Proportional Rate Reduction for TCP
binfmt_elf.c: use get_random_int() to fix entropy depleting

Changes:
--------
v4->v3:
- s/random_stack_user()/get_atrandom_bytes()/
- Move this function to ahead of its use to avoid the predeclaration.

v3->v2:
- Tweak code comments of random_stack_user().
- Remove redundant bits mask and shift upon the random variable.

v2->v1:
- Fix random copy to check up buffer length that are not 4-byte multiples.

v3 can be found at:
http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-fsdevel/msg59597.html
v2 can be found at:
http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-fsdevel/msg59418.html
v1 can be found at:
http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-fsdevel/msg59128.html

Thanks,
-Jeff

Entropy is quickly depleted under normal operations like ls(1), cat(1),
etc...  between 2.6.30 to current mainline, for instance:

$ cat /proc/sys/kernel/random/entropy_avail
3428
$ cat /proc/sys/kernel/random/entropy_avail
2911
$cat /proc/sys/kernel/random/entropy_avail
2620

We observed this problem has been occurring since 2.6.30 with
fs/binfmt_elf.c: create_elf_tables()->get_random_bytes(), introduced by
f06295b44c296c8f ("ELF: implement AT_RANDOM for glibc PRNG seeding").

/*
 * Generate 16 random bytes for userspace PRNG seeding.
 */
get_random_bytes(k_rand_bytes, sizeof(k_rand_bytes));

The patch introduces a wrapper around get_random_int() which has lower
overhead than calling get_random_bytes() directly.

With this patch applied:
$ cat /proc/sys/kernel/random/entropy_avail
2731
$ cat /proc/sys/kernel/random/entropy_avail
2802
$ cat /proc/sys/kernel/random/entropy_avail
2878

Analyzed by John Sobecki.

Signed-off-by: Jie Liu <jeff.liu@oracle.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Andreas Dilger <aedilger@gmail.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnn@arndb.de>
Cc: John Sobecki <john.sobecki@oracle.com>
Cc: James Morris <james.l.morris@oracle.com>
Cc: Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>
Cc: Ted Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
block: Adding ROW scheduling algorithm

This patch adds the implementation of a new scheduling algorithm - ROW.
The policy of this algorithm is to prioritize READ requests over WRITE
as much as possible without starving the WRITE requests.
The requests are kept in queues according to their priority. The dispatch
is done in a Round Robin manner with a different slice for each queue.
READ request queues get bigger dispatch quantum than the write requests.

Signed-off-by: Tatyana Brokhman <tlinder@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
v4:
  - Fix bug in idling mechanism:
    -- Fix the delay passed to scedule_delayed_work
    -- Change the idle delay and idling-trigger frequency to be HZ dependent
  - Destroy idle_workqueue on queue exit
  - Update the documentation

v3:
  - Fix bug in forced dispatch: Don't idle if forced dispatch

v2:
  No changes. Resend.

v1: Initial version
block: Expose kblock_schedule_delayed_work()

This function is exported in blk-core.c to be used in other modules
but it's definition in h file is missing.

Signed-off-by: Tatyana Brokhman <tlinder@codeaurora.org>
block:minor edits to completely enable row i/o scheduling algorithm

Signed-off-by: sarcastillo <sar.castillo@gmail.com>
ARM: disable preemption in machine_shutdown

Since the smp call to stop the other cpus are handled in those
cpus in interrupt context, there's a potential for those smp
handlers to interrupt threads holding spin locks (such as the
one a mutex holds).  This prevents those threads from ever
releasing their spin lock, so if the cpu doing the shutdown
is allowed to switch to another thread that tries to grab the
same lock/mutex, we could get into a deadlock (the spin lock
call is called with preemption disabled in the mutex lock code).

To avoid that possibility, disable preemption before doing the
smp_send_stop().

Change-Id: I7976c5382d7173fcb3cd14da8cc5083d442b2544
Signed-off-by: Mike J. Chen <mjchen@google.com>

Conflicts:
	arch/arm/kernel/process.c
procfs: add num_to_str() to speed up /proc/stat

== stat_check.py
num = 0
with open("/proc/stat") as f:
        while num < 1000 :
                data = f.read()
                f.seek(0, 0)
                num = num + 1
==

perf shows

    20.39%  stat_check.py  [kernel.kallsyms]    [k] format_decode
    13.41%  stat_check.py  [kernel.kallsyms]    [k] number
    12.61%  stat_check.py  [kernel.kallsyms]    [k] vsnprintf
    10.85%  stat_check.py  [kernel.kallsyms]    [k] memcpy
     4.85%  stat_check.py  [kernel.kallsyms]    [k] radix_tree_lookup
     4.43%  stat_check.py  [kernel.kallsyms]    [k] seq_printf

This patch removes most of calls to vsnprintf() by adding num_to_str()
and seq_print_decimal_ull(), which prints decimal numbers without rich
functions provided by printf().

