Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)

Merge more updates from Andrew Morton:
 "Most of the rest of MM and various other things. Some Kconfig rework
  still awaits merges of dependent trees from linux-next.

  Subsystems affected by this patch series: mm/hotfixes, mm/memcg,
  mm/vmstat, mm/thp, procfs, sysctl, misc, notifiers, core-kernel,
  bitops, lib, checkpatch, epoll, binfmt, init, rapidio, uaccess, kcov,
  ubsan, ipc, bitmap, mm/pagemap"

* akpm: (86 commits)
  mm: remove __ARCH_HAS_4LEVEL_HACK and include/asm-generic/4level-fixup.h
  um: add support for folded p4d page tables
  um: remove unused pxx_offset_proc() and addr_pte() functions
  sparc32: use pgtable-nopud instead of 4level-fixup
  parisc/hugetlb: use pgtable-nopXd instead of 4level-fixup
  parisc: use pgtable-nopXd instead of 4level-fixup
  nds32: use pgtable-nopmd instead of 4level-fixup
  microblaze: use pgtable-nopmd instead of 4level-fixup
  m68k: mm: use pgtable-nopXd instead of 4level-fixup
  m68k: nommu: use pgtable-nopud instead of 4level-fixup
  c6x: use pgtable-nopud instead of 4level-fixup
  arm: nommu: use pgtable-nopud instead of 4level-fixup
  alpha: use pgtable-nopud instead of 4level-fixup
  gpio: pca953x: tighten up indentation
  gpio: pca953x: convert to use bitmap API
  gpio: pca953x: use input from regs structure in pca953x_irq_pending()
  gpio: pca953x: remove redundant variable and check in IRQ handler
  lib/bitmap: introduce bitmap_replace() helper
  lib/test_bitmap: fix comment about this file
  lib/test_bitmap: move exp1 and exp2 upper for others to use
  ...

1 files changed, 14 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/kernel.h b/include/linux/kernel.h
index 09f759228e3f..3adcb39fa6f5 100644
--- a/include/linux/kernel.h
+++ b/include/linux/kernel.h
@@ -348,8 +348,7 @@ int __must_check kstrtoll(const char *s, unsigned int base, long long *res);
  * @res: Where to write the result of the conversion on success.
  *
  * Returns 0 on success, -ERANGE on overflow and -EINVAL on parsing error.
- * Used as a replacement for the obsolete simple_strtoull. Return code must
- * be checked.
+ * Used as a replacement for the simple_strtoull. Return code must be checked.
 */
 static inline int __must_check kstrtoul(const char *s, unsigned int base, unsigned long *res)
 {
@@ -377,8 +376,7 @@ static inline int __must_check kstrtoul(const char *s, unsigned int base, unsign
  * @res: Where to write the result of the conversion on success.
  *
  * Returns 0 on success, -ERANGE on overflow and -EINVAL on parsing error.
- * Used as a replacement for the obsolete simple_strtoull. Return code must
- * be checked.
+ * Used as a replacement for the simple_strtoull. Return code must be checked.
  */
 static inline int __must_check kstrtol(const char *s, unsigned int base, long *res)
 {
@@ -454,7 +452,18 @@ static inline int __must_check kstrtos32_from_user(const char __user *s, size_t
 	return kstrtoint_from_user(s, count, base, res);
 }
 
-/* Obsolete, do not use.  Use kstrto<foo> instead */
+/*
+ * Use kstrto<foo> instead.
+ *
+ * NOTE: simple_strto<foo> does not check for the range overflow and,
+ *	 depending on the input, may give interesting results.
+ *
+ * Use these functions if and only if you cannot use kstrto<foo>, because
+ * the conversion ends on the first non-digit character, which may be far
+ * beyond the supported range. It might be useful to parse the strings like
+ * 10x50 or 12:21 without altering original string or temporary buffer in use.
+ * Keep in mind above caveat.
+ */
 
 extern unsigned long simple_strtoul(const char *,char **,unsigned int);
 extern long simple_strtol(const char *,char **,unsigned int);