block: row: Dispatch requests according to their io-priority

This patch implements "application-hints" which is a way the issuing
application can notify the scheduler on the priority of its request.
This is done by setting the io-priority of the request.
This patch reuses an already existing mechanism of io-priorities developed
for CFQ. Please refer to kernel/Documentation/block/ioprio.txt for
usage example and explanations.

Change-Id: I228ec8e52161b424242bb7bb133418dc8b73925a
Signed-off-by: Tatyana Brokhman <tlinder@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: franciscofranco <franciscofranco.1990@gmail.com>
block: row: Idling mechanism re-factoring

At the moment idling in ROW is implemented by delayed work that uses
jiffies granularity which is not very accurate. This patch replaces
current idling mechanism implementation with hrtime API, which gives
nanosecond resolution (instead of jiffies).

Change-Id: I86c7b1776d035e1d81571894b300228c8b8f2d92
Signed-off-by: Tatyana Brokhman <tlinder@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: franciscofranco <franciscofranco.1990@gmail.com>
cpufreq: conservative: update frequency when limits are relaxed

Reevaluate CPU load and update frequency immediately whenever limits
are changed. Currently conservative doesn't do that when limits are
relaxed, wasting power on systems with relatively low sampling rate.

Signed-off-by: Michal Pecio <mpecio@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Signed-off-by: franciscofranco <franciscofranco.1990@gmail.com>
smp: patches from mainline 3.5 to hopefully help with hotplug
efficiency

Thomas Gleixner's generic-idle patches:

smp: Add task_struct argument to __cpu_up()
Preparatory patch to make the idle thread allocation for secondary
cpus generic.
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git;a=commit;h=8239c25f47d2b318156993b15f33900a86ea5e17

smp: Add generic smpboot facility
Start a new file, which will hold SMP and CPU hotplug related generic
infrastructure.
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git;a=commit;h=38498a67aa2cf8c80754b8d304bfacc10bc582b5

smp: Provide generic idle thread allocation
All SMP architectures have magic to fork the idle task and to store it
for reusage when cpu hotplug is enabled. Provide a generic
infrastructure for it.
Create/reinit the idle thread for the cpu which is brought up in the
generic code and hand the thread pointer to the architecture code via
__cpu_up().
Note, that fork_idle() is called via a workqueue, because this
guarantees that the idle thread does not get a reference to a user
space VM. This can happen when the boot process did not bring up all
possible cpus and a later cpu_up() is initiated via the sysfs
interface. In that case fork_idle() would be called in the context of
the user space task and take a reference on the user space VM.
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git;a=commit;h=29d5e0476e1c4a513859e7858845ad172f560389

arm: Use generic idle thread allocation
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git;a=commit;h=84ec6d5796e095e2f8698bd2b5d33849ed26d9e2

Signed-off-by: franciscofranco <franciscofranco.1990@gmail.com>
krait: remove boost module that added 25mV on every step for core... oh well.

Signed-off-by: franciscofranco <franciscofranco.1990@gmail.com>
ARM: smp: Fix cpu_up() racing with sys_reboot

Nothing stops a process from hotplugging in a CPU concurrently
with a sys_reboot() call. In such a situation we could have
ipi_cpu_stop() mark a cpu as 'offline' and _cpu_up() ignore the
fact that the CPU is not really offline and call the
CPU_UP_PREPARE notifier. When this happens stop_machine code will
complain that the cpu thread already exists and BUG_ON().

CPU0                      CPU1

sys_reboot()
 kernel_restart()
  machine_restart()
   machine_shutdown()
    smp_send_stop()
    ...                   ipi_cpu_stop()
                           set_cpu_online(1, false)
                            local_irq_disable()
                             while(1)
    <PREEMPT>
cpu_up()
 _cpu_up()
   if (!cpu_online(1))
    __cpu_notify(CPU_UP_PREPARE...)

cpu_stop_cpu_callback()
  BUG_ON(stopper->thread)

This is easily reproducible by hotplugging in and out in a tight
loop while also rebooting.

Since the CPU is not really offline and hasn't gone through the
proper steps to be marked as such, let's mark the CPU as inactive.
This is just as easily testable as online and avoids any possibility
of _cpu_up() trying to bring the CPU back online when it never was
offline to begin with.

Change-Id: Ia1daea407220578d4212ef6c65c4be837ca370fd
Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: franciscofranco <franciscofranco.1990@gmail.com>
ARM: SoC: add per-platform SMP operations

This adds a 'struct smp_operations' to abstract the CPU initialization
and hot plugging functions on SMP systems, which otherwise conflict
in a multiplatform kernel. This also helps shmobile and potentially
others that have more than one method to do these.

To allow the kernel to continue building, the platform hooks are
defined as weak symbols which are overrided by the platform code.
Once all platforms are converted, the "weak" attribute will be
removed and the function made static.

Unlike the original version from Marc, this new version from Arnd
does not use a generalized abstraction for per-soc data structures
but only tries to solve the problem for the SMP operations. This
way, we can collapse the previous four data structures into a
single struct, which is less systematic but also easier to follow
as a causal reader.

Change-Id: I9d022d4e789f8f87f26a237fa2e9e410be070976
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
[rameezmustafa@codeaurora.org: backport to kernel 3.4]
Signed-off-by: Syed Rameez Mustafa <rameezmustafa@codeaurora.org>

Signed-off-by: franciscofranco <franciscofranco.1990@gmail.com>
smp: fix derp.

Signed-off-by: franciscofranco <franciscofranco.1990@gmail.com>
block: Add support for reinsert a dispatched req

Add support for reinserting a dispatched request back to the
scheduler's internal data structures.
This capability is used by the device driver when it chooses to
interrupt the current request transmission and execute another (more
urgent) pending request. For example: interrupting long write in order
to handle pending read. The device driver re-inserts the
remaining write request back to the scheduler, to be rescheduled
for transmission later on.

Add API for verifying whether the current scheduler
supports reinserting requests mechanism. If reinsert mechanism isn't
supported by the scheduler, this code path will never be activated.

Change-Id: I5c982a66b651ebf544aae60063ac8a340d79e67f
Signed-off-by: Tatyana Brokhman <tlinder@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: franciscofranco <franciscofranco.1990@gmail.com>
block: Add API for urgent request handling

This patch add support in block & elevator layers for handling
urgent requests. The decision if a request is urgent or not is taken
by the scheduler. Urgent request notification is passed to the underlying
block device driver (eMMC for example). Block device driver may decide to
interrupt the currently running low priority request to serve the new
urgent request. By doing so READ latency is greatly reduced in read&write
collision scenarios.

Note that if the current scheduler doesn't implement the urgent request
mechanism, this code path is never activated.

Change-Id: I8aa74b9b45c0d3a2221bd4e82ea76eb4103e7cfa
Signed-off-by: Tatyana Brokhman <tlinder@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: franciscofranco <franciscofranco.1990@gmail.com>
Modifid the sh file