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  1. 13 Oct, 2016 25 commits
  3. 12 Oct, 2016 3 commits
    • Geert Uytterhoeven's avatar
      strparser: Propagate correct error code in strp_recv() · 6d3a4c40
      Geert Uytterhoeven authored 
      With m68k-linux-gnu-gcc-4.1:

    net/strparser/strparser.c: In function ‘strp_recv’:
    net/strparser/strparser.c:98: warning: ‘err’ may be used uninitialized in this function

Pass "len" (which is an error code when negative) instead of the
uninitialized "err" variable to fix this.

Fixes: 43a0c675 ("strparser: Stream parser for messages")
Signed-off-by: default avatarGeert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      6d3a4c40
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge tag 'drm-for-v4.9' of git://people.freedesktop.org/~airlied/linux · 6b25e21f
      Linus Torvalds authored 
      Pull drm updates from Dave Airlie:
 "Core:
   - Fence destaging work
   - DRIVER_LEGACY to split off legacy drm drivers
   - drm_mm refactoring
   - Splitting drm_crtc.c into chunks and documenting better
   - Display info fixes
   - rbtree support for prime buffer lookup
   - Simple VGA DAC driver

  Panel:
   - Add Nexus 7 panel
   - More simple panels

  i915:
   - Refactoring GEM naming
   - Refactored vma/active tracking
   - Lockless request lookups
   - Better stolen memory support
   - FBC fixes
   - SKL watermark fixes
   - VGPU improvements
   - dma-buf fencing support
   - Better DP dongle support

  amdgpu:
   - Powerplay for Iceland asics
   - Improved GPU reset support
   - UVD/VEC powergating support for CZ/ST
   - Preinitialised VRAM buffer support
   - Virtual display support
   - Initial SI support
   - GTT rework
   - PCI shutdown callback support
   - HPD IRQ storm fixes

  amdkfd:
   - bugfixes

  tilcdc:
   - Atomic modesetting support

  mediatek:
   - AAL + GAMMA engine support
   - Hook up gamma LUT
   - Temporal dithering support

  imx:
   - Pixel clock from devicetree
   - drm bridge support for LVDS bridges
   - active plane reconfiguration
   - VDIC deinterlacer support
   - Frame synchronisation unit support
   - Color space conversion support

  analogix:
   - PSR support
   - Better panel on/off support

  rockchip:
   - rk3399 vop/crtc support
   - PSR support

  vc4:
   - Interlaced vblank timing
   - 3D rendering CPU overhead reduction
   - HDMI output fixes

  tda998x:
   - HDMI audio ASoC support

  sunxi:
   - Allwinner A33 support
   - better TCON support

  msm:
   - DT binding cleanups
   - Explicit fence-fd support

  sti:
   - remove sti415/416 support

  etnaviv:
   - MMUv2 refactoring
   - GC3000 support

  exynos:
   - Refactoring HDMI DCC/PHY
   - G2D pm regression fix
   - Page fault issues with wait for vblank

  There is no nouveau work in this tree, as Ben didn't get a pull
  request in, and he was fighting moving to atomic and adding mst
  support, so maybe best it waits for a cycle"

* tag 'drm-for-v4.9' of git://people.freedesktop.org/~airlied/linux: (1412 commits)
  drm/crtc: constify drm_crtc_index parameter
  drm/i915: Fix conflict resolution from backmerge of v4.8-rc8 to drm-next
  drm/i915/guc: Unwind GuC workqueue reservation if request construction fails
  drm/i915: Reset the breadcrumbs IRQ more carefully
  drm/i915: Force relocations via cpu if we run out of idle aperture
  drm/i915: Distinguish last emitted request from last submitted request
  drm/i915: Allow DP to work w/o EDID
  drm/i915: Move long hpd handling into the hotplug work
  drm/i915/execlists: Reinitialise context image after GPU hang
  drm/i915: Use correct index for backtracking HUNG semaphores
  drm/i915: Unalias obj->phys_handle and obj->userptr
  drm/i915: Just clear the mmiodebug before a register access
  drm/i915/gen9: only add the planes actually affected by ddb changes
  drm/i915: Allow PCH DPLL sharing regardless of DPLL_SDVO_HIGH_SPEED
  drm/i915/bxt: Fix HDMI DPLL configuration
  drm/i915/gen9: fix the watermark res_blocks value
  drm/i915/gen9: fix plane_blocks_per_line on watermarks calculations
  drm/i915/gen9: minimum scanlines for Y tile is not always 4
  drm/i915/gen9: fix the WaWmMemoryReadLatency implementation
  drm/i915/kbl: KBL also needs to run the SAGV code
  ...
      6b25e21f
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) · a379f71a
      Linus Torvalds authored 
      Merge more updates from Andrew Morton:

