d2: defconfig: compiled using -O2

- do not optimize for size
Signed-off-by: Luis Cruz <ljc2491@gmail.com>
writeback: fix writeback cache thrashing

From: Namjae Jeon <namjae.jeon@samsung.com>

Consider Process A: huge I/O on sda
        doing heavy write operation - dirty memory becomes more
        than dirty_background_ratio
        on HDD - flusher thread flush-8:0

Consider Process B: small I/O on sdb
        doing while [1]; read 1024K + rewrite 1024K + sleep 2sec
        on Flash device - flusher thread flush-8:16

As Process A is a heavy dirtier, dirty memory becomes more
than dirty_background_thresh. Due to this, below check becomes
true(checking global_page_state in over_bground_thresh)
for all bdi devices(even for very small dirtied bdi - sdb):

In this case, even small cached data on 'sdb' is forced to flush
and writeback cache thrashing happens.

When we added debug prints inside above 'if' condition and ran
above Process A(heavy dirtier on bdi with flush-8:0) and
Process B(1024K frequent read/rewrite on bdi with flush-8:16)
we got below prints:

[Test setup: ARM dual core CPU, 512 MB RAM]

[over_bground_thresh]: wakeup flush-8:0 : BDI_RECLAIMABLE =  56064 KB
[over_bground_thresh]: wakeup flush-8:0 : BDI_RECLAIMABLE =  56704 KB
[over_bground_thresh]: wakeup flush-8:0 : BDI_RECLAIMABLE = 84720 KB
[over_bground_thresh]: wakeup flush-8:0 : BDI_RECLAIMABLE = 94720 KB
[over_bground_thresh]: wakeup flush-8:16 : BDI_RECLAIMABLE =   384 KB
[over_bground_thresh]: wakeup flush-8:16 : BDI_RECLAIMABLE =   960 KB
[over_bground_thresh]: wakeup flush-8:16 : BDI_RECLAIMABLE =    64 KB
[over_bground_thresh]: wakeup flush-8:0 : BDI_RECLAIMABLE = 92160 KB
[over_bground_thresh]: wakeup flush-8:16 : BDI_RECLAIMABLE =   256 KB
[over_bground_thresh]: wakeup flush-8:16 : BDI_RECLAIMABLE =   768 KB
[over_bground_thresh]: wakeup flush-8:16 : BDI_RECLAIMABLE =    64 KB
[over_bground_thresh]: wakeup flush-8:16 : BDI_RECLAIMABLE =   256 KB
[over_bground_thresh]: wakeup flush-8:16 : BDI_RECLAIMABLE =   320 KB
[over_bground_thresh]: wakeup flush-8:16 : BDI_RECLAIMABLE =     0 KB
[over_bground_thresh]: wakeup flush-8:0 : BDI_RECLAIMABLE = 92032 KB
[over_bground_thresh]: wakeup flush-8:0 : BDI_RECLAIMABLE = 91968 KB
[over_bground_thresh]: wakeup flush-8:16 : BDI_RECLAIMABLE =   192 KB
[over_bground_thresh]: wakeup flush-8:16 : BDI_RECLAIMABLE =  1024 KB
[over_bground_thresh]: wakeup flush-8:16 : BDI_RECLAIMABLE =    64 KB
[over_bground_thresh]: wakeup flush-8:16 : BDI_RECLAIMABLE =   192 KB
[over_bground_thresh]: wakeup flush-8:16 : BDI_RECLAIMABLE =   576 KB
[over_bground_thresh]: wakeup flush-8:16 : BDI_RECLAIMABLE =     0 KB
[over_bground_thresh]: wakeup flush-8:0 : BDI_RECLAIMABLE = 84352 KB
[over_bground_thresh]: wakeup flush-8:16 : BDI_RECLAIMABLE =   192 KB
[over_bground_thresh]: wakeup flush-8:16 : BDI_RECLAIMABLE =   512 KB
[over_bground_thresh]: wakeup flush-8:16 : BDI_RECLAIMABLE =     0 KB
[over_bground_thresh]: wakeup flush-8:0 : BDI_RECLAIMABLE = 92608 KB
[over_bground_thresh]: wakeup flush-8:0 : BDI_RECLAIMABLE = 92544 KB

As mentioned in above log, when global dirty memory > global background_thresh
small cached data is also forced to flush by flush-8:16.
If removing global background_thresh checking code, we can reduce cache
thrashing of frequently used small data.
And It will be great if we can reserve a portion of writeback cache using
min_ratio.

