sync: don't block the flusher thread waiting on IO

When sync does it's WB_SYNC_ALL writeback, it issues data Io and
then immediately waits for IO completion. This is done in the
context of the flusher thread, and hence completely ties up the
flusher thread for the backing device until all the dirty inodes
have been synced. On filesystems that are dirtying inodes constantly
and quickly, this means the flusher thread can be tied up for
minutes per sync call and hence badly affect system level write IO
performance as the page cache cannot be cleaned quickly.

We already have a wait loop for IO completion for sync(2), so cut
this out of the flusher thread and delegate it to wait_sb_inodes().
Hence we can do rapid IO submission, and then wait for it all to
complete.

Effect of sync on fsmark before the patch:

FSUse%        Count         Size    Files/sec     App Overhead
.....
     0       640000         4096      35154.6          1026984
     0       720000         4096      36740.3          1023844
     0       800000         4096      36184.6           916599
     0       880000         4096       1282.7          1054367
     0       960000         4096       3951.3           918773
     0      1040000         4096      40646.2           996448
     0      1120000         4096      43610.1           895647
     0      1200000         4096      40333.1           921048

And a single sync pass took:

  real    0m52.407s
  user    0m0.000s
  sys     0m0.090s

After the patch, there is no impact on fsmark results, and each
individual sync(2) operation run concurrently with the same fsmark
workload takes roughly 7s:

  real    0m6.930s
  user    0m0.000s
  sys     0m0.039s

IOWs, sync is 7-8x faster on a busy filesystem and does not have an
adverse impact on ongoing async data write operations.

Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
ARM: smp: Save CPU registers before IPI_CPU_STOP processing

When a kernel panic occurs on one CPU, other CPUs are instructed to stop
execution via the IPI_CPU_STOP message. These other CPUs dump their stack,
which may not be good enough to reconstruct their context to perform
post-mortem analysis. Dump each CPU's context
(before it started procesing the IPI) into a globally accessible structure
to allow for easier post-mortem debugging.

Change-Id: I68ac75f73d7ddaebaff9122b23e341bcb00e8fb9
Signed-off-by: Tingting Yang <tingting@codeaurora.org>
Kernel 2.1.1
 net: wireless: bcmdhd: reduced the wakelock time of RX packet

	Reduce time : 1secs -> 500ms
	Problem : [Issue 11512235] 34% battery eaten overnight
		  [Issue 11374623] OS + Wifi used 41% of battery,
		  wlan_rx_wake
Signed-off-by: Ecco Park <eccopark@broadcom.com>
staging: zram: Fix handling of incompressible pages

Change 130f315a (staging: zram: remove special handle of uncompressed page)
introduced a bug in the handling of incompressible pages which resulted in
memory allocation failure for such pages.

When a page expands on compression, say from 4K to 4K+30, we were trying to
do zsmalloc(pool, 4K+30). However, the maximum size which zsmalloc can
allocate is PAGE_SIZE (for obvious reasons), so such allocation requests
always return failure (0).

For a page that has compressed size larger than the original size (this may
happen with already compressed or random data), there is no point storing
the compressed version as that would take more space and would also require
time for decompression when needed again. So, the fix is to store any page,
whose compressed size exceeds a threshold (max_zpage_size), as-it-is i.e.
without compression.  Memory required for storing this uncompressed page can
then be requested from zsmalloc which supports PAGE_SIZE sized allocations.

Lastly, the fix checks that we do not attempt to "decompress" the page which
we stored in the uncompressed form -- we just memcpy() out such pages.

Signed-off-by: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org>
Reported-by: viechweg@gmail.com
Reported-by: paerley@gmail.com
Reported-by: wu.tommy@gmail.com
Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Merge branch 'perseus-vm' into perseus

Conflicts:
	crypto/Kconfig
	crypto/Makefile
	drivers/staging/zram/zram_drv.c
fs: vfat: reduce the worst case latencies

When a block partition is mounted with FAT file system
and MS_DIRSYNC option is used, some file system operations
like create, rename shall sleep in caller's context until
all the metadata have been committed to the non-volatile memory.
Since this operation is blocking call for user context,
the WRITE_SYNC option must be used instead of WRITE
(async operation) which incur inherent latencies while
flushing the meta-data corresponding to directory entries

Change-Id: I41c514889873a39d564271db0a421e6c66e5ae33
Signed-off-by: xiaogang <xiaogang@codeaurora.org>
 CHROMIUM: mm: Fix calculation of dirtyable memory

The system uses global_dirtyable_memory() to calculate
number of dirtyable pages/pages that can be allocated
to the page cache.  A bug causes an underflow thus making
the page count look like a big unsigned number.  This in turn
confuses the dirty writeback throttling to aggressively write
back pages as they become dirty (usually 1 page at a time).