 - a few block updates that fell in my lap

 - lib/ updates

 - checkpatch

 - autofs

 - ipc

 - a ton of misc other things

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (100 commits)
  mm: split gfp_mask and mapping flags into separate fields
  fs: use mapping_set_error instead of opencoded set_bit
  treewide: remove redundant #include <linux/kconfig.h>
  hung_task: allow hung_task_panic when hung_task_warnings is 0
  kthread: add kerneldoc for kthread_create()
  kthread: better support freezable kthread workers
  kthread: allow to modify delayed kthread work
  kthread: allow to cancel kthread work
  kthread: initial support for delayed kthread work
  kthread: detect when a kthread work is used by more workers
  kthread: add kthread_destroy_worker()
  kthread: add kthread_create_worker*()
  kthread: allow to call __kthread_create_on_node() with va_list args
  kthread/smpboot: do not park in kthread_create_on_cpu()
  kthread: kthread worker API cleanup
  kthread: rename probe_kthread_data() to kthread_probe_data()
  scripts/tags.sh: enable code completion in VIM
  mm: kmemleak: avoid using __va() on addresses that don't have a lowmem mapping
  kdump, vmcoreinfo: report memory sections virtual addresses
  ipc/sem.c: add cond_resched in exit_sme
  ...
      a379f71a
  5. 11 Oct, 2016 12 commits
    • Michal Hocko's avatar
      mm: split gfp_mask and mapping flags into separate fields · 9c5d760b
      Michal Hocko authored 
      mapping->flags currently encodes two different things into a single flag.
It contains sticky gfp_mask for page cache allocations and AS_ codes used
to report errors/enospace and other states which are mapping specific.
Condensing the two semantically unrelated things saves few bytes but it
also complicates other things.  For one thing the gfp flags space is
reduced and in fact we are already running out of available bits.  It can
be assumed that more gfp flags will be necessary later on.

To not introduce the address_space grow (at least on x86_64) we can stick
it right after private_lock because we have a hole there.

struct address_space {
        struct inode *             host;                 /*     0     8 */
        struct radix_tree_root     page_tree;            /*     8    16 */
        spinlock_t                 tree_lock;            /*    24     4 */
        atomic_t                   i_mmap_writable;      /*    28     4 */
        struct rb_root             i_mmap;               /*    32     8 */
        struct rw_semaphore        i_mmap_rwsem;         /*    40    40 */
        /* --- cacheline 1 boundary (64 bytes) was 16 bytes ago --- */
        long unsigned int          nrpages;              /*    80     8 */
        long unsigned int          nrexceptional;        /*    88     8 */
        long unsigned int          writeback_index;      /*    96     8 */
        const struct address_space_operations  * a_ops;  /*   104     8 */
        long unsigned int          flags;                /*   112     8 */
        spinlock_t                 private_lock;         /*   120     4 */

        /* XXX 4 bytes hole, try to pack */

        /* --- cacheline 2 boundary (128 bytes) --- */
        struct list_head           private_list;         /*   128    16 */
        void *                     private_data;         /*   144     8 */

        /* size: 152, cachelines: 3, members: 14 */
        /* sum members: 148, holes: 1, sum holes: 4 */
        /* last cacheline: 24 bytes */
};

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160912114852.GI14524@dhcp22.suse.czSigned-off-by: default avatarMichal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      9c5d760b
    • Michal Hocko's avatar
      fs: use mapping_set_error instead of opencoded set_bit · 5114a97a
      Michal Hocko authored 
      The mapping_set_error() helper sets the correct AS_ flag for the mapping
so there is no reason to open code it.  Use the helper directly.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: be honest about conversion from -ENXIO to -EIO]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160912111608.2588-2-mhocko@kernel.orgSigned-off-by: default avatarMichal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      5114a97a
    • Masahiro Yamada's avatar
      treewide: remove redundant #include <linux/kconfig.h> · 97139d4a
      Masahiro Yamada authored 
      Kernel source files need not include <linux/kconfig.h> explicitly
because the top Makefile forces to include it with:

  -include $(srctree)/include/linux/kconfig.h

This commit removes explicit includes except the following:

  * arch/s390/include/asm/facilities_src.h
  * tools/testing/radix-tree/linux/kernel.h

These two are used for host programs.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1473656164-11929-1-git-send-email-yamada.masahiro@socionext.comSigned-off-by: default avatarMasahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      97139d4a
    • John Siddle's avatar
      hung_task: allow hung_task_panic when hung_task_warnings is 0 · 48a6d64e
      John Siddle authored 
      Previously hung_task_panic would not be respected if enabled after
hung_task_warnings had already been decremented to 0.

