kernel:sched: LOAD_FREQ (4*HZ+61) avoids loadavg Moire

LOAD_FREQ is (5*HZ+1) to avoid high load average when idle:
http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/linux-kernel/2007/10/3/328568

I suggest (4*HZ+61) for a better distribution.

With some seconds based load (like SSL heartbeats)
and LOAD_FREQ at (5*HZ+1) I see Moire patterns like inverse sawtooth,
since 2 or 3 probes hit the jobs (load increases quickly),
followed by several probes missing it.

A 4.61 sec interval gives optimal distribution over when within a
second a probe is taken, as .61 is close to golden ratio phi 1.618...
(test in http://ripke.com/goldenratio.c).

12*4.61 = 55.32 secs is still close to a minute,
and 13*4.61=59.93 is even closer than the current 12*5.01=60.12
(with exponents EXP_x adjusted to a ratio of 13 instead of 12).
ARM: Add optimised swahb32() byteswap helper for v6 and above

ARMv6 and later processors have the REV16 instruction, which swaps
the bytes within each halfword of a register value.

This is already used to implement swab16(), but since the native
operation performaed by REV16 is actually swahb32(), this patch
renames the existing swab16() helper accordingly and defines
__arch_swab16() in terms of it.  This allows calls to both swab16()
and swahb32() to be optimised.

The compiler's generated code might improve someday, but as of
4.5.2 the code generated for pure C implementing these 16-bit
bytesswaps remains pessimal.

swahb32() is useful for converting 32-bit Thumb instructions
between integer and memory representation on BE8 platforms (among
other uses).

Signed-off-by: Dave Martin <dave.martin@xxxxxxxxxx>
Asynchronous I/O latency to a solid-state disk greatly increased
between the 2.6.32 and 3.0 kernels. By removing the plug from
do_io_submit(), we observed a 34% improvement in the I/O latency.

Unfortunately, at this level, we don't know if the request is to
a rotating disk or not.

Signed-off-by: Dave Kleikamp <dave.kleikamp@oracle.com>
Cc: linux-aio@kvack.org
Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
lib/string: use glibc version

the performance of memcpy and memmove of the general version is very
inefficient, this patch improved them.

Signed-off-by: Miao Xie <miaox*******>
adapted by faux123 for 3.0.13 kernel
lib/memcopy: use glibc version

the kernel's memcpy and memmove is very inefficient. But the glibc version is
quite fast, in some cases it is 10 times faster than the kernel version. So I
introduce some memory copy macros and functions of the glibc to improve the
kernel version's performance.

The strategy of the memory functions is:
1. Copy bytes until the destination pointer is aligned.
2. Copy words in unrolled loops.  If the source and destination are not
   aligned in the same way, use word memory operations, but shift and merge
   two read words before writing.
3. Copy the few remaining bytes.

Signed-off-by: Miao Xie <miaox*******>
adapted by faux123 for 3.0.13 kernel

Conflicts:

	lib/Makefile
block: recursive merge requests

In my workload, thread 1 accesses a, a+2, ..., thread 2 accesses a+1,
a+3,.... When the requests are flushed to queue, a and a+1 are merged
to (a, a+1), a+2 and a+3 too to (a+2, a+3), but (a, a+1) and (a+2, a+3)
aren't merged.
With recursive merge below, the workload throughput gets improved 20%
and context switch drops 60%.
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
cifs: fix bad buffer length check in coalesce_t2

The current check looks to see if the RFC1002 length is larger than
CIFSMaxBufSize, and fails if it is. The buffer is actually larger than
that by MAX_CIFS_HDR_SIZE.

This bug has been around for a long time, but the fact that we used to
cap the clients MaxBufferSize at the same level as the server tended
to paper over it. Commit c974befa changed that however and caused this
bug to bite in more cases.

Reported-and-Tested-by: Konstantinos Skarlatos <k.skarlatos@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
cpufreq: update lpj only if frequency has changed

During scaling up of cpu frequency, loops_per_jiffy
is updated upon invoking PRECHANGE notifier.
If setting to new frequency fails in cpufreq driver,
lpj is left at incorrect value.

