Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6

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+/*
+ * task_io_accounting: a structure which is used for recording a single task's
+ * IO statistics.
+ *
+ * Don't include this header file directly - it is designed to be dragged in via
+ * sched.h.
+ *
+ * Blame akpm@osdl.org for all this.
+ */
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING
+struct task_io_accounting {
+	/*
+	 * The number of bytes which this task has caused to be read from
+	 * storage.
+	 */
+	u64 read_bytes;
+
+	/*
+	 * The number of bytes which this task has caused, or shall cause to be
+	 * written to disk.
+	 */
+	u64 write_bytes;
+
+	/*
+	 * A task can cause "negative" IO too.  If this task truncates some
+	 * dirty pagecache, some IO which another task has been accounted for
+	 * (in its write_bytes) will not be happening.  We _could_ just
+	 * subtract that from the truncating task's write_bytes, but there is
+	 * information loss in doing that.
+	 */
+	u64 cancelled_write_bytes;
+};
+#else
+struct task_io_accounting {
+};
+#endif