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<title>linux-toradex.git/net/ipv4/inetpeer.c, branch v4.4.93</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>net: Add helper function to compare inetpeer addresses</title>
<updated>2015-08-28T20:32:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Ahern</name>
<email>dsa@cumulusnetworks.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-08-27T23:07:01+00:00</published>
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tcp_metrics and inetpeer both have functions to compare inetpeer
addresses. Consolidate into 1 version.

Signed-off-by: David Ahern &lt;dsa@cumulusnetworks.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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tcp_metrics and inetpeer both have functions to compare inetpeer
addresses. Consolidate into 1 version.

Signed-off-by: David Ahern &lt;dsa@cumulusnetworks.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>inet: remove dead inetpeer sequence code</title>
<updated>2014-09-08T23:42:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Willem de Bruijn</name>
<email>willemb@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-09-08T23:08:34+00:00</published>
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inetpeer sequence numbers are no longer incremented, so no need to
check and flush the tree. The function that increments the sequence
number was already dead code and removed in in "ipv4: remove unused
function" (068a6e18). Remove the code that checks for a change, too.

Verifying that v4_seq and v6_seq are never incremented and thus that
flush_check compares bp-&gt;flush_seq to 0 is trivial.

The second part of the change removes flush_check completely even
though bp-&gt;flush_seq is exactly !0 once, at initialization. This
change is correct because the time this branch is true is when
bp-&gt;root == peer_avl_empty_rcu, in which the branch and
inetpeer_invalidate_tree are a NOOP.

Signed-off-by: Willem de Bruijn &lt;willemb@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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inetpeer sequence numbers are no longer incremented, so no need to
check and flush the tree. The function that increments the sequence
number was already dead code and removed in in "ipv4: remove unused
function" (068a6e18). Remove the code that checks for a change, too.

Verifying that v4_seq and v6_seq are never incremented and thus that
flush_check compares bp-&gt;flush_seq to 0 is trivial.

The second part of the change removes flush_check completely even
though bp-&gt;flush_seq is exactly !0 once, at initialization. This
change is correct because the time this branch is true is when
bp-&gt;root == peer_avl_empty_rcu, in which the branch and
inetpeer_invalidate_tree are a NOOP.

Signed-off-by: Willem de Bruijn &lt;willemb@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next</title>
<updated>2014-06-12T21:27:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-06-12T21:27:40+00:00</published>
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Pull networking updates from David Miller:

 1) Seccomp BPF filters can now be JIT'd, from Alexei Starovoitov.

 2) Multiqueue support in xen-netback and xen-netfront, from Andrew J
    Benniston.

 3) Allow tweaking of aggregation settings in cdc_ncm driver, from Bjørn
    Mork.

 4) BPF now has a "random" opcode, from Chema Gonzalez.

 5) Add more BPF documentation and improve test framework, from Daniel
    Borkmann.

 6) Support TCP fastopen over ipv6, from Daniel Lee.

 7) Add software TSO helper functions and use them to support software
    TSO in mvneta and mv643xx_eth drivers.  From Ezequiel Garcia.

 8) Support software TSO in fec driver too, from Nimrod Andy.

 9) Add Broadcom SYSTEMPORT driver, from Florian Fainelli.

10) Handle broadcasts more gracefully over macvlan when there are large
    numbers of interfaces configured, from Herbert Xu.

11) Allow more control over fwmark used for non-socket based responses,
    from Lorenzo Colitti.

12) Do TCP congestion window limiting based upon measurements, from Neal
    Cardwell.

13) Support busy polling in SCTP, from Neal Horman.

14) Allow RSS key to be configured via ethtool, from Venkata Duvvuru.

15) Bridge promisc mode handling improvements from Vlad Yasevich.

16) Don't use inetpeer entries to implement ID generation any more, it
    performs poorly, from Eric Dumazet.