Fix is to ensure there is no underflow while doing the math.

Signed-off-by: Sonny Rao <sonnyrao@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Puneet Kumar <puneetster@chromium.org>

BUG=chrome-os-partner:16011
TEST=Manual; boot kernel, powerwash, login with testaccount and
make sure no jank occurs on sync of applications

Change-Id: I614e7c3156e014f0f28a4ef9bdd8cb8a2cd07b2a
Reviewed-on: https://gerrit.chromium.org/gerrit/37612
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Olof Johansson <olofj@chromium.org>
Commit-Ready: Puneet Kumar <puneetster@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Puneet Kumar <puneetster@chromium.org>
Tested-by: Puneet Kumar <puneetster@chromium.org>
sched/rt: Remove redundant nr_cpus_allowed test

Date	Fri, 4 Oct 2013 14:24:53 -0500

From: Shawn Bohrer <sbohrer@rgmadvisors.com>

In 76854c7e8f3f4172fef091e78d88b3b751463ac6 "sched: Use
rt.nr_cpus_allowed to recover select_task_rq() cycles" an optimization
was added to select_task_rq_rt() that immediately returns when
p->nr_cpus_allowed == 1 at the beginning of the function.  This makes
the latter p->nr_cpus_allowed > 1 check redundant and can be removed.
Signed-off-by: Shawn Bohrer <sbohrer@rgmadvisors.com>

Signed-off-by: Paul Reioux <reioux@gmail.com>
msm: Allow lowmem to be non contiguous and mixed.

Any image that is expected to have a lifetime of
the entire system can give the virtual address
space back for use in vmalloc.

Change-Id: I81ce848cd37e8573d706fa5d1aa52147b3c8da12
Signed-off-by: Neeti Desai <neetid@codeaurora.org>
cpufreq: ondemand: Change the calculation of target frequency

The ondemand governor calculates load in terms of frequency and
increases it only if load_freq is greater than up_threshold
multiplied by the current or average frequency.  This appears to
produce oscillations of frequency between min and max because,
for example, a relatively small load can easily saturate minimum
frequency and lead the CPU to the max.  Then, it will decrease
back to the min due to small load_freq.

Change the calculation method of load and target frequency on the
basis of the following two observations:

 - Load computation should not depend on the current or average
   measured frequency.  For example, absolute load of 80% at 100MHz
   is not necessarily equivalent to 8% at 1000MHz in the next
   sampling interval.

 - It should be possible to increase the target frequency to any
   value present in the frequency table proportional to the absolute
   load, rather than to the max only, so that:

   Target frequency = C * load

   where we take C = policy->cpuinfo.max_freq / 100.

Tested on Intel i7-3770 CPU @ 3.40GHz and on Quad core 1500MHz Krait.
Phoronix benchmark of Linux Kernel Compilation 3.1 test shows an
increase ~1.5% in performance. cpufreq_stats (time_in_state) shows
that middle frequencies are used more, with this patch.  Highest
and lowest frequencies were used less by ~9%.

[rjw: We have run multiple other tests on kernels with this
 change applied and in the vast majority of cases it turns out
 that the resulting performance improvement also leads to reduced
 consumption of energy.  The change is additionally justified by
 the overall simplification of the code in question.]

Signed-off-by: Stratos Karafotis <stratosk@semaphore.gr>
Acked-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>

Conflicts:

	drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_governor.c
	drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_governor.h
	drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_ondemand.c

Backported to 3.4

Signed-off-by: Andrei F <luxneb@gmail.com>
mach-exynos: UNIVERSAL5410 MMC: Enable various UHS caps, double bus speed

Enable DDR50, SDR104 UHS SD card modes and double the controller's bus bandwidth to 160MHz.

Tested on various SD cards and max read jumps from ~35mB/s to +70mB/s.
staging: zram: add per-cpu support to Crypto

Since original zram code did not implement any per-cpu operations,
my previous patch (staging: zram: add Crypto API support) did not
include them either.

