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Recent ARMv7 toolchains assume that unaligned memory accesses will not
fault and will instead be handled by the processor.

For the nommu case (without an MPU), memory will be treated as
strongly-ordered and therefore unaligned accesses may fault regardless
of the SCTLR.A setting.

This patch passes -mno-unaligned-access to GCC when compiling for nommu
targets, preventing the generation of unaligned memory access in the
kernel.

Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org>
Tested-by: Jonathan Austin <jonathan.austin@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>

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 BUILDFLAGS: optimize for armv7-a, cortex-a8
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Talustus authored 10 months ago
gpu: pvr: we have cortex a9

Signed-off-by: Willi Ye <williye97@gmail.com>
csnappy: Update to newest version

Pulled on 18/04/2013
-fs Backport Flash-Friendly FileSystems (f2fs) --nowcomputing
 block: Make cfq_target_latency tunable through sysfs.

In cfq, when we calculate a time slice for a process(or a cfqq to
be precise), we have to consider the cfq_target_latency so that all the
sync request have an estimated latency(300ms) and it is controlled by
cfq_target_latency. But in some hadoop test, we have found that if
there are many processes doing sequential read(24 for example), the
throughput is bad because every process can only work for about 25ms
and the cfqq is switched. That leads to a higher disk seek. We can
achive the good throughput by setting low_latency=0, but then some
read's latency is too much for the application.

So this patch makes cfq_target_latency tunable through sysfs so that
we can tune it and find some magic number which is not bad for both
the throughput and the read latency.

Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Tao Ma <boyu.mt@taobao.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
cpu boost: backport missing functions from 3.4 (DerTeufel)
reference: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:7y4Vnjzxo6wJ:androidfilesgit.org/MaC/android_kernel_jewel/commit/8e9f9bdc0bb75222891cb39389fef6910dcb085d.diff+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=il

thx to dorimanx for commiting cpu boost to his 3.12 kernel. i would have missed this driver without him

Change-Id: I3cd786129f7eff14bb775194919c803566e07f25

Conflicts:
	kernel/sched.c

Conflicts:
	kernel/sched.c
cpufreq: Add cpu-boost driver

When certain bursty and important events take place, it might take a while
for the current cpufreq governor to notice the new load and react to it.
That would result in poor user experience. To alleviate this, the cpu-boost
driver boosts the frequency of a CPU for a short duration to maintain good
user experience while the governor catches up.

Specifically, this commit deals with ensuring that when "important" tasks
migrate from a fast CPU to a slow CPU, the frequency of the slow CPU is
boosted to be at least as high as the fast CPU for a short duration.

Since this driver enforces the boost by hooking into standard cpufreq
ADJUST notifiers, it has several advantages:
- More portable across kernel versions where the cpufreq internals might
  have been rewritten.
- Governor agnostic and hence works with multiple governors like
  conservative, ondemand, interactive, etc.
- Does not affect the sampling period/logic of existing governors.
- Can have the boost period adjusted independent of governor sampling
  period.

Signed-off-by: Saravana Kannan <skannan@codeaurora.org>

Change-Id: Ibd814a20043d0aba64ee7637a4a79b9ffa1b0991
cpufreq: Add a sync limit to cpu-boost

Perform frequency synchronization only when source CPU's frequency
is less than sync_threshold, else sync to the sync_threshold.

Signed-off-by: Rohit Gupta <rohgup@codeaurora.org>

Change-Id: I544c414568d4e015b80ce5891dd215275bac95da
interactive : Fix invalid input boost freq
we don't have the same freq as defined.

Change-Id: I67f7f773e45eda79c42d8ca9110a1f91ea114add
ondemandplus governor: remove adaptive timer_rate logic

It is unlikely this gives any power savings and only
add some ugly code :)

Signed-off-by: Dan Trifan <jimsth@gmail.com>
dm: suppress endian warnings

Suppress sparse warnings about cpu_to_le32() by using __le32 types for
on-disk data etc.

Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
(cherry picked from commit 283a8328ca5b987e547848de8ff0e28edcfb9e08)

Change-Id: If4a9779681e327bd36e3600f87d0217981ce86e4
dm: use vzalloc

Use vzalloc() instead of vmalloc()+memset().

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
(cherry picked from commit e29e65aacbd9e628378084905cbcf62a9fa4a8cc)

Change-Id: I4701888bb6b595e403db1f99f44989d188363c29
dm table: fix discard support

Remove 'discards_supported' from the dm_table structure.  The same
information can be easily discovered from the table's target(s) in
dm_table_supports_discards().

