deadline: Allow 0ms deadline latency, increase the read speed

Change a timer compare from after to after-equals, thus allowing
0 timeout and making deadline schedule FIFO.

Signed-off-by: xiaobing tu <xiaobing.tu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: flar2 <asegaert@gmail.com>

Conflicts:
	block/deadline-iosched.c

Conflicts:
	block/deadline-iosched.c
cpufreq: Optimize cpufreq_frequency_table_verify()

cpufreq_frequency_table_verify() is rewritten here to make it more logical
and efficient.
 - merge multiple lines for variable declarations together.
 - quit early if any frequency between min/max is found.
 - don't call cpufreq_verify_within_limits() in case any valid freq is
   found as it is of no use.
 - rename the count variable as found and change its type to boolean.

Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
cpufreq: Break out early when frequency equals target_freq

Many drivers keep frequencies in frequency table in ascending
or descending order. When governor tries to change to policy->min
or policy->max respectively then the cpufreq_frequency_table_target
could return on first iteration. This will save some iteration cycles.

So, break out early when a frequency in cpufreq_frequency_table
equals to target one.

Testing this during kernel compilation using ondemand governor
with a frequency table in ascending order, the
cpufreq_frequency_table_target returned early on the first
iteration at about 30% of times called.

Signed-off-by: Stratos Karafotis <stratosk@semaphore.gr>
compilation: add compiler optimization flags
arm: Allow CPU-supported unaligned accesses

This change reconfigures the CPU to allow CPU-supported unaligned
accesses, which are generally faster than software-only fixups,
resulting in fewer alignment exceptions.

Signed-off-by: Brent DeGraaf <bdegraaf@codeaurora.org>
modified by faux123 for omap
lib: Sparc's strncpy_from_user is generic enough, move under lib/

To use this, an architecture simply needs to:

1) Provide a user_addr_max() implementation via asm/uaccess.h

2) Add "select GENERIC_STRNCPY_FROM_USER" to their arch Kcnfig

3) Remove the existing strncpy_from_user() implementation and symbol
   exports their architecture had.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
modified for Linux 3.0 Kernel from Linux 3.4+ by faux123

Conflicts:

	lib/Makefile

Change-Id: If0a96ca0015db113e2126c4704e4229d62ceee3d
word-at-a-time: make the interfaces truly generic

This changes the interfaces in <asm/word-at-a-time.h> to be a bit more
complicated, but a lot more generic.

In particular, it allows us to really do the operations efficiently on
both little-endian and big-endian machines, pretty much regardless of
machine details.  For example, if you can rely on a fast population
count instruction on your architecture, this will allow you to make your
optimized <asm/word-at-a-time.h> file with that.

NOTE! The "generic" version in include/asm-generic/word-at-a-time.h is
not truly generic, it actually only works on big-endian.  Why? Because
on little-endian the generic algorithms are wasteful, since you can
inevitably do better. The x86 implementation is an example of that.

(The only truly non-generic part of the asm-generic implementation is
the "find_zero()" function, and you could make a little-endian version
of it.  And if the Kbuild infrastructure allowed us to pick a particular
header file, that would be lovely)

The <asm/word-at-a-time.h> functions are as follows:

 - WORD_AT_A_TIME_CONSTANTS: specific constants that the algorithm
   uses.

 - has_zero(): take a word, and determine if it has a zero byte in it.
   It gets the word, the pointer to the constant pool, and a pointer to
   an intermediate "data" field it can set.

   This is the "quick-and-dirty" zero tester: it's what is run inside
   the hot loops.

 - "prep_zero_mask()": take the word, the data that has_zero() produced,
   and the constant pool, and generate an *exact* mask of which byte had
   the first zero.  This is run directly *outside* the loop, and allows
   the "has_zero()" function to answer the "is there a zero byte"
   question without necessarily getting exactly *which* byte is the
   first one to contain a zero.

   If you do multiple byte lookups concurrently (eg "hash_name()", which
   looks for both NUL and '/' bytes), after you've done the prep_zero_mask()
   phase, the result of those can be or'ed together to get the "either
   or" case.

 - The result from "prep_zero_mask()" can then be fed into "find_zero()"
   (to find the byte offset of the first byte that was zero) or into
   "zero_bytemask()" (to find the bytemask of the bytes preceding the
   zero byte).

   The existence of zero_bytemask() is optional, and is not necessary
   for the normal string routines.  But dentry name hashing needs it, so
   if you enable DENTRY_WORD_AT_A_TIME you need to expose it.

This changes the generic strncpy_from_user() function and the dentry
hashing functions to use these modified word-at-a-time interfaces.  This
gets us back to the optimized state of the x86 strncpy that we lost in
the previous commit when moving over to the generic version.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
modified for Linux 3.0 from Linux 3.4+ by faux123
kernel: Move REPEAT_BYTE definition into linux/kernel.h

And make sure that everything using it explicitly includes
that header file.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
modified for Linux 3.0 from Linux 3.4+ by faux123
ARM: use generic strnlen_user and strncpy_from_user functions

This patch implements the word-at-a-time interface for ARM using the
same algorithm as x86. Although we have a clz instruction from ARMv5,
this only saves us one mov instruction when building with Thumb-2 and
makes no difference when targetting ARM, so we use the magic 0x0ff0001
constant for all CPUs. For big-endian configurations, we use the
implementation from asm-generic.

With this implemented, we can replace our byte-at-a-time strnlen_user
and strncpy_from_user functions with the optimised generic versions.

Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
modified for Linux 3.0 from Linux 3.4+ by faux123

Conflicts:

	arch/arm/Kconfig
	arch/arm/lib/Makefile
	lib/strnlen_user.c

Change-Id: I7681888acaa9b0182d7d1cc00cf4b329cd5dc6be