After applying patch:
$ echo 5 > /sys/block/sdb/bdi/min_ratio
$ cat /sys/block/sdb/bdi/min_ratio
5
[over_bground_thresh]: wakeup flush-8:0 : BDI_RECLAIMABLE =  56064 KB
[over_bground_thresh]: wakeup flush-8:0 : BDI_RECLAIMABLE =  56704 KB
[over_bground_thresh]: wakeup flush-8:0 : BDI_RECLAIMABLE =  84160 KB
[over_bground_thresh]: wakeup flush-8:0 : BDI_RECLAIMABLE =  96960 KB
[over_bground_thresh]: wakeup flush-8:0 : BDI_RECLAIMABLE =  94080 KB
[over_bground_thresh]: wakeup flush-8:0 : BDI_RECLAIMABLE =  93120 KB
[over_bground_thresh]: wakeup flush-8:0 : BDI_RECLAIMABLE =  93120 KB
[over_bground_thresh]: wakeup flush-8:0 : BDI_RECLAIMABLE =  91520 KB
[over_bground_thresh]: wakeup flush-8:0 : BDI_RECLAIMABLE =  89600 KB
[over_bground_thresh]: wakeup flush-8:0 : BDI_RECLAIMABLE =  93696 KB
[over_bground_thresh]: wakeup flush-8:0 : BDI_RECLAIMABLE =  93696 KB
[over_bground_thresh]: wakeup flush-8:0 : BDI_RECLAIMABLE =  72960 KB
[over_bground_thresh]: wakeup flush-8:0 : BDI_RECLAIMABLE =  90624 KB
[over_bground_thresh]: wakeup flush-8:0 : BDI_RECLAIMABLE =  90624 KB
[over_bground_thresh]: wakeup flush-8:0 : BDI_RECLAIMABLE =  90688 KB

As mentioned in the above logs, once cache is reserved for Process B,
and patch is applied there is less writeback cache thrashing on sdb
by frequent forced writeback by flush-8:16 in over_bground_thresh.

After all, small cached data will be flushed by periodic writeback
once every dirty_writeback_interval.

Suggested-by: Wanpeng Li <liwanp@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Namjae Jeon <namjae.jeon@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Vivek Trivedi <t.vivek@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Francisco Franco <franciscofranco.1990@gmail.com>
writeback: increase bdi_min_ratio to 5 in light of the latest writeback commit.

Signed-off-by: Francisco Franco <franciscofranco.1990@gmail.com>
writeback: I believe these defines were calculated with HZ=1000 in mind. Since our devices are HZ=100 I hardcoded the values on this constants. I'm not 100% sure if this code was made for HZ with 1000 but I couldn't track it to understand clearly. Although I didn't see any drawback of using this as it is now. If anyone knows the answer please chime in.

Signed-off-by: Francisco Franco <franciscofranco.1990@gmail.com>
ARM: cacheflush: don't round address range up to nearest page

The flush_cache_user_range macro takes a pair of addresses describing
the start and end of the virtual address range to flush. Due to an
accidental oversight when flush_cache_range_user was introduced, the
address range was rounded up so that the start and end addresses were
page-aligned.

For historical reference, the interesting commits in history.git are:

10eacf1775e1 ("[ARM] Clean up ARM cache handling interfaces (part 1)")
71432e79b76b ("[ARM] Add flush_cache_user_page() for sys_cacheflush()")

This patch removes the alignment code, reducing the amount of flushing
required for ranges that are not an exact multiple of PAGE_SIZE.

Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Reported-by: Jonathan Austin <jonathan.austin@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
ARM: entry: allow ARM-private syscalls to be restarted

System calls will only be restarted after signal handling if they (a)
return an error code indicating that a restart is required and (b) have
`why' set to a non-zero value, to indicate that the signal interrupted
them.

This patch leaves `why' set to a non-zero value for ARM-private syscalls
, and only zeroes it for syscalls that are not implemented.

Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
ARM: 7691/1: mm: kill unused TLB_CAN_READ_FROM_L1_CACHE and use ALT_SMP instead

Many ARMv7 cores have hardware page table walkers that can read the L1
cache. This is discoverable from the ID_MMFR3 register, although this
can be expensive to access from the low-level set_pte functions and is a
pain to cache, particularly with multi-cluster systems.

A useful observation is that the multi-processing extensions for ARMv7
require coherent table walks, meaning that we can make use of ALT_SMP
patching in proc-v7-* to patch away the cache flush safely for these
cores.

