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block: Backport of various I/O topology fixes from 2.6.33 and 2.6.34

The stacking code incorrectly scaled up the data offset in some cases
causing misaligned devices to report alignment.  Rewrite the stacking
algorithm to remedy this.  

(Upstream commit 9504e086)

The top device misalignment flag would not be set if the added bottom
device was already misaligned as opposed to causing a stacking failure.
    
Also massage the reporting so that an error is only returned if adding
the bottom device caused the misalignment.  I.e. don't return an error
if the top is already flagged as misaligned.

(Upstream commit fe0b393f

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lcm() was defined to take integer-sized arguments.  The supplied
arguments are multiplied, however, causing us to overflow given
sufficiently large input.  That in turn led to incorrect optimal I/O
size reporting in some cases.  Switch lcm() over to unsigned long
similar to gcd() and move the function from blk-settings.c to lib.
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>