Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew Morton)

Merge first patch-bomb from Andrew Morton:
 "Quite a lot of other stuff is banked up awaiting further
  next->mainline merging, but this batch contains:

   - Lots of random misc patches
   - OCFS2
   - Most of MM
   - backlight updates
   - lib/ updates
   - printk updates
   - checkpatch updates
   - epoll tweaking
   - rtc updates
   - hfs
   - hfsplus
   - documentation
   - procfs
   - update gcov to gcc-4.7 format
   - IPC"

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (269 commits)
  ipc, msg: fix message length check for negative values
  ipc/util.c: remove unnecessary work pending test
  devpts: plug the memory leak in kill_sb
  ./Makefile: export initial ramdisk compression config option
  init/Kconfig: add option to disable kernel compression
  drivers: w1: make w1_slave::flags long to avoid memory corruption
  drivers/w1/masters/ds1wm.cuse dev_get_platdata()
  drivers/memstick/core/ms_block.c: fix unreachable state in h_msb_read_page()
  drivers/memstick/core/mspro_block.c: fix attributes array allocation
  drivers/pps/clients/pps-gpio.c: remove redundant of_match_ptr
  kernel/panic.c: reduce 1 byte usage for print tainted buffer
  gcov: reuse kbasename helper
  kernel/gcov/fs.c: use pr_warn()
  kernel/module.c: use pr_foo()
  gcov: compile specific gcov implementation based on gcc version
  gcov: add support for gcc 4.7 gcov format
  gcov: move gcov structs definitions to a gcc version specific file
  kernel/taskstats.c: return -ENOMEM when alloc memory fails in add_del_listener()
  kernel/taskstats.c: add nla_nest_cancel() for failure processing between nla_nest_start() and nla_nest_end()
  kernel/sysctl_binary.c: use scnprintf() instead of snprintf()
  ...

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/fs/sync.c b/fs/sync.c
index 6c0ca3b7575..f1553745223 100644
--- a/fs/sync.c
+++ b/fs/sync.c
@@ -27,10 +27,11 @@
  * wait == 1 case since in that case write_inode() functions do
  * sync_dirty_buffer() and thus effectively write one block at a time.
  */
-static int __sync_filesystem(struct super_block *sb, int wait)
+static int __sync_filesystem(struct super_block *sb, int wait,
+			     unsigned long start)
 {
 	if (wait)
-		sync_inodes_sb(sb);
+		sync_inodes_sb(sb, start);
 	else
 		writeback_inodes_sb(sb, WB_REASON_SYNC);
 
@@ -47,6 +48,7 @@ static int __sync_filesystem(struct super_block *sb, int wait)
 int sync_filesystem(struct super_block *sb)
 {
 	int ret;
+	unsigned long start = jiffies;
 
 	/*
 	 * We need to be protected against the filesystem going from
@@ -60,17 +62,17 @@ int sync_filesystem(struct super_block *sb)
 	if (sb->s_flags & MS_RDONLY)
 		return 0;
 
-	ret = __sync_filesystem(sb, 0);
+	ret = __sync_filesystem(sb, 0, start);
 	if (ret < 0)
 		return ret;
-	return __sync_filesystem(sb, 1);
+	return __sync_filesystem(sb, 1, start);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(sync_filesystem);
 
 static void sync_inodes_one_sb(struct super_block *sb, void *arg)
 {
 	if (!(sb->s_flags & MS_RDONLY))
-		sync_inodes_sb(sb);
+		sync_inodes_sb(sb, *((unsigned long *)arg));
 }
 
 static void sync_fs_one_sb(struct super_block *sb, void *arg)
@@ -102,9 +104,10 @@ static void fdatawait_one_bdev(struct block_device *bdev, void *arg)
 SYSCALL_DEFINE0(sync)
 {
 	int nowait = 0, wait = 1;
+	unsigned long start = jiffies;
 
 	wakeup_flusher_threads(0, WB_REASON_SYNC);
-	iterate_supers(sync_inodes_one_sb, NULL);
+	iterate_supers(sync_inodes_one_sb, &start);
 	iterate_supers(sync_fs_one_sb, &nowait);
 	iterate_supers(sync_fs_one_sb, &wait);
 	iterate_bdevs(fdatawrite_one_bdev, NULL);