sched: Make scheduler aware of cpu frequency state

Capacity of a cpu (how much performance it can deliver) is partly
determined by its frequency (P) state, both current frequency as well
as max frequency it can reach.  Knowing frequency state of cpus will
help scheduler optimize various functions such as tracking every
task's cpu demand and placing tasks on various cpus.

This patch has scheduler registering for cpufreq notifications to
become aware of cpu's frequency state. Subsequent patches will make
use of derived information for various purposes, such as task's scaled
load (cpu demand) accounting and task placement.

Change-Id: I376dffa1e7f3f47d0496cd7e6ef8b5642ab79016
Signed-off-by: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: revjunkie <gadgetjuan@gmail.com>
sched: Make scheduler aware of cpu frequency state

Capacity of a cpu (how much performance it can deliver) is partly
determined by its frequency (P) state, both current frequency as well
as max frequency it can reach.  Knowing frequency state of cpus will
help scheduler optimize various functions such as tracking every
task's cpu demand and placing tasks on various cpus.

This patch has scheduler registering for cpufreq notifications to
become aware of cpu's frequency state. Subsequent patches will make
use of derived information for various purposes, such as task's scaled
load (cpu demand) accounting and task placement.

Change-Id: I376dffa1e7f3f47d0496cd7e6ef8b5642ab79016
Signed-off-by: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@codeaurora.org>
sched: window-based load stats for tasks

Provide a metric per task that specifies how cpu bound a task is. Task
execution is monitored over several time windows and the fraction of
the window for which task was found to be executing or wanting to run
is recorded as task's demand. Windows over which task was sleeping are
ignored. We track last 5 recent windows for every task and the maximum
demand seen in any of the previous 5 windows (where task had some
activity) drives freq demand for every task.

A per-cpu metric (rq->cumulative_runnable_avg) is also provided which
is an aggregation of cpu demand of all tasks currently enqueued on it.
rq->cumulative_runnable_avg will be useful to know if cpu frequency
will need to be changed to match task demand.

Change-Id: Ib83207b9ba8683cd3304ee8a2290695c34f08fe2
Signed-off-by: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@codeaurora.org>
cpufreq: cpu-boost: Re-issue boosts above minimum frequency

Frequency boosts where the source CPU frequency is greater than CPU's
minimum frequency should always go through regardless of the destination
CPU's current frequency. This fixes a performance issue where the governor
lowers the CPU frequency shortly after a thread is migrated to it because
the boost wasn't re-issued.

Change-Id: I449545a688d84b0a6e834f5a51dcb499caa84d29
Signed-off-by: Patrick Cain <pcain@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: revjunkie <gadgetjuan@gmail.com>
Revert "cpufreq: cpu-boost: Re-issue boosts above minimum frequency"

This reverts commit 5eaa6d1d7324dc47d51adc060a0475fdff126627.
cpu-boost:sync with caf
cpufreq: cpu-boost: Introduce scheduler assisted load based syncs

Previously, on getting a migration notification cpu-boost changed
the scaling min of the destination frequency to match that of the
source frequency or sync_threshold whichever was minimum.

If the scheduler migration notification is extended with task load
(cpu demand) information, the cpu boost driver can use this load to
compute a suitable frequency for the migrating task. The required
frequency for the task is calculated by taking the load percentage
of the max frequency and no sync is performed if the load is less
than a particular value (migration_load_threshold).This change is
beneficial for both perf and power as demand of a task is taken into
consideration while making cpufreq decisions and unnecessary syncs
for lightweight tasks are avoided.

The task load information provided by scheduler comes from a
window-based load collection mechanism which also normalizes the
load collected by the scheduler to the max possible frequency
across all CPUs.

Change-Id: Id2ba91cc4139c90602557f9b3801fb06b3c38992
Signed-off-by: Rohit Gupta <rohgup@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: revjunkie <gadgetjuan@gmail.com>
cpufreq: cpu-boost: Introduce scheduler assisted load based syncs

Previously, on getting a migration notification cpu-boost changed
the scaling min of the destination frequency to match that of the
source frequency or sync_threshold whichever was minimum.

If the scheduler migration notification is extended with task load
(cpu demand) information, the cpu boost driver can use this load to
compute a suitable frequency for the migrating task. The required
frequency for the task is calculated by taking the load percentage
of the max frequency and no sync is performed if the load is less
than a particular value (migration_load_threshold).This change is
beneficial for both perf and power as demand of a task is taken into
consideration while making cpufreq decisions and unnecessary syncs
for lightweight tasks are avoided.