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next: (1522 commits)
  rtnetlink: fix userspace API breakage for iproute2 &lt; v3.9.0
  tcp: fixing TLP's FIN recovery
  net: fec: Add software TSO support
  net: fec: Add Scatter/gather support
  net: fec: Increase buffer descriptor entry number
  net: fec: Factorize feature setting
  net: fec: Enable IP header hardware checksum
  net: fec: Factorize the .xmit transmit function
  bridge: fix compile error when compiling without IPv6 support
  bridge: fix smatch warning / potential null pointer dereference
  via-rhine: fix full-duplex with autoneg disable
  bnx2x: Enlarge the dorq threshold for VFs
  bnx2x: Check for UNDI in uncommon branch
  bnx2x: Fix 1G-baseT link
  bnx2x: Fix link for KR with swapped polarity lane
  sctp: Fix sk_ack_backlog wrap-around problem
  net/core: Add VF link state control policy
  net/fsl: xgmac_mdio is dependent on OF_MDIO
  net/fsl: Make xgmac_mdio read error message useful
  net_sched: drr: warn when qdisc is not work conserving
  ...
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Pull networking updates from David Miller:

 1) Seccomp BPF filters can now be JIT'd, from Alexei Starovoitov.

 2) Multiqueue support in xen-netback and xen-netfront, from Andrew J
    Benniston.

 3) Allow tweaking of aggregation settings in cdc_ncm driver, from Bjørn
    Mork.

 4) BPF now has a "random" opcode, from Chema Gonzalez.

 5) Add more BPF documentation and improve test framework, from Daniel
    Borkmann.

 6) Support TCP fastopen over ipv6, from Daniel Lee.

 7) Add software TSO helper functions and use them to support software
    TSO in mvneta and mv643xx_eth drivers.  From Ezequiel Garcia.

 8) Support software TSO in fec driver too, from Nimrod Andy.

 9) Add Broadcom SYSTEMPORT driver, from Florian Fainelli.

10) Handle broadcasts more gracefully over macvlan when there are large
    numbers of interfaces configured, from Herbert Xu.

11) Allow more control over fwmark used for non-socket based responses,
    from Lorenzo Colitti.

12) Do TCP congestion window limiting based upon measurements, from Neal
    Cardwell.

13) Support busy polling in SCTP, from Neal Horman.

14) Allow RSS key to be configured via ethtool, from Venkata Duvvuru.

15) Bridge promisc mode handling improvements from Vlad Yasevich.

16) Don't use inetpeer entries to implement ID generation any more, it
    performs poorly, from Eric Dumazet.

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next: (1522 commits)
  rtnetlink: fix userspace API breakage for iproute2 &lt; v3.9.0
  tcp: fixing TLP's FIN recovery
  net: fec: Add software TSO support
  net: fec: Add Scatter/gather support
  net: fec: Increase buffer descriptor entry number
  net: fec: Factorize feature setting
  net: fec: Enable IP header hardware checksum
  net: fec: Factorize the .xmit transmit function
  bridge: fix compile error when compiling without IPv6 support
  bridge: fix smatch warning / potential null pointer dereference
  via-rhine: fix full-duplex with autoneg disable
  bnx2x: Enlarge the dorq threshold for VFs
  bnx2x: Check for UNDI in uncommon branch
  bnx2x: Fix 1G-baseT link
  bnx2x: Fix link for KR with swapped polarity lane
  sctp: Fix sk_ack_backlog wrap-around problem
  net/core: Add VF link state control policy
  net/fsl: xgmac_mdio is dependent on OF_MDIO
  net/fsl: Make xgmac_mdio read error message useful
  net_sched: drr: warn when qdisc is not work conserving
  ...
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<entry>
<title>inetpeer: get rid of ip_id_count</title>
<updated>2014-06-02T18:00:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Dumazet</name>
<email>edumazet@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-06-02T12:26:03+00:00</published>
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Ideally, we would need to generate IP ID using a per destination IP
generator.

linux kernels used inet_peer cache for this purpose, but this had a huge
cost on servers disabling MTU discovery.

1) each inet_peer struct consumes 192 bytes

2) inetpeer cache uses a binary tree of inet_peer structs,
   with a nominal size of ~66000 elements under load.

3) lookups in this tree are hitting a lot of cache lines, as tree depth
   is about 20.

