block/partitions: optimize memory allocation in check_partition()

Currently, sizeof(struct parsed_partitions) may be 64KB in 32bit arch, so
it is easy to trigger page allocation failure by check_partition,
especially in hotplug block device situation(such as, USB mass storage,
MMC card, ...), and Felipe Balbi has observed the failure.

This patch does below optimizations on the allocation of struct
parsed_partitions to try to address the issue:

- make parsed_partitions.parts as pointer so that the pointed memory can
  fit in 32KB buffer, then approximate 32KB memory can be saved

- vmalloc the buffer pointed by parsed_partitions.parts because 32KB is
  still a bit big for kmalloc

- given that many devices have the partition count limit, so only
  allocate disk_max_parts() partitions instead of 256 partitions always

Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>
Reported-by: Felipe Balbi <balbi@ti.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Reviewed-by: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: franciscofranco <franciscofranco.1990@gmail.com>
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>
block: add a flag to identify PM request

Add a flag REQ_PM to identify the request is PM related, such requests
will not change the device request queue's runtime status. It is
intended to be used in driver's runtime PM callback, so that driver can
perform some IO to the device there with the queue's runtime status
unaffected. e.g. in SCSI disk's runtime suspend callback, the disk will
be put into stopped power state, and this require sending a command to
the device. Such command processing should not change the disk's runtime
status.

Change-Id: I522bbee6cc911cefeefba50517ebc283e2838918
Signed-off-by: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Aaron Lu <aaron.lu@intel.com>
Acked-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Git-commit: 66311274691ec65972cad3626057fa8d00c146d8
Git-repo: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git
[sthumma@codeaurora.org: resolve trival merge conflicts]
Signed-off-by: Sujit Reddy Thumma <sthumma@codeaurora.org>