Revert "Update ARM topology and add cpu_power driver"

This reverts commit db654e5e10b8f65bb870cb887d5a94296ff508b1.
ARM: smp: Wait just 1 second for other CPU to halt

Currently, the busyloop waiting for a 2nd CPU to stop takes about 4
seconds.  Adjust for the overhead of the loop by looping every 1ms
instead of 1us.

Signed-off-by: Chris Fries <C.Fries@motorola.com>
Reviewed-on: http://gerrit.pcs.mot.com/537864
SLT-Approved: Slta Waiver <sltawvr@motorola.com>
Tested-by: Jira Key <jirakey@motorola.com>
Reviewed-by: Check Patch <CHEKPACH@motorola.com>
Reviewed-by: Klocwork kwcheck <klocwork-kwcheck@sourceforge.mot.com>
Reviewed-by: Igor Kovalenko <cik009@motorola.com>
Reviewed-by: Russell Knize <rknize2@motorola.com>
Submit-Approved: Jira Key <jirakey@motorola.com>
Signed-off-by: Pranav Vashi <neobuddy89@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: franciscofranco <franciscofranco.1990@gmail.com>
smp: Allow booting a specific subset of CPUs

In a heterogenous multiprocessor system, specifying the
'maxcpus' parameter on the kernel command line does not
provide sufficient control over which CPUs are brought
online at kernel boot time, since CPUs may have nonuniform
performance characteristics. Thus, we introduce a
'boot_cpus' command line argument, allowing the user to
explicitly specify the list of CPUs that shall be brought
online during kernel boot.

Signed-off-by: Stepan Moskovchenko <stepanm@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Pranav Vashi <neobuddy89@gmail.com>
smp: Fix SMP function call empty cpu mask race

I get the following warning every day with v3.7, once or
twice a day:

  [ 2235.186027] WARNING: at /mnt/sda7/kernel/linux/arch/x86/kernel/apic/ipi.c:109 default_send_IPI_mask_logical+0x2f/0xb8()

As explained by Linus as well:

 |
 | Once we've done the "list_add_rcu()" to add it to the
 | queue, we can have (another) IPI to the target CPU that can
 | now see it and clear the mask.
 |
 | So by the time we get to actually send the IPI, the mask might
 | have been cleared by another IPI.
 |

This patch also fixes a system hang problem, if the data->cpumask
gets cleared after passing this point:

        if (WARN_ONCE(!mask, "empty IPI mask"))
                return;

then the problem in commit 83d349f35e1a ("x86: don't send an IPI to
the empty set of CPU's") will happen again.

Signed-off-by: Wang YanQing <udknight@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: mina86@mina86.org
Cc: srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130126075357.GA3205@udknight
[ Tidied up the changelog and the comment in the code. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

smp: make smp_call_function_many() use logic similar to smp_call_function_single()

I'm testing swapout workload in a two-socket Xeon machine.  The workload
has 10 threads, each thread sequentially accesses separate memory
region.  TLB flush overhead is very big in the workload.  For each page,
page reclaim need move it from active lru list and then unmap it.  Both
need a TLB flush.  And this is a multthread workload, TLB flush happens
in 10 CPUs.  In X86, TLB flush uses generic smp_call)function.  So this
workload stress smp_call_function_many heavily.

Without patch, perf shows:
+  24.49%  [k] generic_smp_call_function_interrupt
-  21.72%  [k] _raw_spin_lock
   - _raw_spin_lock
      + 79.80% __page_check_address
      + 6.42% generic_smp_call_function_interrupt
      + 3.31% get_swap_page
      + 2.37% free_pcppages_bulk
      + 1.75% handle_pte_fault
      + 1.54% put_super
      + 1.41% grab_super_passive
      + 1.36% __swap_duplicate
      + 0.68% blk_flush_plug_list
      + 0.62% swap_info_get
+   6.55%  [k] flush_tlb_func
+   6.46%  [k] smp_call_function_many
+   5.09%  [k] call_function_interrupt
+   4.75%  [k] default_send_IPI_mask_sequence_phys
+   2.18%  [k] find_next_bit

swapout throughput is around 1300M/s.