4) If server deals with many tcp flows, we have a high probability of
   not finding the inet_peer, allocating a fresh one, inserting it in
   the tree with same initial ip_id_count, (cf secure_ip_id())

5) We garbage collect inet_peer aggressively.

IP ID generation do not have to be 'perfect'

Goal is trying to avoid duplicates in a short period of time,
so that reassembly units have a chance to complete reassembly of
fragments belonging to one message before receiving other fragments
with a recycled ID.

We simply use an array of generators, and a Jenkin hash using the dst IP
as a key.

ipv6_select_ident() is put back into net/ipv6/ip6_output.c where it
belongs (it is only used from this file)

secure_ip_id() and secure_ipv6_id() no longer are needed.

Rename ip_select_ident_more() to ip_select_ident_segs() to avoid
unnecessary decrement/increment of the number of segments.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Ideally, we would need to generate IP ID using a per destination IP
generator.

linux kernels used inet_peer cache for this purpose, but this had a huge
cost on servers disabling MTU discovery.

1) each inet_peer struct consumes 192 bytes

2) inetpeer cache uses a binary tree of inet_peer structs,
   with a nominal size of ~66000 elements under load.

3) lookups in this tree are hitting a lot of cache lines, as tree depth
   is about 20.

4) If server deals with many tcp flows, we have a high probability of
   not finding the inet_peer, allocating a fresh one, inserting it in
   the tree with same initial ip_id_count, (cf secure_ip_id())

5) We garbage collect inet_peer aggressively.

IP ID generation do not have to be 'perfect'

Goal is trying to avoid duplicates in a short period of time,
so that reassembly units have a chance to complete reassembly of
fragments belonging to one message before receiving other fragments
with a recycled ID.

We simply use an array of generators, and a Jenkin hash using the dst IP
as a key.

ipv6_select_ident() is put back into net/ipv6/ip6_output.c where it
belongs (it is only used from this file)

secure_ip_id() and secure_ipv6_id() no longer are needed.

Rename ip_select_ident_more() to ip_select_ident_segs() to avoid
unnecessary decrement/increment of the number of segments.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>inetpeer_gc_worker: trivial cleanup</title>
<updated>2014-04-26T16:52:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>xiao jin</name>
<email>jin.xiao@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-04-25T00:53:29+00:00</published>
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Do not initialize list twice.
list_replace_init() already takes care of initializing list.
We don't need to initialize it with LIST_HEAD() beforehand.

Signed-off-by: xiao jin &lt;jin.xiao@intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: David Cohen &lt;david.a.cohen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Do not initialize list twice.
list_replace_init() already takes care of initializing list.
We don't need to initialize it with LIST_HEAD() beforehand.

Signed-off-by: xiao jin &lt;jin.xiao@intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: David Cohen &lt;david.a.cohen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>arch: Mass conversion of smp_mb__*()</title>
<updated>2014-04-18T12:20:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Zijlstra</name>
<email>peterz@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-03-17T17:06:10+00:00</published>
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Mostly scripted conversion of the smp_mb__* barriers.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-55dhyhocezdw1dg7u19hmh1u@git.kernel.org
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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Mostly scripted conversion of the smp_mb__* barriers.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-55dhyhocezdw1dg7u19hmh1u@git.kernel.org
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ipv4: remove unused function</title>
<updated>2013-12-28T22:03:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Stephen Hemminger</name>
<email>stephen@networkplumber.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-12-28T19:08:22+00:00</published>
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inetpeer_invalidate_family defined but never used

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger &lt;stephen@networkplumber.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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inetpeer_invalidate_family defined but never used

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger &lt;stephen@networkplumber.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ipv4: fix checkpatch error "space prohibited"</title>
<updated>2013-12-26T18:43:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Weilong Chen</name>
<email>chenweilong@huawei.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-12-23T06:37:27+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Weilong Chen &lt;chenweilong@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Signed-off-by: Weilong Chen &lt;chenweilong@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ip: generate unique IP identificator if local fragmentation is allowed</title>
<updated>2013-09-19T18:11:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ansis Atteka</name>
<email>aatteka@nicira.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-09-18T22:29:53+00:00</published>
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If local fragmentation is allowed, then ip_select_ident() and
ip_select_ident_more() need to generate unique IDs to ensure
correct defragmentation on the peer.

