Merge tag 'v3.13-rc6' into for-3.14/core

Needed to bring blk-mq uptodate, since changes have been going in
since for-3.14/core was established.

Fixup merge issues related to the immutable biovec changes.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

Conflicts:
	block/blk-flush.c
	fs/btrfs/check-integrity.c
	fs/btrfs/extent_io.c
	fs/btrfs/scrub.c
	fs/logfs/dev_bdev.c

1 files changed, 15 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/time/tick-common.c b/kernel/time/tick-common.c
index 64522ec..162b03a 100644
--- a/kernel/time/tick-common.c
+++ b/kernel/time/tick-common.c
@@ -33,6 +33,21 @@ DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct tick_device, tick_cpu_device);
  */
 ktime_t tick_next_period;
 ktime_t tick_period;
+
+/*
+ * tick_do_timer_cpu is a timer core internal variable which holds the CPU NR
+ * which is responsible for calling do_timer(), i.e. the timekeeping stuff. This
+ * variable has two functions:
+ *
+ * 1) Prevent a thundering herd issue of a gazillion of CPUs trying to grab the
+ *    timekeeping lock all at once. Only the CPU which is assigned to do the
+ *    update is handling it.
+ *
+ * 2) Hand off the duty in the NOHZ idle case by setting the value to
+ *    TICK_DO_TIMER_NONE, i.e. a non existing CPU. So the next cpu which looks
+ *    at it will take over and keep the time keeping alive.  The handover
+ *    procedure also covers cpu hotplug.
+ */
 int tick_do_timer_cpu __read_mostly = TICK_DO_TIMER_BOOT;
 
 /*