ksm: check and skip page, if it is already scanned
From: Pradeep Sawlani <sawlani@amazon.com>

On system like Android where most of the process are forked
from parent w/o execve, KSM can scan same page multiple times
in one scan cycle. There is no advantage in scanning same page
multiple times for merging. During testing with Android, it was
observed around 60% pages are skipped for each scan cycle.

Change-Id: I0cf01802f0b4d61fcab92558beb9e1c660dc9a77
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/CAMrOTPgBtANS_ryRjan0-dTL97U7eRvtf3dCsss=Kn+Uk89fuA@mail.gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Pradeep Sawlani <sawlani@amazon.com>

Signed-off-by: Paul Reioux <reioux@gmail.com>
softirq: reduce latencies

Date	Thu, 03 Jan 2013 23:49:40 -0800

In various network workloads, __do_softirq() latencies can be up
to 20 ms if HZ=1000, and 200 ms if HZ=100.

This is because we iterate 10 times in the softirq dispatcher,
and some actions can consume a lot of cycles.

This patch changes the fallback to ksoftirqd condition to :

- A time limit of 2 ms.
- need_resched() being set on current task

When one of this condition is met, we wakeup ksoftirqd for further
softirq processing if we still have pending softirqs.

Using need_resched() as the only condition can trigger RCU stalls,
as we can keep BH disabled for too long.

I ran several benchmarks and got no significant difference in
throughput, but a very significant reduction of latencies (one order
of magnitude) :

In following bench, 200 antagonist "netperf -t TCP_RR" are started in
background, using all available cpus.

Then we start one "netperf -t TCP_RR", bound to the cpu handling the NIC
IRQ (hard+soft)

Before patch :

RT_LATENCY,MIN_LATENCY,MAX_LATENCY,P50_LATENCY,P90_LATENCY,P99_LATENCY,MEAN_LATENCY,STDDEV_LATENCY
MIGRATED TCP REQUEST/RESPONSE TEST from 0.0.0.0 (0.0.0.0) port 0 AF_INET
to 7.7.7.84 () port 0 AF_INET : first burst 0 : cpu bind
RT_LATENCY=550110.424
MIN_LATENCY=146858
MAX_LATENCY=997109
P50_LATENCY=305000
P90_LATENCY=550000
P99_LATENCY=710000
MEAN_LATENCY=376989.12
STDDEV_LATENCY=184046.92
After patch :

RT_LATENCY,MIN_LATENCY,MAX_LATENCY,P50_LATENCY,P90_LATENCY,P99_LATENCY,MEAN_LATENCY,STDDEV_LATENCY
MIGRATED TCP REQUEST/RESPONSE TEST from 0.0.0.0 (0.0.0.0) port 0 AF_INET
to 7.7.7.84 () port 0 AF_INET : first burst 0 : cpu bind
RT_LATENCY=40545.492
MIN_LATENCY=9834
MAX_LATENCY=78366
P50_LATENCY=33583
P90_LATENCY=59000
P99_LATENCY=69000
MEAN_LATENCY=38364.67
STDDEV_LATENCY=12865.26

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Tom Herbert <therbert@google.com>
Cc: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>

Signed-off-by: Paul Reioux <reioux@gmail.com>
sched: disable GENTLE_FAIR_SLEEPERS (again)
ext4: remove useless marking of superblock dirty

Commit a0375156 properly notes that superblock doesn't need to be marked
as dirty when only number of free inodes / blocks / number of directories
changes since that is recomputed on each mount anyway. However that comment
leaves some unnecessary markings as dirty in place. Remove these.

Artem: tested using xfstests for both journalled and non-journalled ext4.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Tested-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
ext4: convert last user of ext4_mark_super_dirty() to ext4_handle_dirty_super()

The last user of ext4_mark_super_dirty() in ext4_file_open() is so
rare it can well be modifying the superblock properly by journalling
the change.  Change it and get rid of ext4_mark_super_dirty() as it's
not needed anymore.

Artem: small amendments.
Artem: tested using xfstests for both journalled and non-journalled ext4.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Tested-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
ext4: remove unnecessary superblock dirtying

This patch changes the 'ext4_handle_dirty_super()' function which
submits the superblock for I/O in the following cases:

1. When creating the first large file on a file system without
   EXT4_FEATURE_RO_COMPAT_LARGE_FILE feature.
2. When re-sizing the file-system.
3. When creating an xattr on a file-system without the
   EXT4_FEATURE_COMPAT_EXT_ATTR feature.

If the file-system has journal enabled, the superblock is written via
the journal. We do not modify this path.

If the file-system has no journal, this function, falls back to just
marking the superblock as dirty using the 's_dirt' superblock
flag. This means that it delays the actual superblock I/O submission
by 5 seconds (default setting).  Namely, the 'sync_supers()' kernel
thread will call 'ext4_write_super()' later and will actually submit
the superblock for I/O.

And this is the behavior this patch modifies: we stop using 's_dirt'
and just mark the superblock buffer as dirty right away. Indeed, all 3
cases above are extremely rare and it does not add any value to delay
the I/O submission for them.

Note: 'ext4_handle_dirty_super()' executes
'__ext4_handle_dirty_super()' with 'now = 0'. This patch basically
makes the 'now' argument unneeded and it will be deleted in one of the
next patches.

This patch also removes 's_dirt' condition on the unmount path because
we never set it anymore, so we should not test it.

Tested using xfstests for both journalled and non-journalled ext4.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
ext4: weed out ext4_write_super

We do not depend on VFS's '->write_super()' anymore and do not need
the 's_dirt' flag anymore, so weed out 'ext4_write_super()' and
's_dirt'.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
ext4: nuke write_super from comments

The '->write_super' superblock method is gone, and this patch removes all the
references to 'write_super' from ext3.

Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Andreas Dilger <adilger.kernel@dilger.ca>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
perf/arm: fix duplicate code
Revert "perf/arm: fix duplicate code"

This reverts commit 91c500166e182822894bc1e8f32ccb82c3a3d029.
msm: acpuclock-krait: Remove inapplicable 8064 errata workaround

The secondary MUX switching errata is worked around in the secure
warm-boot path, and does not require an in-kernel workaround.

For devices with older warm-boot code (without the workaround),
the removal of the kernel workaround is also safe. The errata
symptoms can only manifest themselves after an L2 power-collapse,
which can't occur until after all Krait CPUs have been brought
online at least once. Since the secondary MUX is only touched by
acpuclock when onlining CPUs for the first time, the MUX will
never be switched after L2 power-collapse.

Change-Id: If675cfab7f325a9f7af6e06ff5ed67bd65461f20
Signed-off-by: Matt Wagantall <mattw@codeaurora.org>
drivers/staging: Configurable android log buffer sizes
Purpose is reduce the buffer size accordingly and observe savings
in the total kernel static size, which is useful for
memory constrained devices.

Change-Id: I926ab85213c82924ec483327d5aa248372efc604
Signed-off-by: Bhargav Upperla <bhargavuln@codeaurora.org>

and reduce log buffer size to 128K for mako --mrg666
PM / tracing: remove deprecated power trace API
The text in Documentation said it would be removed in 2.6.41;
the text in the Kconfig said removal in the 3.1 release.  Either
way you look at it, we are well past both, so push it off a cliff.

Note that the POWER_CSTATE and the POWER_PSTATE are part of the
legacy tracing API.  Remove all tracepoints which use these flags.
As can be seen from context, most already have a trace entry via
trace_cpu_idle anyways.

Also, the cpufreq/cpufreq.c PSTATE one is actually unpaired, as
compared to the CSTATE ones which all have a clear start/stop.
As part of this, the trace_power_frequency also becomes orphaned,
so it too is deleted.

Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
ext4: speed up truncate/unlink by not using bforget() unless needed

Do not iterate over data blocks scanning for bh's to forget as they're
never exist. This improves time taken by unlink / truncate syscall.
Tested by continuously truncating file that is being written by dd.
Another test is rm -rf of linux tree while tar unpacks it. With
ordered data mode condition unlikely(!tbh) was always met in
ext4_free_blocks. With journal data mode tbh was found only few times,
so optimisation is also possible.

Unlinking fallocated 60G file after doing sync && echo 3 >
/proc/sys/vm/drop_caches && time rm --help

X86 before (linux 3.6-rc4):
# time rm -f test1
real    0m2.710s
user    0m0.000s
sys     0m1.530s

X86 after:
# time rm -f test1
real    0m0.644s
user    0m0.003s
sys     0m0.060s

MIPS before (linux 2.6.37):
# time rm -f test1
real    0m 4.93s
user    0m 0.00s
sys     0m 4.61s

MIPS after:
# time rm -f test1
real    0m 0.16s
user    0m 0.00s
sys     0m 0.06s

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andrey Sidorov <qrxd43@motorola.com>