Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)

Merge misc updates from Andrew Morton:
 "191 patches.

  Subsystems affected by this patch series: kthread, ia64, scripts,
  ntfs, squashfs, ocfs2, kernel/watchdog, and mm (gup, pagealloc, slab,
  slub, kmemleak, dax, debug, pagecache, gup, swap, memcg, pagemap,
  mprotect, bootmem, dma, tracing, vmalloc, kasan, initialization,
  pagealloc, and memory-failure)"

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (191 commits)
  mm,hwpoison: make get_hwpoison_page() call get_any_page()
  mm,hwpoison: send SIGBUS with error virutal address
  mm/page_alloc: split pcp->high across all online CPUs for cpuless nodes
  mm/page_alloc: allow high-order pages to be stored on the per-cpu lists
  mm: replace CONFIG_FLAT_NODE_MEM_MAP with CONFIG_FLATMEM
  mm: replace CONFIG_NEED_MULTIPLE_NODES with CONFIG_NUMA
  docs: remove description of DISCONTIGMEM
  arch, mm: remove stale mentions of DISCONIGMEM
  mm: remove CONFIG_DISCONTIGMEM
  m68k: remove support for DISCONTIGMEM
  arc: remove support for DISCONTIGMEM
  arc: update comment about HIGHMEM implementation
  alpha: remove DISCONTIGMEM and NUMA
  mm/page_alloc: move free_the_page
  mm/page_alloc: fix counting of managed_pages
  mm/page_alloc: improve memmap_pages dbg msg
  mm: drop SECTION_SHIFT in code comments
  mm/page_alloc: introduce vm.percpu_pagelist_high_fraction
  mm/page_alloc: limit the number of pages on PCP lists when reclaim is active
  mm/page_alloc: scale the number of pages that are batch freed
  ...

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 7 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/kthread.c b/kernel/kthread.c
index 6b0a30a944b3..5b37a8567168 100644
--- a/kernel/kthread.c
+++ b/kernel/kthread.c
@@ -1162,14 +1162,14 @@ static bool __kthread_cancel_work(struct kthread_work *work)
  * modify @dwork's timer so that it expires after @delay. If @delay is zero,
  * @work is guaranteed to be queued immediately.
  *
- * Return: %true if @dwork was pending and its timer was modified,
- * %false otherwise.
+ * Return: %false if @dwork was idle and queued, %true otherwise.
  *
  * A special case is when the work is being canceled in parallel.
  * It might be caused either by the real kthread_cancel_delayed_work_sync()
  * or yet another kthread_mod_delayed_work() call. We let the other command
- * win and return %false here. The caller is supposed to synchronize these
- * operations a reasonable way.
+ * win and return %true here. The return value can be used for reference
+ * counting and the number of queued works stays the same. Anyway, the caller
+ * is supposed to synchronize these operations a reasonable way.
  *
  * This function is safe to call from any context including IRQ handler.
  * See __kthread_cancel_work() and kthread_delayed_work_timer_fn()
@@ -1181,13 +1181,15 @@ bool kthread_mod_delayed_work(struct kthread_worker *worker,
 {
 	struct kthread_work *work = &dwork->work;
 	unsigned long flags;
-	int ret = false;
+	int ret;
 
 	raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&worker->lock, flags);
 
 	/* Do not bother with canceling when never queued. */
-	if (!work->worker)
+	if (!work->worker) {
+		ret = false;
 		goto fast_queue;
+	}
 
 	/* Work must not be used with >1 worker, see kthread_queue_work() */
 	WARN_ON_ONCE(work->worker != worker);
@@ -1205,8 +1207,11 @@ bool kthread_mod_delayed_work(struct kthread_worker *worker,
 	 * be used for reference counting.
 	 */
 	kthread_cancel_delayed_work_timer(work, &flags);
-	if (work->canceling)
+	if (work->canceling) {
+		/* The number of works in the queue does not change. */
+		ret = true;
 		goto out;
+	}
 	ret = __kthread_cancel_work(work);
 
 fast_queue: