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<title>linux/include/trace/events, branch v3.5.1</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel source tree</subtitle>
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<updated>2012-06-07T03:43:27Z</updated>
<entry>
<title>rcu: Update RCU_FAST_NO_HZ tracing for lazy callbacks</title>
<updated>2012-06-07T03:43:27Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul E. McKenney</name>
<email>paul.mckenney@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2012-05-06T02:10:35Z</published>
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In the current code, a short dyntick-idle interval (where there is
at least one non-lazy callback on the CPU) and a long dyntick-idle
interval (where there are only lazy callbacks on the CPU) are traced
identically, which can be less than helpful.  This commit therefore
emits different event traces in these two cases.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paul.mckenney@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Tested-by: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
Tested-by: Pascal Chapperon &lt;pascal.chapperon@wanadoo.fr&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: vmscan: remove reclaim_mode_t</title>
<updated>2012-05-29T23:22:19Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Mel Gorman</name>
<email>mgorman@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2012-05-29T22:06:20Z</published>
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There is little motiviation for reclaim_mode_t once RECLAIM_MODE_[A]SYNC
and lumpy reclaim have been removed.  This patch gets rid of
reclaim_mode_t as well and improves the documentation about what
reclaim/compaction is and when it is triggered.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Acked-by: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: KOSAKI Motohiro &lt;kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov &lt;khlebnikov@openvz.org&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Cc: Ying Han &lt;yinghan@google.com&gt;
Cc: Andy Whitcroft &lt;apw@shadowen.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: vmscan: do not stall on writeback during memory compaction</title>
<updated>2012-05-29T23:22:19Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Mel Gorman</name>
<email>mgorman@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2012-05-29T22:06:19Z</published>
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This patch stops reclaim/compaction entering sync reclaim as this was
only intended for lumpy reclaim and an oversight.  Page migration has
its own logic for stalling on writeback pages if necessary and memory
compaction is already using it.

Waiting on page writeback is bad for a number of reasons but the primary
one is that waiting on writeback to a slow device like USB can take a
considerable length of time.  Page reclaim instead uses
wait_iff_congested() to throttle if too many dirty pages are being
scanned.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Acked-by: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: KOSAKI Motohiro &lt;kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov &lt;khlebnikov@openvz.org&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Cc: Ying Han &lt;yinghan@google.com&gt;
Cc: Andy Whitcroft &lt;apw@shadowen.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: vmscan: remove lumpy reclaim</title>
<updated>2012-05-29T23:22:19Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Mel Gorman</name>
<email>mgorman@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2012-05-29T22:06:19Z</published>
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This series removes lumpy reclaim and some stalling logic that was
unintentionally being used by memory compaction.  The end result is that
stalling on dirty pages during page reclaim now depends on
wait_iff_congested().

Four kernels were compared

  3.3.0     vanilla
  3.4.0-rc2 vanilla
  3.4.0-rc2 lumpyremove-v2 is patch one from this series
  3.4.0-rc2 nosync-v2r3 is the full series

Removing lumpy reclaim saves almost 900 bytes of text whereas the full
series removes 1200 bytes.

     text     data      bss       dec     hex  filename
  6740375  1927944  2260992  10929311  a6c49f  vmlinux-3.4.0-rc2-vanilla
  6739479  1927944  2260992  10928415  a6c11f  vmlinux-3.4.0-rc2-lumpyremove-v2
  6739159  1927944  2260992  10928095  a6bfdf  vmlinux-3.4.0-rc2-nosync-v2

There are behaviour changes in the series and so tests were run with
monitoring of ftrace events.  This disrupts results so the performance
results are distorted but the new behaviour should be clearer.

fs-mark running in a threaded configuration showed little of interest as
it did not push reclaim aggressively