With the patch, perf shows:
-  27.23%  [k] _raw_spin_lock
   - _raw_spin_lock
      + 80.53% __page_check_address
      + 8.39% generic_smp_call_function_single_interrupt
      + 2.44% get_swap_page
      + 1.76% free_pcppages_bulk
      + 1.40% handle_pte_fault
      + 1.15% __swap_duplicate
      + 1.05% put_super
      + 0.98% grab_super_passive
      + 0.86% blk_flush_plug_list
      + 0.57% swap_info_get
+   8.25%  [k] default_send_IPI_mask_sequence_phys
+   7.55%  [k] call_function_interrupt
+   7.47%  [k] smp_call_function_many
+   7.25%  [k] flush_tlb_func
+   3.81%  [k] _raw_spin_lock_irqsave
+   3.78%  [k] generic_smp_call_function_single_interrupt

swapout throughput is around 1400M/s.  So there is around a 7%
improvement, and total cpu utilization doesn't change.

Without the patch, cfd_data is shared by all CPUs.
generic_smp_call_function_interrupt does read/write cfd_data several times
which will create a lot of cache ping-pong.  With the patch, the data
becomes per-cpu.  The ping-pong is avoided.  And from the perf data, this
doesn't make call_single_queue lock contend.

Next step is to remove generic_smp_call_function_interrupt() from arch
code.

Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fusionio.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Conflicts:
	include/linux/smp.h

Change-Id: I71e497695fa343b3edc6ec77a6dc1698f0e07a86
Signed-off-by: Pranav Vashi <neobuddy89@gmail.com>
kernel/smp.c: use '|=' for csd_lock

csd_lock() uses assignment to data->flags rather than |=.  That is not
buggy at present because only one bit (CSD_FLAG_LOCK) is defined in
call_single_data.flags.

But it will become buggy if we later add another flag, so fix it now.

Signed-off-by: liguang <lig.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
kernel/smp.c: cleanups

We sometimes use "struct call_single_data *data" and sometimes "struct
call_single_data *csd".  Use "csd" consistently.

We sometimes use "struct call_function_data *data" and sometimes "struct
call_function_data *cfd".  Use "cfd" consistently.

Also, avoid some 80-col layout tricks.

Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Shaohua Li <shli@fusionio.com>
Cc: Shaohua Li <shli@kernel.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
smp: Implement kick_all_cpus_sync()

Will replace the misnomed cpu_idle_wait() function which is copied a
gazillion times all over arch/*

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120507175652.049316594@linutronix.de
epoll: fix use-after-free in eventpoll_release_file

This fixes use-after-free of epi->fllink.next inside list loop macro.
This loop actually releases elements in the body.  The list is
rcu-protected but here we cannot hold rcu_read_lock because we need to
lock mutex inside.

The obvious solution is to use list_for_each_entry_safe().  RCU-ness
isn't essential because nobody can change this list under us, it's final
fput for this file.

The bug was introduced by ("epoll: optimize EPOLL_CTL_DEL using rcu")

Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <koct9i@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Cc: Stable <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 3.13+
Cc: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@akamai.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Pranav Vashi <neobuddy89@gmail.com>
eventpoll: fix uninitialized variable in epoll_ctl

When calling epoll_ctl with operation EPOLL_CTL_DEL, structure epds is
not initialized but ep_take_care_of_epollwakeup reads its event field.
When this unintialized field has EPOLLWAKEUP bit set, a capability check
is done for CAP_BLOCK_SUSPEND in ep_take_care_of_epollwakeup.  This
produces unexpected messages in the audit log, such as (on a system
running SELinux):

    type=AVC msg=audit(1408212798.866:410): avc:  denied
    { block_suspend } for  pid=7754 comm="dbus-daemon" capability=36
    scontext=unconfined_u:unconfined_r:unconfined_t
    tcontext=unconfined_u:unconfined_r:unconfined_t
    tclass=capability2 permissive=1

    type=SYSCALL msg=audit(1408212798.866:410): arch=c000003e syscall=233
    success=yes exit=0 a0=3 a1=2 a2=9 a3=7fffd4d66ec0 items=0 ppid=1
    pid=7754 auid=1000 uid=0 gid=0 euid=0 suid=0 fsuid=0 egid=0 sgid=0
    fsgid=0 tty=(none) ses=3 comm="dbus-daemon"
    exe="/usr/bin/dbus-daemon"
    subj=unconfined_u:unconfined_r:unconfined_t key=(null)

("arch=c000003e syscall=233 a1=2" means "epoll_ctl(op=EPOLL_CTL_DEL)")

Remove use of epds in epoll_ctl when op == EPOLL_CTL_DEL.

