This patch adds run-time field descriptions to all the event formats
exported using TRACE_EVENT_FORMAT.  It also hooks up all the tracers
that use them (i.e. the tracers in the 'ftrace subsystem') so they can
also have their output filtered by the event-filtering mechanism.

When I was testing this, there were a couple of things that fooled me
into thinking the filters weren't working, when actually they were -
I'll mention them here so others don't make the same mistakes (and file
bug reports. ;-)

One is that some of the tracers trace multiple events e.g. the
sched_switch tracer uses the context_switch and wakeup events, and if
you don't set filters on all of the traced events, the unfiltered output
from the events without filters on them can make it look like the
filtering as a whole isn't working properly, when actually it is doing
what it was asked to do - it just wasn't asked to do the right thing.

The other is that for the really high-volume tracers e.g. the function
tracer, the volume of filtered events can be so high that it pushes the
unfiltered events out of the ring buffer before they can be read so e.g.
cat'ing the trace file repeatedly shows either no output, or once in
awhile some output but that isn't there the next time you read the
trace, which isn't what you normally expect when reading the trace file.
If you read from the trace_pipe file though, you can catch them before
they disappear.

Changes from v1:

As suggested by Frederic Weisbecker:

- get rid of externs in functions
- added unlikely() to filter_check_discard()
Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

BLK_TC_PC events should be treated differently with BLK_TC_FS events.

Before this patch:

 # echo 1 > /sys/block/sda/sda1/trace/enable
 # echo pc > /sys/block/sda/sda1/trace/act_mask
 # echo blk > /debugfs/tracing/current_tracer
 # (generate some BLK_TC_PC events)
 # cat trace
        bash-2184  [000]  1774.275413:   8,7    I   N [bash]
        bash-2184  [000]  1774.275435:   8,7    D   N [bash]
        bash-2184  [000]  1774.275540:   8,7    I   R [bash]
        bash-2184  [000]  1774.275547:   8,7    D   R [bash]
 ksoftirqd/0-4     [000]  1774.275580:   8,7    C   N 0 [0]
        bash-2184  [000]  1774.275648:   8,7    I   R [bash]
        bash-2184  [000]  1774.275653:   8,7    D   R [bash]
 ksoftirqd/0-4     [000]  1774.275682:   8,7    C   N 0 [0]
        bash-2184  [000]  1774.275739:   8,7    I   R [bash]
        bash-2184  [000]  1774.275744:   8,7    D   R [bash]
 ksoftirqd/0-4     [000]  1774.275771:   8,7    C   N 0 [0]
        bash-2184  [000]  1774.275804:   8,7    I   R [bash]
        bash-2184  [000]  1774.275808:   8,7    D   R [bash]
 ksoftirqd/0-4     [000]  1774.275836:   8,7    C   N 0 [0]

After this patch:

 # cat trace
        bash-2263  [000]   366.782149:   8,7    I   N 0 (00 ..) [bash]
        bash-2263  [000]   366.782323:   8,7    D   N 0 (00 ..) [bash]
        bash-2263  [000]   366.782557:   8,7    I   R 8 (25 00 ..) [bash]
        bash-2263  [000]   366.782560:   8,7    D   R 8 (25 00 ..) [bash]
 ksoftirqd/0-4     [000]   366.782582:   8,7    C   N (25 00 ..) [0]
        bash-2263  [000]   366.782648:   8,7    I   R 8 (5a 00 3f 00) [bash]
        bash-2263  [000]   366.782650:   8,7    D   R 8 (5a 00 3f 00) [bash]
 ksoftirqd/0-4     [000]   366.782669:   8,7    C   N (5a 00 3f 00) [0]
        bash-2263  [000]   366.782710:   8,7    I   R 8 (5a 00 08 00) [bash]
        bash-2263  [000]   366.782713:   8,7    D   R 8 (5a 00 08 00) [bash]
 ksoftirqd/0-4     [000]   366.782730:   8,7    C   N (5a 00 08 00) [0]
        bash-2263  [000]   366.783375:   8,7    I   R 36 (5a 00 08 00) [bash]
        bash-2263  [000]   366.783379:   8,7    D   R 36 (5a 00 08 00) [bash]
 ksoftirqd/0-4     [000]   366.783404:   8,7    C   N (5a 00 08 00) [0]

This is what we do with PC events in user-space blktrace.
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <49D32387.9040106@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Not all events are pc (packet command) events. An event is a pc
event only if it has BLK_TC_PC bit set.
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <49D3236D.3090705@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

TRACE_EVENT is a more generic way to define tracepoints.
Doing so adds these new capabilities to this tracepoint:

  - zero-copy and per-cpu splice() tracing
  - binary tracing without printf overhead
  - structured logging records exposed under /debug/tracing/events
  - trace events embedded in function tracer output and other plugins
  - user-defined, per tracepoint filter expressions
Signed-off-by: Zhao Lei <zhaolei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu <eduard.munteanu@linux360.ro>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <49DEE6DA.80600@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Impact: refactor code for future changes

Current kmemtrace.h is used both as header file of kmemtrace and kmem's
tracepoints definition.

