binfmt_elf.c: use get_random_int() to fix entropy depleting. Original commit: https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/1745611/

Signed-off-by: franciscofranco <franciscofranco.1990@gmail.com>
mm: writeback: every 500ms the writeback daemon kicks in and flushes the dirty pages into disk. Thats not very pleasant for performance and *maybe* battery. This patch disables the writeback function while the screen is on, and enables it back when the screen is off to flush all the dirty pages. In my real world usage testing I notice a slight bump in smoothness and performance while using the device.

Signed-off-by: franciscofranco <franciscofranco.1990@gmail.com>
sched: LOAD_FREQ (4*HZ+61) avoids loadavg Moire. From http://ripke.com/loadavg/moire

Signed-off-by: Francisco Franco <franciscofranco.1990@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Trifan <jimsth@gmail.com>
nohz: Fix update_ts_time_stat idle accounting

update_ts_time_stat currently updates idle time even if we are in
iowait loop at the moment. The only real users of the idle counter
(via get_cpu_idle_time_us) are CPU governors and they expect to get
cumulative time for both idle and iowait times.
The value (idle_sleeptime) is also printed to userspace by print_cpu
but it prints both idle and iowait times so the idle part is misleading.

Let's clean this up and fix update_ts_time_stat to account both counters
properly and update consumers of idle to consider iowait time as well.
If we do this we might use get_cpu_{idle,iowait}_time_us from other
contexts as well and we will get expected values.

Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/e9c909c221a8da402c4da07e4cd968c3218f8eb1.1314172057.git.mhocko@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Dan Trifan <jimsth@gmail.com>
fs/dcache.c: adaptive vfs_cache_pressure on suspend / resume

low vfs_cache pressure values save battery while idle, while
a low value also causes stutter with longer up times.

Signed-off-by: Dan Trifan <jimsth@gmail.com>
drivers: cpufreq: Send a uevent when governor changes

 * Useful so userspace tools can reconfigure.

Change-Id: Ib423910b8b9ac791ebe81a75bf399f58272f64f2
Signed-off-by: Dan Trifan <jimsth@gmail.com>
sched: don't call task_group() many times in set_task_rq()

It improves perfomance, especially if autogroup enabled.

The size of set_task_rq() was 0x180 and now it is 0xa0.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Vagin <avagin@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Dan Trifan <jimsth@gmail.com>
mutex: dynamically disable mutex spinning at high load
Date	Thu, 4 Apr 2013 10:54:18 -0400

The Linux mutex code has a MUTEX_SPIN_ON_OWNER configuration
option that was enabled by default in major distributions like Red
Hat. Allowing threads waiting on mutex to spin while the mutex owner
is running will theoretically reduce latency on the acquisition of
mutex at the expense of energy efficiency as the spinning threads
are doing no useful work.

This is not a problem on a lightly loaded system where the CPU may
be idle anyway. On a highly loaded system, the spinning tasks may be
blocking other tasks from running even if they have higher priority
because the spinning was done with preemption disabled.

This patch will disable mutex spinning if the current load is high
enough. The load is considered high if there are 2 or more active tasks
waiting to run on the current CPU. If there is only one task waiting,
it will check the average load at the past minute (calc_load_tasks).
If it is more than double the number of active CPUs, the load is
considered high too.  This is a rather simple metric that does not
incur that much additional overhead.

The AIM7 benchmarks were run on 3.7.10 derived kernels to show the
performance changes with this patch on a 8-socket 80-core system
with hyperthreading off.  The table below shows the mean % change
in performance over a range of users for some AIM7 workloads with
just the less atomic operation patch (patch 1) vs the less atomic
operation patch plus this one (patches 1+3).

+--------------+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------+
|   Workload   | mean % change   | mean % change   | mean % change   |
|              | 10-100 users    | 200-1000 users  | 1100-2000 users |
+--------------+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------+
| alltests     |      0.0%       |     -0.1%       |    +5.0%        |
| five_sec     |     +1.5%       |     +1.3%       |    +1.3%        |
| fserver      |     +1.5%       |    +25.4%       |    +9.6%        |
| high_systime |     +0.1%       |      0.0%       |    +0.8%        |
| new_fserver  |     +0.2%       |    +11.9%       |   +14.1%        |
| shared       |     -1.2%       |     +0.3%       |    +1.8%        |
| short        |     +6.4%       |     +2.5%       |    +3.0%        |
+--------------+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------+
It can be seen that this patch provides some big performance
improvement for the fserver and new_fserver workloads while is still
generally positive for the other AIM7 workloads.

Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <Waiman.Long@hp.com>
Reviewed-by: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr.bueso@hp.com>
modified for tuna kernel from LKML

Signed-off-by: Paul Reioux <reioux@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Trifan <jimsth@gmail.com>
fix false disconnect due to a signal sent to the reading process

- In the current implementation, when a signal is sent to the reading process,
  read is cancelled by calling usb_ep_dequeue, which lead into calling
  acc_complete_out with ECONNRESET, but the current logic treats it as
  disconnection, which makes the device inaccessible until cable is actually
  disconnected.
- The fix calls disconnect only when ESHUTDOWN error is passed.
- If data has already arrived while trying cancelling, the data is marked
  as available, and it will be read out on the next read. This is necessary
  as USB bulk is assumed to guarantee no data loss.

Signed-off-by: keunyoung <keunyoung@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Trifan <jimsth@gmail.com>
logger: Add sys fs kernel interface to configure Android logger

- now logging can be switched on and off via /sys/kernel/logger_mode/logger_mode interface
- default is 1 (on)

Signed-off-by: Dan Trifan <jimsth@gmail.com>