As Linus points out:

    The inode_cmp_iversion{+raw}() functions are pure and utter crap.

    Why?

    You say that they return 0/negative/positive, but they do so in a
    completely broken manner. They return that ternary value as the
    sequence number difference in a 's64', which means that if you
    actually care about that ternary value, and do the *sane* thing that
    the kernel-doc of the function implies is the right thing, you would
    do

        int cmp = inode_cmp_iversion(inode, old);
        if (cmp < 0 ...

    and as a result you get code that looks sane, but that doesn't
    actually *WORK* right.

Since none of the callers actually care about the ternary value here,
convert the inode_cmp_iversion{+raw} functions to just return a boolean
value (false for matching, true for non-matching).

This matches the existing use of these functions just fine, and makes it
simple to convert them to return a ternary value in the future if we
grow callers that need it.

With this change we can also reimplement inode_cmp_iversion in a simpler
way using inode_peek_iversion.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Pull f2fs updates from Jaegeuk Kim:
 "In this round, we've followed up to support some generic features such
  as cgroup, block reservation, linking fscrypt_ops, delivering
  write_hints, and some ioctls. And, we could fix some corner cases in
  terms of power-cut recovery and subtle deadlocks.

  Enhancements:
   - bitmap operations to handle NAT blocks
   - readahead to improve readdir speed
   - switch to use fscrypt_*
   - apply write hints for direct IO
   - add reserve_root=%u,resuid=%u,resgid=%u to reserve blocks for root/uid/gid
   - modify b_avail and b_free to consider root reserved blocks
   - support cgroup writeback
   - support FIEMAP_FLAG_XATTR for fibmap
   - add F2FS_IOC_PRECACHE_EXTENTS to pre-cache extents
   - add F2FS_IOC_{GET/SET}_PIN_FILE to pin LBAs for data blocks
   - support inode creation time

  Bug fixs:
   - sysfile-based quota operations
   - memory footprint accounting
   - allow to write data on partial preallocation case
   - fix deadlock case on fallocate
   - fix to handle fill_super errors
   - fix missing inode updates of fsync'ed file
   - recover renamed file which was fsycn'ed before
   - drop inmemory pages in corner error case
   - keep last_disk_size correctly
   - recover missing i_inline flags during roll-forward

  Various clean-up patches were added as well"

* tag 'f2fs-for-4.16-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jaegeuk/f2fs: (72 commits)
  f2fs: support inode creation time
  f2fs: rebuild sit page from sit info in mem
  f2fs: stop issuing discard if fs is readonly
  f2fs: clean up duplicated assignment in init_discard_policy
  f2fs: use GFP_F2FS_ZERO for cleanup
  f2fs: allow to recover node blocks given updated checkpoint
  f2fs: recover some i_inline flags
  f2fs: correct removexattr behavior for null valued extended attribute
  f2fs: drop page cache after fs shutdown
  f2fs: stop gc/discard thread after fs shutdown
  f2fs: hanlde error case in f2fs_ioc_shutdown
  f2fs: split need_inplace_update
  f2fs: fix to update last_disk_size correctly
  f2fs: kill F2FS_INLINE_XATTR_ADDRS for cleanup
  f2fs: clean up error path of fill_super
  f2fs: avoid hungtask when GC encrypted block if io_bits is set
  f2fs: allow quota to use reserved blocks
  f2fs: fix to drop all inmem pages correctly
  f2fs: speed up defragment on sparse file
  f2fs: support F2FS_IOC_PRECACHE_EXTENTS
  ...

Pull NFS client updates from Trond Myklebust:
 "Highlights include:

  Stable bugfixes:

   - Fix breakages in the nfsstat utility due to the inclusion of the
     NFSv4 LOOKUPP operation

   - Fix a NULL pointer dereference in nfs_idmap_prepare_pipe_upcall()
     due to nfs_idmap_legacy_upcall() being called without an 'aux'
     parameter

   - Fix a refcount leak in the standard O_DIRECT error path

   - Fix a refcount leak in the pNFS O_DIRECT fallback to MDS path

   - Fix CPU latency issues with nfs_commit_release_pages()

   - Fix the LAYOUTUNAVAILABLE error case in the file layout type

   - NFS: Fix a race between mmap() and O_DIRECT

  Features:

   - Support the statx() mask and query flags to enable optimisations
     when the user is requesting only attributes that are already up to
     date in the inode cache, or is specifying the AT_STATX_DONT_SYNC
     flag

   - Add a module alias for the SCSI pNFS layout type

  Bugfixes:

   - Automounting when resolving a NFSv4 referral should preserve the
     RDMA transport protocol settings

   - Various other RDMA bugfixes from Chuck

   - pNFS block layout fixes

   - Always set NFS_LOCK_LOST when a lock is lost"

* tag 'nfs-for-4.16-1' of git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/trondmy/linux-nfs: (69 commits)
  NFS: Fix a race between mmap() and O_DIRECT
  NFS: Remove a redundant call to unmap_mapping_range()
  pnfs/blocklayout: Ensure disk address in block device map
  pnfs/blocklayout: pnfs_block_dev_map uses bytes, not sectors
  lockd: Fix server refcounting
  SUNRPC: Fix null rpc_clnt dereference in rpc_task_queued tracepoint
  SUNRPC: Micro-optimize __rpc_execute
  SUNRPC: task_run_action should display tk_callback
  sunrpc: Format RPC events consistently for display
  SUNRPC: Trace xprt_timer events
  xprtrdma: Correct some documenting comments
  xprtrdma: Fix "bytes registered" accounting
  xprtrdma: Instrument allocation/release of rpcrdma_req/rep objects
  xprtrdma: Add trace points to instrument QP and CQ access upcalls
  xprtrdma: Add trace points in the client-side backchannel code paths
  xprtrdma: Add trace points for connect events
  xprtrdma: Add trace points to instrument MR allocation and recovery
  xprtrdma: Add trace points to instrument memory invalidation
  xprtrdma: Add trace points in reply decoder path
  xprtrdma: Add trace points to instrument memory registration
  ..

Pull kern_recvmsg reduction from Al Viro:
 "kernel_recvmsg() is a set_fs()-using wrapper for sock_recvmsg(). In
  all but one case that is not needed - use of ITER_KVEC for ->msg_iter
  takes care of the data and does not care about set_fs(). The only
  exception is svc_udp_recvfrom() where we want cmsg to be store into
  kernel object; everything else can just use sock_recvmsg() and be done
  with that.

  A followup converting svc_udp_recvfrom() away from set_fs() (and
  killing kernel_recvmsg() off) is *NOT* in here - I'd like to hear what
  netdev folks think of the approach proposed in that followup)"

* 'work.sock_recvmsg' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
  tipc: switch to sock_recvmsg()
  smc: switch to sock_recvmsg()
  ipvs: switch to sock_recvmsg()
  mISDN: switch to sock_recvmsg()
  drbd: switch to sock_recvmsg()
  lustre lnet_sock_read(): switch to sock_recvmsg()
  cfs2: switch to sock_recvmsg()
  ncpfs: switch to sock_recvmsg()
  dlm: switch to sock_recvmsg()
  svc_recvfrom(): switch to sock_recvmsg()

Pull mqueue/bpf vfs cleanups from Al Viro:
 "mqueue and bpf go through rather painful and similar contortions to
  create objects in their dentry trees. Provide a primitive for doing
  that without abusing ->mknod(), switch bpf and mqueue to it.

  Another mqueue-related thing that has ended up in that branch is
  on-demand creation of internal mount (based upon the work of Giuseppe
  Scrivano)"

* 'work.mqueue' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
  mqueue: switch to on-demand creation of internal mount
  tidy do_mq_open() up a bit
  mqueue: clean prepare_open() up
  do_mq_open(): move all work prior to dentry_open() into a helper
  mqueue: fold mq_attr_ok() into mqueue_get_inode()
  move dentry_open() calls up into do_mq_open()
  mqueue: switch to vfs_mkobj(), quit abusing ->d_fsdata
  bpf_obj_do_pin(): switch to vfs_mkobj(), quit abusing ->mknod()
  new primitive: vfs_mkobj()

Pull poll annotations from Al Viro:
 "This introduces a __bitwise type for POLL### bitmap, and propagates
  the annotations through the tree. Most of that stuff is as simple as
  'make ->poll() instances return __poll_t and do the same to local
  variables used to hold the future return value'.

  Some of the obvious brainos found in process are fixed (e.g. POLLIN
  misspelled as POLL_IN). At that point the amount of sparse warnings is
  low and most of them are for genuine bugs - e.g. ->poll() instance
  deciding to return -EINVAL instead of a bitmap. I hadn't touched those
  in this series - it's large enough as it is.

  Another problem it has caught was eventpoll() ABI mess; select.c and
  eventpoll.c assumed that corresponding POLL### and EPOLL### were
  equal. That's true for some, but not all of them - EPOLL### are
  arch-independent, but POLL### are not.

  The last commit in this series separates userland POLL### values from
  the (now arch-independent) kernel-side ones, converting between them
  in the few places where they are copied to/from userland. AFAICS, this
  is the least disruptive fix preserving poll(2) ABI and making epoll()
  work on all architectures.

  As it is, it's simply broken on sparc - try to give it EPOLLWRNORM and
  it will trigger only on what would've triggered EPOLLWRBAND on other
  architectures. EPOLLWRBAND and EPOLLRDHUP, OTOH, are never triggered
  at all on sparc. With this patch they should work consistently on all
  architectures"

* 'misc.poll' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (37 commits)
  make kernel-side POLL... arch-independent
  eventpoll: no need to mask the result of epi_item_poll() again
  eventpoll: constify struct epoll_event pointers
  debugging printk in sg_poll() uses %x to print POLL... bitmap
  annotate poll(2) guts
  9p: untangle ->poll() mess
  ->si_band gets POLL... bitmap stored into a user-visible long field
  ring_buffer_poll_wait() return value used as return value of ->poll()
  the rest of drivers/*: annotate ->poll() instances
  media: annotate ->poll() instances
  fs: annotate ->poll() instances
  ipc, kernel, mm: annotate ->poll() instances
  net: annotate ->poll() instances
  apparmor: annotate ->poll() instances
  tomoyo: annotate ->poll() instances
  sound: annotate ->poll() instances
  acpi: annotate ->poll() instances
  crypto: annotate ->poll() instances
  block: annotate ->poll() instances
  x86: annotate ->poll() instances
  ...

Pull cgroup updates from Tejun Heo:
 "Nothing too interesting. Documentation updates and trivial changes;
  however, this pull request does containt he previusly discussed
  dropping of __must_check from strscpy()"

* 'for-4.16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup:
  Documentation: Fix 'file_mapped' -> 'mapped_file'
  string: drop __must_check from strscpy() and restore strscpy() usages in cgroup
  cgroup, docs: document the root cgroup behavior of cpu and io controllers
  cgroup-v2.txt: fix typos
  cgroup: Update documentation reference
  Documentation/cgroup-v1: fix outdated programming details
  cgroup, docs: document cgroup v2 device controller

Pull percpu update from Tejun Heo:
 "One trivial patch to convert the return type from int to bool"

* 'for-4.16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu:
  percpu: percpu_counter_initialized can be boolean

Pull libata updates from Tejun Heo:
 "Nothing too interesting. Several patches to convert mdelay() to
  usleep_range(), removal of unused pata_at32, and other low level
  driver specific changes"

* 'for-4.16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/libata:
  ata: pata_pdc2027x: Replace mdelay with msleep
  ata: pata_it821x: Replace mdelay with usleep_range in it821x_firmware_command
  ata: sata_mv: Replace mdelay with usleep_range in mv_reset_channel
  ata: remove pata_at32
  phy: brcm-sata: remove unused variable
  phy: brcm-sata: fix semicolon.cocci warnings
  ata: ahci_brcm: Recover from failures to identify devices
  phy: brcm-sata: Implement calibrate callback
  ahci: Add Intel Cannon Lake PCH-H PCI ID
  ata_piix: constify pci_bits
  libata:pata_atiixp: Don't use unconnected secondary port on SB600
  ata: ahci_brcm: Avoid clobbering SATA_TOP_CTRL_BUS_CTRL
  ahci: Allow setting a default LPM policy for mobile chipsets
  ahci: Add PCI ids for Intel Bay Trail, Cherry Trail and Apollo Lake AHCI
  ahci: Annotate PCI ids for mobile Intel chipsets as such

Pull workqueue updates from Tejun Heo:
 "Workqueue has an early init trick where workqueues can be created and
  work items queued on them before the workqueue subsystem is online.
  This helps simplifying early init and operation of low level
  subsystems which use workqueues for managerial things which aren't
  depended upon early during boot.

  Out of laziness, the early init didn't cover workqueues with
  WQ_MEM_RECLAIM, which is inconsistent and confusing because adding the
  flag simply makes the system fail to boot. Cover WQ_MEM_RECLAIM too.

  This was originally brought up for RCU but RCU didn't actually need
  this. I still think it's a good idea to cover it"

* 'for-4.16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq:
  workqueue: allow WQ_MEM_RECLAIM on early init workqueues
  workqueue: separate out init_rescuer()

Merge branch 'userns-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace

Pull userns updates from Eric Biederman:
 "Between the holidays and other distractions only a small amount of
  namespace work made it into my tree this time.

  Just a final cleanup from a revert several kernels ago and a small
  typo fix from Wolffhardt Schwabe"

* 'userns-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace:
  fix typo in assignment of fs default overflow gid
  autofs4: Modify autofs_wait to use current_uid() and current_gid()
  userns: Don't fail follow_automount based on s_user_ns

Merge branch 'siginfo-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace

Pull siginfo cleanups from Eric Biederman:
 "Long ago when 2.4 was just a testing release copy_siginfo_to_user was
  made to copy individual fields to userspace, possibly for efficiency
  and to ensure initialized values were not copied to userspace.

