* 'tracing-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (105 commits)
ring-buffer: only enable ring_buffer_swap_cpu when needed
ring-buffer: check for swapped buffers in start of committing
tracing: report error in trace if we fail to swap latency buffer
tracing: add trace_array_printk for internal tracers to use
tracing: pass around ring buffer instead of tracer
tracing: make tracing_reset safe for external use
tracing: use timestamp to determine start of latency traces
tracing: Remove mentioning of legacy latency_trace file from documentation
tracing/filters: Defer pred allocation, fix memory leak
tracing: remove users of tracing_reset
tracing: disable buffers and synchronize_sched before resetting
tracing: disable update max tracer while reading trace
tracing: print out start and stop in latency traces
ring-buffer: disable all cpu buffers when one finds a problem
ring-buffer: do not count discarded events
ring-buffer: remove ring_buffer_event_discard
ring-buffer: fix ring_buffer_read crossing pages
ring-buffer: remove unnecessary cpu_relax
ring-buffer: do not swap buffers during a commit
ring-buffer: do not reset while in a commit
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* 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (64 commits)
sched: Fix sched::sched_stat_wait tracepoint field
sched: Disable NEW_FAIR_SLEEPERS for now
sched: Keep kthreads at default priority
sched: Re-tune the scheduler latency defaults to decrease worst-case latencies
sched: Turn off child_runs_first
sched: Ensure that a child can't gain time over it's parent after fork()
sched: enable SD_WAKE_IDLE
sched: Deal with low-load in wake_affine()
sched: Remove short cut from select_task_rq_fair()
sched: Turn on SD_BALANCE_NEWIDLE
sched: Clean up topology.h
sched: Fix dynamic power-balancing crash
sched: Remove reciprocal for cpu_power
sched: Try to deal with low capacity, fix update_sd_power_savings_stats()
sched: Try to deal with low capacity
sched: Scale down cpu_power due to RT tasks
sched: Implement dynamic cpu_power
sched: Add smt_gain
sched: Update the cpu_power sum during load-balance
sched: Add SD_PREFER_SIBLING
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* 'perfcounters-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (60 commits)
perf tools: Avoid unnecessary work in directory lookups
perf stat: Clean up statistics calculations a bit more
perf stat: More advanced variance computation
perf stat: Use stddev_mean in stead of stddev
perf stat: Remove the limit on repeat
perf stat: Change noise calculation to use stddev
x86, perf_counter, bts: Do not allow kernel BTS tracing for now
x86, perf_counter, bts: Correct pointer-to-u64 casts
x86, perf_counter, bts: Fail if BTS is not available
perf_counter: Fix output-sharing error path
perf trace: Fix read_string()
perf trace: Print out in nanoseconds
perf tools: Seek to the end of the header area
perf trace: Fix parsing of perf.data
perf trace: Sample timestamps as well
perf_counter: Introduce new (non-)paranoia level to allow raw tracepoint access
perf trace: Sample the CPU too
perf tools: Work around strict aliasing related warnings
perf tools: Clean up warnings list in the Makefile
perf tools: Complete support for dynamic strings
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* 'irq-threaded-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
genirq: Do not mask oneshot edge type interrupts
genirq: Support nested threaded irq handling
genirq: Add buslock support
genirq: Add oneshot support
* 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (28 commits)
rcu: Move end of special early-boot RCU operation earlier
rcu: Changes from reviews: avoid casts, fix/add warnings, improve comments
rcu: Create rcutree plugins to handle hotplug CPU for multi-level trees
rcu: Remove lockdep annotations from RCU's _notrace() API members
rcu: Add #ifdef to suppress __rcu_offline_cpu() warning in !HOTPLUG_CPU builds
rcu: Add CPU-offline processing for single-node configurations
rcu: Add "notrace" to RCU function headers used by ftrace
rcu: Remove CONFIG_PREEMPT_RCU
rcu: Merge preemptable-RCU functionality into hierarchical RCU
rcu: Simplify rcu_pending()/rcu_check_callbacks() API
rcu: Use debugfs_remove_recursive() simplify code.
rcu: Merge per-RCU-flavor initialization into pre-existing macro
rcu: Fix online/offline indication for rcudata.csv trace file
rcu: Consolidate sparse and lockdep declarations in include/linux/rcupdate.h
rcu: Renamings to increase RCU clarity
rcu: Move private definitions from include/linux/rcutree.h to kernel/rcutree.h
rcu: Expunge lingering references to CONFIG_CLASSIC_RCU, optimize on !SMP
rcu: Delay rcu_barrier() wait until beginning of next CPU-hotunplug operation.