On my 8cpu box.
== Before patch ==
[root@bluextal test]# time ./stat_check.py

real    0m0.150s
user    0m0.026s
sys     0m0.121s

== After patch ==
[root@bluextal test]# time ./stat_check.py

real    0m0.055s
user    0m0.022s
sys     0m0.030s

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: remove incorrect comment, use less statck in num_to_str(), move comment from .h to .c, simplify seq_put_decimal_ull()]
[andrea@betterlinux.com: avoid breaking the ABI in /proc/stat]
Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrea Righi <andrea@betterlinux.com>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
backported from Linux 3.4-rc4 to Linux 3.0.x by faux123
sched: Fix (harmless) typo 'CONFG_FAIR_GROUP_SCHED'

This patch fixes a typo located in a comment.

Signed-off-by: Jan Schoenherr <schnhrr@cs.tu-berlin.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1310580816-10861-2-git-send-email-schnhrr@cs.tu-berlin.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
lib, Add lock-less NULL terminated single list

Cmpxchg is used to implement adding new entry to the list, deleting
all entries from the list, deleting first entry of the list and some
other operations.

Because this is a single list, so the tail can not be accessed in O(1).

If there are multiple producers and multiple consumers, llist_add can
be used in producers and llist_del_all can be used in consumers.  They
can work simultaneously without lock.  But llist_del_first can not be
used here.  Because llist_del_first depends on list->first->next does
not changed if list->first is not changed during its operation, but
llist_del_first, llist_add, llist_add (or llist_del_all, llist_add,
llist_add) sequence in another consumer may violate that.

If there are multiple producers and one consumer, llist_add can be
used in producers and llist_del_all or llist_del_first can be used in
the consumer.

This can be summarized as follow:

           |   add    | del_first |  del_all
 add       |    -     |     -     |     -
 del_first |          |     L     |     L
 del_all   |          |           |     -

Where "-" stands for no lock is needed, while "L" stands for lock is
needed.

The list entries deleted via llist_del_all can be traversed with
traversing function such as llist_for_each etc.  But the list entries
can not be traversed safely before deleted from the list.  The order
of deleted entries is from the newest to the oldest added one.  If you
want to traverse from the oldest to the newest, you must reverse the
order by yourself before traversing.

The basic atomic operation of this list is cmpxchg on long.  On
architectures that don't have NMI-safe cmpxchg implementation, the
list can NOT be used in NMI handler.  So code uses the list in NMI
handler should depend on CONFIG_ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG.

Signed-off-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
llist: Make some llist functions inline

Because llist code will be used in performance critical scheduler
code path, make llist_add() and llist_del_all() inline to avoid
function calling overhead and related 'glue' overhead.

Signed-off-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Acked-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1315461646-1379-2-git-send-email-ying.huang@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Conflicts:

	drivers/acpi/apei/Kconfig
	lib/Kconfig
	lib/Makefile
llist: Remove the platform-dependent NMI checks

Remove the nmi() checks spread around the code. in_nmi() is not available
on every architecture and it's a pretty obscure and ugly check in any case.

Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1315461646-1379-3-git-send-email-ying.huang@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
llist: Move cpu_relax() to after the cmpxchg()

If in llist_add()/etc. functions the first cmpxchg() call succeeds, it is
not necessary to use cpu_relax() before the cmpxchg(). So cpu_relax() in
a busy loop involving cmpxchg() should go after cmpxchg() instead of before
that.

This patch fixes this for all involved llist functions.

Signed-off-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Acked-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1315461646-1379-4-git-send-email-ying.huang@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
llist: Return whether list is empty before adding in llist_add()

Extend the llist_add*() functions to return a success indicator, this
allows us in the scheduler code to send an IPI if the queue was empty.

( There's no effect on existing users, because the list_add_xxx() functions
  are inline, thus this will be optimized out by the compiler if not used
  by callers. )

Signed-off-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1315461646-1379-5-git-send-email-ying.huang@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
llist: Remove cpu_relax() usage in cmpxchg loops

Initial benchmarks show they're a net loss:

 $ for i in /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/cpufreq/scaling_governor ; do echo performance > $i; done
 $ echo 4096 32000 64 128 > /proc/sys/kernel/sem
 $ ./sembench -t 2048 -w 1900 -o 0

Pre:

 run time 30 seconds 778936 worker burns per second
 run time 30 seconds 912190 worker burns per second
 run time 30 seconds 817506 worker burns per second
 run time 30 seconds 830870 worker burns per second
 run time 30 seconds 845056 worker burns per second

Post:

 run time 30 seconds 905920 worker burns per second
 run time 30 seconds 849046 worker burns per second
 run time 30 seconds 886286 worker burns per second
 run time 30 seconds 822320 worker burns per second
 run time 30 seconds 900283 worker burns per second

So about 4% faster. (!)

cpu_relax() stalls the pipeline, therefore, when used in a tight loop
it has the following benefits:

 - allows SMT siblings to have a go;
 - reduces pressure on the CPU interconnect.