Hence update lpj only if cpu frequency is changed,
i.e. upon invoking POSTCHANGE notifier.

Penalty would be that during time period between
changing cpu frequency & invocation of POSTCHANGE
notifier, udelay(x) may not gurantee minimal delay
of 'x' us for frequency scaling up operation.

Perhaps a better solution would be to define
CPUFREQ_ABORTCHANGE & handle accordingly, but then
it would be more intrusive (using ABORTCHANGE may
help drivers also; if any has registered notifier
and expect POST for a PRECHANGE, their needs can
be taken care using ABORT)

Signed-off-by: Afzal Mohammed <afzal@ti.com>
Optimized ARM RWSEM algorithm

RWSEM implementation for ARM using atomic functions.
Heavily based on arch/sh/include/asm/rwsem.h

Signed-off-by: Ashwin Chaugule <ashwinc@codeaurora.org>
rcu: move struct rcu_head to its own file for SLQB and Netfilter use
Staging: android: fixed white spaces coding style issue in
 logger.c

This patch fixes some space-before-tabs warnings found by checkpatch tool on the staging android driver file logger.c

Signed-off-by: Marco Navarra <fromenglish@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Staging: android: fixed a space warning in binder.h

This patch fixes a simple tab-space warning in binder.h found by checkpatch tool

Signed-off-by: Marco Navarra <fromenglish@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Staging: android: binder: Don't call dump_stack in binder_vma_open

If user-space partially unmaps the driver, binder_vma_open
would dump the kernel stack. This is not a kernel bug however
and will be treated as if the whole area was unmapped once
binder_vma_close gets called.

Signed-off-by: Arve HjÃ¸nnevÃ¥g <arve@android.com>
Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Staging: android: binder: Fix crashes when sharing a binder file between processes

Opening the binder driver and sharing the file returned with
other processes (e.g. by calling fork) can crash the kernel.
Prevent these crashes with the following changes:
- Add a mutex to protect against two processes mmapping the
  same binder_proc.
- After locking mmap_sem, check that the vma we want to access
  (still) points to the same mm_struct.
- Use proc->tsk instead of current to get the files struct since
  this is where we get the rlimit from.

Signed-off-by: Arve HjÃ¸nnevÃ¥g <arve@android.com>
Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
timer: optimize apply_slack()

__fls(mask) is equivalent to find_last_bit(&mask, BITS_PER_LONG), but cheaper.
find_last_bit was showing up high on the list when I was profiling for stalls
on icache misses on a system with very small cache size (MIPS).

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
staging: android/lowmemorykiller: Don't grab tasklist_lock

Grabbing tasklist_lock has its disadvantages, i.e. it blocks
process creation and destruction. If there are lots of processes,
blocking doesn't sound as a great idea.

For LMK, it is sufficient to surround tasks list traverse with
rcu_read_{,un}lock().

>From now on using force_sig() is not safe, as it can race with an
already exiting task, so we use send_sig() now. As a downside, it
won't kill PID namespace init processes, but that's not what we
want anyway.

Suggested-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
modified for HTC kernel from Linux 3.4+ by faux123
staging: android/lowmemorykiller: Better mm handling

LMK should not directly check for task->mm. The reason is that the
process' threads may exit or detach its mm via use_mm(), but other
threads may still have a valid mm. To catch this we use
find_lock_task_mm(), which walks up all threads and returns an
appropriate task (with lock held).

Suggested-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov@linaro.org>
Acked-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
modified for HTC kernel from Linux 3.4+ by faux123
staging: android/lowmemorykiller: No need for task->signal check

task->signal == NULL is not possible, so no need for these checks.

Suggested-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov@linaro.org>
Acked-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
modified for HTC kernel from Linux 3.4+ by faux123
staging: android/lowmemorykiller: Do not kill kernel threads

LMK should not try killing kernel threads.

Suggested-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov@linaro.org>
Acked-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Staging: android: lowmemorykiller.c

Fix compiler warning about the type of the module parameter.

Cc: San Mehat <san@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>