fs/dyn_sync_cntrl: dynamic sync control

The dynamic sync control interface uses Android kernel's unique early
suspend / lat resume interface.

While screen is on, file sync is disabled
when screen is off, a file sync is called to flush all outstanding writes
and restore file sync operation as normal.

Signed-off-by: Paul Reioux <reioux@gmail.com>
fs/dyn_fsync: check dyn fsync control's active prior to performing fsync ops

Signed-off-by: Andrew Bartholomew <andrewb03@gmail.com>
dynamic filesync: add some cache optimizations

and clean up file format and typos

bump version to 1.1

Signed-off-by: Paul Reioux <reioux@gmail.com>
dynamic fsync: favor true case since most will be using this feature

Signed-off-by: Paul Reioux <reioux@gmail.com>
dynamic fsync: don't disable fdatasync()

Signed-off-by: Paul Reioux <reioux@gmail.com>
fs/sync: Make sync() satisfy many requests with one invocation

Dave Jones reported RCU stalls, overly long hrtimer interrupts, and
amazingly long NMI handlers from a trinity-induced workload involving
lots of concurrent sync() calls (https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/7/23/369).
There are any number of things that one might do to make sync() behave
better under high levels of contention, but it is also the case that
multiple concurrent sync() system calls can be satisfied by a single
sys_sync() invocation.

Given that this situation is reminiscent of rcu_barrier(), this commit
applies the rcu_barrier() approach to sys_sync().  This approach uses
a global mutex and a sequence counter.  The mutex is held across the
sync() operation, which eliminates contention between concurrent sync()
operations.  The counter is incremented at the beginning and end of
each sync() operation, so that it is odd while a sync() operation is in
progress and even otherwise, just like sequence locks.

The code that used to be in sys_sync() is now in do_sync(), and sys_sync()
now handles the concurrency.  The sys_sync() function first takes a
snapshot of the counter, then acquires the mutex, and then takes another
snapshot of the counter.  If the values of the two snapshots indicate that
a full do_sync() executed during the mutex acquisition, the sys_sync()
function releases the mutex and returns ("Our work is done!").  Otherwise,
sys_sync() increments the counter, invokes do_sync(), and increments
the counter again.

This approach allows a single call to do_sync() to satisfy an arbitrarily
large number of sync() system calls, which should eliminate issues due
to large numbers of concurrent invocations of the sync() system call.

Changes since v1 (https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/7/24/683):

o	Add a pair of memory barriers to keep the increments from
	bleeding into the do_sync() code.  (The failure probability
	is insanely low, but when you have several hundred million
	devices running Linux, you can expect several hundred instances
	of one-in-a-million failures.)

o	Actually CC some people who have experience in this area.

Reported-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Curt Wohlgemuth <curtw@google.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org

Signed-off-by: Paul Reioux <reioux@gmail.com>
Ampang v16 Normal

Signed-off-by: Muhammad Najmi Ahmad Zabidi <najmi.zabidi@gmail.com>
Revert "fs/sync: Make sync() satisfy many requests with one invocation"

This reverts commit 02d02a0a7b987cc9b940850a8747d85dfadd9646.
Revert "dynamic fsync: don't disable fdatasync()"

This reverts commit d0801e1ed638c950ca55889a4b771bf5e110dac0.
Revert "dynamic fsync: favor true case since most will be using this feature"

This reverts commit 166a11e238d17e083226bf0bdda790978a945110.
Revert "dynamic filesync: add some cache optimizations"

This reverts commit 3a64df80e213c873f37fa9b71c7da7224657b911.
Revert "fs/dyn_fsync: check dyn fsync control's active prior to performing fsync ops"

This reverts commit f1b402ca357ac22fcdf4dee1746f02c51bc22d8e.
Revert "fs/dyn_sync_cntrl: dynamic sync control"

This reverts commit c8dec82e9ed39e9c5452e4dc9e3344dfec400ec5.