Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)

Merge yet more updates from Andrew Morton:

 - Oleg's "wait/ptrace: assume __WALL if the child is traced".  It's a
   kernel-based workaround for existing userspace issues.

 - A few hotfixes

 - befs cleanups

 - nilfs2 updates

 - sys_wait() changes

 - kexec updates

 - kdump

 - scripts/gdb updates

 - the last of the MM queue

 - a few other misc things

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (84 commits)
  kgdb: depends on VT
  drm/amdgpu: make amdgpu_mn_get wait for mmap_sem killable
  drm/radeon: make radeon_mn_get wait for mmap_sem killable
  drm/i915: make i915_gem_mmap_ioctl wait for mmap_sem killable
  uprobes: wait for mmap_sem for write killable
  prctl: make PR_SET_THP_DISABLE wait for mmap_sem killable
  exec: make exec path waiting for mmap_sem killable
  aio: make aio_setup_ring killable
  coredump: make coredump_wait wait for mmap_sem for write killable
  vdso: make arch_setup_additional_pages wait for mmap_sem for write killable
  ipc, shm: make shmem attach/detach wait for mmap_sem killable
  mm, fork: make dup_mmap wait for mmap_sem for write killable
  mm, proc: make clear_refs killable
  mm: make vm_brk killable
  mm, elf: handle vm_brk error
  mm, aout: handle vm_brk failures
  mm: make vm_munmap killable
  mm: make vm_mmap killable
  mm: make mmap_sem for write waits killable for mm syscalls
  MAINTAINERS: add co-maintainer for scripts/gdb
  ...

1 files changed, 19 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/scripts/gdb/linux/tasks.py b/scripts/gdb/linux/tasks.py
index 862a4ae24d49..1bf949c43b76 100644
--- a/scripts/gdb/linux/tasks.py
+++ b/scripts/gdb/linux/tasks.py
@@ -114,3 +114,22 @@ variable."""
 
 
 LxThreadInfoFunc()
+
+
+class LxThreadInfoByPidFunc (gdb.Function):
+    """Calculate Linux thread_info from task variable found by pid
+
+$lx_thread_info_by_pid(PID): Given PID, return the corresponding thread_info
+variable."""
+
+    def __init__(self):
+        super(LxThreadInfoByPidFunc, self).__init__("lx_thread_info_by_pid")
+
+    def invoke(self, pid):
+        task = get_task_by_pid(pid)
+        if task:
+            return get_thread_info(task.dereference())
+        else:
+            raise gdb.GdbError("No task of PID " + str(pid))
+
+LxThreadInfoByPidFunc()