Permit the kernel to panic if hung_task_panic is enabled after
hung_task_warnings has already been decremented to 0 and another task
hangs for hung_task_timeout_secs seconds.

Check if hung_task_panic is enabled so we don't return prematurely, and
check if hung_task_warnings is non-zero so we don't print the warning
unnecessarily.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix off-by-one]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1473450214-4049-1-git-send-email-jsiddle@redhat.comSigned-off-by: default avatarJohn Siddle <jsiddle@redhat.com>
Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      48a6d64e
    • Jonathan Corbet's avatar
      kthread: add kerneldoc for kthread_create() · e154ccc8
      Jonathan Corbet authored 
      This macro is referenced in other kerneldoc comments, but lacks one of its
own; fix that.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160826072313.726a3485@lwn.netSigned-off-by: default avatarJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Reported-by: default avatarMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      e154ccc8
    • Petr Mladek's avatar
      kthread: better support freezable kthread workers · dbf52682
      Petr Mladek authored 
      This patch allows to make kthread worker freezable via a new @flags
parameter. It will allow to avoid an init work in some kthreads.

It currently does not affect the function of kthread_worker_fn()
but it might help to do some optimization or fixes eventually.

I currently do not know about any other use for the @flags
parameter but I believe that we will want more flags
in the future.

Finally, I hope that it will not cause confusion with @flags member
in struct kthread. Well, I guess that we will want to rework the
basic kthreads implementation once all kthreads are converted into
kthread workers or workqueues. It is possible that we will merge
the two structures.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1470754545-17632-12-git-send-email-pmladek@suse.comSigned-off-by: default avatarPetr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Acked-by: default avatarTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      dbf52682
    • Petr Mladek's avatar
      kthread: allow to modify delayed kthread work · 9a6b06c8
      Petr Mladek authored 
      There are situations when we need to modify the delay of a delayed kthread
work. For example, when the work depends on an event and the initial delay
means a timeout. Then we want to queue the work immediately when the event
happens.

This patch implements kthread_mod_delayed_work() as inspired workqueues.
It cancels the timer, removes the work from any worker list and queues it
again with the given timeout.

A very special case is when the work is being canceled at the same time.
It might happen because of the regular kthread_cancel_delayed_work_sync()
or by another kthread_mod_delayed_work(). In this case, we do nothing and
let the other operation win. This should not normally happen as the caller
is supposed to synchronize these operations a reasonable way.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1470754545-17632-11-git-send-email-pmladek@suse.comSigned-off-by: default avatarPetr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Acked-by: default avatarTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      9a6b06c8
    • Petr Mladek's avatar
      kthread: allow to cancel kthread work · 37be45d4
      Petr Mladek authored 
      We are going to use kthread workers more widely and sometimes we will need
to make sure that the work is neither pending nor running.

This patch implements cancel_*_sync() operations as inspired by
workqueues.  Well, we are synchronized against the other operations via
the worker lock, we use del_timer_sync() and a counter to count parallel
cancel operations.  Therefore the implementation might be easier.

First, we check if a worker is assigned.  If not, the work has newer been
queued after it was initialized.

Second, we take the worker lock.  It must be the right one.  The work must
not be assigned to another worker unless it is initialized in between.

Third, we try to cancel the timer when it exists.  The timer is deleted
synchronously to make sure that the timer call back is not running.  We
need to temporary release the worker->lock to avoid a possible deadlock
with the callback.  In the meantime, we set work->canceling counter to
avoid any queuing.

Fourth, we try to remove the work from a worker list. It might be
the list of either normal or delayed works.

Fifth, if the work is running, we call kthread_flush_work().  It might
take an arbitrary time.  We need to release the worker-lock again.  In the
meantime, we again block any queuing by the canceling counter.

As already mentioned, the check for a pending kthread work is done under a
lock.  In compare with workqueues, we do not need to fight for a single
PENDING bit to block other operations.  Therefore we do not suffer from
the thundering storm problem and all parallel canceling jobs might use
kthread_flush_work().  Any queuing is blocked until the counter gets zero.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1470754545-17632-10-git-send-email-pmladek@suse.comSigned-off-by: default avatarPetr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Acked-by: default avatarTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      37be45d4
    • Petr Mladek's avatar
      kthread: initial support for delayed kthread work · 22597dc3
      Petr Mladek authored 
      We are going to use kthread_worker more widely and delayed works
will be pretty useful.