  FS-Mark Multi Threaded
                          3.3.0-vanilla       rc2-vanilla       lumpyremove-v2r3       nosync-v2r3
  Files/s  min           3.20 ( 0.00%)        3.20 ( 0.00%)        3.20 ( 0.00%)        3.20 ( 0.00%)
  Files/s  mean          3.20 ( 0.00%)        3.20 ( 0.00%)        3.20 ( 0.00%)        3.20 ( 0.00%)
  Files/s  stddev        0.00 ( 0.00%)        0.00 ( 0.00%)        0.00 ( 0.00%)        0.00 ( 0.00%)
  Files/s  max           3.20 ( 0.00%)        3.20 ( 0.00%)        3.20 ( 0.00%)        3.20 ( 0.00%)
  Overhead min      508667.00 ( 0.00%)   521350.00 (-2.49%)   544292.00 (-7.00%)   547168.00 (-7.57%)
  Overhead mean     551185.00 ( 0.00%)   652690.73 (-18.42%)   991208.40 (-79.83%)   570130.53 (-3.44%)
  Overhead stddev    18200.69 ( 0.00%)   331958.29 (-1723.88%)  1579579.43 (-8578.68%)     9576.81 (47.38%)
  Overhead max      576775.00 ( 0.00%)  1846634.00 (-220.17%)  6901055.00 (-1096.49%)   585675.00 (-1.54%)
  MMTests Statistics: duration
  Sys Time Running Test (seconds)             309.90    300.95    307.33    298.95
  User+Sys Time Running Test (seconds)        319.32    309.67    315.69    307.51
  Total Elapsed Time (seconds)               1187.85   1193.09   1191.98   1193.73

  MMTests Statistics: vmstat
  Page Ins                                       80532       82212       81420       79480
  Page Outs                                  111434984   111456240   111437376   111582628
  Swap Ins                                           0           0           0           0
  Swap Outs                                          0           0           0           0
  Direct pages scanned                           44881       27889       27453       34843
  Kswapd pages scanned                        25841428    25860774    25861233    25843212
  Kswapd pages reclaimed                      25841393    25860741    25861199    25843179
  Direct pages reclaimed                         44881       27889       27453       34843
  Kswapd efficiency                                99%         99%         99%         99%
  Kswapd velocity                            21754.791   21675.460   21696.029   21649.127
  Direct efficiency                               100%        100%        100%        100%
  Direct velocity                               37.783      23.375      23.031      29.188
  Percentage direct scans                           0%          0%          0%          0%

ftrace showed that there was no stalling on writeback or pages submitted
for IO from reclaim context.

postmark was similar and while it was more interesting, it also did not
push reclaim heavily.

  POSTMARK
                                       3.3.0-vanilla       rc2-vanilla  lumpyremove-v2r3       nosync-v2r3
  Transactions per second:               16.00 ( 0.00%)    20.00 (25.00%)    18.00 (12.50%)    17.00 ( 6.25%)
  Data megabytes read per second:        18.80 ( 0.00%)    24.27 (29.10%)    22.26 (18.40%)    20.54 ( 9.26%)
  Data megabytes written per second:     35.83 ( 0.00%)    46.25 (29.08%)    42.42 (18.39%)    39.14 ( 9.24%)
  Files created alone per second:        28.00 ( 0.00%)    38.00 (35.71%)    34.00 (21.43%)    30.00 ( 7.14%)
  Files create/transact per second:       8.00 ( 0.00%)    10.00 (25.00%)     9.00 (12.50%)     8.00 ( 0.00%)
  Files deleted alone per second:       556.00 ( 0.00%)  1224.00 (120.14%)  3062.00 (450.72%)  6124.00 (1001.44%)
  Files delete/transact per second:       8.00 ( 0.00%)    10.00 (25.00%)     9.00 (12.50%)     8.00 ( 0.00%)

  MMTests Statistics: duration
  Sys Time Running Test (seconds)             113.34    107.99    109.73    108.72
  User+Sys Time Running Test (seconds)        145.51    139.81    143.32    143.55
  Total Elapsed Time (seconds)               1159.16    899.23    980.17   1062.27

