Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew Morton)

Merge first patch-bomb from Andrew Morton:
 "Quite a lot of other stuff is banked up awaiting further
  next->mainline merging, but this batch contains:

   - Lots of random misc patches
   - OCFS2
   - Most of MM
   - backlight updates
   - lib/ updates
   - printk updates
   - checkpatch updates
   - epoll tweaking
   - rtc updates
   - hfs
   - hfsplus
   - documentation
   - procfs
   - update gcov to gcc-4.7 format
   - IPC"

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (269 commits)
  ipc, msg: fix message length check for negative values
  ipc/util.c: remove unnecessary work pending test
  devpts: plug the memory leak in kill_sb
  ./Makefile: export initial ramdisk compression config option
  init/Kconfig: add option to disable kernel compression
  drivers: w1: make w1_slave::flags long to avoid memory corruption
  drivers/w1/masters/ds1wm.cuse dev_get_platdata()
  drivers/memstick/core/ms_block.c: fix unreachable state in h_msb_read_page()
  drivers/memstick/core/mspro_block.c: fix attributes array allocation
  drivers/pps/clients/pps-gpio.c: remove redundant of_match_ptr
  kernel/panic.c: reduce 1 byte usage for print tainted buffer
  gcov: reuse kbasename helper
  kernel/gcov/fs.c: use pr_warn()
  kernel/module.c: use pr_foo()
  gcov: compile specific gcov implementation based on gcc version
  gcov: add support for gcc 4.7 gcov format
  gcov: move gcov structs definitions to a gcc version specific file
  kernel/taskstats.c: return -ENOMEM when alloc memory fails in add_del_listener()
  kernel/taskstats.c: add nla_nest_cancel() for failure processing between nla_nest_start() and nla_nest_end()
  kernel/sysctl_binary.c: use scnprintf() instead of snprintf()
  ...

1 files changed, 24 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/memblock.h b/include/linux/memblock.h
index 31e95acddb4d..77c60e52939d 100644
--- a/include/linux/memblock.h
+++ b/include/linux/memblock.h
@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ struct memblock_type {
 };
 
 struct memblock {
+	bool bottom_up;  /* is bottom up direction? */
 	phys_addr_t current_limit;
 	struct memblock_type memory;
 	struct memblock_type reserved;
@@ -148,6 +149,29 @@ phys_addr_t memblock_alloc_try_nid(phys_addr_t size, phys_addr_t align, int nid)
 
 phys_addr_t memblock_alloc(phys_addr_t size, phys_addr_t align);
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_MOVABLE_NODE
+/*
+ * Set the allocation direction to bottom-up or top-down.
+ */
+static inline void memblock_set_bottom_up(bool enable)
+{
+	memblock.bottom_up = enable;
+}
+
+/*
+ * Check if the allocation direction is bottom-up or not.
+ * if this is true, that said, memblock will allocate memory
+ * in bottom-up direction.
+ */
+static inline bool memblock_bottom_up(void)
+{
+	return memblock.bottom_up;
+}
+#else
+static inline void memblock_set_bottom_up(bool enable) {}
+static inline bool memblock_bottom_up(void) { return false; }
+#endif
+
 /* Flags for memblock_alloc_base() amd __memblock_alloc_base() */
 #define MEMBLOCK_ALLOC_ANYWHERE	(~(phys_addr_t)0)
 #define MEMBLOCK_ALLOC_ACCESSIBLE	0