These two patches replace my previous patch: [PATCH 07/14] Change unshare_fs_struct() to never fail. I had explored ways to change kthread_create() to avoid the need for GFP_NOFAIL and concluded that we can do everything we need in the sunrpc layer. So the first patch here is a simple cleanup, and the second adds simple infrastructure for an svc thread to confirm that it has started up and to report if it was successful in that. Thanks, NeilBrown [PATCH 1/2] sunrpc: merge svc_rqst_alloc() into svc_prepare_thread() [PATCH 2/2] sunrpc: allow svc threads to fail initialisation cleanly