  MMTests Statistics: vmstat
  Page Ins                                    13710192    13729032    13727944    13760136
  Page Outs                                   43071140    42987228    42733684    42931624
  Swap Ins                                           0           0           0           0
  Swap Outs                                          0           0           0           0
  Direct pages scanned                               0           0           0           0
  Kswapd pages scanned                         9941613     9937443     9939085     9929154
  Kswapd pages reclaimed                       9940926     9936751     9938397     9928465
  Direct pages reclaimed                             0           0           0           0
  Kswapd efficiency                                99%         99%         99%         99%
  Kswapd velocity                             8576.567   11051.058   10140.164    9347.109
  Direct efficiency                               100%        100%        100%        100%
  Direct velocity                                0.000       0.000       0.000       0.000

It looks like here that the full series regresses performance but as
ftrace showed no usage of wait_iff_congested() or sync reclaim I am
assuming it's a disruption due to monitoring.  Other data such as memory
usage, page IO, swap IO all looked similar.

Running a benchmark with a plain DD showed nothing very interesting.
The full series stalled in wait_iff_congested() slightly less but stall
times on vanilla kernels were marginal.

Running a benchmark that hammered on file-backed mappings showed stalls
due to congestion but not in sync writebacks

  MICRO
                                       3.3.0-vanilla       rc2-vanilla  lumpyremove-v2r3       nosync-v2r3
  MMTests Statistics: duration
  Sys Time Running Test (seconds)             308.13    294.50    298.75    299.53
  User+Sys Time Running Test (seconds)        330.45    316.28    318.93    320.79
  Total Elapsed Time (seconds)               1814.90   1833.88   1821.14   1832.91

  MMTests Statistics: vmstat
  Page Ins                                      108712      120708       97224      110344
  Page Outs                                  155514576   156017404   155813676   156193256
  Swap Ins                                           0           0           0           0
  Swap Outs                                          0           0           0           0
  Direct pages scanned                         2599253     1550480     2512822     2414760
  Kswapd pages scanned                        69742364    71150694    68839041    69692533
  Kswapd pages reclaimed                      34824488    34773341    34796602    34799396
  Direct pages reclaimed                         53693       94750       61792       75205
  Kswapd efficiency                                49%         48%         50%         49%
  Kswapd velocity                            38427.662   38797.901   37799.972   38022.889
  Direct efficiency                                 2%          6%          2%          3%
  Direct velocity                             1432.174     845.464    1379.807    1317.446
  Percentage direct scans                           3%          2%          3%          3%
  Page writes by reclaim                             0           0           0           0
  Page writes file                                   0           0           0           0
  Page writes anon                                   0           0           0           0
  Page reclaim immediate                             0           0           0        1218
  Page rescued immediate                             0           0           0           0
  Slabs scanned                                  15360       16384       13312       16384
  Direct inode steals                                0           0           0           0
  Kswapd inode steals                             4340        4327        1630        4323

  FTrace Reclaim Statistics: congestion_wait
  Direct number congest     waited                 0          0          0          0
  Direct time   congest     waited               0ms        0ms        0ms        0ms
  Direct full   congest     waited                 0          0          0          0
  Direct number conditional waited               900        870        754        789
  Direct time   conditional waited               0ms        0ms        0ms       20ms
  Direct full   conditional waited                 0          0          0          0
  KSwapd number congest     waited              2106       2308       2116       1915
  KSwapd time   congest     waited          139924ms   157832ms   125652ms   132516ms
  KSwapd full   congest     waited              1346       1530       1202       1278
  KSwapd number conditional waited             12922      16320      10943      14670
  KSwapd time   conditional waited               0ms        0ms        0ms        0ms
  KSwapd full   conditional waited                 0          0          0          0

Reclaim statistics are not radically changed.  The stall times in kswapd
are massive but it is clear that it is due to calls to congestion_wait()
and that is almost certainly the call in balance_pgdat().  Otherwise
stalls due to dirty pages are non-existant.