However, cmpxchg loops are unfair and thus have unbounded completion
time, therefore we should avoid getting in such heavily contended
situations where the above benefits make any difference.

A typical cmpxchg loop should not go round more than a handfull of
times at worst, therefore adding extra delays just slows things down.

Since the llist primitives are new, there aren't any bad users yet,
and we should avoid growing them. Heavily contended sites should
generally be better off using the ticket locks for serialization since
they provide bounded completion times (fifo-fair over the cpus).

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1315836358.26517.43.camel@twins
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
irq_work: Use llist in the struct irq_work logic

Use llist in irq_work instead of the lock-less linked list
implementation in irq_work to avoid the code duplication.

Signed-off-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1315461646-1379-6-git-send-email-ying.huang@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
llist: Add llist_next()

So we don't have to expose the struct list_node member.

Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1315836348.26517.41.camel@twins
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
sched: Convert to struct llist

Use the generic llist primitives.

We had a private lockless list implementation in the scheduler in the wake-list
code, now that we have a generic llist implementation that provides all required
operations, switch to it.

This patch is not expected to change any behavior.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1315836353.26517.42.camel@twins
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Conflicts:

	kernel/sched.c
sched/nohz: Rewrite, fix and add more accurate load-avg computation

Part 1)

After patch 453494c3d4 (sched: Fix nohz load accounting -- again!), we can fold
the idle into calc_load_tasks_idle between the last cpu load calculating and
calc_global_load calling. However problem still exits between the first cpu
load calculating and the last cpu load calculating. Every time when we do load
calculating, calc_load_tasks_idle will be added into calc_load_tasks, even if
the idle load is caused by calculated cpus. Consider following case:
5HZ+1
| cpu0_load     cpu1    cpu2    cpu3    calc_load_tasks    tasks_idle
|    1           1       1       1
|  -->calc_load                             1                  0
|    1           1       1       1
|                    -->calc_load           2                  0
|    0           0       1       0
|                    -->calc_load           2+1-3=0            -3
|    1           1       0       1
|                            -->calc_load   1-1=0              -1
V
5HZ+11     -->calc_global_load              0                  0

actually the load should be around 3, but shows nearly 0.

This can be found in our work load. The average running processes number
is about 15, but the load only shows about 4.

We provides a solution, by taking those load not calculated cpus' idle out from
global idle as calc_unmask_cpu_load_idle. Then when calc_load execute on every
cpu, we only fold calc_unmask_cpu_load_idle. After this patch, case above
should be as follow:
5HZ+1
| cpu0_load     cpu1    cpu2    cpu3   calc_load_tasks tasks_idle  unmask_idle
|    1           1       1       1
|  -->calc_load                             1              0           0
|    1           1       1       1
|              -->calc_load                 2              0           0
|    0           0       1       0
|                    -->calc_load           2+1-1=2        -3          -1
|    1           1       0       1
|                            -->calc_load   2+1=3          -2-1=-3     0
V
5HZ+11     -->calc_global_load              3              -3          0

CC: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
CC: Doug Smythies <dsmythies@telus.net>
CC: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
CC: Tao Ma <tm@tao.ma>
CC: Sha Zhengju <handai.szj@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Sha Zhengju <handai.szj@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Charles Wang <muming.wq@taobao.com>

Part 2)

Thanks to Charles Wang for spotting the defects in the current code:

 - If we go idle during the sample window -- after sampling, we get a
   negative bias because we can negate our own sample.

 - If we wake up during the sample window we get a positive bias
   because we push the sample to a known active period.

So rewrite the entire nohz load-avg muck once again, now adding
copious documentation to the code.

Reported-and-tested-by: Doug Smythies <dsmythies@telus.net>
Reported-and-tested-by: Charles Wang <muming.wq@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1340373782.18025.74.camel@twins
[ minor edits ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
sched: Add missing call to calc_load_exit_idle()

Azat Khuzhin reported high loadavg in Linux v3.6

After checking the upstream scheduler code, I found Peter's commit:

  5167e8d5417b sched/nohz: Rewrite and fix load-avg computation -- again

not fully applied, missing the call to calc_load_exit_idle().

After that idle exit in sampling window will always be calculated
to non-idle, and the load will be higher than normal.

This patch adds the missing call to calc_load_exit_idle().

Signed-off-by: Charles Wang <muming.wq@taobao.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1345449754-27130-1-git-send-email-muming.wq@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

Conflicts:

	kernel/time/tick-sched.c
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).