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: Francisco Franco <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: Francisco Franco <franciscofranco.1990@gmail.com>
block: row: change hrtimer_cancel to hrtimer_try_to_cancel

Calling hrtimer_cancel with interrupts disabled can result in a livelock.
When flushing plug list in the block layer interrupts are disabled and an
hrtimer is used when adding requests from that plug list to the scheduler.
In this code flow, if the hrtimer (which is used for idling) is set, it's
being canceled by calling hrtimer_cancel. hrtimer_cancel will perform
the following in an endless loop:
1. try cancel the timer
2. if fails - rest_cpu
the cancellation can fail if the timer function already started. Since
interrupts are disabled it can never complete.
This patch reduced the number of times the hrtimer lock is taken while
interrupts are disabled by calling hrtimer_try_co_cancel. the later will
try to cancel the timer just once and return with an error code if fails.

CRs-fixed: 499887
Change-Id: I25f79c357426d72ad67c261ce7cb503ae97dc7b9
Signed-off-by: Tatyana Brokhman <tlinder@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Francisco Franco <franciscofranco.1990@gmail.com>
block: recursive merge requests

In a workload, thread 1 accesses a, a+2, ..., thread 2 accesses a+1, a+3,....
When the requests are flushed to queue, a and a+1 are merged to (a, a+1), a+2
and a+3 too to (a+2, a+3), but (a, a+1) and (a+2, a+3) aren't merged.

If we do recursive merge for such interleave access, some workloads throughput
get improvement. A recent worload I'm checking on is swap, below change
boostes the throughput around 5% ~ 10%.

Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fusionio.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Francisco Franco <franciscofranco.1990@gmail.com>
cfq-iosched: Fix null pointer dereference

NULL pointer dereference can happen in cfq_choose_cfqg()
when there are no cfq groups to select other than the
current serving group. Prevent this by adding a NULL
check before dereferencing.

Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address
[<c02502cc>] (cfq_dispatch_requests+0x368/0x8c0) from
[<c0243f30>] (blk_peek_request+0x220/0x25c)
[<c0243f30>] (blk_peek_request+0x220/0x25c) from
[<c0243f74>] (blk_fetch_request+0x8/0x1c)
[<c0243f74>] (blk_fetch_request+0x8/0x1c) from
[<c041cedc>] (mmc_queue_thread+0x58/0x120)
[<c041cedc>] (mmc_queue_thread+0x58/0x120) from
[<c00ad310>] (kthread+0x84/0x90)
[<c00ad310>] (kthread+0x84/0x90) from
[<c000eeac>] (kernel_thread_exit+0x0/0x8)

CRs-Fixed: 416466
Change-Id: I1fab93a4334b53e1d7c5dcc8f93cff174bae0d5e
Signed-off-by: Sujit Reddy Thumma <sthumma@codeaurora.org>
block: blk-core: add printk_ratelimit

On failure of requests the console is flooded with prints,
which result in a watchdog bark.
This patch limits the number of prints to console thus, avoiding
the bark.

CRs-Fixed: 458071
Change-Id: I614002cc1305ab7b5c6a64d278139291c1baa3c4
Signed-off-by: Asutosh Das <asutoshd@codeaurora.org>
block: cfq: merge tweaked tunables.

Signed-off-by: Francisco Franco <franciscofranco.1990@gmail.com>
Drop readahead to 512kb

Conflicts:
	include/linux/mm.h
Added Row and tweaked defaults

Conflicts:
	arch/arm/configs/mako_defconfig
Tweaked defaults and schedulers
Makefiles: Add Linaro Build Flags

Conflicts:
	Makefile

Conflicts:
	Makefile