Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew Morton)

Merge second patch-bomb from Andrew Morton:
 - a few hotfixes
 - drivers/dma updates
 - MAINTAINERS updates
 - Quite a lot of lib/ updates
 - checkpatch updates
 - binfmt updates
 - autofs4
 - drivers/rtc/
 - various small tweaks to less used filesystems
 - ipc/ updates
 - kernel/watchdog.c changes

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (135 commits)
  mm: softdirty: enable write notifications on VMAs after VM_SOFTDIRTY cleared
  kernel/param: consolidate __{start,stop}___param[] in <linux/moduleparam.h>
  ia64: remove duplicate declarations of __per_cpu_start[] and __per_cpu_end[]
  frv: remove unused declarations of __start___ex_table and __stop___ex_table
  kvm: ensure hard lockup detection is disabled by default
  kernel/watchdog.c: control hard lockup detection default
  staging: rtl8192u: use %*pEn to escape buffer
  staging: rtl8192e: use %*pEn to escape buffer
  staging: wlan-ng: use %*pEhp to print SN
  lib80211: remove unused print_ssid()
  wireless: hostap: proc: print properly escaped SSID
  wireless: ipw2x00: print SSID via %*pE
  wireless: libertas: print esaped string via %*pE
  lib/vsprintf: add %*pE[achnops] format specifier
  lib / string_helpers: introduce string_escape_mem()
  lib / string_helpers: refactoring the test suite
  lib / string_helpers: move documentation to c-file
  include/linux: remove strict_strto* definitions
  arch/x86/mm/numa.c: fix boot failure when all nodes are hotpluggable
  fs: check bh blocknr earlier when searching lru
  ...

1 files changed, 22 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/fs/nilfs2/the_nilfs.h b/fs/nilfs2/the_nilfs.h
index d01ead1bea9a..23778d385836 100644
--- a/fs/nilfs2/the_nilfs.h
+++ b/fs/nilfs2/the_nilfs.h
@@ -46,6 +46,7 @@ enum {
 /**
  * struct the_nilfs - struct to supervise multiple nilfs mount points
  * @ns_flags: flags
+ * @ns_flushed_device: flag indicating if all volatile data was flushed
  * @ns_bdev: block device
  * @ns_sem: semaphore for shared states
  * @ns_snapshot_mount_mutex: mutex to protect snapshot mounts
@@ -103,6 +104,7 @@ enum {
  */
 struct the_nilfs {
 	unsigned long		ns_flags;
+	int			ns_flushed_device;
 
 	struct block_device    *ns_bdev;
 	struct rw_semaphore	ns_sem;
@@ -371,4 +373,24 @@ static inline int nilfs_segment_is_active(struct the_nilfs *nilfs, __u64 n)
 	return n == nilfs->ns_segnum || n == nilfs->ns_nextnum;
 }
 
+static inline int nilfs_flush_device(struct the_nilfs *nilfs)
+{
+	int err;
+
+	if (!nilfs_test_opt(nilfs, BARRIER) || nilfs->ns_flushed_device)
+		return 0;
+
+	nilfs->ns_flushed_device = 1;
+	/*
+	 * the store to ns_flushed_device must not be reordered after
+	 * blkdev_issue_flush().
+	 */
+	smp_wmb();
+
+	err = blkdev_issue_flush(nilfs->ns_bdev, GFP_KERNEL, NULL);
+	if (err != -EIO)
+		err = 0;
+	return err;
+}
+
 #endif /* _THE_NILFS_H */