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    Merge branch 'work.poll2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs · ee5daa13
    Linus Torvalds authored
    Pull more poll annotation updates from Al Viro:
     "This is preparation to solving the problems you've mentioned in the
      original poll series.
    
      After this series, the kernel is ready for running
    
          for V in IN OUT PRI ERR RDNORM RDBAND WRNORM WRBAND HUP RDHUP NVAL MSG; do
                L=`git grep -l -w POLL$V | grep -v '^t' | grep -v /um/ | grep -v '^sa' | grep -v '/poll.h$'|grep -v '^D'`
                for f in $L; do sed -i "-es/^\([^\"]*\)\(\<POLL$V\>\)/\\1E\\2/" $f; done
          done
    
      as a for bulk search-and-replace.
    
      After that, the kernel is ready to apply the patch to unify
      {de,}mangle_poll(), and then get rid of kernel-side POLL... uses
      entirely, and we should be all done with that stuff.
    
      Basically, that's what you suggested wrt KPOLL..., except that we can
      use EPOLL... instead - they already are arch-independent (and equal to
      what is currently kernel-side POLL...).
    
      After the preparations (in this series) switch to returning EPOLL...
      from ->poll() instances is completely mechanical and kernel-side
      POLL... can go away. The last step (killing kernel-side POLL... and
      unifying {de,}mangle_poll() has to be done after the
      search-and-replace job, since we need userland-side POLL... for
      unified {de,}mangle_poll(), thus the cherry-pick at the last step.
    
      After that we will have:
    
       - POLL{IN,OUT,...} *not* in __poll_t, so any stray instances of
         ->poll() still using those will be caught by sparse.
    
       - eventpoll.c and select.c warning-free wrt __poll_t
    
       - no more kernel-side definitions of POLL... - userland ones are
         visible through the entire kernel (and used pretty much only for
         mangle/demangle)
    
       - same behavior as after the first series (i.e. sparc et.al. epoll(2)
         working correctly)"
    
    * 'work.poll2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
      annotate ep_scan_ready_list()
      ep_send_events_proc(): return result via esed->res
      preparation to switching ->poll() to returning EPOLL...
      add EPOLLNVAL, annotate EPOLL... and event_poll->event
      use linux/poll.h instead of asm/poll.h
      xen: fix poll misannotation
      smc: missing poll annotations
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