  Unfortunately the design was complex, it's assumptions unstated, and
  humans are fallible and so while it worked much of the time that
  design failed to ensure unitialized memory is not copied to userspace.

  This set of changes is part of a new design to clean up siginfo and
  simplify things, and hopefully make the siginfo handling robust enough
  that a simple inspection of the code can be made to ensure we don't
  copy any unitializied fields to userspace.

  The design is to unify struct siginfo and struct compat_siginfo into a
  single definition that is shared between all architectures so that
  anyone adding to the set of information shared with struct siginfo can
  see the whole picture. Hopefully ensuring all future si_code
  assignments are arch independent.

  The design is to unify copy_siginfo_to_user32 and
  copy_siginfo_from_user32 so that those function are complete and cope
  with all of the different cases documented in signinfo_layout. I don't
  think there was a single implementation of either of those functions
  that was complete and correct before my changes unified them.

  The design is to introduce a series of helpers including
  force_siginfo_fault that take the values that are needed in struct
  siginfo and build the siginfo structure for their callers. Ensuring
  struct siginfo is built correctly.

  The remaining work for 4.17 (unless someone thinks it is post -rc1
  material) is to push usage of those helpers down into the
  architectures so that architecture specific code will not need to deal
  with the fiddly work of intializing struct siginfo, and then when
  struct siginfo is guaranteed to be fully initialized change copy
  siginfo_to_user into a simple wrapper around copy_to_user.

  Further there is work in progress on the issues that have been
  documented requires arch specific knowledge to sort out.

  The changes below fix or at least document all of the issues that have
  been found with siginfo generation. Then proceed to unify struct
  siginfo the 32 bit helpers that copy siginfo to and from userspace,
  and generally clean up anything that is not arch specific with regards
  to siginfo generation.

  It is a lot but with the unification you can of siginfo you can
  already see the code reduction in the kernel"

* 'siginfo-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace: (45 commits)
  signal/memory-failure: Use force_sig_mceerr and send_sig_mceerr
  mm/memory_failure: Remove unused trapno from memory_failure
  signal/ptrace: Add force_sig_ptrace_errno_trap and use it where needed
  signal/powerpc: Remove unnecessary signal_code parameter of do_send_trap
  signal: Helpers for faults with specialized siginfo layouts
  signal: Add send_sig_fault and force_sig_fault
  signal: Replace memset(info,...) with clear_siginfo for clarity
  signal: Don't use structure initializers for struct siginfo
  signal/arm64: Better isolate the COMPAT_TASK portion of ptrace_hbptriggered
  ptrace: Use copy_siginfo in setsiginfo and getsiginfo
  signal: Unify and correct copy_siginfo_to_user32
  signal: Remove the code to clear siginfo before calling copy_siginfo_from_user32
  signal: Unify and correct copy_siginfo_from_user32
  signal/blackfin: Remove pointless UID16_SIGINFO_COMPAT_NEEDED
  signal/blackfin: Move the blackfin specific si_codes to asm-generic/siginfo.h
  signal/tile: Move the tile specific si_codes to asm-generic/siginfo.h
  signal/frv: Move the frv specific si_codes to asm-generic/siginfo.h
  signal/ia64: Move the ia64 specific si_codes to asm-generic/siginfo.h
  signal/powerpc: Remove redefinition of NSIGTRAP on powerpc
  signal: Move addr_lsb into the _sigfault union for clarity
  ...

Pull arm64 updates from Catalin Marinas:
 "The main theme of this pull request is security covering variants 2
  and 3 for arm64. I expect to send additional patches next week
  covering an improved firmware interface (requires firmware changes)
  for variant 2 and way for KPTI to be disabled on unaffected CPUs
  (Cavium's ThunderX doesn't work properly with KPTI enabled because of
  a hardware erratum).

  Summary:

   - Security mitigations:
      - variant 2: invalidate the branch predictor with a call to
        secure firmware
      - variant 3: implement KPTI for arm64

   - 52-bit physical address support for arm64 (ARMv8.2)

   - arm64 support for RAS (firmware first only) and SDEI (software
     delegated exception interface; allows firmware to inject a RAS
     error into the OS)

   - perf support for the ARM DynamIQ Shared Unit PMU

   - CPUID and HWCAP bits updated for new floating point multiplication
     instructions in ARMv8.4

   - remove some virtual memory layout printks during boot

   - fix initial page table creation to cope with larger than 32M kernel
     images when 16K pages are enabled"

* tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux: (104 commits)
  arm64: Fix TTBR + PAN + 52-bit PA logic in cpu_do_switch_mm
  arm64: Turn on KPTI only on CPUs that need it
  arm64: Branch predictor hardening for Cavium ThunderX2
  arm64: Run enable method for errata work arounds on late CPUs
  arm64: Move BP hardening to check_and_switch_context
  arm64: mm: ignore memory above supported physical address size
  arm64: kpti: Fix the interaction between ASID switching and software PAN
  KVM: arm64: Emulate RAS error registers and set HCR_EL2's TERR & TEA
  KVM: arm64: Handle RAS SErrors from EL2 on guest exit
  KVM: arm64: Handle RAS SErrors from EL1 on guest exit
  KVM: arm64: Save ESR_EL2 on guest SError
  KVM: arm64: Save/Restore guest DISR_EL1
  KVM: arm64: Set an impdef ESR for Virtual-SError using VSESR_EL2.
  KVM: arm/arm64: mask/unmask daif around VHE guests
  arm64: kernel: Prepare for a DISR user
  arm64: Unconditionally enable IESB on exception entry/return for firmware-first
  arm64: kernel: Survive corrected RAS errors notified by SError
  arm64: cpufeature: Detect CPU RAS Extentions
  arm64: sysreg: Move to use definitions for all the SCTLR bits
  arm64: cpufeature: __this_cpu_has_cap() shouldn't stop early
  ...