rcu: Fix typo in rcu_irq_exit() comment header
rcu: Make rcupreempt_trace.c look at offline CPUs
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* 'core-iommu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (59 commits)
x86/gart: Do not select AGP for GART_IOMMU
x86/amd-iommu: Initialize passthrough mode when requested
x86/amd-iommu: Don't detach device from pt domain on driver unbind
x86/amd-iommu: Make sure a device is assigned in passthrough mode
x86/amd-iommu: Align locking between attach_device and detach_device
x86/amd-iommu: Fix device table write order
x86/amd-iommu: Add passthrough mode initialization functions
x86/amd-iommu: Add core functions for pd allocation/freeing
x86/dma: Mark iommu_pass_through as __read_mostly
x86/amd-iommu: Change iommu_map_page to support multiple page sizes
x86/amd-iommu: Support higher level PTEs in iommu_page_unmap
x86/amd-iommu: Remove old page table handling macros
x86/amd-iommu: Use 2-level page tables for dma_ops domains
x86/amd-iommu: Remove bus_addr check in iommu_map_page
x86/amd-iommu: Remove last usages of IOMMU_PTE_L0_INDEX
x86/amd-iommu: Change alloc_pte to support 64 bit address space
x86/amd-iommu: Introduce increase_address_space function
x86/amd-iommu: Flush domains if address space size was increased
x86/amd-iommu: Introduce set_dte_entry function
x86/amd-iommu: Add a gneric version of amd_iommu_flush_all_devices
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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6: (102 commits)
crypto: sha-s390 - Fix warnings in import function
crypto: vmac - New hash algorithm for intel_txt support
crypto: api - Do not displace newly registered algorithms
crypto: ansi_cprng - Fix module initialization
crypto: xcbc - Fix alignment calculation of xcbc_tfm_ctx
crypto: fips - Depend on ansi_cprng
crypto: blkcipher - Do not use eseqiv on stream ciphers
crypto: ctr - Use chainiv on raw counter mode
Revert crypto: fips - Select CPRNG
crypto: rng - Fix typo
crypto: talitos - add support for 36 bit addressing
crypto: talitos - align locks on cache lines
crypto: talitos - simplify hmac data size calculation
crypto: mv_cesa - Add support for Orion5X crypto engine
crypto: cryptd - Add support to access underlaying shash
crypto: gcm - Use GHASH digest algorithm
crypto: ghash - Add GHASH digest algorithm for GCM
crypto: authenc - Convert to ahash
crypto: api - Fix aligned ctx helper
crypto: hmac - Prehash ipad/opad
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* 'writeback' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block:
writeback: check for registered bdi in flusher add and inode dirty
writeback: add name to backing_dev_info
writeback: add some debug inode list counters to bdi stats
writeback: get rid of pdflush completely
writeback: switch to per-bdi threads for flushing data
writeback: move dirty inodes from super_block to backing_dev_info
writeback: get rid of generic_sync_sb_inodes() export
* 'kmemleak' of git://linux-arm.org/linux-2.6:
kmemleak: Improve the "Early log buffer exceeded" error message
kmemleak: fix sparse warning for static declarations
kmemleak: fix sparse warning over overshadowed flags
kmemleak: move common painting code together
kmemleak: add clear command support
kmemleak: use bool for true/false questions
kmemleak: Do no create the clean-up thread during kmemleak_disable()
kmemleak: Scan all thread stacks
kmemleak: Don't scan uninitialized memory when kmemcheck is enabled
kmemleak: Ignore the aperture memory hole on x86_64
kmemleak: Printing of the objects hex dump
kmemleak: Do not report alloc_bootmem blocks as leaks
kmemleak: Save the stack trace for early allocations
kmemleak: Mark the early log buffer as __initdata
kmemleak: Dump object information on request
kmemleak: Allow rescheduling during an object scanning
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/security-testing-2.6: (57 commits)
binfmt_elf: fix PT_INTERP bss handling
TPM: Fixup boot probe timeout for tpm_tis driver
sysfs: Add labeling support for sysfs
LSM/SELinux: inode_{get,set,notify}secctx hooks to access LSM security context information.
VFS: Factor out part of vfs_setxattr so it can be called from the SELinux hook for inode_setsecctx.