Fixes: ("epoll: Add a flag, EPOLLWAKEUP, to prevent suspend while epoll events are ready")
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Iooss <nicolas.iooss_linux@m4x.org>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Arve Hjønnevåg <arve@android.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Pranav Vashi <neobuddy89@gmail.com>
epoll: prevent missed events on EPOLL_CTL_MOD

commit 128dd1759d96ad36c379240f8b9463e8acfd37a1 upstream.

EPOLL_CTL_MOD sets the interest mask before calling f_op->poll() to
ensure events are not missed.  Since the modifications to the interest
mask are not protected by the same lock as ep_poll_callback, we need to
ensure the change is visible to other CPUs calling ep_poll_callback.

We also need to ensure f_op->poll() has an up-to-date view of past
events which occured before we modified the interest mask.  So this
barrier also pairs with the barrier in wq_has_sleeper().

This should guarantee either ep_poll_callback or f_op->poll() (or both)
will notice the readiness of a recently-ready/modified item.

This issue was encountered by Andreas Voellmy and Junchang(Jason) Wang in:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1408782/

Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Cc: Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@cisco.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Cc: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andreas Voellmy <andreas.voellmy@yale.edu>
Tested-by: "Junchang(Jason) Wang" <junchang.wang@yale.edu>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Pranav Vashi <neobuddy89@gmail.com>
ARM: 7583/1: decompressor: Enable unaligned memory access for v6 and above

Modern GCC can generate code which makes use of the CPU's native
unaligned memory access capabilities.  This is useful for the C
decompressor implementations used for unpacking compressed kernels.

This patch disables alignment faults and enables the v6 unaligned
access model on CPUs which support these features (i.e., v6 and
later), allowing full unaligned access support for C code in the
decompressor.

The decompressor C code must not be built to assume that unaligned
access works if support for v5 or older platforms is included in
the kernel.

For correct code generation, C decompressor code must always use
the get_unaligned and put_unaligned accessors when dealing with
unaligned pointers, regardless of this patch.

Signed-off-by: Dave Martin <dave.martin@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Pranav Vashi <neobuddy89@gmail.com>
xz: Optimize Sfck Compression
mm: consider all swapped back pages in used-once logic

Commit 645747462435 ("vmscan: detect mapped file pages used only once")
made mapped pages have another round in inactive list because they might
be just short lived and so we could consider them again next time.  This
heuristic helps to reduce pressure on the active list with a streaming
IO worklods.

This patch fixes a regression introduced by this commit for heavy shmem
based workloads because unlike Anon pages, which are excluded from this
heuristic because they are usually long lived, shmem pages are handled
as a regular page cache.

This doesn't work quite well, unfortunately, if the workload is mostly
backed by shmem (in memory database sitting on 80% of memory) with a
streaming IO in the background (backup - up to 20% of memory).  Anon
inactive list is full of (dirty) shmem pages when watermarks are hit.
Shmem pages are kept in the inactive list (they are referenced) in the
first round and it is hard to reclaim anything else so we reach lower
scanning priorities very quickly which leads to an excessive swap out.

Let's fix this by excluding all swap backed pages (they tend to be long
lived wrt.  the regular page cache anyway) from used-once heuristic and
rather activate them if they are referenced.

The customer's workload is shmem backed database (80% of RAM) and they
are measuring transactions/s with an IO in the background (20%).
Transactions touch more or less random rows in the table.  The
transaction rate fell by a factor of 3 (in the worst case) because of
commit 64574746.  This patch restores the previous numbers.

Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Pranav Vashi <neobuddy89@gmail.com>
memory hotplug: fix invalid memory access caused by stale kswapd pointer

kswapd_stop() is called to destroy the kswapd work thread when all memory
of a NUMA node has been offlined.  But kswapd_stop() only terminates the
work thread without resetting NODE_DATA(nid)->kswapd to NULL.  The stale
pointer will prevent kswapd_run() from creating a new work thread when
adding memory to the memory-less NUMA node again.  Eventually the stale
pointer may cause invalid memory access.

An example stack dump as below. It's reproduced with 2.6.32, but latest
kernel has the same issue.

  BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at (null)
  IP: [<ffffffff81051a94>] exit_creds+0x12/0x78
  PGD 0
  Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP
  last sysfs file: /sys/devices/system/memory/memory391/state
  CPU 11
  Modules linked in: cpufreq_conservative cpufreq_userspace cpufreq_powersave acpi_cpufreq microcode fuse loop dm_mod tpm_tis rtc_cmos i2c_i801 rtc_core tpm serio_raw pcspkr sg tpm_bios igb i2c_core iTCO_wdt rtc_lib mptctl iTCO_vendor_support button dca bnx2 usbhid hid uhci_hcd ehci_hcd usbcore sd_mod crc_t10dif edd ext3 mbcache jbd fan ide_pci_generic ide_core ata_generic ata_piix libata thermal processor thermal_sys hwmon mptsas mptscsih mptbase scsi_transport_sas scsi_mod
  Pid: 7949, comm: sh Not tainted 2.6.32.12-qiuxishi-5-default #92 Tecal RH2285
  RIP: 0010:exit_creds+0x12/0x78
  RSP: 0018:ffff8806044f1d78  EFLAGS: 00010202
  RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff880604f22140 RCX: 0000000000019502
  RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000202 RDI: 0000000000000000
  RBP: ffff880604f22150 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: ffffffff81a4dc10
  R10: 00000000000032a0 R11: ffff880006202500 R12: 0000000000000000
  R13: 0000000000c40000 R14: 0000000000008000 R15: 0000000000000001
  FS:  00007fbc03d066f0(0000) GS:ffff8800282e0000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
  CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b
  CR2: 0000000000000000 CR3: 000000060f029000 CR4: 00000000000006e0
  DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
  DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
  Process sh (pid: 7949, threadinfo ffff8806044f0000, task ffff880603d7c600)
  Stack:
   ffff880604f22140 ffffffff8103aac5 ffff880604f22140 ffffffff8104d21e
   ffff880006202500 0000000000008000 0000000000c38000 ffffffff810bd5b1
   0000000000000000 ffff880603d7c600 00000000ffffdd29 0000000000000003
  Call Trace:
    __put_task_struct+0x5d/0x97
    kthread_stop+0x50/0x58
    offline_pages+0x324/0x3da
    memory_block_change_state+0x179/0x1db
    store_mem_state+0x9e/0xbb
    sysfs_write_file+0xd0/0x107
    vfs_write+0xad/0x169
    sys_write+0x45/0x6e
    system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
  Code: ff 4d 00 0f 94 c0 84 c0 74 08 48 89 ef e8 1f fd ff ff 5b 5d 31 c0 41 5c c3 53 48 8b 87 20 06 00 00 48 89 fb 48 8b bf 18 06 00 00 <8b> 00 48 c7 83 18 06 00 00 00 00 00 00 f0 ff 0f 0f 94 c0 84 c0
  RIP  exit_creds+0x12/0x78
   RSP <ffff8806044f1d78>
  CR2: 0000000000000000

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: add pglist_data.kswapd locking comments]
Signed-off-by: Xishi Qiu <qiuxishi@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@huawei.com>
Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Pranav Vashi <neobuddy89@gmail.com>
mm: bugfix: set current->reclaim_state to NULL while returning from kswapd()

In kswapd(), set current->reclaim_state to NULL before returning, as
current->reclaim_state holds reference to variable on kswapd()'s stack.

In rare cases, while returning from kswapd() during memory offlining,
__free_slab() and freepages() can access the dangling pointer of
current->reclaim_state.

Signed-off-by: Takamori Yamaguchi <takamori.yamaguchi@jp.sony.com>
Signed-off-by: Aaditya Kumar <aaditya.kumar@ap.sony.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Pranav Vashi <neobuddy89@gmail.com>
mm: vmscan: clear kswapd's special reclaim powers before exiting

When kswapd exits, it can end up taking locks that were previously held
by allocating tasks while they waited for reclaim.  Lockdep currently
warns about this:

