Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)

Merge yet more updates from Andrew Morton:

 - a few MM remainders

 - misc things

 - autofs updates

 - signals

 - affs updates

 - ipc

 - nilfs2

 - spelling.txt updates

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (78 commits)
  mm, x86: fix HIGHMEM64 && PARAVIRT build config for native_pud_clear()
  mm: add arch-independent testcases for RODATA
  hfs: atomically read inode size
  mm: clarify mm_struct.mm_{users,count} documentation
  mm: use mmget_not_zero() helper
  mm: add new mmget() helper
  mm: add new mmgrab() helper
  checkpatch: warn when formats use %Z and suggest %z
  lib/vsprintf.c: remove %Z support
  scripts/spelling.txt: add some typo-words
  scripts/spelling.txt: add "followings" pattern and fix typo instances
  scripts/spelling.txt: add "therfore" pattern and fix typo instances
  scripts/spelling.txt: add "overwriten" pattern and fix typo instances
  scripts/spelling.txt: add "overwritting" pattern and fix typo instances
  scripts/spelling.txt: add "deintialize(d)" pattern and fix typo instances
  scripts/spelling.txt: add "disassocation" pattern and fix typo instances
  scripts/spelling.txt: add "omited" pattern and fix typo instances
  scripts/spelling.txt: add "explictely" pattern and fix typo instances
  scripts/spelling.txt: add "applys" pattern and fix typo instances
  scripts/spelling.txt: add "configuartion" pattern and fix typo instances
  ...

Documentation/DocBook/libata.tmpl

@@ -1020,7 +1020,7 @@ and other resources, etc.
 	</itemizedlist>
 
 	<para>
-	Of errors detected as above, the followings are not ATA/ATAPI
+	Of errors detected as above, the following are not ATA/ATAPI
 	device errors but ATA bus errors and should be handled
 	according to <xref linkend="excatATAbusErr"/>.
 	</para>

Documentation/acpi/method-customizing.txt

@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ Note: To get the ACPI debug object output (Store (AAAA, Debug)),
 3. undo your changes
    The "undo" operation is not supported for a new inserted method
    right now, i.e. we can not remove a method currently.
-   For an overrided method, in order to undo your changes, please
+   For an overridden method, in order to undo your changes, please
    save a copy of the method original ASL code in step c) section 1,
    and redo step c) ~ g) to override the method with the original one.
 

Documentation/acpi/method-tracing.txt

@@ -152,7 +152,7 @@ tracing facility.
 	Users can enable/disable this debug tracing feature by executing
 	the following command:
 	    # echo string > /sys/module/acpi/parameters/trace_state
-	Where "string" should be one of the followings:
+	Where "string" should be one of the following:
 	"disable"
 	    Disable the method tracing feature.
 	"enable"

Documentation/admin-guide/ras.rst

@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ That defines some categories of errors:
   still run, eventually replacing the affected hardware by a hot spare,
   if available.
 
-  Also, when an error happens on an userspace process, it is also possible to
+  Also, when an error happens on a userspace process, it is also possible to
   kill such process and let userspace restart it.
 
 The mechanism for handling non-fatal errors is usually complex and may

Documentation/blockdev/mflash.txt

@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ driver and currently works well under standard IDE subsystem. Actually it's
 one chip SSD. IO mode is ATA-like custom mode for the host that doesn't have
 IDE interface.
 
-Followings are brief descriptions about IO mode.
+Following are brief descriptions about IO mode.
 A. IO mode based on ATA protocol and uses some custom command. (read confirm,
 write confirm)
 B. IO mode uses SRAM bus interface.

Documentation/device-mapper/dm-raid.txt

@@ -319,7 +319,7 @@ Version History
 1.5.2   'mismatch_cnt' is zero unless [last_]sync_action is "check".
 1.6.0   Add discard support (and devices_handle_discard_safely module param).
 1.7.0   Add support for MD RAID0 mappings.
-1.8.0   Explictely check for compatible flags in the superblock metadata
+1.8.0   Explicitly check for compatible flags in the superblock metadata
 	and reject to start the raid set if any are set by a newer
 	target version, thus avoiding data corruption on a raid set
 	with a reshape in progress.

Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mfd/qcom-rpm.txt

@@ -234,7 +234,7 @@ see regulator.txt - with additional custom properties described below:
 - qcom,switch-mode-frequency:
 	Usage: required
 	Value type: <u32>
-	Definition: Frequency (Hz) of the swith mode power supply;
+	Definition: Frequency (Hz) of the switch mode power supply;
 		    must be one of:
 		    19200000, 9600000, 6400000, 4800000, 3840000, 3200000,
 		    2740000, 2400000, 2130000, 1920000, 1750000, 1600000,

Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/marvell-armada-370-neta.txt

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 * Marvell Armada 370 / Armada XP / Armada 3700 Ethernet Controller (NETA)
 
 Required properties:
-- compatible: could be one of the followings
+- compatible: could be one of the following:
 	"marvell,armada-370-neta"
 	"marvell,armada-xp-neta"
 	"marvell,armada-3700-neta"

Documentation/devicetree/bindings/opp/opp.txt

@@ -136,7 +136,7 @@ Optional properties:
   larger OPP table, based on what version of the hardware we are running on. We
   still can't have multiple nodes with the same opp-hz value in OPP table.
 
-  It's an user defined array containing a hierarchy of hardware version numbers,
+  It's a user defined array containing a hierarchy of hardware version numbers,
   supported by the OPP. For example: a platform with hierarchy of three levels
   of versions (A, B and C), this field should be like <X Y Z>, where X
   corresponds to Version hierarchy A, Y corresponds to version hierarchy B and Z

Documentation/devicetree/bindings/pinctrl/allwinner,sunxi-pinctrl.txt

@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ the first two functions being GPIO in and out. The configuration on
 the pins includes drive strength and pull-up.
 
 Required properties:
-- compatible: Should be one of the followings (depending on you SoC):
+- compatible: Should be one of the following (depending on your SoC):
   "allwinner,sun4i-a10-pinctrl"
   "allwinner,sun5i-a10s-pinctrl"
   "allwinner,sun5i-a13-pinctrl"

Documentation/devicetree/bindings/power/pd-samsung.txt

@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ Optional Properties:
 - clock-names: The following clocks can be specified:
 	- oscclk: Oscillator clock.
 	- clkN: Input clocks to the devices in this power domain. These clocks
-		will be reparented to oscclk before swithing power domain off.
+		will be reparented to oscclk before switching power domain off.
 		Their original parent will be brought back after turning on
 		the domain. Maximum of 4 clocks (N = 0 to 3) are supported.
 	- asbN: Clocks required by asynchronous bridges (ASB) present in

Documentation/devicetree/bindings/soc/rockchip/grf.txt

@@ -10,15 +10,15 @@ From RK3368 SoCs, the GRF is divided into two sections,
 
 Required Properties:
 
-- compatible: GRF should be one of the followings
+- compatible: GRF should be one of the following:
    - "rockchip,rk3036-grf", "syscon": for rk3036
    - "rockchip,rk3066-grf", "syscon": for rk3066
    - "rockchip,rk3188-grf", "syscon": for rk3188
    - "rockchip,rk3228-grf", "syscon": for rk3228
    - "rockchip,rk3288-grf", "syscon": for rk3288
    - "rockchip,rk3368-grf", "syscon": for rk3368
    - "rockchip,rk3399-grf", "syscon": for rk3399
-- compatible: PMUGRF should be one of the followings
+- compatible: PMUGRF should be one of the following:
    - "rockchip,rk3368-pmugrf", "syscon": for rk3368
    - "rockchip,rk3399-pmugrf", "syscon": for rk3399
 - compatible: SGRF should be one of the following

Documentation/devicetree/bindings/sound/rockchip-i2s.txt

@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ audio data transfer between devices in the system.
 
