sched/rt: Remove redundant nr_cpus_allowed test

Date	Fri, 4 Oct 2013 14:24:53 -0500

From: Shawn Bohrer <sbohrer@rgmadvisors.com>

In 76854c7 "sched: Use
rt.nr_cpus_allowed to recover select_task_rq() cycles" an optimization
was added to select_task_rq_rt() that immediately returns when
p->nr_cpus_allowed == 1 at the beginning of the function.  This makes
the latter p->nr_cpus_allowed > 1 check redundant and can be removed.
Signed-off-by: Shawn Bohrer <sbohrer@rgmadvisors.com>

Signed-off-by: Paul Reioux <reioux@gmail.com>
fs: vfat: reduce the worst case latencies

When a block partition is mounted with FAT file system
and MS_DIRSYNC option is used, some file system operations
like create, rename shall sleep in caller's context until
all the metadata have been committed to the non-volatile memory.
Since this operation is blocking call for user context,
the WRITE_SYNC option must be used instead of WRITE
(async operation) which incur inherent latencies while
flushing the meta-data corresponding to directory entries

Change-Id: I41c514889873a39d564271db0a421e6c66e5ae33
Signed-off-by: xiaogang <xiaogang@codeaurora.org>
smp: Add generic smpboot facility

Start a new file, which will hold SMP and CPU hotplug related generic
infrastructure.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>
Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Cc: Jesper Nilsson <jesper.nilsson@axis.com>
Cc: Richard Kuo <rkuo@codeaurora.org>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: James E.J. Bottomley <jejb@parisc-linux.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Cc: x86@kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120420124557.035417523@linutronix.de

Change-Id: Ia1ad435435aa12c47ac0d381ae031ebf6edcff1f
smp: Provide generic idle thread allocation

All SMP architectures have magic to fork the idle task and to store it
for reusage when cpu hotplug is enabled. Provide a generic
infrastructure for it.

Create/reinit the idle thread for the cpu which is brought up in the
generic code and hand the thread pointer to the architecture code via
__cpu_up().

Note, that fork_idle() is called via a workqueue, because this
guarantees that the idle thread does not get a reference to a user
space VM. This can happen when the boot process did not bring up all
possible cpus and a later cpu_up() is initiated via the sysfs
interface. In that case fork_idle() would be called in the context of
the user space task and take a reference on the user space VM.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>
Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Cc: Jesper Nilsson <jesper.nilsson@axis.com>
Cc: Richard Kuo <rkuo@codeaurora.org>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: James E.J. Bottomley <jejb@parisc-linux.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Cc: x86@kernel.org
Acked-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venki@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120420124557.102478630@linutronix.de

Change-Id: Ie2d32789f3a69ee15f38ba704aaa84d6be85bcd4
Signed-off-by: Willi Ye <williye97@gmail.com>

Conflicts:
	kernel/sched/core.c
smp, idle: Allocate idle thread for each possible cpu during boot

percpu areas are already allocated during boot for each possible cpu.
percpu idle threads can be considered as an extension of the percpu areas,
and allocate them for each possible cpu during boot.

This will eliminate the need for workqueue based idle thread allocation.
In future we can move the idle thread area into the percpu area too.

[ tglx: Moved the loop into smpboot.c and added an error check when
  the init code failed to allocate an idle thread for a cpu which
  should be onlined ]

Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: venki@google.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1334966930.28674.245.camel@sbsiddha-desk.sc.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

Change-Id: I36828165fc08b7c0a8a0fe6a2aa24d358e623dd2
Signed-off-by: Willi Ye <williye97@gmail.com>

Conflicts:
	arch/arm/Kconfig

Conflicts:
	arch/arm/Kconfig
smpboot, idle: Optimize calls to smp_processor_id() in idle_threads_init()

While trying to initialize idle threads for all cpus, idle_threads_init()
calls smp_processor_id() in a loop, which is unnecessary. The intent
is to initialize idle threads for all non-boot cpus. So just use a variable
to note the boot cpu and use it in the loop.

Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: suresh.b.siddha@intel.com
Cc: venki@google.com
Cc: nikunj@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120524151055.2549.64309.stgit@srivatsabhat.in.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

Change-Id: Ib65df4c31e93e1622c26f2c2a4946ffd28c1839d
smpboot, idle: Fix comment mismatch over idle_threads_init()

The comment over idle_threads_init() really talks about the functionality
of idle_init(). Move that comment to idle_init(), and add a suitable
comment over idle_threads_init().

Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: suresh.b.siddha@intel.com
Cc: venki@google.com
Cc: nikunj@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120524151100.2549.66501.stgit@srivatsabhat.in.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

Change-Id: Ib0cd6d6e19e0c64868a42a77101b080a5f3b04f8
kthread_worker: reorganize to prepare for flush_kthread_work() reimplementation

Make the following two non-functional changes.

* Separate out insert_kthread_work() from queue_kthread_work().

* Relocate struct kthread_flush_work and kthread_flush_work_fn()
  definitions above flush_kthread_work().

v2: Added lockdep_assert_held() in insert_kthread_work() as suggested
    by Andy Walls.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Andy Walls <awalls@md.metrocast.net>

Change-Id: Ie1eef2c000c328ec16f32db011377415237da93d
kthread_worker: reimplement flush_kthread_work() to allow freeing the work item being executed

kthread_worker provides minimalistic workqueue-like interface for
users which need a dedicated worker thread (e.g. for realtime
priority).  It has basic queue, flush_work, flush_worker operations
which mostly match the workqueue counterparts; however, due to the way
flush_work() is implemented, it has a noticeable difference of not
allowing work items to be freed while being executed.

While the current users of kthread_worker are okay with the current
behavior, the restriction does impede some valid use cases.  Also,
removing this difference isn't difficult and actually makes the code
easier to understand.

This patch reimplements flush_kthread_work() such that it uses a
flush_work item instead of queue/done sequence numbers.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>

Change-Id: I06e2ab5ef8ea3caa8e40257da0a636ab9eb5ae55
arm: if there's no handler we need to restore sigmask, syscall or no syscall

CRs-fixed: 592079
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Git-commit: 7dfae72027cd8345247e675a3b27439df95fe06e
Git-repo: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-stable.git
Signed-off-by: Joonwoo Park <joonwoop@codeaurora.org>
arm: new way of handling ERESTART_RESTARTBLOCK

new "syscall start" flag; handled in syscall_trace() by switching
syscall number to that of syscall_restart(2).  Restarts of that
kind (ERESTART_RESTARTBLOCK) are handled by setting that bit;
syscall number is not modified until the actual call.

CRs-fixed: 592079
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Git-commit: 6b5c8045ecc7e726cdaa2a9d9c8e5008050e1252
Git-repo: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-stable.git
Signed-off-by: Joonwoo Park <joonwoop@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Willi Ye <williye97@gmail.com>

Conflicts:
	arch/arm/include/asm/thread_info.h
	arch/arm/kernel/ptrace.c