Merge branch 'akpm' (Andrew's patch-bomb)

Merge misc patches from Andrew Morton:

 - the "misc" tree - stuff from all over the map

 - checkpatch updates

 - fatfs

 - kmod changes

 - procfs

 - cpumask

 - UML

 - kexec

 - mqueue

 - rapidio

 - pidns

 - some checkpoint-restore feature work.  Reluctantly.  Most of it
   delayed a release.  I'm still rather worried that we don't have a
   clear roadmap to completion for this work.

* emailed from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (78 patches)
  kconfig: update compression algorithm info
  c/r: prctl: add ability to set new mm_struct::exe_file
  c/r: prctl: extend PR_SET_MM to set up more mm_struct entries
  c/r: procfs: add arg_start/end, env_start/end and exit_code members to /proc/$pid/stat
  syscalls, x86: add __NR_kcmp syscall
  fs, proc: introduce /proc/<pid>/task/<tid>/children entry
  sysctl: make kernel.ns_last_pid control dependent on CHECKPOINT_RESTORE
  aio/vfs: cleanup of rw_copy_check_uvector() and compat_rw_copy_check_uvector()
  eventfd: change int to __u64 in eventfd_signal()
  fs/nls: add Apple NLS
  pidns: make killed children autoreap
  pidns: use task_active_pid_ns in do_notify_parent
  rapidio/tsi721: add DMA engine support
  rapidio: add DMA engine support for RIO data transfers
  ipc/mqueue: add rbtree node caching support
  tools/selftests: add mq_perf_tests
  ipc/mqueue: strengthen checks on mqueue creation
  ipc/mqueue: correct mq_attr_ok test
  ipc/mqueue: improve performance of send/recv
  selftests: add mq_open_tests
  ...

init/Kconfig

@@ -167,7 +167,7 @@ config KERNEL_BZIP2
 	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2
 	help
 	  Its compression ratio and speed is intermediate.
-	  Decompression speed is slowest among the three.  The kernel
+	  Decompression speed is slowest among the choices.  The kernel
 	  size is about 10% smaller with bzip2, in comparison to gzip.
 	  Bzip2 uses a large amount of memory. For modern kernels you
 	  will need at least 8MB RAM or more for booting.
@@ -176,10 +176,9 @@ config KERNEL_LZMA
 	bool "LZMA"
 	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZMA
 	help
-	  The most recent compression algorithm.
-	  Its ratio is best, decompression speed is between the other
-	  two. Compression is slowest.	The kernel size is about 33%
-	  smaller with LZMA in comparison to gzip.
+	  This compression algorithm's ratio is best.  Decompression speed
+	  is between gzip and bzip2.  Compression is slowest.
+	  The kernel size is about 33% smaller with LZMA in comparison to gzip.
 
 config KERNEL_XZ
 	bool "XZ"
@@ -200,7 +199,7 @@ config KERNEL_LZO
 	bool "LZO"
 	depends on HAVE_KERNEL_LZO
 	help
-	  Its compression ratio is the poorest among the 4. The kernel
+	  Its compression ratio is the poorest among the choices. The kernel
 	  size is about 10% bigger than gzip; however its speed
 	  (both compression and decompression) is the fastest.
 

init/do_mounts.c

@@ -1,3 +1,13 @@
+/*
+ * Many of the syscalls used in this file expect some of the arguments
+ * to be __user pointers not __kernel pointers.  To limit the sparse
+ * noise, turn off sparse checking for this file.
+ */
+#ifdef __CHECKER__
+#undef __CHECKER__
+#warning "Sparse checking disabled for this file"
+#endif
+
 #include <linux/module.h>
 #include <linux/sched.h>
 #include <linux/ctype.h>
@@ -330,7 +340,7 @@ static int __init do_mount_root(char *name, char *fs, int flags, void *data)
 	if (err)
 		return err;
 
