Pull block layer fixes from Jens Axboe:
"Outside of bcache (which really isn't super big), these are all
few-liners. There are a few important fixes in here:
- Fix blk pm sleeping when holding the queue lock
- A small collection of bcache fixes that have been done and tested
since bcache was included in this merge window.
- A fix for a raid5 regression introduced with the bio changes.
- Two important fixes for mtip32xx, fixing an oops and potential data
corruption (or hang) due to wrong bio iteration on stacked devices."
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block:
scatterlist: sg_set_buf() argument must be in linear mapping
raid5: Initialize bi_vcnt
pktcdvd: silence static checker warning
block: remove refs to XD disks from documentation
blkpm: avoid sleep when holding queue lock
mtip32xx: Correctly handle bio->bi_idx != 0 conditions
mtip32xx: Fix NULL pointer dereference during module unload
bcache: Fix error handling in init code
bcache: clarify free/available/unused space
bcache: drop "select CLOSURES"
bcache: Fix incompatible pointer type warning
Commit d1a6f4f19728d6e90480e53601a90fc9f6a348ad "block: delete super ancient PC-XT driver for 1980's hardware" deleted the XD disk driver, but there are still a few references to it in the documentation directory. Delete the remnants and thus also free up the major block device 13 for reuse. Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
There is no point. We would just squeeze the guest to put more and more pages in the swap disk without any purpose. The only time it makes sense to use the selfballooning and shrinking is when frontswap is being utilized. Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
If tmem is built-in or a module, the user has the option on the command line to influence it by doing: tmem.<some option> instead of having a variety of "nocleancache", and "nofrontswap". The others: "noselfballooning" and "selfballooning"; and "noselfshrink" are in a different driver xen-selfballoon.c and the patches: xen/tmem: Remove the usage of 'noselfshrink' and use 'tmem.selfshrink' bool instead. xen/tmem: Remove the usage of 'noselfballoon','selfballoon' and use 'tmem.selfballon' bool instead. remove them. Also add documentation. Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Pull IOMMU updates from Joerg Roedel: "The updates are mostly about the x86 IOMMUs this time. Exceptions are the groundwork for the PAMU IOMMU from Freescale (for a PPC platform) and an extension to the IOMMU group interface. On the x86 side this includes a workaround for VT-d to disable interrupt remapping on broken chipsets. On the AMD-Vi side the most important new feature is a kernel command-line interface to override broken information in IVRS ACPI tables and get interrupt remapping working this way. Besides that there are small fixes all over the place." * tag 'iommu-updates-v3.10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/joro/iommu: (24 commits) iommu/tegra: Fix printk formats for dma_addr_t iommu: Add a function to find an iommu group by id iommu/vt-d: Remove warning for HPET scope type iommu: Move swap_pci_ref function to drivers/iommu/pci.h. iommu/vt-d: Disable translation if already enabled iommu/amd: fix error return code in early_amd_iommu_init() iommu/AMD: Per-thread IOMMU Interrupt Handling iommu: Include linux/err.h iommu/amd: Workaround for ERBT1312 iommu/amd: Document ivrs_ioapic and ivrs_hpet parameters iommu/amd: Don't report firmware bugs with cmd-line ivrs overrides iommu/amd: Add ioapic and hpet ivrs override iommu/amd: Add early maps for ioapic and hpet iommu/amd: Extend IVRS special device data structure iommu/amd: Move add_special_device() to __init iommu: Fix compile warnings with forward declarations iommu/amd: Properly initialize irq-table lock iommu/amd: Use AMD specific data structure for irq remapping iommu/amd: Remove map_sg_no_iommu() iommu/vt-d: add quirk for broken interrupt remapping on 55XX chipsets ...
Pull 'full dynticks' support from Ingo Molnar:
"This tree from Frederic Weisbecker adds a new, (exciting! :-) core
kernel feature to the timer and scheduler subsystems: 'full dynticks',
or CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y.
