block/partitions: optimize memory allocation in check_partition()

Currently, sizeof(struct parsed_partitions) may be 64KB in 32bit arch, so
it is easy to trigger page allocation failure by check_partition,
especially in hotplug block device situation(such as, USB mass storage,
MMC card, ...), and Felipe Balbi has observed the failure.

This patch does below optimizations on the allocation of struct
parsed_partitions to try to address the issue:

- make parsed_partitions.parts as pointer so that the pointed memory can
  fit in 32KB buffer, then approximate 32KB memory can be saved

- vmalloc the buffer pointed by parsed_partitions.parts because 32KB is
  still a bit big for kmalloc

- given that many devices have the partition count limit, so only
  allocate disk_max_parts() partitions instead of 256 partitions always

Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>
Reported-by: Felipe Balbi <balbi@ti.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Reviewed-by: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Change-Id: I4f65f1093fa1e5d46f4473c9931767a3023a4479
zwliew: backport to linux 3.0
block: Reserve only one queue tag for sync IO if only 3 tags are available

In case a device has three tags available we still reserve two of them
for sync IO. That leaves only a single tag for async IO such as
writeback from flusher thread which results in poor performance.

Allow async IO to consume two tags in case queue has three tag availabe
to get a decent async write performance.

This patch improves streaming write performance on a machine with such disk
from ~21 MB/s to ~52 MB/s. Also postmark throughput in presence of
streaming writer improves from 8 to 12 transactions per second so sync
IO doesn't seem to be harmed in presence of heavy async writer.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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>
lib/checksum.c: optimize do_csum a bit

Reduce the number of variables modified by the loop in do_csum() by 1,
which seems like a good idea.  On Nios II (a RISC CPU with 3-operand
instruction set) it reduces the loop from 7 to 6 instructions, including
the conditional branch.

Signed-off-by: Ian Abbott <abbotti@mev.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
fsync: add a kernel panic notifier

force flush data on kernel panic.

Change-Id: Ib5077296d3c18deaa2b5484f51620939d3233b50
mm: bump readahead to 512kb

Change-Id: I4ae4a6d88d8dcf0a1efe07384d3d723e23297ab3