mm: kswapd inherit prio

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.

-ck
AIO: Don't plug the I/O queue in do_io_submit() Asynchronous I/O latency to a solid-state disk greatly increased between the 2.6.32 and 3.0 kernels. By removing the plug from do_io_submit(), we observed a 34% improvement in the I/O latency.

Unfortunately, at this level, we don't know if the request is to
a rotating disk or not.

Change-Id: I7101df956473ed9fd5dcff18e473dd93b688a5c1
Signed-off-by: Dave Kleikamp <dave.kleikamp@oracle.com>
Cc: linux-aio@kvack.org
Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
cfg80211: Fix memory leak

When a driver requests a specific regulatory domain after cfg80211 already
has one, a struct ieee80211_regdomain is leaked.

Change-Id: Id28fc9861b9c911a97bd242439eabca097d76258
Reported-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Tested-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Git-commit: b7566fc363e23f0efd3fa1e1460f9421cdc0d77e
Git-repo: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git
[mattw@codeaurora.org: trivially backport to the msm-3.4 kernel]
Signed-off-by: Matt Wagantall <mattw@codeaurora.org>
n_tty: Fix n_tty_write crash when echoing in raw mode

The tty atomic_write_lock does not provide an exclusion guarantee for
the tty driver if the termios settings are LECHO & !OPOST.  And since
it is unexpected and not allowed to call TTY buffer helpers like
tty_insert_flip_string concurrently, this may lead to crashes when
concurrect writers call pty_write. In that case the following two
writers:
* the ECHOing from a workqueue and
* pty_write from the process
race and can overflow the corresponding TTY buffer like follows.
If we look into tty_insert_flip_string_fixed_flag, there is:
  int space = __tty_buffer_request_room(port, goal, flags);
  struct tty_buffer *tb = port->buf.tail;
  ...
  memcpy(char_buf_ptr(tb, tb->used), chars, space);
  ...
  tb->used += space;
so the race of the two can result in something like this:
              A                                B
__tty_buffer_request_room
                                  __tty_buffer_request_room
memcpy(buf(tb->used), ...)
tb->used += space;
                                  memcpy(buf(tb->used), ...) ->BOOM
B's memcpy is past the tty_buffer due to the previous A's tb->used
increment.
Since the N_TTY line discipline input processing can output
concurrently with a tty write, obtain the N_TTY ldisc output_lock to
serialize echo output with normal tty writes.  This ensures the tty
buffer helper tty_insert_flip_string is not called concurrently and
everything is fine.
Note that this is nicely reproducible by an ordinary user using
forkpty and some setup around that (raw termios + ECHO). And it is
present in kernels at least after commit
d945cb9cce20ac7143c2de8d88b187f62db99bdc (pty: Rework the pty layer to
use the normal buffering logic) in 2.6.31-rc3.
js: add more info to the commit log
js: switch to bool
js: lock unconditionally
js: lock only the tty->ops->write call
Change-Id: Ie0b03989fa8cfd6ffe40d1f770044fe7447dda05
References: CVE-2014-0196
Reported-and-tested-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

Cherry-picked from git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git
branch: master
commit: 4291086
Needed some tweaks because there is no
  bddc715 2012-10-18 jslaby@suse.cz TTY: move ldisc data from tty_struct: locks

Signed-off-by: JP Abgrall <jpa@google.com>
Drivers: staging: android: Lower the max allowed RAM for logger

Lowered RAM values to get more free RAM:

LOGGER_LOG_MAIN: 2048*1024 -> 64*1024
LOGGER_LOG_EVENTS: 256*1024 -> 32*1024
LOGGER_LOG_RADIO: 1024*1024 -> 32*1024
LOGGER_LOG_SYSTEM: 256*1024 -> 64*1024
LOGGER_LOG_SF: 256*1024 -> 64*1024
ksm: Provide support to use deferred timers for scanner thread

KSM thread to scan pages is getting schedule on definite timeout.
That wakes up CPU from idle state and hence may affect the power
consumption. Provide an optional support to use deferred timer
which suites low-power use-cases.

To enable deferred timers,
$ echo 1 > /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/deferred_timer

Change-Id: I07fe199f97fe1f72f9a9e1b0b757a3ac533719e8
Signed-off-by: Chintan Pandya <cpandya@codeaurora.org>
ksm: enable deferred timer

Change-Id: I3e4745206a1333fb67e0473573cc44d78c1895c7
[SCSI] Remove scsi_wait_scan module

scsi_wait_scan was introduced with asynchronous host scanning as a hack
for distributions that weren't using proper udev based wait for root to
appear in their initramfs scripts.  In 2.6.30 Commit

c751085943362143f84346d274e0011419c84202
Author: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Date:   Sun Apr 12 20:06:56 2009 +0200

    PM/Hibernate: Wait for SCSI devices scan to complete during resume

Actually broke scsi_wait_scan because it renders
scsi_complete_async_scans() a nop for modular SCSI if you include
scsi_scans.h (which this module does).

The lack of bug reports is sufficient proof that this module is no
longer used.

Cc: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.de>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Cc: maximilian attems <max@stro.at>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <JBottomley@Parallels.com>
power/portlist: don't spam kmsg