Merge tag 'v3.7' into stable/for-linus-3.8

Linux 3.7

* tag 'v3.7': (833 commits)
  Linux 3.7
  Input: matrix-keymap - provide proper module license
  Revert "revert "Revert "mm: remove __GFP_NO_KSWAPD""" and associated damage
  ipv4: ip_check_defrag must not modify skb before unsharing
  Revert "mm: avoid waking kswapd for THP allocations when compaction is deferred or contended"
  inet_diag: validate port comparison byte code to prevent unsafe reads
  inet_diag: avoid unsafe and nonsensical prefix matches in inet_diag_bc_run()
  inet_diag: validate byte code to prevent oops in inet_diag_bc_run()
  inet_diag: fix oops for IPv4 AF_INET6 TCP SYN-RECV state
  mm: vmscan: fix inappropriate zone congestion clearing
  vfs: fix O_DIRECT read past end of block device
  net: gro: fix possible panic in skb_gro_receive()
  tcp: bug fix Fast Open client retransmission
  tmpfs: fix shared mempolicy leak
  mm: vmscan: do not keep kswapd looping forever due to individual uncompactable zones
  mm: compaction: validate pfn range passed to isolate_freepages_block
  mmc: sh-mmcif: avoid oops on spurious interrupts (second try)
  Revert misapplied "mmc: sh-mmcif: avoid oops on spurious interrupts"
  mmc: sdhci-s3c: fix missing clock for gpio card-detect
  lib/Makefile: Fix oid_registry build dependency
  ...

Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>

Conflicts:
	arch/arm/xen/enlighten.c
	drivers/xen/Makefile

[We need to have the v3.7 base as the 'for-3.8' was based off v3.7-rc3
and there are some patches in v3.7-rc6 that we to have in our branch]

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/mtd/mtdcore.c b/drivers/mtd/mtdcore.c
index 374c46dff7dd..ec794a72975d 100644
--- a/drivers/mtd/mtdcore.c
+++ b/drivers/mtd/mtdcore.c
@@ -1077,7 +1077,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(mtd_writev);
  * until the request succeeds or until the allocation size falls below
  * the system page size. This attempts to make sure it does not adversely
  * impact system performance, so when allocating more than one page, we
- * ask the memory allocator to avoid re-trying.
+ * ask the memory allocator to avoid re-trying, swapping, writing back
+ * or performing I/O.
  *
  * Note, this function also makes sure that the allocated buffer is aligned to
  * the MTD device's min. I/O unit, i.e. the "mtd->writesize" value.
@@ -1091,7 +1092,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(mtd_writev);
  */
 void *mtd_kmalloc_up_to(const struct mtd_info *mtd, size_t *size)
 {
-	gfp_t flags = __GFP_NOWARN | __GFP_WAIT | __GFP_NORETRY;
+	gfp_t flags = __GFP_NOWARN | __GFP_WAIT |
+		       __GFP_NORETRY | __GFP_NO_KSWAPD;
 	size_t min_alloc = max_t(size_t, mtd->writesize, PAGE_SIZE);
 	void *kbuf;