Tracepoints' definition file may be used by other code, and should only have
definition of tracepoint.

We can separate include/trace/kmemtrace.h into 2 files:

  include/linux/kmemtrace.h: header file for kmemtrace
  include/trace/kmem.h:      definition of kmem tracepoints
Signed-off-by: Zhao Lei <zhaolei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu <eduard.munteanu@linux360.ro>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <49DEE68A.5040902@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
LKML-Reference: <1239479479-2603-3-git-send-email-tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Acked-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <1239479479-2603-4-git-send-email-tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

TRACE_EVENT is a more generic way to define a tracepoint.
Doing so adds these new capabilities to this tracepoint:

  - zero-copy and per-cpu splice() tracing
  - binary tracing without printf overhead
  - structured logging records exposed under /debug/tracing/events
  - trace events embedded in function tracer output and other plugins
  - user-defined, per tracepoint filter expressions
Signed-off-by: Zhao Lei <zhaolei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: "Steven Rostedt ;" <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <49DD90D2.5020604@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Impact: speed up

The return to handler portion of the function graph tracer should only
need to save the return values. The caller already saved off the
registers that the callee can modify. The returning function already
saved the registers it modified. When we call our own trace function
it too will save the registers that the callee must restore.

There's no reason to save off anything more that the registers used
to return the values.

Note, I did a complete kernel build with this modification and the
function graph tracer running on x86_64.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

While trying to optimize the new lock on reiserfs to replace
the bkl, I find the lock tracing very useful though it lacks
something important for performance (and latency) instrumentation:
the time a task waits for a lock.

That's what this patch implements:

  bash-4816  [000]   202.652815: lock_contended: lock_contended: &sb->s_type->i_mutex_key
  bash-4816  [000]   202.652819: lock_acquired: &rq->lock (0.000 us)
 <...>-4787  [000]   202.652825: lock_acquired: &rq->lock (0.000 us)
 <...>-4787  [000]   202.652829: lock_acquired: &rq->lock (0.000 us)
  bash-4816  [000]   202.652833: lock_acquired: &sb->s_type->i_mutex_key (16.005 us)

As shown above, the "lock acquired" field is followed by the time
it has been waiting for the lock. Usually, a lock contended entry
is followed by a near lock_acquired entry with a non-zero time waited.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
LKML-Reference: <1238975373-15739-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Merge reason: pick up both v2.6.30-rc1 [which includes tracing/urgent fixes]
              and pick up the current lineup of tracing/urgent fixes as well
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

I got these from strace:

 splice(0x3, 0, 0x5, 0, 0x1000, 0x1) = 12288
 splice(0x3, 0, 0x5, 0, 0x1000, 0x1) = 12288
 splice(0x3, 0, 0x5, 0, 0x1000, 0x1) = 12288
 splice(0x3, 0, 0x5, 0, 0x1000, 0x1) = 16384
 splice(0x3, 0, 0x5, 0, 0x1000, 0x1) = 8192
 splice(0x3, 0, 0x5, 0, 0x1000, 0x1) = 8192
 splice(0x3, 0, 0x5, 0, 0x1000, 0x1) = 8192

I wanted to splice_read 4096 bytes, but it returns 8192 or larger.

It is because the return value of tracing_buffers_splice_read()
does not include "zero out any left over data" bytes.

But tracing_buffers_read() includes these bytes, we make them
consistent.
Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <49D46674.9030804@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Impact: Cleanup

These two lines:

	if (unlikely(*ppos))
		return -ESPIPE;

in tracing_buffers_splice_read() are not needed, VFS layer
has disabled seek(2).

We remove these two lines, and then we can update file->f_pos.

And tracing_buffers_read() updates file->f_pos, this fix
make tracing_buffers_splice_read() updates file->f_pos too.
Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <49D46670.4010503@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Impact: Cleanup

Sometimes, we open trace_pipe_raw, but we don't read(2) it,
we just splice(2) it, thus, the page is not used.
Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <49D4666B.4010608@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Impact: disable pread()

We set tracing_buffers_fops.llseek to no_llseek,
but we can still perform pread() to read this file.

That is not expected.