Pull x86 hyperv update from Ingo Molnar:
 "Enable PCID support on Hyper-V guests"

* 'x86-hyperv-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86/hyperv: Stop suppressing X86_FEATURE_PCID

Pull x86 cleanups from Ingo Molnar:
 "Misc cleanups"

* 'x86-cleanups-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86: Remove unused IOMMU_STRESS Kconfig
  x86/extable: Mark exception handler functions visible
  x86/timer: Don't inline __const_udelay
  x86/headers: Remove duplicate #includes

Pull x86 apic cleanup from Ingo Molnar:
 "A single change simplifying the APIC code bit"

* 'x86-apic-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86/apic: Remove local var in flat_send_IPI_allbutself()

Pull scheduler updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "The main changes in this cycle were:

   - Implement frequency/CPU invariance and OPP selection for
     SCHED_DEADLINE (Juri Lelli)

   - Tweak the task migration logic for better multi-tasking
     workload scalability (Mel Gorman)

   - Misc cleanups, fixes and improvements"

* 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  sched/deadline: Make bandwidth enforcement scale-invariant
  sched/cpufreq: Move arch_scale_{freq,cpu}_capacity() outside of #ifdef CONFIG_SMP
  sched/cpufreq: Remove arch_scale_freq_capacity()'s 'sd' parameter
  sched/cpufreq: Always consider all CPUs when deciding next freq
  sched/cpufreq: Split utilization signals
  sched/cpufreq: Change the worker kthread to SCHED_DEADLINE
  sched/deadline: Move CPU frequency selection triggering points
  sched/cpufreq: Use the DEADLINE utilization signal
  sched/deadline: Implement "runtime overrun signal" support
  sched/fair: Only immediately migrate tasks due to interrupts if prev and target CPUs share cache
  sched/fair: Correct obsolete comment about cpufreq_update_util()
  sched/fair: Remove impossible condition from find_idlest_group_cpu()
  sched/cpufreq: Don't pass flags to sugov_set_iowait_boost()
  sched/cpufreq: Initialize sg_cpu->flags to 0
  sched/fair: Consider RT/IRQ pressure in capacity_spare_wake()
  sched/fair: Use 'unsigned long' for utilization, consistently
  sched/core: Rework and clarify prepare_lock_switch()
  sched/fair: Remove unused 'curr' parameter from wakeup_gran
  sched/headers: Constify object_is_on_stack()

Pull x86 RAS updates from Ingo Molnar:

 - various AMD SMCA error parsing/reporting improvements (Yazen Ghannam)

 - extend Intel CMCI error reporting to more cases (Xie XiuQi)

* 'ras-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86/MCE: Make correctable error detection look at the Deferred bit
  x86/MCE: Report only DRAM ECC as memory errors on AMD systems
  x86/MCE/AMD: Define a function to get SMCA bank type
  x86/mce/AMD: Don't set DEF_INT_TYPE in MSR_CU_DEF_ERR on SMCA systems
  x86/MCE: Extend table to report action optional errors through CMCI too

Pull perf updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "Kernel side changes:

   - Clean up the x86 instruction decoder (Masami Hiramatsu)

   - Add new uprobes optimization for PUSH instructions on x86 (Yonghong
     Song)

   - Add MSR_IA32_THERM_STATUS to the MSR events (Stephane Eranian)

   - Fix misc bugs, update documentation, plus various cleanups (Jiri
     Olsa)

  There's a large number of tooling side improvements:

   - Intel-PT/BTS improvements (Adrian Hunter)

   - Numerous 'perf trace' improvements (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)

   - Introduce an errno code to string facility (Hendrik Brueckner)

   - Various build system improvements (Jiri Olsa)

   - Add support for CoreSight trace decoding by making the perf tools
     use the external openCSD (Mathieu Poirier, Tor Jeremiassen)

   - Add ARM Statistical Profiling Extensions (SPE) support (Kim
     Phillips)

   - libtraceevent updates (Steven Rostedt)

   - Intel vendor event JSON updates (Andi Kleen)

   - Introduce 'perf report --mmaps' and 'perf report --tasks' to show
     info present in 'perf.data' (Jiri Olsa, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)

   - Add infrastructure to record first and last sample time to the
     perf.data file header, so that when processing all samples in a
     'perf record' session, such as when doing build-id processing, or
     when specifically requesting that that info be recorded, use that
     in 'perf report --time', that also got support for percent slices
     in addition to absolute ones.

     I.e. now it is possible to ask for the samples in the 10%-20% time
     slice of a perf.data file (Jin Yao)

   - Allow system wide 'perf stat --per-thread', sorting the result (Jin
     Yao)

     E.g.:

      [root@jouet ~]# perf stat --per-thread --metrics IPC
      ^C
       Performance counter stats for 'system wide':

                  make-22229  23,012,094,032  inst_retired.any   #  0.8 IPC
                   cc1-22419     692,027,497  inst_retired.any   #  0.8 IPC
                   gcc-22418     328,231,855  inst_retired.any   #  0.9 IPC
                   cc1-22509     220,853,647  inst_retired.any   #  0.8 IPC
                   gcc-22486     199,874,810  inst_retired.any   #  1.0 IPC
                    as-22466     177,896,365  inst_retired.any   #  0.9 IPC
                   cc1-22465     150,732,374  inst_retired.any   #  0.8 IPC
                   gcc-22508     112,555,593  inst_retired.any   #  0.9 IPC
                   cc1-22487     108,964,079  inst_retired.any   #  0.7 IPC
       qemu-system-x86-2697       21,330,550  inst_retired.any   #  0.3 IPC
       systemd-journal-551        20,642,951  inst_retired.any   #  0.4 IPC
       docker-containe-17651       9,552,892  inst_retired.any   #  0.5 IPC
       dockerd-current-9809        7,528,586  inst_retired.any   #  0.5 IPC
                  make-22153  12,504,194,380  inst_retired.any   #  0.8 IPC
               python2-22429  12,081,290,954  inst_retired.any   #  0.8 IPC
      <SNIP>
               python2-22429  15,026,328,103  cpu_clk_unhalted.thread
                   cc1-22419     826,660,193  cpu_clk_unhalted.thread
                   gcc-22418     365,321,295  cpu_clk_unhalted.thread
                   cc1-22509     279,169,362  cpu_clk_unhalted.thread
                   gcc-22486     210,156,950  cpu_clk_unhalted.thread
      <SNIP>

           5.638075538 seconds time elapsed

     [root@jouet ~]#

   - Improve shell auto-completion of perf events (Jin Yao)

   - 'perf probe' improvements (Masami Hiramatsu)

   - Improve PMU infrastructure to support amp64's ThunderX2
     implementation defined core events (Ganapatrao Kulkarni)

   - Various annotation related improvements and fixes (Thomas Richter)

   - Clarify usage of 'overwrite' and 'backward' in the evlist/mmap
     code, removing the 'overwrite' parameter from several functions as
     it was always used it as 'false' (Wang Nan)

   - Fix/improve 'perf record' reverse recording support (Wang Nan)

   - Improve command line options documentation (Sihyeon Jang)

   - Optimize sample parsing for ordering events, where we don't need to
     parse all the PERF_SAMPLE_ bits, just the ones leading to the
     timestamp needed to reorder events (Jiri Olsa)

   - Generalize the annotation code to support other source information
     besides objdump/DWARF obtained ones, starting with python scripts,
     that will is slated to be merged soon (Jiri Olsa)

   - ... and a lot more that I failed to list, see the shortlog and
     changelog for details"