Before this fix dm_table_supports_discards() would skip checking the
individual targets' 'discards_supported' flag if any one target in the
table didn't set num_discard_requests > 0.  Now the per-target
'discards_supported' flag is effective at insuring the final DM device
advertises discard support.  But, to be clear, targets that don't
support discards (!num_discard_requests) will not receive discard
requests.

Also DMWARN if a target sets 'discards_supported' override but forgets
to set 'num_discard_requests'.

Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
(cherry picked from commit 936688d7eb0f39be96c5791be1a04994cc8d6aa0)

Change-Id: If3b15303e8c3e5b6ce1065970601d9bef982f518
dm table: clean dm_get_device and move exports

There is no need for __table_get_device to be factored out.
Also move the exports to the end of their respective functions.

Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
(cherry picked from commit 08649012545cfb116798260352547cf4d47064ec)

Change-Id: Ie82e8fa1daa1467d2eba7f0735f4554990ec2b34
dm: ignore merge_bvec for snapshots when safe

Add a new flag DMF_MERGE_IS_OPTIONAL to struct mapped_device to indicate
whether the device can accept bios larger than the size its merge
function returns.  When set, use this to send large bios to snapshots
which can split them if necessary.  Snapshot I/O may be significantly
fragmented and this approach seems to improve peformance.

Before the patch, dm_set_device_limits restricted bio size to page size
if the underlying device had a merge function and the target didn't
provide a merge function.  After the patch, dm_set_device_limits
restricts bio size to page size if the underlying device has a merge
function, doesn't have DMF_MERGE_IS_OPTIONAL flag and the target doesn't
provide a merge function.

The snapshot target can't provide a merge function because when the merge
function is called, it is impossible to determine where the bio will be
remapped.  Previously this led us to impose a 4k limit, which we can
now remove if the snapshot store is located on a device without a merge
function.  Together with another patch for optimizing full chunk writes,
it improves performance from 29MB/s to 40MB/s when writing to the
filesystem on snapshot store.

If the snapshot store is placed on a non-dm device with a merge function
(such as md-raid), device mapper still limits all bios to page size.

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
(cherry picked from commit d5b9dd04bd74b774b8e8d93ced7a0d15ad403fa9)

Change-Id: Ifa3b8f8e46f33b98c15631a47b1cf8942e0322dd
dm table: share target argument parsing functions

Move multipath target argument parsing code into dm-table so other
targets can share it.

Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
(cherry picked from commit 498f0103ea13123e007660def9072a0b7dd1c599)

Change-Id: I12e77d6f9dc51759b8edf98e6562d65fff5f2c58
dm crypt: optionally support discard requests

Add optional parameter field to dmcrypt table and support
"allow_discards" option.

Discard requests bypass crypt queue processing. Bio is simple remapped
to underlying device.

Note that discard will be never enabled by default because of security
consequences.  It is up to the administrator to enable it for encrypted
devices.

(Note that userspace cryptsetup does not understand new optional
parameters yet.  Support for this will come later.  Until then, you
should use 'dmsetup' to enable and disable this.)

Signed-off-by: Milan Broz <mbroz@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
(cherry picked from commit 772ae5f54d69c38a5e3c4352c5fdbdaff141af21)

Change-Id: I63e082513184a201066dff9d55be9308e08f07cd
dm table: set flush capability based on underlying devices

DM has always advertised both REQ_FLUSH and REQ_FUA flush capabilities
regardless of whether or not a given DM device's underlying devices
also advertised a need for them.

Block's flush-merge changes from 2.6.39 have proven to be more costly
for DM devices.  Performance regressions have been reported even when
DM's underlying devices do not advertise that they have a write cache.

Fix the performance regressions by configuring a DM device's flushing
capabilities based on those of the underlying devices' capabilities.

Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
(cherry picked from commit ed8b752bccf2560e305e25125721d2f0ac759e88)

Change-Id: I46d4f2558b19f0e2f81f540905dd03899297b8f3
dm crypt: always disable discard_zeroes_data

If optional discard support in dm-crypt is enabled, discards requests
bypass the crypt queue and blocks of the underlying device are discarded.
For the read path, discarded blocks are handled the same as normal
ciphertext blocks, thus decrypted.

So if the underlying device announces discarded regions return zeroes,
dm-crypt must disable this flag because after decryption there is just
random noise instead of zeroes.

Signed-off-by: Milan Broz <mbroz@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
(cherry picked from commit 983c7db347db8ce2d8453fd1d89b7a4bb6920d56)

Change-Id: I07563a84f0a7c46dc6b02543cda6918d68209325