add extra free kbytes tunable

Add a userspace visible knob to tell the VM to keep an extra amount
of memory free, by increasing the gap between each zone's min and
low watermarks.

This is useful for realtime applications that call system
calls and have a bound on the number of allocations that happen
in any short time period.  In this application, extra_free_kbytes
would be left at an amount equal to or larger than than the
maximum number of allocations that happen in any burst.

It may also be useful to reduce the memory use of virtual
machines (temporarily?), in a way that does not cause memory
fragmentation like ballooning does.

[ccross]
Revived for use on old kernels where no other solution exists.
The tunable will be removed on kernels that do better at avoiding
direct reclaim.

Change-Id: I765a42be8e964bfd3e2886d1ca85a29d60c3bb3e
Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel<riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Colin Cross <ccross@android.com>
Git-commit: 92189d47f66c67e5fd92eafaa287e153197a454f
Git-repo: https://android.googlesource.com/kernel/common/
[bhargavuln@codeaurora.org: resolve trivial merge conflicts]
Signed-off-by: Bhargav Upperla <bhargavuln@codeaurora.org>
CPU hotplug, debug: detect imbalance between get_online_cpus() and put_online_cpus()

The synchronization between CPU hotplug readers and writers is achieved
by means of refcounting, safeguarded by the cpu_hotplug.lock.

get_online_cpus() increments the refcount, whereas put_online_cpus()
decrements it.  If we ever hit an imbalance between the two, we end up
compromising the guarantees of the hotplug synchronization i.e, for
example, an extra call to put_online_cpus() can end up allowing a
hotplug reader to execute concurrently with a hotplug writer.

So, add a WARN_ON() in put_online_cpus() to detect such cases where the
refcount can go negative, and also attempt to fix it up, so that we can
continue to run.

Change-Id: I144efeaa5899a2e8a3cddd21f010679cbaaa2459
Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Git-commit: 075663d19885eb3738fd2d7dbdb8947e12563b68
Git-repo: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git
Signed-off-by: Osvaldo Banuelos <osvaldob@codeaurora.org>
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.

Change-Id: Ibd814a20043d0aba64ee7637a4a79b9ffa1b0991
Signed-off-by: Saravana Kannan <skannan@codeaurora.org>
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.

Change-Id: I544c414568d4e015b80ce5891dd215275bac95da
Signed-off-by: Rohit Gupta <rohgup@codeaurora.org>
cpufreq: Add Input Boost feature to the cpu-boost driver

On incoming input events boost the frequency of all online cpus
for at least input_boost_ms ms. This is accomplished by changing
the policy->min of all the online cpus to input_boost_freq.

Change-Id: Idb0ab75d68ae4ceff259cbbaaec1a9bb3bc871d3
Signed-off-by: Rohit Gupta <rohgup@codeaurora.org>
cpufreq: Disable cpu-boost by default

Disable cpu-boost by default, so that it can be turned ON only by
setting the module parameter boost_ms through command prompt when
required.

Change-Id: Ia9bc280892f65ed1d2e8051d1951e51922ad13db
Signed-off-by: Rohit Gupta <rohgup@codeaurora.org>
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: Francisco Franco <franciscofranco.1990@gmail.com>
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>
Signed-off-by: franciscofranco <franciscofranco.1990@gmail.com>
cpufreq: Fix policy getting stuck when user & kernel min/max don't overlap

Every __cpufreq_set_policy starts with checking the new policy min/max has
some overlap with the current policy min/max. This works out fine until we
end up with the policy min/max being set to a range that doesn't overlap
with the user policy min/max. Once we get into this situation, the check at
the start of __cpufreq_set_policy fails and prevents us from getting out of
this state.

This only happens when one of the CPUFREQ_ADJUST/CPUFREQ_INCOMPATIBLE
notifiers called inside __cpufreq_set_policy pick a min/max outside the
range of user policy min/max.

The real intent of the check at the start of __cpufreq_set_policy is to
make sure userspace can't set user policy min > user policy max. Since
__cpufreq_set_policy always gets called only with current user policy
min/max except when the actual user space policy min/max is changed, we can
fix the issue by simply checking the new policy min/max against current
user policy min/max.

Change-Id: Iaac805825e64d7985c41fb9052bd96baacdf3d6f
Signed-off-by: Saravana Kannan <skannan@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: franciscofranco <franciscofranco.1990@gmail.com>