Merge branch 'next' (accumulated 3.16 merge window patches) into master

Now that 3.15 is released, this merges the 'next' branch into 'master',
bringing us to the normal situation where my 'master' branch is the
merge window.

* accumulated work in next: (6809 commits)
  ufs: sb mutex merge + mutex_destroy
  powerpc: update comments for generic idle conversion
  cris: update comments for generic idle conversion
  idle: remove cpu_idle() forward declarations
  nbd: zero from and len fields in NBD_CMD_DISCONNECT.
  mm: convert some level-less printks to pr_*
  MAINTAINERS: adi-buildroot-devel is moderated
  MAINTAINERS: add linux-api for review of API/ABI changes
  mm/kmemleak-test.c: use pr_fmt for logging
  fs/dlm/debug_fs.c: replace seq_printf by seq_puts
  fs/dlm/lockspace.c: convert simple_str to kstr
  fs/dlm/config.c: convert simple_str to kstr
  mm: mark remap_file_pages() syscall as deprecated
  mm: memcontrol: remove unnecessary memcg argument from soft limit functions
  mm: memcontrol: clean up memcg zoneinfo lookup
  mm/memblock.c: call kmemleak directly from memblock_(alloc|free)
  mm/mempool.c: update the kmemleak stack trace for mempool allocations
  lib/radix-tree.c: update the kmemleak stack trace for radix tree allocations
  mm: introduce kmemleak_update_trace()
  mm/kmemleak.c: use %u to print ->checksum
  ...

1 files changed, 49 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
index 30a8ad0dae53..b9f67781c577 100644
--- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -214,6 +214,11 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
 			unusable.  The "log_buf_len" parameter may be useful
 			if you need to capture more output.
 
+	acpi_force_table_verification	[HW,ACPI]
+			Enable table checksum verification during early stage.
+			By default, this is disabled due to x86 early mapping
+			size limitation.
+
 	acpi_irq_balance [HW,ACPI]
 			ACPI will balance active IRQs
 			default in APIC mode
@@ -237,7 +242,15 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
 			This feature is enabled by default.
 			This option allows to turn off the feature.
 
-	acpi_no_auto_ssdt	[HW,ACPI] Disable automatic loading of SSDT
+	acpi_no_static_ssdt	[HW,ACPI]
+			Disable installation of static SSDTs at early boot time
+			By default, SSDTs contained in the RSDT/XSDT will be
+			installed automatically and they will appear under
+			/sys/firmware/acpi/tables.
+			This option turns off this feature.
+			Note that specifying this option does not affect
+			dynamic table installation which will install SSDT
+			tables to /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/dynamic.
 
 	acpica_no_return_repair [HW, ACPI]
 			Disable AML predefined validation mechanism
@@ -617,8 +630,11 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
 			Also note the kernel might malfunction if you disable
 			some critical bits.
 
-	cma=nn[MG]	[ARM,KNL]
-			Sets the size of kernel global memory area for contiguous
+	cma=nn[MG]@[start[MG][-end[MG]]]
+			[ARM,X86,KNL]
+			Sets the size of kernel global memory area for
+			contiguous memory allocations and optionally the
+			placement constraint by the physical address range of
 			memory allocations. For more information, see
 			include/linux/dma-contiguous.h
 
@@ -883,6 +899,7 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
 			which are not unmapped.
 
 	earlycon=	[KNL] Output early console device and options.
+
 		uart[8250],io,<addr>[,options]
 		uart[8250],mmio,<addr>[,options]
 		uart[8250],mmio32,<addr>[,options]
@@ -892,7 +909,15 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
 			(mmio) or 32-bit (mmio32).
 			The options are the same as for ttyS, above.
 
-	earlyprintk=	[X86,SH,BLACKFIN,ARM]
+		pl011,<addr>
+			Start an early, polled-mode console on a pl011 serial
+			port at the specified address. The pl011 serial port
+			must already be setup and configured. Options are not
+			yet supported.
+
+		smh	Use ARM semihosting calls for early console.
+
+	earlyprintk=	[X86,SH,BLACKFIN,ARM,M68k]
 			earlyprintk=vga
 			earlyprintk=efi
 			earlyprintk=xen
@@ -1287,6 +1312,10 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
 			for working out where the kernel is dying during
 			startup.
 
+	initcall_blacklist=  [KNL] Do not execute a comma-separated list of
+			initcall functions.  Useful for debugging built-in
+			modules and initcalls.
+
 	initrd=		[BOOT] Specify the location of the initial ramdisk
 
 	inport.irq=	[HW] Inport (ATI XL and Microsoft) busmouse driver
@@ -2332,6 +2361,14 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
 			timeout < 0: reboot immediately
 			Format: <timeout>
 
+	crash_kexec_post_notifiers
+			Run kdump after running panic-notifiers and dumping
+			kmsg. This only for the users who doubt kdump always
+			succeeds in any situation.
+			Note that this also increases risks of kdump failure,
+			because some panic notifiers can make the crashed
+			kernel more unstable.
+
 	parkbd.port=	[HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is
 			connected to, default is 0.
 			Format: <parport#>
@@ -2889,6 +2926,13 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
 			[KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level.
 			See Documentation/cgroups/cpusets.txt.
 
+	relative_sleep_states=
+			[SUSPEND] Use sleep state labeling where the deepest
+			state available other than hibernation is always "mem".
+			Format: { "0" | "1" }
+			0 -- Traditional sleep state labels.
+			1 -- Relative sleep state labels.
+
 	reserve=	[KNL,BUGS] Force the kernel to ignore some iomem area
 
 	reservetop=	[X86-32]
@@ -3461,7 +3505,7 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
 			the allocated input device; If set to 0, video driver
 			will only send out the event without touching backlight
 			brightness level.
-			default: 1
+			default: 0
 
 	virtio_mmio.device=
 			[VMMIO] Memory mapped virtio (platform) device.