I ran a benchmark that stressed high-order allocation.  This is very
artifical load but was used in the past to evaluate lumpy reclaim and
compaction.  Generally I look at allocation success rates and latency
figures.

  STRESS-HIGHALLOC
                   3.3.0-vanilla       rc2-vanilla  lumpyremove-v2r3       nosync-v2r3
  Pass 1          81.00 ( 0.00%)    28.00 (-53.00%)    24.00 (-57.00%)    28.00 (-53.00%)
  Pass 2          82.00 ( 0.00%)    39.00 (-43.00%)    38.00 (-44.00%)    43.00 (-39.00%)
  while Rested    88.00 ( 0.00%)    87.00 (-1.00%)    88.00 ( 0.00%)    88.00 ( 0.00%)

  MMTests Statistics: duration
  Sys Time Running Test (seconds)             740.93    681.42    685.14    684.87
  User+Sys Time Running Test (seconds)       2922.65   3269.52   3281.35   3279.44
  Total Elapsed Time (seconds)               1161.73   1152.49   1159.55   1161.44

  MMTests Statistics: vmstat
  Page Ins                                     4486020     2807256     2855944     2876244
  Page Outs                                    7261600     7973688     7975320     7986120
  Swap Ins                                       31694           0           0           0
  Swap Outs                                      98179           0           0           0
  Direct pages scanned                           53494       57731       34406      113015
  Kswapd pages scanned                         6271173     1287481     1278174     1219095
  Kswapd pages reclaimed                       2029240     1281025     1260708     1201583
  Direct pages reclaimed                          1468       14564       16649       92456
  Kswapd efficiency                                32%         99%         98%         98%
  Kswapd velocity                             5398.133    1117.130    1102.302    1049.641
  Direct efficiency                                 2%         25%         48%         81%
  Direct velocity                               46.047      50.092      29.672      97.306
  Percentage direct scans                           0%          4%          2%          8%
  Page writes by reclaim                       1616049           0           0           0
  Page writes file                             1517870           0           0           0
  Page writes anon                               98179           0           0           0
  Page reclaim immediate                        103778       27339        9796       17831
  Page rescued immediate                             0           0           0           0
  Slabs scanned                                1096704      986112      980992      998400
  Direct inode steals                              223      215040      216736      247881
  Kswapd inode steals                           175331       61548       68444       63066
  Kswapd skipped wait                            21991           0           1           0
  THP fault alloc                                    1         135         125         134
  THP collapse alloc                               393         311         228         236
  THP splits                                        25          13           7           8
  THP fault fallback                                 0           0           0           0
  THP collapse fail                                  3           5           7           7
  Compaction stalls                                865        1270        1422        1518
  Compaction success                               370         401         353         383
  Compaction failures                              495         869        1069        1135
  Compaction pages moved                        870155     3828868     4036106     4423626
  Compaction move failure                        26429       23865       29742       27514

Success rates are completely hosed for 3.4-rc2 which is almost certainly
due to commit fe2c2a106663 ("vmscan: reclaim at order 0 when compaction
is enabled").  I expected this would happen for kswapd and impair
allocation success rates (https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/1/25/166) but I did
not anticipate this much a difference: 80% less scanning, 37% less
reclaim by kswapd

In comparison, reclaim/compaction is not aggressive and gives up easily
which is the intended behaviour.  hugetlbfs uses __GFP_REPEAT and would
be much more aggressive about reclaim/compaction than THP allocations
are.  The stress test above is allocating like neither THP or hugetlbfs
but is much closer to THP.

Mainline is now impaired in terms of high order allocation under heavy
load although I do not know to what degree as I did not test with
__GFP_REPEAT.  Keep this in mind for bugs related to hugepage pool
resizing, THP allocation and high order atomic allocation failures from
network devices.