 Required properties:
 
-- compatible: should be one of the followings
+- compatible: should be one of the following:
    - "rockchip,rk3066-i2s": for rk3066
    - "rockchip,rk3188-i2s", "rockchip,rk3066-i2s": for rk3188
    - "rockchip,rk3288-i2s", "rockchip,rk3066-i2s": for rk3288
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ Required properties:
 	Documentation/devicetree/bindings/dma/dma.txt
 - dma-names: should include "tx" and "rx".
 - clocks: a list of phandle + clock-specifer pairs, one for each entry in clock-names.
-- clock-names: should contain followings:
+- clock-names: should contain the following:
    - "i2s_hclk": clock for I2S BUS
    - "i2s_clk" : clock for I2S controller
 - rockchip,playback-channels: max playback channels, if not set, 8 channels default.

Documentation/devicetree/bindings/sound/sun4i-codec.txt

@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ Required properties:
 - dma-names: should include "tx" and "rx".
 - clocks: a list of phandle + clock-specifer pairs, one for each entry
   in clock-names.
-- clock-names: should contain followings:
+- clock-names: should contain the following:
    - "apb": the parent APB clock for this controller
    - "codec": the parent module clock
 

Documentation/devicetree/bindings/sound/sun4i-i2s.txt

@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ audio data transfer between devices in the system.
 
 Required properties:
 
-- compatible: should be one of the followings
+- compatible: should be one of the following:
    - "allwinner,sun4i-a10-i2s"
    - "allwinner,sun6i-a31-i2s"
 - reg: physical base address of the controller and length of memory mapped
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ Required properties:
 	Documentation/devicetree/bindings/dma/dma.txt
 - dma-names: should include "tx" and "rx".
 - clocks: a list of phandle + clock-specifer pairs, one for each entry in clock-names.
-- clock-names: should contain followings:
+- clock-names: should contain the following:
    - "apb" : clock for the I2S bus interface
    - "mod" : module clock for the I2S controller
 - #sound-dai-cells : Must be equal to 0

Documentation/filesystems/autofs4-mount-control.txt

@@ -179,6 +179,7 @@ struct autofs_dev_ioctl {
 				 * including this struct */
 	__s32 ioctlfd;          /* automount command fd */
 
+	/* Command parameters */
 	union {
 		struct args_protover		protover;
 		struct args_protosubver		protosubver;

Documentation/filesystems/autofs4.txt

@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ directory is a mount trap only if the filesystem is mounted *direct*
 and the root is empty.
 
 Directories created in the root directory are mount traps only if the
-filesystem is mounted  *indirect* and they are empty.
+filesystem is mounted *indirect* and they are empty.
 
 Directories further down the tree depend on the *maxproto* mount
 option and particularly whether it is less than five or not.
@@ -352,7 +352,7 @@ Communicating with autofs: root directory ioctls
 ------------------------------------------------
 
 The root directory of an autofs filesystem will respond to a number of
-ioctls.   The process issuing the ioctl must have the CAP_SYS_ADMIN
+ioctls.  The process issuing the ioctl must have the CAP_SYS_ADMIN
 capability, or must be the automount daemon.
 
 The available ioctl commands are:
@@ -425,8 +425,20 @@ Each ioctl is passed a pointer to an `autofs_dev_ioctl` structure:
                                          * including this struct */
                 __s32 ioctlfd;          /* automount command fd */
 
-                __u32 arg1;             /* Command parameters */
-                __u32 arg2;
+		/* Command parameters */
+		union {
+			struct args_protover		protover;
+			struct args_protosubver		protosubver;
+			struct args_openmount		openmount;
+			struct args_ready		ready;
+			struct args_fail		fail;
+			struct args_setpipefd		setpipefd;
+			struct args_timeout		timeout;
+			struct args_requester		requester;
+			struct args_expire		expire;
+			struct args_askumount		askumount;
+			struct args_ismountpoint	ismountpoint;
+		};
 
