Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)

Merge updates from Andrew Morton:

 - various misc bits

 - most of MM (quite a lot of MM material is awaiting the merge of
   linux-next dependencies)

 - kasan

 - printk updates

 - procfs updates

 - MAINTAINERS

 - /lib updates

 - checkpatch updates

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (123 commits)
  init: reduce rootwait polling interval time to 5ms
  binfmt_elf: use vmalloc() for allocation of vma_filesz
  checkpatch: don't emit unified-diff error for rename-only patches
  checkpatch: don't check c99 types like uint8_t under tools
  checkpatch: avoid multiple line dereferences
  checkpatch: don't check .pl files, improve absolute path commit log test
  scripts/checkpatch.pl: fix spelling
  checkpatch: don't try to get maintained status when --no-tree is given
  lib/ida: document locking requirements a bit better
  lib/rbtree.c: fix typo in comment of ____rb_erase_color
  lib/Kconfig.debug: make CONFIG_STRICT_DEVMEM depend on CONFIG_DEVMEM
  MAINTAINERS: add drm and drm/i915 irc channels
  MAINTAINERS: add "C:" for URI for chat where developers hang out
  MAINTAINERS: add drm and drm/i915 bug filing info
  MAINTAINERS: add "B:" for URI where to file bugs
  get_maintainer: look for arbitrary letter prefixes in sections
  printk: add Kconfig option to set default console loglevel
  printk/sound: handle more message headers
  printk/btrfs: handle more message headers
  printk/kdb: handle more message headers
  ...

1 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/lib/idr.c b/lib/idr.c
index 6098336df267..52d2979a05e8 100644
--- a/lib/idr.c
+++ b/lib/idr.c
@@ -927,6 +927,9 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(ida_pre_get);
  * and go back to the ida_pre_get() call.  If the ida is full, it will
  * return %-ENOSPC.
  *
+ * Note that callers must ensure that concurrent access to @ida is not possible.
+ * See ida_simple_get() for a varaint which takes care of locking.
+ *
  * @p_id returns a value in the range @starting_id ... %0x7fffffff.
  */
 int ida_get_new_above(struct ida *ida, int starting_id, int *p_id)
@@ -1073,6 +1076,9 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(ida_destroy);
  * Allocates an id in the range start <= id < end, or returns -ENOSPC.
  * On memory allocation failure, returns -ENOMEM.
  *
+ * Compared to ida_get_new_above() this function does its own locking, and
+ * should be used unless there are special requirements.
+ *
  * Use ida_simple_remove() to get rid of an id.
  */
 int ida_simple_get(struct ida *ida, unsigned int start, unsigned int end,
@@ -1119,6 +1125,11 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(ida_simple_get);
  * ida_simple_remove - remove an allocated id.
  * @ida: the (initialized) ida.
  * @id: the id returned by ida_simple_get.
+ *
+ * Use to release an id allocated with ida_simple_get().
+ *
+ * Compared to ida_remove() this function does its own locking, and should be
+ * used unless there are special requirements.
  */
 void ida_simple_remove(struct ida *ida, unsigned int id)
 {