The implementation is inspired by workqueues.  It uses a timer to queue
the work after the requested delay.  If the delay is zero, the work is
queued immediately.

In compare with workqueues, each work is associated with a single worker
(kthread).  Therefore the implementation could be much easier.  In
particular, we use the worker->lock to synchronize all the operations with
the work.  We do not need any atomic operation with a flags variable.

In fact, we do not need any state variable at all.  Instead, we add a list
of delayed works into the worker.  Then the pending work is listed either
in the list of queued or delayed works.  And the existing check of pending
works is the same even for the delayed ones.

A work must not be assigned to another worker unless reinitialized.
Therefore the timer handler might expect that dwork->work->worker is valid
and it could simply take the lock.  We just add some sanity checks to help
with debugging a potential misuse.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1470754545-17632-9-git-send-email-pmladek@suse.comSigned-off-by: default avatarPetr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Acked-by: default avatarTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      22597dc3
    • Petr Mladek's avatar
      kthread: detect when a kthread work is used by more workers · 8197b3d4
      Petr Mladek authored 
      Nothing currently prevents a work from queuing for a kthread worker when
it is already running on another one.  This means that the work might run
in parallel on more than one worker.  Also some operations are not
reliable, e.g.  flush.

This problem will be even more visible after we add kthread_cancel_work()
function.  It will only have "work" as the parameter and will use
worker->lock to synchronize with others.

Well, normally this is not a problem because the API users are sane.
But bugs might happen and users also might be crazy.

This patch adds a warning when we try to insert the work for another
worker.  It does not fully prevent the misuse because it would make the
code much more complicated without a big benefit.

It adds the same warning also into kthread_flush_work() instead of the
repeated attempts to get the right lock.

A side effect is that one needs to explicitly reinitialize the work if it
must be queued into another worker.  This is needed, for example, when the
worker is stopped and started again.  It is a bit inconvenient.  But it
looks like a good compromise between the stability and complexity.

I have double checked all existing users of the kthread worker API and
they all seems to initialize the work after the worker gets started.

Just for completeness, the patch adds a check that the work is not already
in a queue.

The patch also puts all the checks into a separate function.  It will be
reused when implementing delayed works.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1470754545-17632-8-git-send-email-pmladek@suse.comSigned-off-by: default avatarPetr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      8197b3d4
    • Petr Mladek's avatar
      kthread: add kthread_destroy_worker() · 35033fe9
      Petr Mladek authored 
      The current kthread worker users call flush() and stop() explicitly.
This function does the same plus it frees the kthread_worker struct
in one call.

It is supposed to be used together with kthread_create_worker*() that
allocates struct kthread_worker.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1470754545-17632-7-git-send-email-pmladek@suse.comSigned-off-by: default avatarPetr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      35033fe9
    • Petr Mladek's avatar
      kthread: add kthread_create_worker*() · fbae2d44
      Petr Mladek authored 
      Kthread workers are currently created using the classic kthread API,
namely kthread_run().  kthread_worker_fn() is passed as the @threadfn
parameter.

This patch defines kthread_create_worker() and
kthread_create_worker_on_cpu() functions that hide implementation details.

They enforce using kthread_worker_fn() for the main thread.  But I doubt
that there are any plans to create any alternative.  In fact, I think that
we do not want any alternative main thread because it would be hard to
support consistency with the rest of the kthread worker API.

The naming and function of kthread_create_worker() is inspired by the
workqueues API like the rest of the kthread worker API.

The kthread_create_worker_on_cpu() variant is motivated by the original
kthread_create_on_cpu().  Note that we need to bind per-CPU kthread
workers already when they are created.  It makes the life easier.
kthread_bind() could not be used later for an already running worker.

This patch does _not_ convert existing kthread workers.  The kthread
worker API need more improvements first, e.g.  a function to destroy the
worker.

IMPORTANT:

kthread_create_worker_on_cpu() allows to use any format of the worker
name, in compare with kthread_create_on_cpu().  The good thing is that it
is more generic.  The bad thing is that most users will need to pass the
cpu number in two parameters, e.g.  kthread_create_worker_on_cpu(cpu,
"helper/%d", cpu).

To be honest, the main motivation was to avoid the need for an empty
va_list.  The only legal way was to create a helper function that would be
called with an empty list.  Other attempts caused compilation warnings or
even errors on different architectures.

There were also other alternatives, for example, using #define or
splitting __kthread_create_worker().  The used solution looked like the
least ugly.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1470754545-17632-6-git-send-email-pmladek@suse.comSigned-off-by: default avatarPetr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Acked-by: default avatarTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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