For example, if IPsec (tunnel mode) has to encrypt large skbs
that have local_df bit set, then all IP fragments that belonged
to different ESP datagrams would have used the same identificator.
If one of these IP fragments would get lost or reordered, then
peer could possibly stitch together wrong IP fragments that did
not belong to the same datagram. This would lead to a packet loss
or data corruption.

Signed-off-by: Ansis Atteka &lt;aatteka@nicira.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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If local fragmentation is allowed, then ip_select_ident() and
ip_select_ident_more() need to generate unique IDs to ensure
correct defragmentation on the peer.

For example, if IPsec (tunnel mode) has to encrypt large skbs
that have local_df bit set, then all IP fragments that belonged
to different ESP datagrams would have used the same identificator.
If one of these IP fragments would get lost or reordered, then
peer could possibly stitch together wrong IP fragments that did
not belong to the same datagram. This would lead to a packet loss
or data corruption.

Signed-off-by: Ansis Atteka &lt;aatteka@nicira.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-3.7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq</title>
<updated>2012-10-02T16:54:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2012-10-02T16:54:49+00:00</published>
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Pull workqueue changes from Tejun Heo:
 "This is workqueue updates for v3.7-rc1.  A lot of activities this
  round including considerable API and behavior cleanups.

   * delayed_work combines a timer and a work item.  The handling of the
     timer part has always been a bit clunky leading to confusing
     cancelation API with weird corner-case behaviors.  delayed_work is
     updated to use new IRQ safe timer and cancelation now works as
     expected.

   * Another deficiency of delayed_work was lack of the counterpart of
     mod_timer() which led to cancel+queue combinations or open-coded
     timer+work usages.  mod_delayed_work[_on]() are added.

     These two delayed_work changes make delayed_work provide interface
     and behave like timer which is executed with process context.

   * A work item could be executed concurrently on multiple CPUs, which
     is rather unintuitive and made flush_work() behavior confusing and
     half-broken under certain circumstances.  This problem doesn't
     exist for non-reentrant workqueues.  While non-reentrancy check
     isn't free, the overhead is incurred only when a work item bounces
     across different CPUs and even in simulated pathological scenario
     the overhead isn't too high.

     All workqueues are made non-reentrant.  This removes the
     distinction between flush_[delayed_]work() and
     flush_[delayed_]_work_sync().  The former is now as strong as the
     latter and the specified work item is guaranteed to have finished
     execution of any previous queueing on return.

   * In addition to the various bug fixes, Lai redid and simplified CPU
     hotplug handling significantly.

   * Joonsoo introduced system_highpri_wq and used it during CPU
     hotplug.

  There are two merge commits - one to pull in IRQ safe timer from
  tip/timers/core and the other to pull in CPU hotplug fixes from
  wq/for-3.6-fixes as Lai's hotplug restructuring depended on them."

Fixed a number of trivial conflicts, but the more interesting conflicts
were silent ones where the deprecated interfaces had been used by new
code in the merge window, and thus didn't cause any real data conflicts.

Tejun pointed out a few of them, I fixed a couple more.