This fix uses nonseekable_open() to disable it.

tracing_buffers_fops.llseek is still set to no_llseek,
it mark this file is a "non-seekable device" and is used by
sys_splice(). See also do_splice() or manual of splice(2):

ERRORS
       EINVAL Target file system doesn't support  splicing;
              neither  of the descriptors refers to a pipe;
              or offset given for non-seekable device.
Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <49D46668.8030806@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Kill MN10300's own profiling Kconfig as this is superfluous given that the
profiling options have moved to init/Kconfig and arch/Kconfig.  Not only is
this now superfluous, but the dependencies are not correct.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

asm-frv/pgtable.h could just #include <asm-generic/pgtable.h> in NOMMU mode
rather than #defining macros for lazy MMU and CPU stuff.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

When request_key() is called, without there being any standard process
keyrings on which to fall back if a destination keyring is not specified, an
oops is liable to occur when construct_alloc_key() calls down_write() on
dest_keyring's semaphore.

Due to function inlining this may be seen as an oops in down_write() as called
from request_key_and_link().

This situation crops up during boot, where request_key() is called from within
the kernel (such as in CIFS mounts) where nobody is actually logged in, and so
PAM has not had a chance to create a session keyring and user keyrings to act
as the fallback.

To fix this, make construct_alloc_key() not attempt to cache a key if there is
no fallback key if no destination keyring is given specifically.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Signed-off-by: Stoyan Gaydarov <stoyboyker@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Merge branch 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip

* 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  x86: cpu_debug remove execute permission
  x86: smarten /proc/interrupts output for new counters
  x86: DMI match for the Dell DXP061 as it needs BIOS reboot
  x86: make 64 bit to use default_inquire_remote_apic
  x86, setup: un-resequence mode setting for VGA 80x34 and 80x60 modes
  x86, intel-iommu: fix X2APIC && !ACPI build failure

Merge branch 'tracing-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip

* 'tracing-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  tracing: consolidate documents
  blktrace: pass the right pointer to kfree()
  tracing/syscalls: use a dedicated file header
  tracing: append a comma to INIT_FTRACE_GRAPH

Merge branch 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip

* 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  sched: do not count frozen tasks toward load
  sched: refresh MAINTAINERS entry
  sched: Print sched_group::__cpu_power in sched_domain_debug
  cpuacct: add per-cgroup utime/stime statistics
  posixtimers, sched: Fix posix clock monotonicity
  sched_rt: don't allocate cpumask in fastpath
  cpuacct: make cpuacct hierarchy walk in cpuacct_charge() safe when rcupreempt is used -v2

Merge branches 'core-fixes-for-linus', 'irq-fixes-for-linus' and 'timers-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip

* 'core-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  printk: fix wrong format string iter for printk
  futex: comment requeue key reference semantics

* 'irq-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  irq: fix cpumask memory leak on offstack cpumask kernels

* 'timers-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  posix-timers: fix RLIMIT_CPU && setitimer(CPUCLOCK_PROF)
  posix-timers: fix RLIMIT_CPU && fork()
  timers: add missing kernel-doc

Convert the last remaining users to no_irq_chip.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/agk/linux-2.6-dm:
  dm kcopyd: fix callback race
  dm kcopyd: prepare for callback race fix
  dm: implement basic barrier support
  dm: remove dm_request loop
  dm: rework queueing and suspension
  dm: simplify dm_request loop
  dm: split DMF_BLOCK_IO flag into two
  dm: rearrange dm_wq_work
  dm: remove limited barrier support
  dm: add integrity support

Since the whole point of try_then_request_module is to retry
the operation after a module has been loaded, we must wait for
the module to fully load.

Otherwise all sort of things start breaking, e.g., you won't
be able to read your encrypted disks on the first attempt.
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Tested-by: Maciej Rutecki <maciej.rutecki@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Freezing tasks via the cgroup freezer causes the load average to climb
because the freezer's current implementation puts frozen tasks in
uninterruptible sleep (D state).

Some applications which perform job-scheduling functions consult the
load average when making decisions.  If a cgroup is frozen, the load
average does not provide a useful measure of the system's utilization
to such applications.  This is especially inconvenient if the job
scheduler employs the cgroup freezer as a mechanism for preempting low
priority jobs.  Contrast this with using SIGSTOP for the same purpose:
the stopped tasks do not count toward system load.

Change task_contributes_to_load() to return false if the task is
frozen.  This results in /proc/loadavg behavior that better meets
users' expectations.
Signed-off-by: Nathan Lynch <ntl@pobox.com>
Acked-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: Nigel Cunningham <nigel@tuxonice.net>
Tested-by: Nigel Cunningham <nigel@tuxonice.net>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Cc: containers@lists.linux-foundation.org
Cc: linux-pm@lists.linux-foundation.org
Cc: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090408194512.47a99b95@manatee.lan>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Move kmemtrace.txt, tracepoints.txt, ftrace.txt and mmiotrace.txt to
the new trace/ directory.