* 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (262 commits)
  perf trace beauty flock: Move to separate object file
  perf evlist: Remove fcntl.h from evlist.h
  perf trace beauty futex: Beautify FUTEX_BITSET_MATCH_ANY
  perf trace: Do not print from time delta for interrupted syscall lines
  perf trace: Add --print-sample
  perf bpf: Remove misplaced __maybe_unused attribute
  MAINTAINERS: Adding entry for CoreSight trace decoding
  perf tools: Add mechanic to synthesise CoreSight trace packets
  perf tools: Add full support for CoreSight trace decoding
  pert tools: Add queue management functionality
  perf tools: Add functionality to communicate with the openCSD decoder
  perf tools: Add support for decoding CoreSight trace data
  perf tools: Add decoder mechanic to support dumping trace data
  perf tools: Add processing of coresight metadata
  perf tools: Add initial entry point for decoder CoreSight traces
  perf tools: Integrating the CoreSight decoding library
  perf vendor events intel: Update IvyTown files to V20
  perf vendor events intel: Update IvyBridge files to V20
  perf vendor events intel: Update BroadwellDE events to V7
  perf vendor events intel: Update SkylakeX events to V1.06
  ...

Pull locking updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "The main changes relate to making lock_is_held() et al (and external
  wrappers of them) work on const data types - this requires const
  propagation through the depths of lockdep.

  This removes a number of ugly type hacks the external helpers used"

* 'locking-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  lockdep: Convert some users to const
  lockdep: Make lockdep checking constant
  lockdep: Assign lock keys on registration

Pull EFI updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "The biggest change in this cycle was the addition of ARM CPER error
  decoding when printing EFI errors into the kernel log.

  There are also misc smaller updates: documentation update, cleanups
  and an EFI memory map permissions quirk"

* 'efi-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86/efi: Clarify that reset attack mitigation needs appropriate userspace
  efi: Parse ARM error information value
  efi: Move ARM CPER code to new file
  efi: Use PTR_ERR_OR_ZERO()
  arm64/efi: Ignore EFI_MEMORY_XP attribute if RP and/or WP are set
  efi/capsule-loader: Fix pr_err() string to end with newline

Pull RCU updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "The main RCU changes in this cycle were:

   - Updates to use cond_resched() instead of cond_resched_rcu_qs()
     where feasible (currently everywhere except in kernel/rcu and in
     kernel/torture.c). Also a couple of fixes to avoid sending IPIs to
     offline CPUs.

   - Updates to simplify RCU's dyntick-idle handling.

   - Updates to remove almost all uses of smp_read_barrier_depends() and
     read_barrier_depends().

   - Torture-test updates.

   - Miscellaneous fixes"

* 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (72 commits)
  torture: Save a line in stutter_wait(): while -> for
  torture: Eliminate torture_runnable and perf_runnable
  torture: Make stutter less vulnerable to compilers and races
  locking/locktorture: Fix num reader/writer corner cases
  locking/locktorture: Fix rwsem reader_delay
  torture: Place all torture-test modules in one MAINTAINERS group
  rcutorture/kvm-build.sh: Skip build directory check
  rcutorture: Simplify functions.sh include path
  rcutorture: Simplify logging
  rcutorture/kvm-recheck-*: Improve result directory readability check
  rcutorture/kvm.sh: Support execution from any directory
  rcutorture/kvm.sh: Use consistent help text for --qemu-args
  rcutorture/kvm.sh: Remove unused variable, `alldone`
  rcutorture: Remove unused script, config2frag.sh
  rcutorture/configinit: Fix build directory error message
  rcutorture: Preempt RCU-preempt readers more vigorously
  torture: Reduce #ifdefs for preempt_schedule()
  rcu: Remove have_rcu_nocb_mask from tree_plugin.h
  rcu: Add comment giving debug strategy for double call_rcu()
  tracing, rcu: Hide trace event rcu_nocb_wake when not used
  ...

Pull STRICT_DEVMEM default from Ingo Molnar:
 "Make CONFIG_STRICT_DEVMEM default-y on x86 and arm64 as well, to
  follow the distro status quo"

* 'core-debug-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  Kconfig: Make STRICT_DEVMEM default-y on x86 and arm64

There is no entry file_mapped in the memory.stat file. This looks like a
simple word flip that's gone unnoticed since 2010 (dc10e281,
memcg: update documentation).
Signed-off-by: Florian Schmidt <florian.schmidt@neclab.eu>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>

Pull x86/pti updates from Thomas Gleixner:
 "Another set of melted spectrum related changes:

   - Code simplifications and cleanups for RSB and retpolines.

   - Make the indirect calls in KVM speculation safe.

   - Whitelist CPUs which are known not to speculate from Meltdown and
     prepare for the new CPUID flag which tells the kernel that a CPU is
     not affected.

   - A less rigorous variant of the module retpoline check which merily
     warns when a non-retpoline protected module is loaded and reflects
     that fact in the sysfs file.

   - Prepare for Indirect Branch Prediction Barrier support.

   - Prepare for exposure of the Speculation Control MSRs to guests, so
     guest OSes which depend on those "features" can use them. Includes
     a blacklist of the broken microcodes. The actual exposure of the
     MSRs through KVM is still being worked on"

* 'x86-pti-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86/speculation: Simplify indirect_branch_prediction_barrier()
  x86/retpoline: Simplify vmexit_fill_RSB()
  x86/cpufeatures: Clean up Spectre v2 related CPUID flags
  x86/cpu/bugs: Make retpoline module warning conditional
  x86/bugs: Drop one "mitigation" from dmesg
  x86/nospec: Fix header guards names
  x86/alternative: Print unadorned pointers
  x86/speculation: Add basic IBPB (Indirect Branch Prediction Barrier) support
  x86/cpufeature: Blacklist SPEC_CTRL/PRED_CMD on early Spectre v2 microcodes
  x86/pti: Do not enable PTI on CPUs which are not vulnerable to Meltdown
  x86/msr: Add definitions for new speculation control MSRs
  x86/cpufeatures: Add AMD feature bits for Speculation Control
  x86/cpufeatures: Add Intel feature bits for Speculation Control
  x86/cpufeatures: Add CPUID_7_EDX CPUID leaf
  module/retpoline: Warn about missing retpoline in module
  KVM: VMX: Make indirect call speculation safe
  KVM: x86: Make indirect calls in emulator speculation safe

Pull x86 mm update from Thomas Gleixner:
 "A single patch which excludes the GART aperture from vmcore as
  accessing that area from a dump kernel can crash the kernel.

