Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew Morton)

Merge first patch-bomb from Andrew Morton:
 - Some pidns/fork/exec tweaks
 - OCFS2 updates
 - Most of MM - there remain quite a few memcg parts which depend on
   pending core cgroups changes.  Which might have been already merged -
   I'll check tomorrow...
 - Various misc stuff all over the place
 - A few block bits which I never got around to sending to Jens -
   relatively minor things.
 - MAINTAINERS maintenance
 - A small number of lib/ updates
 - checkpatch updates
 - epoll
 - firmware/dmi-scan
 - Some kprobes work for S390
 - drivers/rtc updates
 - hfsplus feature work
 - vmcore feature work
 - rbtree upgrades
 - AOE updates
 - pktcdvd cleanups
 - PPS
 - memstick
 - w1
 - New "inittmpfs" feature, which does the obvious
 - More IPC work from Davidlohr.

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (303 commits)
  lz4: fix compression/decompression signedness mismatch
  ipc: drop ipc_lock_check
  ipc, shm: drop shm_lock_check
  ipc: drop ipc_lock_by_ptr
  ipc, shm: guard against non-existant vma in shmdt(2)
  ipc: document general ipc locking scheme
  ipc,msg: drop msg_unlock
  ipc: rename ids->rw_mutex
  ipc,shm: shorten critical region for shmat
  ipc,shm: cleanup do_shmat pasta
  ipc,shm: shorten critical region for shmctl
  ipc,shm: make shmctl_nolock lockless
  ipc,shm: introduce shmctl_nolock
  ipc: drop ipcctl_pre_down
  ipc,shm: shorten critical region in shmctl_down
  ipc,shm: introduce lockless functions to obtain the ipc object
  initmpfs: use initramfs if rootfstype= or root= specified
  initmpfs: make rootfs use tmpfs when CONFIG_TMPFS enabled
  initmpfs: move rootfs code from fs/ramfs/ to init/
  initmpfs: move bdi setup from init_rootfs to init_ramfs
  ...

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diff --git a/Documentation/vm/soft-dirty.txt b/Documentation/vm/soft-dirty.txt
index 9a12a5956bc0..55684d11a1e8 100644
--- a/Documentation/vm/soft-dirty.txt
+++ b/Documentation/vm/soft-dirty.txt
@@ -28,6 +28,13 @@ This is so, since the pages are still mapped to physical memory, and thus all
 the kernel does is finds this fact out and puts both writable and soft-dirty
 bits on the PTE.
 
+  While in most cases tracking memory changes by #PF-s is more than enough
+there is still a scenario when we can lose soft dirty bits -- a task
+unmaps a previously mapped memory region and then maps a new one at exactly
+the same place. When unmap is called, the kernel internally clears PTE values
+including soft dirty bits. To notify user space application about such
+memory region renewal the kernel always marks new memory regions (and
+expanded regions) as soft dirty.
 
   This feature is actively used by the checkpoint-restore project. You
 can find more details about it on http://criu.org