sync: add Documentation/sync.txt

Change-Id: Ic7f3a6d4622083be607b82ddd8d676609225bb8f
Signed-off-by: Erik Gilling <konkers@android.com>
sync: Fix race condition between merge and signal

The copied sync_pt was activated immediately. If the sync_pt was
signaled before the entire merge was completed, the new fence's pt_list
could be iterated over while it is still in the process of being
created.

Moving the the sync_pt_activate call for all new sync_pts to after both
the sync_fence_copy_pts and the sync_fence_merge_pts calls ensure that
the pt_list is complete and immutable before it can be reached from the
timeline's active list.

Signed-off-by: Erik Gilling <konkers@android.com>
sync: don't log wait timeouts when timeout = 0

Signed-off-by: Erik Gilling <konkers@android.com>
base: sync: Include seq_file.h in sync.h

sync.h uses struct seq_file in some function table prototypes. This
causes compile failures when including the header in files that do not
otherwise include seq_file.h

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Hamilton <jonathan.hamilton@imgtec.com>
sync: fix timeout = 0 wait behavior

Change-Id: I8b9254e92c26d9f44abbc0c77fb44624de947013
Signed-off-by: Jamie Gennis <jgennis@google.com>
lowmemorykiller: make default lowmemorykiller debug message useful

lowmemorykiller debug messages are inscrutable and mostly useful
for debugging the lowmemorykiller, not explaining why a process
was killed.  Make the messages more useful by prefixing them
with "lowmemorykiller: " and explaining in more readable terms
what was killed, who it was killed for, and why it was killed.

The messages now look like:
[   76.997631] lowmemorykiller: Killing 'droid.gallery3d' (2172), adj 1000,
[   76.997635]    to free 27436kB on behalf of 'kswapd0' (29) because
[   76.997638]    cache 122624kB is below limit 122880kB for oom_score_adj 1000
[   76.997641]    Free memory is -53356kB above reserved

A negative number for free memory above reserved means some of the
reserved memory has been used and is being regenerated by kswapd,
which is likely what called the shrinkers.

Change-Id: I1fe983381e73e124b90aa5d91cb66e55eaca390f
Signed-off-by: Colin Cross <ccross@android.com>
misc: uidstat: avoid create_stat() race and blockage.

* create_stat() race would lead to:
  [   58.132324] proc_dir_entry 'uid_stat/10061' already registered

* blocking kmalloc reported by sbranden
 tcp_read_sock()
  uid_stat_tcp_rcv()
    create_stat()
      kmalloc(GFP_KERNEL)

Signed-off-by: JP Abgrall <jpa@google.com>
core.c: Disable Software CRC check
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>