  Not necessarily the nicest way to fix this, but curing this from
  ground up requires a more thorough rewrite of the whole kexec/kdump
  magic"

* 'x86-mm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86/gart: Exclude GART aperture from vmcore

Pull x86 timer updates from Thomas Gleixner:
 "A small set of updates for x86 specific timers:

   - Mark TSC invariant on a subset of Centaur CPUs

   - Allow TSC calibration without PIT on mobile platforms which lack
     legacy devices"

* 'x86-timers-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86/centaur: Mark TSC invariant
  x86/tsc: Introduce early tsc clocksource
  x86/time: Unconditionally register legacy timer interrupt
  x86/tsc: Allow TSC calibration without PIT

Pull x86 platform updates from Thomas Gleixner:
 "The platform support for x86 contains the following updates:

   - A set of updates for the UV platform to support new CPUs and to fix
     some of the UV4A BAU MRRs

   - The initial platform support for the jailhouse hypervisor to allow
     native Linux guests (inmates) in non-root cells.

   - A fix for the PCI initialization on Intel MID platforms"

* 'x86-platform-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (24 commits)
  x86/jailhouse: Respect pci=lastbus command line settings
  x86/jailhouse: Set X86_FEATURE_TSC_KNOWN_FREQ
  x86/platform/intel-mid: Move PCI initialization to arch_init()
  x86/platform/uv/BAU: Replace hard-coded values with MMR definitions
  x86/platform/UV: Fix UV4A BAU MMRs
  x86/platform/UV: Fix GAM MMR references in the UV x2apic code
  x86/platform/UV: Fix GAM MMR changes in UV4A
  x86/platform/UV: Add references to access fixed UV4A HUB MMRs
  x86/platform/UV: Fix UV4A support on new Intel Processors
  x86/platform/UV: Update uv_mmrs.h to prepare for UV4A fixes
  x86/jailhouse: Add PCI dependency
  x86/jailhouse: Hide x2apic code when CONFIG_X86_X2APIC=n
  x86/jailhouse: Initialize PCI support
  x86/jailhouse: Wire up IOAPIC for legacy UART ports
  x86/jailhouse: Halt instead of failing to restart
  x86/jailhouse: Silence ACPI warning
  x86/jailhouse: Avoid access of unsupported platform resources
  x86/jailhouse: Set up timekeeping
  x86/jailhouse: Enable PMTIMER
  x86/jailhouse: Enable APIC and SMP support
  ...

Pull x86/cache updates from Thomas Gleixner:
 "A set of patches which add support for L2 cache partitioning to the
  Intel RDT facility"

* 'x86-cache-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86/intel_rdt: Add command line parameter to control L2_CDP
  x86/intel_rdt: Enable L2 CDP in MSR IA32_L2_QOS_CFG
  x86/intel_rdt: Add two new resources for L2 Code and Data Prioritization (CDP)
  x86/intel_rdt: Enumerate L2 Code and Data Prioritization (CDP) feature
  x86/intel_rdt: Add L2CDP support in documentation
  x86/intel_rdt: Update documentation

Pull timer updates from Thomas Gleixner:
 "The timer departement presents:

   - A rather large rework of the hrtimer infrastructure which
     introduces softirq based hrtimers to replace the spread of
     hrtimer/tasklet combos which force the actual callback execution
     into softirq context. The approach is completely different from the
     initial implementation which you cursed at 10 years ago rightfully.

     The softirq based timers have their own queues and there is no
     nasty indirection and list reshuffling in the hard interrupt
     anymore. This comes with conversion of some of the hrtimer/tasklet
     users, the rest and the final removal of that horrible interface
     will come towards the end of the merge window or go through the
     relevant maintainer trees.

     Note: The top commit merged the last minute bugfix for the 10 years
     old CPU hotplug bug as I wanted to make sure that I fatfinger the
     merge conflict resolution myself.

   - The overhaul of the STM32 clocksource/clockevents driver

   - A new driver for the Spreadtrum SC9860 timer

   - A new driver dor the Actions Semi S700 timer

   - The usual set of fixes and updates all over the place"

* 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (53 commits)
  usb/gadget/NCM: Replace tasklet with softirq hrtimer
  ALSA/dummy: Replace tasklet with softirq hrtimer
  hrtimer: Implement SOFT/HARD clock base selection
  hrtimer: Implement support for softirq based hrtimers
  hrtimer: Prepare handling of hard and softirq based hrtimers
  hrtimer: Add clock bases and hrtimer mode for softirq context
  hrtimer: Use irqsave/irqrestore around __run_hrtimer()
  hrtimer: Factor out __hrtimer_next_event_base()
  hrtimer: Factor out __hrtimer_start_range_ns()
  hrtimer: Remove the 'base' parameter from hrtimer_reprogram()
  hrtimer: Make remote enqueue decision less restrictive
  hrtimer: Unify remote enqueue handling
  hrtimer: Unify hrtimer removal handling
  hrtimer: Make hrtimer_force_reprogramm() unconditionally available
  hrtimer: Make hrtimer_reprogramm() unconditional
  hrtimer: Make hrtimer_cpu_base.next_timer handling unconditional
  hrtimer: Make the remote enqueue check unconditional
  hrtimer: Use accesor functions instead of direct access
  hrtimer: Make the hrtimer_cpu_base::hres_active field unconditional, to simplify the code
  hrtimer: Make room in 'struct hrtimer_cpu_base'
  ...

Pull irq updates from Thomas Gleixner:
 "A rather small set of irq updates this time:

   - removal of the old and now obsolete irq domain debugging code

   - the new Goldfish PIC driver

   - the usual pile of small fixes and updates"

* 'irq-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  irqdomain: Kill CONFIG_IRQ_DOMAIN_DEBUG
  irq/work: Improve the flag definitions
  irqchip/gic-v3: Fix the driver probe() fail due to disabled GICC entry
  irqchip/irq-goldfish-pic: Add Goldfish PIC driver
  dt-bindings/goldfish-pic: Add device tree binding for Goldfish PIC driver
  irqchip/ompic: fix return value check in ompic_of_init()
  dt-bindings/bcm283x: Define polarity of per-cpu interrupts
  irqchip/irq-bcm2836: Add support for DT interrupt polarity
  dt-bindings/bcm2836-l1-intc: Add interrupt polarity support

Pull Xtensa updates from Max Filippov:

 - add SSP support

 - add KASAN support

 - improvements to xtensa-specific assembly:
    - use ENTRY and ENDPROC consistently
    - clean up and unify word alignment macros
    - clean up and unify fixup marking
    - use 'call' instead of 'callx' where possible

 - various cleanups:
    - consiolidate kernel stack size related definitions
    - replace #ifdef'fed/commented out debug printk statements with
      pr_debug
    - use struct exc_table instead of flat array for exception handling
      data

 - build kernel with -mtext-section-literals; simplify xtensa linker
   script

 - fix futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic()

* tag 'xtensa-20180129' of git://github.com/jcmvbkbc/linux-xtensa: (21 commits)
  xtensa: fix futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic
  xtensa: shut up gcc-8 warnings
  xtensa: print kernel sections info in mem_init
  xtensa: use generic strncpy_from_user with KASAN
  xtensa: use __memset in __xtensa_clear_user
  xtensa: add support for KASAN
  xtensa: move fixmap and kmap just above the KSEG
  xtensa: don't clear swapper_pg_dir in paging_init
  xtensa: extract init_kio
  xtensa: implement early_trap_init
  xtensa: clean up exception handling structure
  xtensa: clean up custom-controlled debug output
  xtensa: enable stack protector
  xtensa: print hardware config ID on startup
  xtensa: consolidate kernel stack size related definitions
  xtensa: clean up functions in assembly code
  xtensa: clean up word alignment macros in assembly code
  xtensa: clean up fixups in assembly code
  xtensa: use call instead of callx in assembly code
  xtensa: build kernel with text-section-literals
  ...

