block: row: Re-design urgent request notification mechanism

When ROW scheduler reports to the block layer that there is an urgent
request pending, the device driver may decide to stop the transmission
of the current request in order to handle the urgent one. This is done
in order to reduce the latency of an urgent request. For example:
long WRITE may be stopped to handle an urgent READ.

This patch updates the ROW URGENT notification policy to apply with the
below:

- Don't notify URGENT if there is an un-completed URGENT request in driver
- After notifying that URGENT request is present, the next request
  dispatched is the URGENT one.
- At every given moment only 1 request can be marked as URGENT.
  Independent of it's location (driver or scheduler)

Other changes to URGENT policy:
- Only READ queues are allowed to notify of an URGENT request pending.

CR fix:
If a pending urgent request (A) gets merged with another request (B)
A is removed from scheduler queue but is not removed from
rd->pending_urgent_rq.

CRs-Fixed: 453712
Change-Id: I321e8cf58e12a05b82edd2a03f52fcce7bc9a900
Signed-off-by: Tatyana Brokhman <tlinder@codeaurora.org>
block: urgent request: remove unnecessary urgent marking

An urgent request is marked by the scheduler in rq->cmd_flags with the
REQ_URGENT flag. There is no need to add an additional marking by
the block layer.

Change-Id: I05d5e9539d2f6c1bfa80240b0671db197a5d3b3f
Signed-off-by: Tatyana Brokhman <tlinder@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: faux123 <reioux@gmail.com>

Conflicts:
	block/test-iosched.c
sysfs: fix race between readdir and lseek Date Wed, 20 Mar 2013 23:25:24 +0800

While readdir() is running, lseek() may set filp->f_pos as zero,
then may leave filp->private_data pointing to one sysfs_dirent
object without holding its reference counter, so the sysfs_dirent
object may be used after free in next readdir().

This patch holds inode->i_mutex to avoid the problem since
the lock is always held in readdir path.

Reported-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>
modified for Mako Hybrid kernel from LKML reference

Signed-off-by: faux123 <reioux@gmail.com>
sysfs: handle failure path correctly for readdir() Date Wed, 20 Mar 2013 23:25:25 +0800

In case of 'if (filp->f_pos ==  0 or 1)' of sysfs_readdir(),
the failure from filldir() isn't handled, and the reference counter
of the sysfs_dirent object pointed by filp->private_data will be
released without clearing filp->private_data, so use after free
bug will be triggered later.
This patch returns immeadiately under the situation for fixing the bug,
and it is reasonable to return from readdir() when filldir() fails.

Reported-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>
cpufreq: conservative: Set MIN_LATENCY_MULTIPLIER to 20

Currently MIN_LATENCY_MULTIPLIER is set defined as 100 and so on a system with
transition latency of 1 ms, the minimum sampling time comes to be around 100 ms.
That is quite big if you want to get better performance for your system.

Redefine MIN_LATENCY_MULTIPLIER to 20 so that we can support 20ms sampling rate
for such platforms.

Signed-off-by: faux123 <reioux@gmail.com>
cpufreq: ondemand: Set MIN_LATENCY_MULTIPLIER to 20

Currently MIN_LATENCY_MULTIPLIER is set defined as 100 and so on a system with
transition latency of 1 ms, the minimum sampling time comes to be around 100 ms.
That is quite big if you want to get better performance for your system.

Redefine MIN_LATENCY_MULTIPLIER to 20 so that we can support 20ms sampling rate
for such platforms.

Signed-off-by: faux123 <reioux@gmail.com>