writeback: Fix occasional slow sync(1)

In case when system contains no dirty pages, wakeup_flusher_threads()
will submit WB_SYNC_NONE writeback for 0 pages so wb_writeback() exits
immediately without doing anything. Thus sync(1) will write all the
dirty inodes from a WB_SYNC_ALL writeback pass which is slow.

Fix the problem by using get_nr_dirty_pages() in
wakeup_flusher_threads() instead of calculating number of dirty pages
manually. That function also takes number of dirty inodes into account.

CC: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: Paul Taysom <taysom@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Cristoforo Cataldo <cristoforo.cataldo@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Francisco Franco <franciscofranco.1990@gmail.com>
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>
Signed-off-by: Francisco Franco <franciscofranco.1990@gmail.com>
cpufreq: Use dedicated high-priority workqueues

In the process of scaling CPU frequencies, cpufreq and the APIS is
calls may hold resources that will prevent threads critical for
system stability from running.

Specifically, thermal-mitigation software may need to respond
quickly to high-temperature conditions and throttle the CPU speed
in an effort to cool down. If the system is already in the middle
of a CPU frequency switch being executed on behalf of a cpufreq
governor, thermal mitigation will be blocked until the scaling
action has completed. If the system is under heave load of medium
or high-priority threads, this may take a long while and the system
may potentially surpass thermal limits in the meantime.

Resolve this by using high priority workqueues for all ondemand
and conservative governor scaling operations.  This will allow them
to complete promptly and release their hold on resources necessary
for maintaining system stability.

Change-Id: I2f56052c131442838036cf4cdd8059f7c09bb805
Signed-off-by: Matt Wagantall <mattw@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Ajay Dudani <adudani@codeaurora.org>
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>
Signed-off-by: Francisco Franco <franciscofranco.1990@gmail.com>
ARM: 7486/1: sched_clock: update epoch_cyc on resume

Many clocks that are used to provide sched_clock will reset during
suspend.  If read_sched_clock returns 0 after suspend, sched_clock will
appear to jump forward.  This patch resets cd.epoch_cyc to the current
value of read_sched_clock during resume, which causes sched_clock() just
after suspend to return the same value as sched_clock() just before
suspend.

In addition, during the window where epoch_ns has been updated before
suspend, but epoch_cyc has not been updated after suspend, it is unknown
whether the clock has reset or not, and sched_clock() could return a
bogus value.  Add a suspended flag, and return the pre-suspend epoch_ns
value during this period.

The new behavior is triggered by calling setup_sched_clock_needs_suspend
instead of setup_sched_clock.

Change-Id: I7441ef74dc6802c00eea61f3b8c0a25ac00a724d
Signed-off-by: Colin Cross <ccross@android.com>
Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
CRs-Fixed: 497236
Git-commit: 237ec6f2e51d2fc2ff37c7c5f1ccc9264d09c85b
Git-repo: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git
Signed-off-by: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Francisco Franco <franciscofranco.1990@gmail.com>
ARM: 7565/1: sched: stop sched_clock() during suspend

The scheduler imposes a requirement to sched_clock()
which is to stop the clock during suspend, if we don't
do that any RT thread will be rescheduled in the future
which might cause any sort of problems.

This became an issue on OMAP when we converted omap-i2c.c
to use threaded IRQs, it turned out that depending on how
much time we spent on suspend, the I2C IRQ thread would
end up being rescheduled so far in the future that I2C
transfers would timeout and, because omap_hsmmc depends
on an I2C-connected device to detect if an MMC card is
inserted in the slot, our rootfs would just vanish.

arch/arm/kernel/sched_clock.c already had an optional
implementation (sched_clock_needs_suspend()) which would
handle scheduler's requirement properly, what this patch
does is simply to make that implementation non-optional.

Note that this has the side-effect that printk timings
won't reflect the actual time spent on suspend so other
methods to measure that will have to be used.

This has been tested with beagleboard XM (OMAP3630) and
pandaboard rev A3 (OMAP4430). Suspend to RAM is now working
after this patch.

Thanks to Kevin Hilman for helping out with debugging.

Change-Id: Ie2f9e3b22eb3d1f3806cf8c598f22e2fa1b8651f
Acked-by: Kevin Hilman <khilman@ti.com>
Acked-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Felipe Balbi <balbi@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
CRs-Fixed: 497236
Git-commit: 6a4dae5e138a32b45ca5218cc2b81802f9d378c3
Git-repo: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git
Signed-off-by: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Francisco Franco <franciscofranco.1990@gmail.com>
ARM: sched_clock: Load cycle count after epoch stabilizes

There is a small race between when the cycle count is read from
the hardware and when the epoch stabilizes. Consider this
scenario:

 CPU0                           CPU1
 ----                           ----
 cyc = read_sched_clock()
 cyc_to_sched_clock()
                                 update_sched_clock()
                                  ...
                                  cd.epoch_cyc = cyc;
  epoch_cyc = cd.epoch_cyc;
  ...
  epoch_ns + cyc_to_ns((cyc - epoch_cyc)

The cyc on cpu0 was read before the epoch changed. But we
calculate the nanoseconds based on the new epoch by subtracting
the new epoch from the old cycle count. Since epoch is most likely
larger than the old cycle count we calculate a large number that
will be converted to nanoseconds and added to epoch_ns, causing
time to jump forward too much.

Fix this problem by reading the hardware after the epoch has
stabilized.

Change-Id: I995133b229b2c2fedd5091406d1dc366d8bfff7b
Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Git-commit: 336ae1180df5f69b9e0fb6561bec01c5f64361cf
Git-repo: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git
[sboyd: reworked for file movement kernel/time -> arm/kernel]
Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org>

Signed-off-by: Francisco Franco <franciscofranco.1990@gmail.com>
ARM: Fix negative idle stats for offline cpu

We see negative idle stats because of cpu dying without
cleaning up idle entry statistics. When a cpu is offline,
the most immediate thing you'd want to do is just call
into cpu_die() and not waste time calling notifier(IDLE_START).

CRs-Fixed: 414554
Change-Id: Iadc6a3ca39997e0ccf65d2a29b004e24b1b211a1
Signed-off-by: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Taniya Das <tdas@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Francisco Franco <franciscofranco.1990@gmail.com>
EHCI: HSIC: Halt the controller while resetting the port

commit 9ecc39cd (EHCI: HSIC: Implement new reset sequence to workaround
PHY lockup issue) does not halt controller before proceeding to reset
sequence.  If the controller is not halted and SOFs are transmitted, PHY
may stuck during port reset.

CRs-Fixed: 459280
Change-Id: I213ca7d41420596b91eb9b5e6803d1e237167136
Signed-off-by: Pavankumar Kondeti <pkondeti@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Francisco Franco <franciscofranco.1990@gmail.com>
drivers: net: usb: rmnet_usb_data: Modify the autosuspend_delay_time of usb suspend to 2 second.

Avoid the modem suspend/resume frequently.

b/9911201

Change-Id: I0872f894c450b697bb2f0e05fc97c6ed0731b36a
Signed-off-by: yi-hsin_hung <yi-hsin_hung@asus.com>
(cherry picked from commit 3aceb26a7e3f96ce03bc748fa271bb32b979ae87)

Signed-off-by: Francisco Franco <franciscofranco.1990@gmail.com>