Pull m68k updates from Geert Uytterhoeven:

  - first part of an overhaul of the NuBus subsystem, to bring it up to
    modern driver model standards

  - a race condition fix for Mac

  - defconfig updates

* tag 'm68k-for-v4.16-tag1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/geert/linux-m68k:
  MAINTAINERS: Add NuBus subsystem entry
  m68k/mac: Fix race conditions in OSS interrupt dispatch
  nubus: Add support for the driver model
  nubus: Add expansion_type values for various Mac models
  nubus: Adopt standard linked list implementation
  nubus: Rename struct nubus_dev
  nubus: Rework /proc/bus/nubus/s/ implementation
  nubus: Generalize block resource handling
  nubus: Clean up whitespace
  nubus: Remove redundant code
  nubus: Call proc_mkdir() not more than once per slot directory
  nubus: Validate slot resource IDs
  nubus: Fix log spam
  nubus: Use static functions where possible
  nubus: Fix up header split
  nubus: Avoid array underflow and overflow
  m68k/defconfig: Update defconfigs for v4.15-rc1

Pull btrfs updates from David Sterba:
 "Features or user visible changes:

   - fallocate: implement zero range mode

   - avoid losing data raid profile when deleting a device

   - tree item checker: more checks for directory items and xattrs

  Notable fixes:

   - raid56 recovery: don't use cached stripes, that could be
     potentially changed and a later RMW or recovery would lead to
     corruptions or failures

   - let raid56 try harder to rebuild damaged data, reading from all
     stripes if necessary

   - fix scrub to repair raid56 in a similar way as in the case above

  Other:

   - cleanups: device freeing, removed some call indirections, redundant
     bio_put/_get, unused parameters, refactorings and renames

   - RCU list traversal fixups

   - simplify mount callchain, remove recursing back when mounting a
     subvolume

   - plug for fsync, may improve bio merging on multiple devices

   - compression heurisic: replace heap sort with radix sort, gains some
     performance

   - add extent map selftests, buffered write vs dio"

* tag 'for-4.16-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kdave/linux: (155 commits)
  btrfs: drop devid as device_list_add() arg
  btrfs: get device pointer from device_list_add()
  btrfs: set the total_devices in device_list_add()
  btrfs: move pr_info into device_list_add
  btrfs: make btrfs_free_stale_devices() to match the path
  btrfs: rename btrfs_free_stale_devices() arg to skip_dev
  btrfs: make btrfs_free_stale_devices() argument optional
  btrfs: make btrfs_free_stale_device() to iterate all stales
  btrfs: no need to check for btrfs_fs_devices::seeding
  btrfs: Use IS_ALIGNED in btrfs_truncate_block instead of opencoding it
  Btrfs: noinline merge_extent_mapping
  Btrfs: add WARN_ONCE to detect unexpected error from merge_extent_mapping
  Btrfs: extent map selftest: dio write vs dio read
  Btrfs: extent map selftest: buffered write vs dio read
  Btrfs: add extent map selftests
  Btrfs: move extent map specific code to extent_map.c
  Btrfs: add helper for em merge logic
  Btrfs: fix unexpected EEXIST from btrfs_get_extent
  Btrfs: fix incorrect block_len in merge_extent_mapping
  btrfs: Remove unused readahead spinlock
  ...

Pull cifs updates from Steve French:
 "Some fixes for stable, fixed SMB3 DFS support, SMB3 Direct (RDMA) and
  various bug fixes and cleanup"

* tag '4.16-rc-SMB3' of git://git.samba.org/sfrench/cifs-2.6: (60 commits)
  fs/cifs/cifsacl.c Fixes typo in a comment
  update internal version number for cifs.ko
  cifs: add .splice_write
  CIFS: document tcon/ses/server refcount dance
  move a few externs to smbdirect.h to eliminate warning
  CIFS: zero sensitive data when freeing
  Cleanup some minor endian issues in smb3 rdma
  CIFS: dump IPC tcon in debug proc file
  CIFS: use tcon_ipc instead of use_ipc parameter of SMB2_ioctl
  CIFS: make IPC a regular tcon
  cifs: remove redundant duplicated assignment of pointer 'node'
  CIFS: SMBD: work around gcc -Wmaybe-uninitialized warning
  cifs: Fix autonegotiate security settings mismatch
  CIFS: SMBD: _smbd_get_connection() can be static
  CIFS: SMBD: Disable signing on SMB direct transport
  CIFS: SMBD: Add SMB Direct debug counters
  CIFS: SMBD: Upper layer performs SMB read via RDMA write through memory registration
  CIFS: SMBD: Read correct returned data length for RDMA write (SMB read) I/O
  CIFS: SMBD: Upper layer performs SMB write via RDMA read through memory registration
  CIFS: SMBD: Implement RDMA memory registration
  ...

Pull inode->i_version rework from Jeff Layton:
 "This pile of patches is a rework of the inode->i_version field. We
  have traditionally incremented that field on every inode data or
  metadata change. Typically this increment needs to be logged on disk
  even when nothing else has changed, which is rather expensive.

  It turns out though that none of the consumers of that field actually
  require this behavior. The only real requirement for all of them is
  that it be different iff the inode has changed since the last time the
  field was checked.

  Given that, we can optimize away most of the i_version increments and
  avoid dirtying inode metadata when the only change is to the i_version
  and no one is querying it. Queries of the i_version field are rather
  rare, so we can help write performance under many common workloads.

  This patch series converts existing accesses of the i_version field to
  a new API, and then converts all of the in-kernel filesystems to use
  it. The last patch in the series then converts the backend
  implementation to a scheme that optimizes away a large portion of the
  metadata updates when no one is looking at it.

  In my own testing this series significantly helps performance with
  small I/O sizes. I also got this email for Christmas this year from
  the kernel test robot (a 244% r/w bandwidth improvement with XFS over
  DAX, with 4k writes):

    https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/12/25/8

  A few of the earlier patches in this pile are also flowing to you via
  other trees (mm, integrity, and nfsd trees in particular)".