This feature extends the nohz variable-size timer tick feature from
idle to busy CPUs (running at most one task) as well, potentially
reducing the number of timer interrupts significantly.
This feature got motivated by real-time folks and the -rt tree, but
the general utility and motivation of full-dynticks runs wider than
that:
- HPC workloads get faster: CPUs running a single task should be able
to utilize a maximum amount of CPU power. A periodic timer tick at
HZ=1000 can cause a constant overhead of up to 1.0%. This feature
removes that overhead - and speeds up the system by 0.5%-1.0% on
typical distro configs even on modern systems.
- Real-time workload latency reduction: CPUs running critical tasks
should experience as little jitter as possible. The last remaining
source of kernel-related jitter was the periodic timer tick.
- A single task executing on a CPU is a pretty common situation,
especially with an increasing number of cores/CPUs, so this feature
helps desktop and mobile workloads as well.
The cost of the feature is mainly related to increased timer
reprogramming overhead when a CPU switches its tick period, and thus
slightly longer to-idle and from-idle latency.
Configuration-wise a third mode of operation is added to the existing
two NOHZ kconfig modes:
- CONFIG_HZ_PERIODIC: [formerly !CONFIG_NO_HZ], now explicitly named
as a config option. This is the traditional Linux periodic tick
design: there's a HZ tick going on all the time, regardless of
whether a CPU is idle or not.
- CONFIG_NO_HZ_IDLE: [formerly CONFIG_NO_HZ=y], this turns off the
periodic tick when a CPU enters idle mode.
- CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL: this new mode, in addition to turning off the
tick when a CPU is idle, also slows the tick down to 1 Hz (one
timer interrupt per second) when only a single task is running on a
CPU.
The .config behavior is compatible: existing !CONFIG_NO_HZ and
CONFIG_NO_HZ=y settings get translated to the new values, without the
user having to configure anything. CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL is turned off by
default.
This feature is based on a lot of infrastructure work that has been
steadily going upstream in the last 2-3 cycles: related RCU support
and non-periodic cputime support in particular is upstream already.
This tree adds the final pieces and activates the feature. The pull
request is marked RFC because:
- it's marked 64-bit only at the moment - the 32-bit support patch is
small but did not get ready in time.
- it has a number of fresh commits that came in after the merge
window. The overwhelming majority of commits are from before the
merge window, but still some aspects of the tree are fresh and so I
marked it RFC.
- it's a pretty wide-reaching feature with lots of effects - and
while the components have been in testing for some time, the full
combination is still not very widely used. That it's default-off
should reduce its regression abilities and obviously there are no
known regressions with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y enabled either.
- the feature is not completely idempotent: there is no 100%
equivalent replacement for a periodic scheduler/timer tick. In
particular there's ongoing work to map out and reduce its effects
on scheduler load-balancing and statistics. This should not impact
correctness though, there are no known regressions related to this
feature at this point.
- it's a pretty ambitious feature that with time will likely be
enabled by most Linux distros, and we'd like you to make input on
its design/implementation, if you dislike some aspect we missed.
Without flaming us to crisp! :-)
Future plans:
- there's ongoing work to reduce 1Hz to 0Hz, to essentially shut off
the periodic tick altogether when there's a single busy task on a
CPU. We'd first like 1 Hz to be exposed more widely before we go
for the 0 Hz target though.
- once we reach 0 Hz we can remove the periodic tick assumption from
nr_running>=2 as well, by essentially interrupting busy tasks only
as frequently as the sched_latency constraints require us to do -
once every 4-40 msecs, depending on nr_running.
I am personally leaning towards biting the bullet and doing this in
v3.10, like the -rt tree this effort has been going on for too long -
but the final word is up to you as usual.
