AIO: Don't plug the I/O queue in do_io_submit() Asynchronous I/O latency to a solid-state disk greatly increased between the 2.6.32 and 3.0 kernels. By removing the plug from do_io_submit(), we observed a 34% improvement in the I/O latency.

Unfortunately, at this level, we don't know if the request is to
a rotating disk or not.

Change-Id: I7101df956473ed9fd5dcff18e473dd93b688a5c1
Signed-off-by: Dave Kleikamp <dave.kleikamp@oracle.com>
Cc: linux-aio@kvack.org
Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
sync: don't block the flusher thread waiting on IO

When sync does it's WB_SYNC_ALL writeback, it issues data Io and
then immediately waits for IO completion. This is done in the
context of the flusher thread, and hence completely ties up the
flusher thread for the backing device until all the dirty inodes
have been synced. On filesystems that are dirtying inodes constantly
and quickly, this means the flusher thread can be tied up for
minutes per sync call and hence badly affect system level write IO
performance as the page cache cannot be cleaned quickly.

We already have a wait loop for IO completion for sync(2), so cut
this out of the flusher thread and delegate it to wait_sb_inodes().
Hence we can do rapid IO submission, and then wait for it all to
complete.

Effect of sync on fsmark before the patch:

FSUse%        Count         Size    Files/sec     App Overhead
.....
     0       640000         4096      35154.6          1026984
     0       720000         4096      36740.3          1023844
     0       800000         4096      36184.6           916599
     0       880000         4096       1282.7          1054367
     0       960000         4096       3951.3           918773
     0      1040000         4096      40646.2           996448
     0      1120000         4096      43610.1           895647
     0      1200000         4096      40333.1           921048

And a single sync pass took:

  real    0m52.407s
  user    0m0.000s
  sys     0m0.090s

After the patch, there is no impact on fsmark results, and each
individual sync(2) operation run concurrently with the same fsmark
workload takes roughly 7s:

  real    0m6.930s
  user    0m0.000s
  sys     0m0.039s

IOWs, sync is 7-8x faster on a busy filesystem and does not have an
adverse impact on ongoing async data write operations.

Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
writeback: fix occasional slow sync(1)

In case when system contains no dirty pages, wakeup_flusher_threads() will
submit WB_SYNC_NONE writeback for 0 pages so wb_writeback() exits
immediately without doing anything, even though there are dirty inodes in
the system.  Thus sync(1) will write all the dirty inodes from a
WB_SYNC_ALL writeback pass which is slow.

Fix the problem by using get_nr_dirty_pages() in wakeup_flusher_threads()
instead of calculating number of dirty pages manually.  That function also
takes number of dirty inodes into account.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Reported-by: Paul Taysom <taysom@chromium.org>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
ext4: make sure the journal sb is written in ext4_clear_journal_err()

After we transfer set the EXT4_ERROR_FS bit in the file system
superblock, it's not enough to call jbd2_journal_clear_err() to clear
the error indication from journal superblock --- we need to call
jbd2_journal_update_sb_errno() as well.  Otherwise, when the root file
system is mounted read-only, the journal is replayed, and the error
indicator is transferred to the superblock --- but the s_errno field
in the jbd2 superblock is left set (since although we cleared it in
memory, we never flushed it out to disk).

This can end up confusing e2fsck.  We should make e2fsck more robust
in this case, but the kernel shouldn't be leaving things in this
confused state, either.

Change-Id: I7a7cd58880209fbd54f4ded5f2b62de492cae9e0
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Git-commit: d796c52ef0b71a988364f6109aeb63d79c5b116b
Git-repo: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git
Signed-off-by: Osvaldo Banuelos <osvaldob@codeaurora.org>
ext4: fix memory leak in xattr

If we take the 2nd retry path in ext4_expand_extra_isize_ea, we
potentionally return from the function without having freed these
allocations.  If we don't do the return, we over-write the previous
allocation pointers, so we leak either way.

Spotted with Coverity.

[ Fixed by tytso to set is and bs to NULL after freeing these
  pointers, in case in the retry loop we later end up triggering an
  error causing a jump to cleanup, at which point we could have a double
  free bug. -- Ted ]

Change-Id: I49b8ca41a6c6d44b563eb23306870258a3affd3b
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@fedoraproject.org>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Reviewed-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Git-commit: 6e4ea8e33b2057b85d75175dd89b93f5e26de3bc
Git-repo: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git
Signed-off-by: Osvaldo Banuelos <osvaldob@codeaurora.org>
fs: fuse: Add replacment for CMA pages into the LRU cache

CMA pages are currently replaced in the FUSE file system since
FUSE may hold on to CMA pages for a long time, preventing migration.
The replacement page is added to the file cache but not the LRU
cache. This may prevent the page from being properly aged and dropped,
creating poor performance under tight memory condition. Fix this by
adding the new page to the LRU cache after creation.

Change-Id: Ib349abf1024d48386b835335f3fbacae040b6241
CRs-Fixed: 586855
Signed-off-by: Laura Abbott <lauraa@codeaurora.org>
msm: msm_rq_stats: remove is_smp() API

is_smp() API is unavailable on few target codes.
Until this API is defined use CONFIG_SMP to know
whether target supports SPM are not.

CRs-fixed: 579034
Change-Id: I5bd5c208b18aae27d7f36e77e9d5b38639c2c00e
Signed-off-by: Murali Nalajala <mnalajal@codeaurora.org>
ARM: move VFP init to an earlier boot stage

In order to use the NEON unit in the kernel, we should
initialize it a bit earlier in the boot process so NEON users
that like to do a quick benchmark at load time (like the
xor_blocks or RAID-6 code) find the NEON/VFP unit already
enabled.