* tag 'iversion-v4.16-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jlayton/linux: (22 commits)
  fs: handle inode->i_version more efficiently
  btrfs: only dirty the inode in btrfs_update_time if something was changed
  xfs: avoid setting XFS_ILOG_CORE if i_version doesn't need incrementing
  fs: only set S_VERSION when updating times if necessary
  IMA: switch IMA over to new i_version API
  xfs: convert to new i_version API
  ufs: use new i_version API
  ocfs2: convert to new i_version API
  nfsd: convert to new i_version API
  nfs: convert to new i_version API
  ext4: convert to new i_version API
  ext2: convert to new i_version API
  exofs: switch to new i_version API
  btrfs: convert to new i_version API
  afs: convert to new i_version API
  affs: convert to new i_version API
  fat: convert to new i_version API
  fs: don't take the i_lock in inode_inc_iversion
  fs: new API for handling inode->i_version
  ntfs: remove i_version handling
  ...

Pull UBI/UBIFS updates from Richard Weinberger:

 - use the new fscrypt APIs

 - a fix for a Fastmap issue

 - other minor bug fixes

* tag 'upstream-4.16-rc1' of git://git.infradead.org/linux-ubifs:
  ubi: block: Fix locking for idr_alloc/idr_remove
  mtd: ubi: wl: Fix error return code in ubi_wl_init()
  ubi: Fix copy/paste error in function documentation
  ubi: Fastmap: Fix typo
  ubifs: remove error message in ubifs_xattr_get
  ubi: fastmap: Erase outdated anchor PEBs during attach
  ubifs: switch to fscrypt_prepare_setattr()
  ubifs: switch to fscrypt_prepare_lookup()
  ubifs: switch to fscrypt_prepare_rename()
  ubifs: switch to fscrypt_prepare_link()
  ubifs: switch to fscrypt_file_open()
  ubi: fastmap: Clean up the initialization of pointer p
  ubi: fastmap: Use kmem_cache_free to deallocate memory
  ubi: Fix race condition between ubi volume creation and udev
  mtd: ubi: Use 'max_bad_blocks' to compute bad_peb_limit if available
  ubifs: Fix uninitialized variable in search_dh_cookie()

Pull block updates from Jens Axboe:
 "This is the main pull request for block IO related changes for the
  4.16 kernel. Nothing major in this pull request, but a good amount of
  improvements and fixes all over the map. This contains:

   - BFQ improvements, fixes, and cleanups from Angelo, Chiara, and
     Paolo.

   - Support for SMR zones for deadline and mq-deadline from Damien and
     Christoph.

   - Set of fixes for bcache by way of Michael Lyle, including fixes
     from himself, Kent, Rui, Tang, and Coly.

   - Series from Matias for lightnvm with fixes from Hans Holmberg,
     Javier, and Matias. Mostly centered around pblk, and the removing
     rrpc 1.2 in preparation for supporting 2.0.

   - A couple of NVMe pull requests from Christoph. Nothing major in
     here, just fixes and cleanups, and support for command tracing from
     Johannes.

   - Support for blk-throttle for tracking reads and writes separately.
     From Joseph Qi. A few cleanups/fixes also for blk-throttle from
     Weiping.

   - Series from Mike Snitzer that enables dm to register its queue more
     logically, something that's alwways been problematic on dm since
     it's a stacked device.

   - Series from Ming cleaning up some of the bio accessor use, in
     preparation for supporting multipage bvecs.

   - Various fixes from Ming closing up holes around queue mapping and
     quiescing.

   - BSD partition fix from Richard Narron, fixing a problem where we
     can't mount newer (10/11) FreeBSD partitions.

   - Series from Tejun reworking blk-mq timeout handling. The previous
     scheme relied on atomic bits, but it had races where we would think
     a request had timed out if it to reused at the wrong time.

   - null_blk now supports faking timeouts, to enable us to better
     exercise and test that functionality separately. From me.

   - Kill the separate atomic poll bit in the request struct. After
     this, we don't use the atomic bits on blk-mq anymore at all. From
     me.

   - sgl_alloc/free helpers from Bart.

   - Heavily contended tag case scalability improvement from me.

   - Various little fixes and cleanups from Arnd, Bart, Corentin,
     Douglas, Eryu, Goldwyn, and myself"

* 'for-4.16/block' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (186 commits)
  block: remove smart1,2.h
  nvme: add tracepoint for nvme_complete_rq
  nvme: add tracepoint for nvme_setup_cmd
  nvme-pci: introduce RECONNECTING state to mark initializing procedure
  nvme-rdma: remove redundant boolean for inline_data
  nvme: don't free uuid pointer before printing it
  nvme-pci: Suspend queues after deleting them
  bsg: use pr_debug instead of hand crafted macros
  blk-mq-debugfs: don't allow write on attributes with seq_operations set
  nvme-pci: Fix queue double allocations
  block: Set BIO_TRACE_COMPLETION on new bio during split
  blk-throttle: use queue_is_rq_based
  block: Remove kblockd_schedule_delayed_work{,_on}()
  blk-mq: Avoid that blk_mq_delay_run_hw_queue() introduces unintended delays
  blk-mq: Rename blk_mq_request_direct_issue() into blk_mq_request_issue_directly()
  lib/scatterlist: Fix chaining support in sgl_alloc_order()
  blk-throttle: track read and write request individually
  block: add bdev_read_only() checks to common helpers
  block: fail op_is_write() requests to read-only partitions
  blk-throttle: export io_serviced_recursive, io_service_bytes_recursive
  ...

Pull EDAC updates from Borislav Petkov:

 - new EDAC driver for some TI SOCs (Tero Kristo)

 - small cleanups

* tag 'edac_for_4.16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bp/bp:
  EDAC, mv64x60: Fix an error handling path
  EDAC, ti: Add support for TI keystone and DRA7xx EDAC
  EDAC, octeon: Fix an uninitialized variable warning

Pull regmap updates from Mark Brown:
 "A very busy release for regmap, all fairly specialist stuff but
  useful:

   - Support for disabling locking from Bartosz Golaszewski, allowing
     users that handle their own locking to save some overhead.

   - Support for hwspinlocks in syscons in MFD from Baolin Wang, this is
     going through the regmap tree since the first users turned up some
     some cases that needed interface tweaks with 0 being used as a
     syscon identifier.

   - Support for devices with no read or write flag from Andrew F.
     Davis.

   - Basic support for devices on SoundWire buses from Vinod Koul"

* tag 'regmap-v4.16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/broonie/regmap:
  mfd: syscon: Add hardware spinlock support
  regmap: Allow empty read/write_flag_mask
  regcache: flat: Un-inline index lookup from cache access
  regmap: Add SoundWire bus support
  regmap: Add one flag to indicate if a hwlock should be used
  regmap: debugfs: document why we don't create the debugfs entries
  regmap: debugfs: emit a debug message when locking is disabled
  regmap: use proper part of work_buf for storing val
  regmap: potentially duplicate the name string stored in regmap
  regmap: Disable debugfs when locking is disabled
  regmap: rename regmap_lock_unlock_empty() to regmap_lock_unlock_none()
  regmap: allow to disable all locking mechanisms
  regmap: Remove the redundant config to select hwspinlock