                 char path[0];
         };
@@ -446,25 +458,22 @@ Commands are:
     set version numbers.
 - **AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_OPENMOUNT_CMD**: return an open file descriptor
     on the root of an autofs filesystem.  The filesystem is identified
-    by name and device number, which is stored in `arg1`.  Device
-    numbers for existing filesystems can be found in
+    by name and device number, which is stored in `openmount.devid`.
+    Device numbers for existing filesystems can be found in
     `/proc/self/mountinfo`.
 - **AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_CLOSEMOUNT_CMD**: same as `close(ioctlfd)`.
 - **AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_SETPIPEFD_CMD**: if the filesystem is in
     catatonic mode, this can provide the write end of a new pipe
-    in `arg1` to re-establish communication with a daemon.  The
-    process group of the calling process is used to identify the
+    in `setpipefd.pipefd` to re-establish communication with a daemon.
+    The process group of the calling process is used to identify the
     daemon.
 - **AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_REQUESTER_CMD**: `path` should be a
     name within the filesystem that has been auto-mounted on.
-    arg1 is the dev number of the underlying autofs.  On successful
-    return, `arg1` and `arg2` will be the UID and GID of the process
-    which triggered that mount.
-
+    On successful return, `requester.uid` and `requester.gid` will be
+    the UID and GID of the process which triggered that mount.
 - **AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_ISMOUNTPOINT_CMD**: Check if path is a
     mountpoint of a particular type - see separate documentation for
     details.
-
 - **AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_PROTOVER_CMD**:
 - **AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_PROTOSUBVER_CMD**:
 - **AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_READY_CMD**:
@@ -474,7 +483,7 @@ Commands are:
 - **AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_EXPIRE_CMD**:
 - **AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_ASKUMOUNT_CMD**:  These all have the same
     function as the similarly named **AUTOFS_IOC** ioctls, except
-    that **FAIL** can be given an explicit error number in `arg1`
+    that **FAIL** can be given an explicit error number in `fail.status`
     instead of assuming `ENOENT`, and this **EXPIRE** command
     corresponds to **AUTOFS_IOC_EXPIRE_MULTI**.
 
@@ -512,7 +521,7 @@ always be mounted "shared". e.g.
 
 > `mount --make-shared /autofs/mount/point`
 
-The automount daemon is only able to mange a single mount location for
+The automount daemon is only able to manage a single mount location for
 an autofs filesystem and if mounts on that are not 'shared', other
 locations will not behave as expected.  In particular access to those
 other locations will likely result in the `ELOOP` error

Documentation/filesystems/quota.txt

@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ Quota subsystem allows system administrator to set limits on used space and
 number of used inodes (inode is a filesystem structure which is associated with
 each file or directory) for users and/or groups. For both used space and number
 of used inodes there are actually two limits. The first one is called softlimit
-and the second one hardlimit.  An user can never exceed a hardlimit for any
+and the second one hardlimit.  A user can never exceed a hardlimit for any
 resource (unless he has CAP_SYS_RESOURCE capability). User is allowed to exceed
 softlimit but only for limited period of time. This period is called "grace
 period" or "grace time". When grace time is over, user is not able to allocate

Documentation/kselftest.txt

@@ -59,14 +59,14 @@ Install selftests
 =================
 
 You can use kselftest_install.sh tool installs selftests in default
-location which is tools/testing/selftests/kselftest or an user specified
+location which is tools/testing/selftests/kselftest or a user specified
 location.
 
 To install selftests in default location:
    $ cd tools/testing/selftests
    $ ./kselftest_install.sh
 
-To install selftests in an user specified location:
+To install selftests in a user specified location:
    $ cd tools/testing/selftests
    $ ./kselftest_install.sh install_dir
 