I didnt find any references to those documents in both source
files and documents, so no extra work needs to be done.
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Pekka Paalanen <pq@iki.fi>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
LKML-Reference: <49DD6E2B.6090200@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

It seems by mistake these files got execute permissions so removing it.
Signed-off-by: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderrajput@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <1239211186.9037.2.camel@ht.satnam>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Impact: fix kfree crash with non-standard act_mask string

If passing a string with leading white spaces to strstrip(),
the returned ptr != the original ptr.

This bug was introduced by me.
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <49DD694C.8020902@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Impact: fix build warnings and possibe compat misbehavior on IA64

Building a kernel on ia64 might trigger these ugly build warnings:

CC      arch/ia64/ia32/sys_ia32.o
In file included from arch/ia64/ia32/sys_ia32.c:55:
arch/ia64/ia32/ia32priv.h:290:1: warning: "elf_check_arch" redefined
In file included from include/linux/elf.h:7,
                 from include/linux/module.h:14,
                 from include/linux/ftrace.h:8,
                 from include/linux/syscalls.h:68,
                 from arch/ia64/ia32/sys_ia32.c:18:
arch/ia64/include/asm/elf.h:19:1: warning: this is the location of the previous definition
[...]

sys_ia32.c includes linux/syscalls.h which in turn includes linux/ftrace.h
to import the syscalls tracing prototypes.

But including ftrace.h can pull too much things for a low level file,
especially on ia64 where the ia32 private headers conflict with higher
level headers.

Now we isolate the syscall tracing headers in their own lightweight file.
Reported-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Tested-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Cc: "Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche@redhat.com>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Jiaying Zhang <jiayingz@google.com>
Cc: Michael Rubin <mrubin@google.com>
Cc: Martin Bligh <mbligh@google.com>
Cc: Michael Davidson <md@google.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090408184058.GB6017@nowhere>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-for-linus:
  work_on_cpu(): rewrite it to create a kernel thread on demand
  kthread: move sched-realeted initialization from kthreadd context
  kthread: Don't looking for a task in create_kthread() #2

* git://git.infradead.org/battery-2.6:
  pda_power: Add optional OTG transceiver and voltage regulator support
  pcf50633_charger: Remove unused mbc_set_status function
  pcf50633_charger: Enable periodic charging restart

Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/security-testing-2.6

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/security-testing-2.6:
  cap_prctl: don't set error to 0 at 'no_change'

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6:
  igb: remove sysfs entry that was used to set the number of vfs
  igbvf: add new driver to support 82576 virtual functions
  drivers/net/eql.c: Fix a dev leakage.
  niu: Fix unused variable warning.
  r6040: set MODULE_VERSION
  bnx2: Don't use reserved names
  FEC driver: add missing #endif
  niu: Fix error handling
  mv643xx_eth: don't reset the rx coal timer on interface up
  smsc911x: correct debugging message on mii read timeout
  ethoc: fix library build errors
  netfilter: ctnetlink: fix regression in expectation handling
  netfilter: fix selection of "LED" target in netfilter
  netfilter: ip6tables regression fix

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6:
  sparc: Hook up sys_preadv and sys_pwritev
  sparc64: add_node_ranges() must be __init
  serial: sunsu: sunsu_kbd_ms_init needs to be __devinit
  sparc: Fix section mismatch warnings in cs4231 sound driver.
  sparc64: Fix section mismatch warnings in PCI controller drivers.
  sparc64: Fix section mismatch warnings in power driver.
  sparc64: get_cells() can't be marked __init

* 'ext3-latency-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4:
  ext3: Try to avoid starting a transaction in writepage for data=writepage
  block_write_full_page: switch synchronous writes to use WRITE_SYNC_PLUG

Impact: circular locking bugfix

The various implemetnations and proposed implemetnations of work_on_cpu()
are vulnerable to various deadlocks because they all used queues of some
form.

Unrelated pieces of kernel code thus gained dependencies wherein if one
work_on_cpu() caller holds a lock which some other work_on_cpu() callback
also takes, the kernel could rarely deadlock.

Fix this by creating a short-lived kernel thread for each work_on_cpu()
invokation.

This is not terribly fast, but the only current caller of work_on_cpu() is
pci_call_probe().

It would be nice to find some other way of doing the node-local
allocations in the PCI probe code so that we can zap work_on_cpu()
altogether.  The code there is rather nasty.  I can't think of anything
simple at this time...

Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>

kthreadd is the single thread which implements ths "create" request, move
sched_setscheduler/etc from create_kthread() to kthread_create() to
improve the scalability.

We should be careful with sched_setscheduler(), use _nochek helper.
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Cc: Vitaliy Gusev <vgusev@openvz.org
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>

Remove the unnecessary find_task_by_pid_ns(). kthread() can just
use "current" to get the same result.
Signed-off-by: Vitaliy Gusev <vgusev@openvz.org>
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>