KEYS: Add missing linux/tracehook.h #inclusions
KEYS: Fix default security_session_to_parent()
Security/SELinux: includecheck fix kernel/sysctl.c
KEYS: security_cred_alloc_blank() should return int under all circumstances
IMA: open new file for read
KEYS: Add a keyctl to install a process's session keyring on its parent [try #6]
KEYS: Extend TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME to (almost) all architectures [try #6]
KEYS: Do some whitespace cleanups [try #6]
KEYS: Make /proc/keys use keyid not numread as file position [try #6]
KEYS: Add garbage collection for dead, revoked and expired keys. [try #6]
KEYS: Flag dead keys to induce EKEYREVOKED [try #6]
KEYS: Allow keyctl_revoke() on keys that have SETATTR but not WRITE perm [try #6]
KEYS: Deal with dead-type keys appropriately [try #6]
CRED: Add some configurable debugging [try #6]
selinux: Support for the new TUN LSM hooks
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Also a debugging aid. We want to catch dirty inodes being added to
backing devices that don't do writeback.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
This enables us to track who does what and print info. Its main use
is catching dirty inodes on the default_backing_dev_info, so we can
fix that up.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
This gets rid of pdflush for bdi writeout and kupdated style cleaning.
pdflush writeout suffers from lack of locality and also requires more
threads to handle the same workload, since it has to work in a
non-blocking fashion against each queue. This also introduces lumpy
behaviour and potential request starvation, since pdflush can be starved
for queue access if others are accessing it. A sample ffsb workload that
does random writes to files is about 8% faster here on a simple SATA drive
during the benchmark phase. File layout also seems a LOT more smooth in
vmstat:
r b swpd free buff cache si so bi bo in cs us sy id wa
0 1 0 608848 2652 375372 0 0 0 71024 604 24 1 10 48 42
0 1 0 549644 2712 433736 0 0 0 60692 505 27 1 8 48 44
1 0 0 476928 2784 505192 0 0 4 29540 553 24 0 9 53 37
0 1 0 457972 2808 524008 0 0 0 54876 331 16 0 4 38 58
0 1 0 366128 2928 614284 0 0 4 92168 710 58 0 13 53 34
0 1 0 295092 3000 684140 0 0 0 62924 572 23 0 9 53 37
0 1 0 236592 3064 741704 0 0 4 58256 523 17 0 8 48 44
0 1 0 165608 3132 811464 0 0 0 57460 560 21 0 8 54 38
0 1 0 102952 3200 873164 0 0 4 74748 540 29 1 10 48 41
0 1 0 48604 3252 926472 0 0 0 53248 469 29 0 7 47 45
where vanilla tends to fluctuate a lot in the creation phase:
r b swpd free buff cache si so bi bo in cs us sy id wa
1 1 0 678716 5792 303380 0 0 0 74064 565 50 1 11 52 36
1 0 0 662488 5864 319396 0 0 4 352 302 329 0 2 47 51
0 1 0 599312 5924 381468 0 0 0 78164 516 55 0 9 51 40
0 1 0 519952 6008 459516 0 0 4 78156 622 56 1 11 52 37
1 1 0 436640 6092 541632 0 0 0 82244 622 54 0 11 48 41
0 1 0 436640 6092 541660 0 0 0 8 152 39 0 0 51 49
0 1 0 332224 6200 644252 0 0 4 102800 728 46 1 13 49 36
1 0 0 274492 6260 701056 0 0 4 12328 459 49 0 7 50 43
0 1 0 211220 6324 763356 0 0 0 106940 515 37 1 10 51 39
1 0 0 160412 6376 813468 0 0 0 8224 415 43 0 6 49 45
1 1 0 85980 6452 886556 0 0 4 113516 575 39 1 11 54 34
0 2 0 85968 6452 886620 0 0 0 1640 158 211 0 0 46 54
A 10 disk test with btrfs performs 26% faster with per-bdi flushing. A
SSD based writeback test on XFS performs over 20% better as well, with
the throughput being very stable around 1GB/sec, where pdflush only
manages 750MB/sec and fluctuates wildly while doing so. Random buffered
writes to many files behave a lot better as well, as does random mmap'ed
writes.
A separate thread is added to sync the super blocks. In the long term,
adding sync_supers_bdi() functionality could get rid of this thread again.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
This is a first step at introducing per-bdi flusher threads. We should
have no change in behaviour, although sb_has_dirty_inodes() is now
ridiculously expensive, as there's no easy way to answer that question.
Not a huge problem, since it'll be deleted in subsequent patches.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
This adds two new exported functions:
- writeback_inodes_sb(), which only attempts to writeback dirty inodes on
this super_block, for WB_SYNC_NONE writeout.
- sync_inodes_sb(), which writes out all dirty inodes on this super_block
and also waits for the IO to complete.
Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
* topic/tlv-minmax:
ALSA: usb-audio - Correct bogus volume dB information
ALSA: usb-audio - Use the new TLV_DB_MINMAX type
ALSA: Add new TLV types for dBwith min/max
* topic/soundcore-preclaim:
sound: make OSS device number claiming optional and schedule its removal
sound: request char-major-* module aliases for missing OSS devices
chrdev: implement __[un]register_chrdev()
Linus Torvalds
Jens Axboe
James Morris
Takashi Iwai