Pull vfs updates from Al Viro:
 "The first vfs pile, with deep apologies for being very late in this
  window.

  Assorted cleanups and fixes, plus a large preparatory part of iov_iter
  work.  There's a lot more of that, but it'll probably go into the next
  merge window - it *does* shape up nicely, removes a lot of
  boilerplate, gets rid of locking inconsistencie between aio_write and
  splice_write and I hope to get Kent's direct-io rewrite merged into
  the same queue, but some of the stuff after this point is having
  (mostly trivial) conflicts with the things already merged into
  mainline and with some I want more testing.

  This one passes LTP and xfstests without regressions, in addition to
  usual beating.  BTW, readahead02 in ltp syscalls testsuite has started
  giving failures since "mm/readahead.c: fix readahead failure for
  memoryless NUMA nodes and limit readahead pages" - might be a false
  positive, might be a real regression..."

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (63 commits)
  missing bits of "splice: fix racy pipe->buffers uses"
  cifs: fix the race in cifs_writev()
  ceph_sync_{,direct_}write: fix an oops on ceph_osdc_new_request() failure
  kill generic_file_buffered_write()
  ocfs2_file_aio_write(): switch to generic_perform_write()
  ceph_aio_write(): switch to generic_perform_write()
  xfs_file_buffered_aio_write(): switch to generic_perform_write()
  export generic_perform_write(), start getting rid of generic_file_buffer_write()
  generic_file_direct_write(): get rid of ppos argument
  btrfs_file_aio_write(): get rid of ppos
  kill the 5th argument of generic_file_buffered_write()
  kill the 4th argument of __generic_file_aio_write()
  lustre: don't open-code kernel_recvmsg()
  ocfs2: don't open-code kernel_recvmsg()
  drbd: don't open-code kernel_recvmsg()
  constify blk_rq_map_user_iov() and friends
  lustre: switch to kernel_sendmsg()
  ocfs2: don't open-code kernel_sendmsg()
  take iov_iter stuff to mm/iov_iter.c
  process_vm_access: tidy up a bit
  ...

Enable CPUFreq for PowerNV. Select "performance", "powersave",
"userspace" and "ondemand" governors. Choose "ondemand" to be the
default governor.

Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Gautham R. Shenoy <ego@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>

it only makes control flow in __fput() and friends more convoluted.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

Freescale updates from Scott. Mostly support for critical
and machine check exceptions on 64-bit BookE, some new
PCI suspend/resume work and misc bits.

Our netfilter options are stale and important things like masquerading
are no longer enabled. Instead of trying to keep up with any updates,
set CONFIG_NETFILTER_ADVANCED=n on ppc64* and pseries* defconfigs.
This enables the most common netfilter modules for us.

While here, enable the network bridge module which is heavily used in
KVM setups.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>

We also set it to be enabled always. This helps in wider testing

Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>

CONFIG_FSL_IFC gets enabled by Kconfig dependancies.
So remove unnecssary define from the defconfigs

Signed-off-by: Prabhakar Kushwaha <prabhakar@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>

This processor/memory module was mostly used on ATCA blades and
before that, on cPCI blades.  It wasn't really user friendly, with
custom non u-boot bootloaders (powerboot/motload) and no real way
to recover corrupted boot flash (which was a common problem).

As such, it had its day back before the big ppc --> powerpc move
to device trees, and that was largely through commercial BSPs that
started to dry up around 2007.

Systems using one were largely in a "deploy and sustain" mode,
so interest in upgrading to new kernels in the field was nil.
Also, requiring 50A, 48V power supplies and a 2'x2'x2' ATCA
chassis largely rules out any hobbyist/enthusiast interest.

The point of all this, is that we might as well delete the in
kernel files relating to this platform.  No point in continuing
to build it via walking the defconfigs or via linux-next testing.

Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>

This patch removes CONFIG_MTD_PARTITIONS in config files for powerpc.
 Because CONFIG_MTD_PARTITIONS was removed by commit 6a8a98b22b10f1560d5f90aded4a54234b9b2724.

Signed-off-by: Eunbong Song <eunb.song@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>

Freescale updates from Scott:

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