Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew Morton)

Merge second patch-bomb from Andrew Morton:
 - a few hotfixes
 - drivers/dma updates
 - MAINTAINERS updates
 - Quite a lot of lib/ updates
 - checkpatch updates
 - binfmt updates
 - autofs4
 - drivers/rtc/
 - various small tweaks to less used filesystems
 - ipc/ updates
 - kernel/watchdog.c changes

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (135 commits)
  mm: softdirty: enable write notifications on VMAs after VM_SOFTDIRTY cleared
  kernel/param: consolidate __{start,stop}___param[] in <linux/moduleparam.h>
  ia64: remove duplicate declarations of __per_cpu_start[] and __per_cpu_end[]
  frv: remove unused declarations of __start___ex_table and __stop___ex_table
  kvm: ensure hard lockup detection is disabled by default
  kernel/watchdog.c: control hard lockup detection default
  staging: rtl8192u: use %*pEn to escape buffer
  staging: rtl8192e: use %*pEn to escape buffer
  staging: wlan-ng: use %*pEhp to print SN
  lib80211: remove unused print_ssid()
  wireless: hostap: proc: print properly escaped SSID
  wireless: ipw2x00: print SSID via %*pE
  wireless: libertas: print esaped string via %*pE
  lib/vsprintf: add %*pE[achnops] format specifier
  lib / string_helpers: introduce string_escape_mem()
  lib / string_helpers: refactoring the test suite
  lib / string_helpers: move documentation to c-file
  include/linux: remove strict_strto* definitions
  arch/x86/mm/numa.c: fix boot failure when all nodes are hotpluggable
  fs: check bh blocknr earlier when searching lru
  ...

1 files changed, 32 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/printk-formats.txt b/Documentation/printk-formats.txt
index b4498218c474..5a615c14f75d 100644
--- a/Documentation/printk-formats.txt
+++ b/Documentation/printk-formats.txt
@@ -70,6 +70,38 @@ DMA addresses types dma_addr_t:
 	For printing a dma_addr_t type which can vary based on build options,
 	regardless of the width of the CPU data path. Passed by reference.
 
+Raw buffer as an escaped string:
+
+	%*pE[achnops]
+
+	For printing raw buffer as an escaped string. For the following buffer
+
+		1b 62 20 5c 43 07 22 90 0d 5d
+
+	few examples show how the conversion would be done (the result string
+	without surrounding quotes):
+
+		%*pE		"\eb \C\a"\220\r]"
+		%*pEhp		"\x1bb \C\x07"\x90\x0d]"
+		%*pEa		"\e\142\040\\\103\a\042\220\r\135"
+
+	The conversion rules are applied according to an optional combination
+	of flags (see string_escape_mem() kernel documentation for the
+	details):
+		a - ESCAPE_ANY
+		c - ESCAPE_SPECIAL
+		h - ESCAPE_HEX
+		n - ESCAPE_NULL
+		o - ESCAPE_OCTAL
+		p - ESCAPE_NP
+		s - ESCAPE_SPACE
+	By default ESCAPE_ANY_NP is used.
+
+	ESCAPE_ANY_NP is the sane choice for many cases, in particularly for
+	printing SSIDs.
+
+	If field width is omitted the 1 byte only will be escaped.
+
 Raw buffer as a hex string:
 	%*ph	00 01 02  ...  3f
 	%*phC	00:01:02: ... :3f