The task load information provided by scheduler comes from a
window-based load collection mechanism which also normalizes the
load collected by the scheduler to the max possible frequency
across all CPUs.

Change-Id: Id2ba91cc4139c90602557f9b3801fb06b3c38992
Signed-off-by: Rohit Gupta <rohgup@codeaurora.org>
msm: Improve qpnp-vibrator scheduling

 * Skip the workqueue and use spinlocks to improve interactivity
 * This vastly improves "recent apps" in Android

Change-Id: I77da17b4f1ce2f213772c41ddbac21250432279e
Signed-off-by: franciscofranco <franciscofranco.1990@gmail.com>
fix derpness
cpufreq: cpu-boost: Handle wakeup hints received for foreground tasks

A previous change modifies the notification conditions in the scheduler
to call the notifier chain even on foreground_thread wakeups for tasks
having load more than a threshold value.

If load_based_syncs is turned OFF then we do not need to perform
cpu boost for wakeup hints for foreground tasks from scheduler

Change-Id: Ifbdd3eccac5c9892dfc3a3c3edbfc0df766478ed
Signed-off-by: Rohit Gupta <rohgup@codeaurora.org>
audit: kiss goodbye you stupid piece of crap logging messages.

Signed-off-by: Francisco Franco <franciscofranco.1990@gmail.com>
mm: page-writeback.c: local functions should not be exposed globally

The function global_dirtyable_memory is only referenced in this file and
should be marked static to prevent it from being exposed globally.

This quiets the sparse warning:

warning: symbol 'global_dirtyable_memory' was not declared. Should it be static?

Signed-off-by: H Hartley Sweeten <hsweeten@visionengravers.com>
Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
writeback: initialize global_dirty_limit

This prevents global_dirty_limit from remaining 0 (the initial value)
for long time, since it's only updated in update_dirty_limit() when
above the dirty freerun area.

It will avoid unexpected consequences when some random code use it as a
convenient approximation of the global dirty threshold.

Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
block: Convert BDI proportion calculations to flexible proportions

Convert calculations of proportion of writeback each bdi does to new flexible
proportion code. That allows us to use aging period of fixed wallclock time
which gives better proportion estimates given the hugely varying throughput of
different devices.

Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Revert "bdi: use deferable timer for sync_supers task"

This reverts commit 6eb4cf5c369e7b956504151e3ee24307bc3995e9.
bdi: use deferable timer for sync_supers task

sync_supers task currently wakes up periodically for superblock
writeback. This hurts power on battery driven devices. This patch
turns this housekeeping timer into a deferable timer so that it
does not fire when system is really idle.

CRs-Fixed: 353700
Change-Id: Idc7953b5d0580546808bc5832291ca570837ee7f
Signed-off-by: Yong Wang <yong.y.wang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Xia Wu <xia.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Krishna Vanka <kvanka@codeaurora.org>
Patch-mainline: v3.5
Git-commit: 19b52abe3c5d759661500a1dc810924369b2ad46
Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org>
mm: prepare for removal of obsolete /proc/sys/vm/nr_pdflush_threads

Since per-BDI flusher threads were introduced in 2.6, the pdflush
mechanism is not used any more.  But the old interface exported through
/proc/sys/vm/nr_pdflush_threads still exists and is obviously useless.

For back-compatibility, printk warning information and return 2 to notify
the users that the interface is removed.

Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li <liwp@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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>
Revert "block: Convert BDI proportion calculations to flexible proportions"

This reverts commit 4d5d102505bc6760f91a55d45c0b8f74325655e5.
vfs: kill write_super and sync_supers

Finally we can kill the 'sync_supers' kernel thread along with the
'->write_super()' superblock operation because all the users are gone.
Now every file-system is supposed to self-manage own superblock and
its dirty state.

The nice thing about killing this thread is that it improves power management.
Indeed, 'sync_supers' is a source of monotonic system wake-ups - it woke up
every 5 seconds no matter what - even if there were no dirty superblocks and
even if there were no file-systems using this service (e.g., btrfs and
journalled ext4 do not need it). So it was wasting power most of the time. And
because the thread was in the core of the kernel, all systems had to have it.
So I am quite happy to make it go away.

Interestingly, this thread is a left-over from the pdflush kernel thread which
was a self-forking kernel thread responsible for all the write-back in old
Linux kernels. It was turned into per-block device BDI threads, and
'sync_supers' was a left-over. Thus, R.I.P, pdflush as well.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: revjunkie <gadgetjuan@gmail.com>