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Pull pstore updates from Kees Cook:
"This has a large internal refactoring along with several smaller
fixes.
- constify compression structures; Bhumika Goyal
- restore powerpc dumping; Ankit Kumar
- fix more bugs in the rarely exercises module unloading logic
- reorganize filesystem locking to fix problems noticed by lockdep
- refactor internal pstore APIs to make development and review
easier:
- improve error reporting
- add kernel-doc structure and function comments
- avoid insane argument passing by using a common record
structure"
* tag 'pstore-v4.12-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux: (23 commits)
pstore: Solve lockdep warning by moving inode locks
pstore: Fix flags to enable dumps on powerpc
pstore: Remove unused vmalloc.h in pmsg
pstore: simplify write_user_compat()
pstore: Remove write_buf() callback
pstore: Replace arguments for write_buf_user() API
pstore: Replace arguments for write_buf() API
pstore: Replace arguments for erase() API
pstore: Do not duplicate record metadata
pstore: Allocate records on heap instead of stack
pstore: Pass record contents instead of copying
pstore: Always allocate buffer for decompression
pstore: Replace arguments for write() API
pstore: Replace arguments for read() API
pstore: Switch pstore_mkfile to pass record
pstore: Move record decompression to function
pstore: Extract common arguments into structure
pstore: Add kernel-doc for struct pstore_info
pstore: Improve register_pstore() error reporting
pstore: Avoid race in module unloading
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