Replaced late_initcall() with core_initcall().

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel at linaro.org>
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico at linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Reioux <reioux@gmail.com>
ARM: be strict about FP exceptions in kernel mode

The support code in vfp_support_entry does not care whether the
exception that caused it to be invoked occurred in kernel mode or
in user mode. However, neither condition that could trigger this
exception (lazy restore and VFP bounce to support code) is
currently allowable in kernel mode.

In either case, print a message describing the condition before
letting the undefined instruction handler run its course and trigger
an oops.

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org>

Conflicts:
	arch/arm/vfp/vfpmodule.c
ARM: add support for kernel mode NEON

In order to safely support the use of NEON instructions in
kernel mode, some precautions need to be taken:
- the userland context that may be present in the registers (even
  if the NEON/VFP is currently disabled) must be stored under the
  correct task (which may not be 'current' in the UP case),
- to avoid having to keep track of additional vfpstates for the
  kernel side, disallow the use of NEON in interrupt context
  and run with preemption disabled,
- after use, re-enable preemption and re-enable the lazy restore
  machinery by disabling the NEON/VFP unit.

This patch adds the functions kernel_neon_begin() and
kernel_neon_end() which take care of the above. It also adds
the Kconfig symbol KERNEL_MODE_NEON to enable it.

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org>

Conflicts:
	arch/arm/vfp/vfpmodule.c
ARM: crypto: add NEON accelerated XOR implementation

Add a source file xor-neon.c (which is really just the reference
C implementation passed through the GCC vectorizer) and hook it
up to the XOR framework.

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org>
ARM: 7835/2: fix modular build of xor_blocks() with NEON enabled

Commit 0195659 introduced a NEON accelerated version of the xor_blocks()
function, but it needs the changes in this patch to allow it to be built
as a module rather than statically into the kernel.

This patch creates a separate module xor-neon.ko which exports the NEON
inner xor_blocks() functions depended upon by the regular xor.ko if it
is built with CONFIG_KERNEL_MODE_NEON=y

Reported-by: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@fedoraproject.org>
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
crypto: create generic version of ablk_helper

Create a generic version of ablk_helper so it can be reused
by other architectures.

Acked-by: Jussi Kivilinna <jussi.kivilinna@iki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>

Conflicts:
	crypto/Kconfig
	crypto/Makefile
crypto: ablk_helper - Replace memcpy with struct assignment

tree:   git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/cryptodev-2.6.git master
head:   48e6dc1b2a1ad8186d48968d5018912bdacac744
commit: a62b01cd6cc1feb5e80d64d6937c291473ed82cb [20/24] crypto: create generic version of ablk_helper

coccinelle warnings: (new ones prefixed by >>)

>> crypto/ablk_helper.c:97:2-8: Replace memcpy with struct assignment
>> crypto/ablk_helper.c:78:2-8: Replace memcpy with struct assignment

Please consider folding the attached diff :-)

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
ARM: move AES typedefs and function prototypes to separate header

Put the struct definitions for AES keys and the asm function prototypes in a
separate header and export the asm functions from the module.
This allows other drivers to use them directly.

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
ARM: pull in <asm/simd.h> from asm-generic

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
ARM: 7626/1: arm/crypto: Make asm SHA-1 and AES code Thumb-2 compatible

This patch fixes aes-armv4.S and sha1-armv4-large.S to work
natively in Thumb.  This allows ARM/Thumb interworking workarounds
to be removed.

I also take the opportunity to convert some explicit assembler
directives for exported functions to the standard
ENTRY()/ENDPROC().

For the code itself:

  * In sha1_block_data_order, use of TEQ with sp is deprecated in
    ARMv7 and not supported in Thumb.  For the branches back to
    .L_00_15 and .L_40_59, the TEQ is converted to a CMP, under the
    assumption that clobbering the C flag here will not cause
    incorrect behaviour.

    For the first branch back to .L_20_39_or_60_79 the C flag is
    important, so sp is moved temporarily into another register so
    that TEQ can be used for the comparison.

  * In the AES code, most forms of register-indexed addressing with
    shifts and rotates are not permitted for loads and stores in
    Thumb, so the address calculation is done using a separate
    instruction for the Thumb case.

The resulting code is unlikely to be optimally scheduled, but it
should not have a large impact given the overall size of the code.
I haven't run any benchmarks.

Signed-off-by: Dave Martin <dave.martin@linaro.org>
Tested-by: David McCullough <ucdevel@gmail.com> (ARM only)
Acked-by: David McCullough <ucdevel@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
ARM: 7837/3: fix Thumb-2 bug in AES assembler code

Patch 638591c enabled building the AES assembler code in Thumb2 mode.
However, this code used arithmetic involving PC rather than adr{l}
instructions to generate PC-relative references to the lookup tables,
and this needs to take into account the different PC offset when
running in Thumb mode.

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
ARM: 7723/1: crypto: sha1-armv4-large.S: fix SP handling

Make the SHA1 asm code ABI conformant by making sure all stack
accesses occur above the stack pointer.

Origin:
http://git.openssl.org/gitweb/?p=openssl.git;a=commit;h=1a9d60d2

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
ARM: only allow kernel mode neon with AEABI

This prevents the linker erroring with:

arm-linux-ld: error: arch/arm/lib/xor-neon.o uses VFP instructions, whereas arch/arm/lib/built-in.o does not
arm-linux-ld: failed to merge target specific data of file arch/arm/lib/xor-neon.o

This is due to the non-neon files being marked as containing FPA data/
instructions (even though they do not) being mixed with files which
contain VFP, which is an incompatible floating point format.

Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>