Reported-by: Albin Tonnerre <Albin.Tonnerre@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>

Conflicts:

	arch/arm/include/asm/tlbflush.h

Signed-off-by: Luis Cruz <ljc2491@gmail.com>
mm: decrease default dirty ratio

The default dirty ratio is chosen to be a compromise between throughput and
overall system latency. On a desktop, if an application writes to disk a lot,
that application should be the one to slow down rather than the desktop as a
whole. At higher dirty ratio settings, an application could write a lot to
disk and then happily use lots of CPU time after that while the rest of the
system is busy waiting on that naughty application's disk writes to complete
before anything else happening.

Lower ratios mean that the application that do a lot of disk writes end up
being responsible for their own actions and they're the ones that slow down
rather than the system in general.

This does decrease overall write throughput, but to the benefit of the latency
of the system as a whole with disk writes.

Other checks may well round this up to 10 still at startup.

-ck
Signed-off-by: Luis Cruz <ljc2491@gmail.com>
mm : drop swap cache aggressively

While it may be nice to have a copy of pages on swap once written there, the
more garbage we leave in the swapspace the slower any further writes and
reads to and from it are. Just free swapcache whenever we can.

-ck
Signed-off-by: Luis Cruz <ljc2491@gmail.com>
mm: kswapd inherit prio

When kswapd is awoken due to reclaim by a running task, set the priority of
kswapd to that of the calling task thus making memory reclaim cpu activity
affected by nice level.

-ck
Signed-off-by: Luis Cruz <ljc2491@gmail.com>
mm: minimal swappiness

I've yet to find any desktop workload that benefits from anything higher than
a swappiness as low as possible. Unfortunately setting it to zero can rarely
lead to unexplained stalls in the VM so use 10.

-ck
Signed-off-by: Luis Cruz <ljc2491@gmail.com>
writeback: remove nr_pages_dirtied arg from balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited_nr()

There is no reason to pass the nr_pages_dirtied argument, because
nr_pages_dirtied value from the caller is unused in
balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited_nr().

Signed-off-by: Namjae Jeon <linkinjeon@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Vivek Trivedi <vtrivedi018@gmail.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Francisco Franco <franciscofranco.1990@gmail.com>
CPU hotplug, writeback: Don't call writeback_set_ratelimit() too often during hotplug

The CPU hotplug callback related to writeback calls writeback_set_ratelimit()
during every state change in the hotplug sequence. This is unnecessary
since num_online_cpus() changes only once during the entire hotplug operation.

So invoke the function only once per hotplug, thereby avoiding the
unnecessary repetition of those costly calculations.

Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Francisco Franco <franciscofranco.1990@gmail.com>
random: entropy tweaks are all the rage nowadays

use nonblocking for all.  Read this web page:
http://lwn.net/Articles/489734/

Signed-off-by: Francisco Franco <franciscofranco.1990@gmail.com>
random: prevent add_input from doing anything

Signed-off-by: Francisco Franco <franciscofranco.1990@gmail.com>
random: input_timer_state is no longer used
- yet it is still defined... get rid of it
Signed-off-by: Luis Cruz <ljc2491@gmail.com>
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>
lib/scatterlist: add simple page iterator

Add an iterator to walk through a scatter list a page at a time starting
at a specific page offset.  As opposed to the mapping iterator this is
meant to be small, performing well even in simple loops like collecting
all pages on the scatterlist into an array or setting up an iommu table
based on the pages' DMA address.

Signed-off-by: Imre Deak <imre.deak@intel.com>
Cc: Maxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky@gmail.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Tested-by: Stephen Warren <swarren@wwwdotorg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
lib/scatterlist: use page iterator in the mapping iterator

For better code reuse use the newly added page iterator to iterate
through the pages.  The offset, length within the page is still
calculated by the mapping iterator as well as the actual mapping.  Idea
from Tejun Heo.

Signed-off-by: Imre Deak <imre.deak@intel.com>
Cc: Maxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky@gmail.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Cc: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>
Cc: Stephen Warren <swarren@wwwdotorg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
ARM: Allow arm_memblock_steal() to remove memory from any RAM region

Allow arm_memblock_steal() to remove memory from any RAM region,
including highmem areas.  This allows memory to be stolen from the
very top of declared memory, including highmem areas, rather than
our precious lowmem.

Change-Id: Ib4dbc4e7bc34d402134d96db5ed8118eaffa0245
Acked-by: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
Acked-by: Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Git-commit: 7ac68a4c1de6aac5b0bb231fe6d8505ebe5686d9
Git-repo: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git
Signed-off-by: Larry Bassel <lbassel@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Francisco Franco <franciscofranco.1990@gmail.com>