This patch complements the first one with per-cpu support for Crypto,
allocating tfms buffer separately for each online processor.
Changes are based on zswap and zcache per-cpu code.

Basic tests (concurrent writing several 10-40MB chunks to zram) performed
on an ARM-based EXYNOS4412 Quad-Core showed that per-cpu code provides
noticeable time saving, ranging between 30-40% for LZO and LZ4 compressors.
Sample data (LZO): writing 160MB, 40MB per thread took 0.60s with per-cpu
code included and approximately 0.80s without per-cpu support.

Signed-off-by: Piotr Sarna <p.sarna@partner.samsung.com>
Acked-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park@samsung.com>
Kernel 2.2.2
Merge https://github.com/AndreiLux/Perseus-UNIVERSAL5410

Conflicts:
	drivers/staging/zram/zram_drv.c
	include/linux/lz4.h
	lib/Kconfig
	lib/Makefile
	lib/lz4/Makefile
	lib/lz4/lz4defs.h
	lib/lzo/lzo1x_compress.c
jiffies conversions: Use compile time constants when possible

Date	Fri, 04 Jan 2013 13:15:43 -0800

Do the multiplications and divisions at compile time
instead of runtime when the converted value is a constant.

Make the calculation functions static __always_inline to jiffies.h.

Add #defines with __builtin_constant_p to test and use the
static inline or the runtime functions as appropriate.

Prefix the old exported symbols/functions with __

Signed-off-by: Paul Reioux <reioux@gmail.com>
softirq: reduce latencies

Date	Thu, 03 Jan 2013 23:49:40 -0800

In various network workloads, __do_softirq() latencies can be up
to 20 ms if HZ=1000, and 200 ms if HZ=100.

This is because we iterate 10 times in the softirq dispatcher,
and some actions can consume a lot of cycles.

This patch changes the fallback to ksoftirqd condition to :

- A time limit of 2 ms.
- need_resched() being set on current task

When one of this condition is met, we wakeup ksoftirqd for further
softirq processing if we still have pending softirqs.

Using need_resched() as the only condition can trigger RCU stalls,
as we can keep BH disabled for too long.

I ran several benchmarks and got no significant difference in
throughput, but a very significant reduction of latencies (one order
of magnitude) :

In following bench, 200 antagonist "netperf -t TCP_RR" are started in
background, using all available cpus.

Then we start one "netperf -t TCP_RR", bound to the cpu handling the NIC
IRQ (hard+soft)

Before patch :

RT_LATENCY,MIN_LATENCY,MAX_LATENCY,P50_LATENCY,P90_LATENCY,P99_LATENCY,MEAN_LATENCY,STDDEV_LATENCY
MIGRATED TCP REQUEST/RESPONSE TEST from 0.0.0.0 (0.0.0.0) port 0 AF_INET
to 7.7.7.84 () port 0 AF_INET : first burst 0 : cpu bind
RT_LATENCY=550110.424
MIN_LATENCY=146858
MAX_LATENCY=997109
P50_LATENCY=305000
P90_LATENCY=550000
P99_LATENCY=710000
MEAN_LATENCY=376989.12
STDDEV_LATENCY=184046.92
After patch :

RT_LATENCY,MIN_LATENCY,MAX_LATENCY,P50_LATENCY,P90_LATENCY,P99_LATENCY,MEAN_LATENCY,STDDEV_LATENCY
MIGRATED TCP REQUEST/RESPONSE TEST from 0.0.0.0 (0.0.0.0) port 0 AF_INET
to 7.7.7.84 () port 0 AF_INET : first burst 0 : cpu bind
RT_LATENCY=40545.492
MIN_LATENCY=9834
MAX_LATENCY=78366
P50_LATENCY=33583
P90_LATENCY=59000
P99_LATENCY=69000
MEAN_LATENCY=38364.67
STDDEV_LATENCY=12865.26

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Tom Herbert <therbert@google.com>
Cc: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>

Signed-off-by: Paul Reioux <reioux@gmail.com>
synced perseus repo + switched LZ4 on zram
 Asynchronous Fsync: initial extraction of Async Fsync from HTC

Signed-off-by: Paul Reioux <reioux@gmail.com>
revert zram LZ4 + config dump