Documentation/media/dvb-drivers/ci.rst

@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ existing low level CI API.
 ca_zap
 ~~~~~~
 
-An userspace application, like ``ca_zap`` is required to handle encrypted
+A userspace application, like ``ca_zap`` is required to handle encrypted
 MPEG-TS streams.
 
 The ``ca_zap`` userland application is in charge of sending the

Documentation/media/uapi/dvb/dvb-frontend-parameters.rst

@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ frontend parameters
 The kind of parameters passed to the frontend device for tuning depend
 on the kind of hardware you are using.
 
-The struct ``dvb_frontend_parameters`` uses an union with specific
+The struct ``dvb_frontend_parameters`` uses a union with specific
 per-system parameters. However, as newer delivery systems required more
 data, the structure size weren't enough to fit, and just extending its
 size would break the existing applications. So, those parameters were
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ So, newer applications should use
 instead, in order to be able to support the newer System Delivery like
 DVB-S2, DVB-T2, DVB-C2, ISDB, etc.
 
-All kinds of parameters are combined as an union in the
+All kinds of parameters are combined as a union in the
 FrontendParameters structure:
 
 

Documentation/memory-hotplug.txt

@@ -114,11 +114,11 @@ config options.
     Memory model -> Sparse Memory  (CONFIG_SPARSEMEM)
     Allow for memory hot-add       (CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG)
 
-- To enable memory removal, the followings are also necessary
+- To enable memory removal, the following are also necessary
     Allow for memory hot remove    (CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE)
     Page Migration                 (CONFIG_MIGRATION)
 
-- For ACPI memory hotplug, the followings are also necessary
+- For ACPI memory hotplug, the following are also necessary
     Memory hotplug (under ACPI Support menu) (CONFIG_ACPI_HOTPLUG_MEMORY)
     This option can be kernel module.
 

Documentation/networking/cdc_mbim.txt

@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ Basic usage
 ===========
 
 MBIM functions are inactive when unmanaged. The cdc_mbim driver only
-provides an userspace interface to the MBIM control channel, and will
+provides a userspace interface to the MBIM control channel, and will
 not participate in the management of the function. This implies that a
 userspace MBIM management application always is required to enable a
 MBIM function.
@@ -200,7 +200,7 @@ structure described in section 10.5.29 of [1].
 The DSS VLAN subdevices are used as a practical interface between the
 shared MBIM data channel and a MBIM DSS aware userspace application.
 It is not intended to be presented as-is to an end user. The
-assumption is that an userspace application initiating a DSS session
+assumption is that a userspace application initiating a DSS session
 also takes care of the necessary framing of the DSS data, presenting
 the stream to the end user in an appropriate way for the stream type.
 

Documentation/scsi/ChangeLog.megaraid_sas

@@ -549,7 +549,7 @@ ii.	Reduced by 1 max cmds sent to FW from Driver to make the reply_q_sz same
 3 Older Version   : 00.00.03.02
 
 i.	Send stop adapter to FW & Dump pending FW cmds before declaring adapter dead.
-	New varible added to set dbg level.
+	New variable added to set dbg level.
 ii.	Disable interrupt made as fn pointer as they are different for 1068 / 1078
 iii.	Frame count optimization. Main frame can contain 2 SGE for 64 bit SGLs and
 	3 SGE for 32 bit SGL

Documentation/sound/hd-audio/notes.rst

@@ -697,7 +697,7 @@ If it's a regression, at best, send alsa-info outputs of both working
 and non-working kernels.  This is really helpful because we can
 compare the codec registers directly.
 
-Send a bug report either the followings:
+Send a bug report either the following:
 
 kernel-bugzilla
     https://bugzilla.kernel.org/

Documentation/vm/userfaultfd.txt

@@ -149,7 +149,7 @@ migration thread in the QEMU running in the destination node will
 receive the page that triggered the userfault and it'll map it as
 usual with the UFFDIO_COPY|ZEROPAGE (without actually knowing if it
 was spontaneously sent by the source or if it was an urgent page
-requested through an userfault).
+requested through a userfault).
 
 By the time the userfaults start, the QEMU in the destination node
 doesn't need to keep any per-page state bitmap relative to the live

MAINTAINERS

@@ -7286,6 +7286,7 @@ M:	Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
 S:	Maintained
 F:	Documentation/kprobes.txt
 F:	include/linux/kprobes.h
+F:	include/asm-generic/kprobes.h
 F:	kernel/kprobes.c
 
 KS0108 LCD CONTROLLER DRIVER

arch/Kconfig

@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ config OPROFILE_EVENT_MULTIPLEX
 	  The number of hardware counters is limited. The multiplexing
 	  feature enables OProfile to gather more events than counters
 	  are provided by the hardware. This is realized by switching
-	  between events at an user specified time interval.
+	  between events at a user specified time interval.
 
 	  If unsure, say N.
 

arch/alpha/include/asm/Kbuild

@@ -10,3 +10,4 @@ generic-y += preempt.h
 generic-y += sections.h
 generic-y += trace_clock.h
 generic-y += current.h
+generic-y += kprobes.h