* 'for-3.7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq: (46 commits)
  workqueue: remove spurious WARN_ON_ONCE(in_irq()) from try_to_grab_pending()
  workqueue: use cwq_set_max_active() helper for workqueue_set_max_active()
  workqueue: introduce cwq_set_max_active() helper for thaw_workqueues()
  workqueue: remove @delayed from cwq_dec_nr_in_flight()
  workqueue: fix possible stall on try_to_grab_pending() of a delayed work item
  workqueue: use hotcpu_notifier() for workqueue_cpu_down_callback()
  workqueue: use __cpuinit instead of __devinit for cpu callbacks
  workqueue: rename manager_mutex to assoc_mutex
  workqueue: WORKER_REBIND is no longer necessary for idle rebinding
  workqueue: WORKER_REBIND is no longer necessary for busy rebinding
  workqueue: reimplement idle worker rebinding
  workqueue: deprecate __cancel_delayed_work()
  workqueue: reimplement cancel_delayed_work() using try_to_grab_pending()
  workqueue: use mod_delayed_work() instead of __cancel + queue
  workqueue: use irqsafe timer for delayed_work
  workqueue: clean up delayed_work initializers and add missing one
  workqueue: make deferrable delayed_work initializer names consistent
  workqueue: cosmetic whitespace updates for macro definitions
  workqueue: deprecate system_nrt[_freezable]_wq
  workqueue: deprecate flush[_delayed]_work_sync()
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Pull workqueue changes from Tejun Heo:
 "This is workqueue updates for v3.7-rc1.  A lot of activities this
  round including considerable API and behavior cleanups.

   * delayed_work combines a timer and a work item.  The handling of the
     timer part has always been a bit clunky leading to confusing
     cancelation API with weird corner-case behaviors.  delayed_work is
     updated to use new IRQ safe timer and cancelation now works as
     expected.

   * Another deficiency of delayed_work was lack of the counterpart of
     mod_timer() which led to cancel+queue combinations or open-coded
     timer+work usages.  mod_delayed_work[_on]() are added.

     These two delayed_work changes make delayed_work provide interface
     and behave like timer which is executed with process context.

   * A work item could be executed concurrently on multiple CPUs, which
     is rather unintuitive and made flush_work() behavior confusing and
     half-broken under certain circumstances.  This problem doesn't
     exist for non-reentrant workqueues.  While non-reentrancy check
     isn't free, the overhead is incurred only when a work item bounces
     across different CPUs and even in simulated pathological scenario
     the overhead isn't too high.

     All workqueues are made non-reentrant.  This removes the
     distinction between flush_[delayed_]work() and
     flush_[delayed_]_work_sync().  The former is now as strong as the
     latter and the specified work item is guaranteed to have finished
     execution of any previous queueing on return.

   * In addition to the various bug fixes, Lai redid and simplified CPU
     hotplug handling significantly.

   * Joonsoo introduced system_highpri_wq and used it during CPU
     hotplug.

  There are two merge commits - one to pull in IRQ safe timer from
  tip/timers/core and the other to pull in CPU hotplug fixes from
  wq/for-3.6-fixes as Lai's hotplug restructuring depended on them."

Fixed a number of trivial conflicts, but the more interesting conflicts
were silent ones where the deprecated interfaces had been used by new
code in the merge window, and thus didn't cause any real data conflicts.

Tejun pointed out a few of them, I fixed a couple more.

* 'for-3.7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq: (46 commits)
  workqueue: remove spurious WARN_ON_ONCE(in_irq()) from try_to_grab_pending()
  workqueue: use cwq_set_max_active() helper for workqueue_set_max_active()
  workqueue: introduce cwq_set_max_active() helper for thaw_workqueues()
  workqueue: remove @delayed from cwq_dec_nr_in_flight()
  workqueue: fix possible stall on try_to_grab_pending() of a delayed work item
  workqueue: use hotcpu_notifier() for workqueue_cpu_down_callback()
  workqueue: use __cpuinit instead of __devinit for cpu callbacks
  workqueue: rename manager_mutex to assoc_mutex
  workqueue: WORKER_REBIND is no longer necessary for idle rebinding
  workqueue: WORKER_REBIND is no longer necessary for busy rebinding
  workqueue: reimplement idle worker rebinding
  workqueue: deprecate __cancel_delayed_work()
  workqueue: reimplement cancel_delayed_work() using try_to_grab_pending()
  workqueue: use mod_delayed_work() instead of __cancel + queue
  workqueue: use irqsafe timer for delayed_work
  workqueue: clean up delayed_work initializers and add missing one
  workqueue: make deferrable delayed_work initializer names consistent
  workqueue: cosmetic whitespace updates for macro definitions
  workqueue: deprecate system_nrt[_freezable]_wq
  workqueue: deprecate flush[_delayed]_work_sync()
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