-	sys_chdir((const char __user __force *)"/root");
+	sys_chdir("/root");
 	s = current->fs->pwd.dentry->d_sb;
 	ROOT_DEV = s->s_dev;
 	printk(KERN_INFO
@@ -556,5 +566,5 @@ void __init prepare_namespace(void)
 out:
 	devtmpfs_mount("dev");
 	sys_mount(".", "/", NULL, MS_MOVE, NULL);
-	sys_chroot((const char __user __force *)".");
+	sys_chroot(".");
 }

init/do_mounts_initrd.c

@@ -1,3 +1,13 @@
+/*
+ * Many of the syscalls used in this file expect some of the arguments
+ * to be __user pointers not __kernel pointers.  To limit the sparse
+ * noise, turn off sparse checking for this file.
+ */
+#ifdef __CHECKER__
+#undef __CHECKER__
+#warning "Sparse checking disabled for this file"
+#endif
+
 #include <linux/unistd.h>
 #include <linux/kernel.h>
 #include <linux/fs.h>

init/do_mounts_md.c

@@ -1,3 +1,13 @@
+/*
+ * Many of the syscalls used in this file expect some of the arguments
+ * to be __user pointers not __kernel pointers.  To limit the sparse
+ * noise, turn off sparse checking for this file.
+ */
+#ifdef __CHECKER__
+#undef __CHECKER__
+#warning "Sparse checking disabled for this file"
+#endif
+
 #include <linux/delay.h>
 #include <linux/raid/md_u.h>
 #include <linux/raid/md_p.h>
@@ -283,7 +293,7 @@ static void __init autodetect_raid(void)
 
 	wait_for_device_probe();
 
-	fd = sys_open((const char __user __force *) "/dev/md0", 0, 0);
+	fd = sys_open("/dev/md0", 0, 0);
 	if (fd >= 0) {
 		sys_ioctl(fd, RAID_AUTORUN, raid_autopart);
 		sys_close(fd);

init/do_mounts_rd.c

@@ -1,3 +1,12 @@
+/*
+ * Many of the syscalls used in this file expect some of the arguments
+ * to be __user pointers not __kernel pointers.  To limit the sparse
+ * noise, turn off sparse checking for this file.
+ */
+#ifdef __CHECKER__
+#undef __CHECKER__
+#warning "Sparse checking disabled for this file"
+#endif
 
 #include <linux/kernel.h>
 #include <linux/fs.h>
@@ -181,7 +190,7 @@ int __init rd_load_image(char *from)
 	char rotator[4] = { '|' , '/' , '-' , '\\' };
 #endif
 
-	out_fd = sys_open((const char __user __force *) "/dev/ram", O_RDWR, 0);
+	out_fd = sys_open("/dev/ram", O_RDWR, 0);
 	if (out_fd < 0)
 		goto out;
 
@@ -280,7 +289,7 @@ noclose_input:
 	sys_close(out_fd);
 out:
 	kfree(buf);
-	sys_unlink((const char __user __force *) "/dev/ram");
+	sys_unlink("/dev/ram");
 	return res;
 }
 

init/initramfs.c

@@ -1,3 +1,13 @@
+/*
+ * Many of the syscalls used in this file expect some of the arguments
+ * to be __user pointers not __kernel pointers.  To limit the sparse
+ * noise, turn off sparse checking for this file.
+ */
+#ifdef __CHECKER__
+#undef __CHECKER__
+#warning "Sparse checking disabled for this file"
+#endif
+
 #include <linux/init.h>
 #include <linux/fs.h>
 #include <linux/slab.h>
@@ -74,7 +84,7 @@ static void __init free_hash(void)
 	}
 }
 
-static long __init do_utime(char __user *filename, time_t mtime)
+static long __init do_utime(char *filename, time_t mtime)
 {
 	struct timespec t[2];
 
@@ -529,7 +539,7 @@ static void __init clean_rootfs(void)
 	struct linux_dirent64 *dirp;
 	int num;
 
-	fd = sys_open((const char __user __force *) "/", O_RDONLY, 0);
+	fd = sys_open("/", O_RDONLY, 0);
 	WARN_ON(fd < 0);
 	if (fd < 0)
 		return;
@@ -589,7 +599,7 @@ static int __init populate_rootfs(void)
 		}
 		printk(KERN_INFO "rootfs image is not initramfs (%s)"
 				"; looks like an initrd\n", err);
-		fd = sys_open((const char __user __force *) "/initrd.image",
+		fd = sys_open("/initrd.image",
 			      O_WRONLY|O_CREAT, 0700);
 		if (fd >= 0) {
 			sys_write(fd, (char *)initrd_start,