On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 06:06:34PM +0800, Gu Zheng wrote:
>  inconsistent {RECLAIM_FS-ON-W} -> {IN-RECLAIM_FS-R} usage.
>  kswapd2/1151 [HC0[0]:SC0[0]:HE1:SE1] takes:
>   (&sig->group_rwsem){+++++?}, at: exit_signals+0x24/0x130
>  {RECLAIM_FS-ON-W} state was registered at:
>     mark_held_locks+0xb9/0x140
>     lockdep_trace_alloc+0x7a/0xe0
>     kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0x37/0x240
>     flex_array_alloc+0x99/0x1a0
>     cgroup_attach_task+0x63/0x430
>     attach_task_by_pid+0x210/0x280
>     cgroup_procs_write+0x16/0x20
>     cgroup_file_write+0x120/0x2c0
>     vfs_write+0xc0/0x1f0
>     SyS_write+0x4c/0xa0
>     tracesys+0xdd/0xe2
>  irq event stamp: 49
>  hardirqs last  enabled at (49):  _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x36/0x70
>  hardirqs last disabled at (48):  _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x2b/0xa0
>  softirqs last  enabled at (0):  copy_process.part.24+0x627/0x15f0
>  softirqs last disabled at (0):            (null)
>
>  other info that might help us debug this:
>   Possible unsafe locking scenario:
>
>         CPU0
>         ----
>    lock(&sig->group_rwsem);
>    <Interrupt>
>      lock(&sig->group_rwsem);
>
>   *** DEADLOCK ***
>
>  no locks held by kswapd2/1151.
>
>  stack backtrace:
>  CPU: 30 PID: 1151 Comm: kswapd2 Not tainted 3.10.39+ #4
>  Call Trace:
>    dump_stack+0x19/0x1b
>    print_usage_bug+0x1f7/0x208
>    mark_lock+0x21d/0x2a0
>    __lock_acquire+0x52a/0xb60
>    lock_acquire+0xa2/0x140
>    down_read+0x51/0xa0
>    exit_signals+0x24/0x130
>    do_exit+0xb5/0xa50
>    kthread+0xdb/0x100
>    ret_from_fork+0x7c/0xb0

This is because the kswapd thread is still marked as a reclaimer at the
time of exit.  But because it is exiting, nobody is actually waiting on
it to make reclaim progress anymore, and it's nothing but a regular
thread at this point.  Be tidy and strip it of all its powers
(PF_MEMALLOC, PF_SWAPWRITE, PF_KSWAPD, and the lockdep reclaim state)
before returning from the thread function.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Reported-by: Gu Zheng <guz.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Tang Chen <tangchen@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Pranav Vashi <neobuddy89@gmail.com>
mm: vmscan: If kswapd has been running too long, allow it to sleep

Under constant allocation pressure, kswapd can be in the situation where
sleeping_prematurely() will always return true even if kswapd has been
running a long time. Check if kswapd needs to be scheduled.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Pranav Vashi <neobuddy89@gmail.com>
mm: do not sleep in balance_pgdat if there's no i/o congestion

On a 4GB RAM machine, where Normal zone is much smaller than DMA32 zone,
the Normal zone gets fragmented in time.  This requires relatively more
pressure in balance_pgdat to get the zone above the required watermark.
Unfortunately, the congestion_wait() call in there slows it down for a
completely wrong reason, expecting that there's a lot of
writeback/swapout, even when there's none (much more common).  After a
few days, when fragmentation progresses, this flawed logic translates to
a very high CPU iowait times, even though there's no I/O congestion at
all.  If THP is enabled, the problem occurs sooner, but I was able to
see it even on !THP kernels, just by giving it a bit more time to occur.

The proper way to deal with this is to not wait, unless there's
congestion.  Thanks to Mel Gorman, we already have the function that
perfectly fits the job.  The patch was tested on a machine which nicely
revealed the problem after only 1 day of uptime, and it's been working
great.

Signed-off-by: Zlatko Calusic <zlatko.calusic@iskon.hr>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Pranav Vashi <neobuddy89@gmail.com>
kswapd: reduce time spent in congestion_wait

By reducing the amount of time kswapd spends in
congestion_wait kswapd is able to free up more
memory in the background and therefore  reduce
the amount  of time spent in direct reclaim.

Signed-off-by: Liam Mark <lmark@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Grisco <ggrisco@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Pranav Vashi <neobuddy89@gmail.com>
mm: vmscan: when kswapd is awoken due to reclaim by a running task

Set the priority of kswapd to that of the calling task thus making memory reclaim cpu activity affected by nice level.

http://ck.kolivas.org/patches/3.0/3.9/3.9-ck1/patches/mm-kswapd_inherit_prio-1.patch