Revert -> deadline: tweak generally recommended for SSDs
probably not a smart decision of me.

thx to ZolaIII from modacco for making me aware of this.

the tuneable "fifo_batch" is still adjustable through sysfs of course in case someone want's to use the value "1" which is recommended for SSD's
hrtimer: Introduce effective timer slack

task_get_effective_timer_slack() returns timer slack value to be used
to configure per-task timers. It can be equal or higher than task's
timer slack value.

For now task_get_effective_timer_slack() returns timer_slack_ns of the
task. Timer slack cgroup controller will implement a bit more
sophisticated logic.

Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name>
Signed-off-by: Cristoforo Cataldo <cristoforo.cataldo@gmail.com>
cgroups: Introduce timer slack controller

Every task_struct has timer_slack_ns value. This value uses to round up
poll() and select() timeout values. This feature can be useful in
mobile environment where combined wakeups are desired.

Originally, prctl() was the only way to change timer slack value of
a process. So you was not able change timer slack value of another
process.

cgroup subsys "timer_slack" implements timer slack controller. It
provides a way to set minimal timer slack value for a group of tasks.
If a task belongs to a cgroup with minimal timer slack value higher than
task's value, cgroup's value will be applied.

Timer slack controller allows to implement setting timer slack value of
a process based on a policy. For example, you can create foreground and
background cgroups and move tasks between them based on system state.

Idea-by: Jacob Pan <jacob.jun.pan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name>
Signed-off-by: Cristoforo Cataldo <cristoforo.cataldo@gmail.com>
kernel: cgroup_timer_slack: Adaptations for 3.4 kernel

Signed-off-by: Cristoforo Cataldo <cristoforo.cataldo@gmail.com>
kernel: cgroup_timer_slack: Dynamic management of timer slack

This feature allows to use different minimal timer slack values and to
dynamically manage them when the system has been resumed (it's active)
or when has been suspended.

A new file is provided in addition to the two files provided by the
original timer slack controller:
- "timer_slack.min_slack_suspend_ns" is the minimal timer slack value
  to use when the system is suspended (screen off)

For further info, please refers to the timer slack documentation:
Documentation/cgroupd/timer_slack.txt

Signed-off-by: Cristoforo Cataldo <cristoforo.cataldo@gmail.com>
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

Change-Id: Iee8afc643ea8e7dd2d7c038c542a0377f71bd34e
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>
mm: Added filesystem dynamic read-ahead (Credits to Chad Gooldman)
block: add ZEN I/O scheduler
block: add V(R) I/O scheduler
sched: provide per cpu-cgroup option to notify on migrations

On systems where CPUs may run asynchronously, task migrations
between CPUs running at grossly different speeds can cause
problems.

This change provides a mechanism to notify a subsystem
in the kernel if a task in a particular cgroup migrates to a
different CPU. Other subsystems (such as cpufreq) may then
register for this notifier to take appropriate action when
such a task is migrated.

The cgroup attribute to set for this behavior is
"notify_on_migrate" .

Change-Id: Ie1868249e53ef901b89c837fdc33b0ad0c0a4590
Signed-off-by: Steve Muckle <smuckle@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Mekala Natarajan <mekalan@codeaurora.org>
fixes for GCC 4.7+
makefile: arch/boot/compressed

minor adjustments
makefile: arch/arm

minor adjustments
makefile: minor changes

new experimental compiling flags

still unsure which are the most optimum for our kernel
cpu_boost: minor changes

ATOMIC_NOTIFIER_HEAD(migration_notifier_head) got moved to kernel/sched/core.c by commit "sched: provide per cpu-cgroup option to notify on migrations" @dda505d