More technical details can be found in Documentation/timers/NO_HZ.txt"
* 'timers-nohz-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (39 commits)
sched: Keep at least 1 tick per second for active dynticks tasks
rcu: Fix full dynticks' dependency on wide RCU nocb mode
nohz: Protect smp_processor_id() in tick_nohz_task_switch()
nohz_full: Add documentation.
cputime_nsecs: use math64.h for nsec resolution conversion helpers
nohz: Select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN from full dynticks config
nohz: Reduce overhead under high-freq idling patterns
nohz: Remove full dynticks' superfluous dependency on RCU tree
nohz: Fix unavailable tick_stop tracepoint in dynticks idle
nohz: Add basic tracing
nohz: Select wide RCU nocb for full dynticks
nohz: Disable the tick when irq resume in full dynticks CPU
nohz: Re-evaluate the tick for the new task after a context switch
nohz: Prepare to stop the tick on irq exit
nohz: Implement full dynticks kick
nohz: Re-evaluate the tick from the scheduler IPI
sched: New helper to prevent from stopping the tick in full dynticks
sched: Kick full dynticks CPU that have more than one task enqueued.
perf: New helper to prevent full dynticks CPUs from stopping tick
perf: Kick full dynticks CPU if events rotation is needed
...
Pull ARM SoC platform updates from Olof Johansson: "This branch contains part 1 of the platform updates for 3.10. Among the highlights: - Support for the new Atmel Cortex-A5 based platforms (SAMA5D3) - New support for CSR SiRFatlas6 SoCs - A handful of updates for NVidia T114 (a.k.a. Tegra 4) - A bunch of updates for the shmobile platforms - A handful of updates for davinci - A few updates for Qualcomm MSM - Plus a handful of other patches, defconfig updates, etc." * tag 'soc-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm/arm-soc: (135 commits) ARM: tegra: pm: fix build error w/o PM_SLEEP ARM: davinci: ensure global variables are declared ARM: davinci: sram.c: fix incorrect type in assignment ARM: davinci: da8xx dt: make file local symbols static ARM: davinci: da8xx: add remoteproc support ARM: socfpga: Upgrade clk driver for socfpga to make use of dts clock entries ARM: socfpga: Add clock entries into device tree ARM: socfpga: Enable soft reset ARM: EXYNOS: replace cpumask by the corresponding macro ARM: EXYNOS: handle properly the return values ARM: EXYNOS: factor out the idle states ARM: OMAP4: Enable fix for Cortex-A9 erratas ARM: OMAP2+: Export SoC information to userspace ARM: OMAP2+: SoC name and revision unification ARM: OMAP2+: Move common part of late init into common function ARM: tegra: pm: remove duplicated include from pm.c ARM: davinci: da850: override mmc DT node device name ARM: davinci: da850: add mmc DT entries mmc: davinci_mmc: add DT support ARM: SAMSUNG: check processor type before cache restoration in resume ...
The full dynticks tree needs the latest RCU and sched upstream updates in order to fix some dependencies. Merge a common upstream merge point that has these updates. Conflicts: include/linux/perf_event.h kernel/rcutree.h kernel/rcutree_plugin.h Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Pull trivial tree updates from Jiri Kosina: "Usual stuff, mostly comment fixes, typo fixes, printk fixes and small code cleanups" * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (45 commits) mm: Convert print_symbol to %pSR gfs2: Convert print_symbol to %pSR m32r: Convert print_symbol to %pSR iostats.txt: add easy-to-find description for field 6 x86 cmpxchg.h: fix wrong comment treewide: Fix typo in printk and comments doc: devicetree: Fix various typos docbook: fix 8250 naming in device-drivers pata_pdc2027x: Fix compiler warning treewide: Fix typo in printks mei: Fix comments in drivers/misc/mei treewide: Fix typos in kernel messages pm44xx: Fix comment for "CONFIG_CPU_IDLE" doc: Fix typo "CONFIG_CGROUP_CGROUP_MEMCG_SWAP" mmzone: correct "pags" to "pages" in comment. kernel-parameters: remove outdated 'noresidual' parameter Remove spurious _H suffixes from ifdef comments sound: Remove stray pluses from Kconfig file radio-shark: Fix printk "CONFIG_LED_CLASS" doc: put proper reference to CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_ENFORCE ...