed.  Prepare for
this change by updating users of gfp and slab facilities include those
headers directly instead of assuming availability.  As this conversion
needs to touch large number of source files, the following script is
used as the basis of conversion.

  http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/misc/slabh-sweep.py

The script does the followings.

* Scan files for gfp and slab usages and update includes such that
  only the necessary includes are there.  ie. if only gfp is used,
  gfp.h, if slab is used, slab.h.

* When the script inserts a new include, it looks at the include
  blocks and try to put the new include such that its order conforms
  to its surrounding.  It's put in the include block which contains
  core kernel includes, in the same order that the rest are ordered -
  alphabetical, Christmas tree, rev-Xmas-tree or at the end if there
  doesn't seem to be any matching order.

* If the script can't find a place to put a new include (mostly
  because the file doesn't have fitting include block), it prints out
  an error message indicating which .h file needs to be added to the
  file.

The conversion was done in the following steps.

1. The initial automatic conversion of all .c files updated slightly
   over 4000 files, deleting around 700 includes and adding ~480 gfp.h
   and ~3000 slab.h inclusions.  The script emitted errors for ~400
   files.

2. Each error was manually checked.  Some didn't need the inclusion,
   some needed manual addition while adding it to implementation .h or
   embedding .c file was more appropriate for others.  This step added
   inclusions to around 150 files.

3. The script was run again and the output was compared to the edits
   from #2 to make sure no file was left behind.

4. Several build tests were done and a couple of problems were fixed.
   e.g. lib/decompress_*.c used malloc/free() wrappers around slab
   APIs requiring slab.h to be added manually.

5. The script was run on all .h files but without automatically
   editing them as sprinkling gfp.h and slab.h inclusions around .h
   files could easily lead to inclusion dependency hell.  Most gfp.h
   inclusion directives were ignored as stuff from gfp.h was usually
   wildly available and often used in preprocessor macros.  Each
   slab.h inclusion directive was examined and added manually as
   necessary.

6. percpu.h was updated not to include slab.h.

7. Build test were done on the following configurations and failures
   were fixed.  CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL was turned off for all tests (as my
   distributed build env didn't work with gcov compiles) and a few
   more options had to be turned off depending on archs to make things
   build (like ipr on powerpc/64 which failed due to missing writeq).

   * x86 and x86_64 UP and SMP allmodconfig and a custom test config.
   * powerpc and powerpc64 SMP allmodconfig
   * sparc and sparc64 SMP allmodconfig
   * ia64 SMP allmodconfig
   * s390 SMP allmodconfig
   * alpha SMP allmodconfig
   * um on x86_64 SMP allmodconfig

8. percpu.h modifications were reverted so that it could be applied as
   a separate patch and serve as bisection point.

Given the fact that I had only a couple of failures from tests on step
6, I'm fairly confident about the coverage of this conversion patch.
If there is a breakage, it's likely to be something in one of the arch
headers which should be easily discoverable easily on most builds of
the specific arch.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Guess-its-ok-by: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn &lt;Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com&gt;
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percpu.h is included by sched.h and module.h and thus ends up being
included when building most .c files.  percpu.h includes slab.h which
in turn includes gfp.h making everything defined by the two files
universally available and complicating inclusion dependencies.

percpu.h -&gt; slab.h dependency is about to be removed.  Prepare for
this change by updating users of gfp and slab facilities include those
headers directly instead of assuming availability.  As this conversion
needs to touch large number of source files, the following script is
used as the basis of conversion.

  http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/misc/slabh-sweep.py

The script does the followings.

* Scan files for gfp and slab usages and update includes such that
  only the necessary includes are there.  ie. if only gfp is used,
  gfp.h, if slab is used, slab.h.

* When the script inserts a new include, it looks at the include
  blocks and try to put the new include such that its order conforms
  to its surrounding.  It's put in the include block which contains
  core kernel includes, in the same order that the rest are ordered -
  alphabetical, Christmas tree, rev-Xmas-tree or at the end if there
  doesn't seem to be any matching order.

* If the script can't find a place to put a new include (mostly
  because the file doesn't have fitting include block), it prints out
  an error message indicating which .h file needs to be added to the
  file.

The conversion was done in the following steps.

1. The initial automatic conversion of all .c files updated slightly
   over 4000 files, deleting around 700 includes and adding ~480 gfp.h
   and ~3000 slab.h inclusions.  The script emitted errors for ~400
   files.

2. Each error was manually checked.  Some didn't need the inclusion,
   some needed manual addition while adding it to implementation .h or
   embedding .c file was more appropriate for others.  This step added
   inclusions to around 150 files.

3. The script was run again and the output was compared to the edits
   from #2 to make sure no file was left behind.

4. Several build tests were done and a couple of problems were fixed.
   e.g. lib/decompress_*.c used malloc/free() wrappers around slab
   APIs requiring slab.h to be added manually.

5. The script was run on all .h files but without automatically
   editing them as sprinkling gfp.h and slab.h inclusions around .h
   files could easily lead to inclusion dependency hell.  Most gfp.h
   inclusion directives were ignored as stuff from gfp.h was usually
   wildly available and often used in preprocessor macros.  Each
   slab.h inclusion directive was examined and added manually as
   necessary.

6. percpu.h was updated not to include slab.h.

7. Build test were done on the following configurations and failures
   were fixed.  CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL was turned off for all tests (as my
   distributed build env didn't work with gcov compiles) and a few
   more options had to be turned off depending on archs to make things
   build (like ipr on powerpc/64 which failed due to missing writeq).

   * x86 and x86_64 UP and SMP allmodconfig and a custom test config.
   * powerpc and powerpc64 SMP allmodconfig
   * sparc and sparc64 SMP allmodconfig
   * ia64 SMP allmodconfig
   * s390 SMP allmodconfig
   * alpha SMP allmodconfig
   * um on x86_64 SMP allmodconfig

8. percpu.h modifications were reverted so that it could be applied as
   a separate patch and serve as bisection point.

Given the fact that I had only a couple of failures from tests on step
6, I'm fairly confident about the coverage of this conversion patch.
If there is a breakage, it's likely to be something in one of the arch
headers which should be easily discoverable easily on most builds of
the specific arch.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Guess-its-ok-by: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn &lt;Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com&gt;
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