In terms of congestion throttling, I see the following for this test

  FTrace Reclaim Statistics: congestion_wait
  Direct number congest     waited                 3          0          0          0
  Direct time   congest     waited               0ms        0ms        0ms        0ms
  Direct full   congest     waited                 0          0          0          0
  Direct number conditional waited               957        512       1081       1075
  Direct time   conditional waited               0ms        0ms        0ms        0ms
  Direct full   conditional waited                 0          0          0          0
  KSwapd number congest     waited                36          4          3          5
  KSwapd time   congest     waited            3148ms      400ms      300ms      500ms
  KSwapd full   congest     waited                30          4          3          5
  KSwapd number conditional waited             88514        197        332        542
  KSwapd time   conditional waited            4980ms        0ms        0ms        0ms
  KSwapd full   conditional waited                49          0          0          0

The "conditional waited" times are the most interesting as this is
directly impacted by the number of dirty pages encountered during scan.
As lumpy reclaim is no longer scanning contiguous ranges, it is finding
fewer dirty pages.  This brings wait times from about 5 seconds to 0.
kswapd itself is still calling congestion_wait() so it'll still stall but
it's a lot less.

In terms of the type of IO we were doing, I see this

  FTrace Reclaim Statistics: mm_vmscan_writepage
  Direct writes anon  sync                         0          0          0          0
  Direct writes anon  async                        0          0          0          0
  Direct writes file  sync                         0          0          0          0
  Direct writes file  async                        0          0          0          0
  Direct writes mixed sync                         0          0          0          0
  Direct writes mixed async                        0          0          0          0
  KSwapd writes anon  sync                         0          0          0          0
  KSwapd writes anon  async                    91682          0          0          0
  KSwapd writes file  sync                         0          0          0          0
  KSwapd writes file  async                   822629          0          0          0
  KSwapd writes mixed sync                         0          0          0          0
  KSwapd writes mixed async                        0          0          0          0

In 3.2, kswapd was doing a bunch of async writes of pages but
reclaim/compaction was never reaching a point where it was doing sync
IO.  This does not guarantee that reclaim/compaction was not calling
wait_on_page_writeback() but I would consider it unlikely.  It indicates
that merging patches 2 and 3 to stop reclaim/compaction calling
wait_on_page_writeback() should be safe.

This patch:

Lumpy reclaim had a purpose but in the mind of some, it was to kick the
system so hard it trashed.  For others the purpose was to complicate
vmscan.c.  Over time it was giving softer shoes and a nicer attitude but
memory compaction needs to step up and replace it so this patch sends
lumpy reclaim to the farm.

The tracepoint format changes for isolating LRU pages with this patch
applied.  Furthermore reclaim/compaction can no longer queue dirty pages
in pageout() if the underlying BDI is congested.  Lumpy reclaim used
this logic and reclaim/compaction was using it in error.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Acked-by: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: KOSAKI Motohiro &lt;kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov &lt;khlebnikov@openvz.org&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Cc: Ying Han &lt;yinghan@google.com&gt;
Cc: Andy Whitcroft &lt;apw@shadowen.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: remove swap token code</title>
<updated>2012-05-29T23:22:19Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Rik van Riel</name>
<email>riel@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-05-29T22:06:18Z</published>
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The swap token code no longer fits in with the current VM model.  It
does not play well with cgroups or the better NUMA placement code in
development, since we have only one swap token globally.

It also has the potential to mess with scalability of the system, by
increasing the number of non-reclaimable pages on the active and
inactive anon LRU lists.

Last but not least, the swap token code has been broken for a year
without complaints, as reported by Konstantin Khlebnikov.  This suggests
we no longer have much use for it.

The days of sub-1G memory systems with heavy use of swap are over.  If
we ever need thrashing reducing code in the future, we will have to
implement something that does scale.

Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov &lt;khlebnikov@openvz.org&gt;
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mel@csn.ul.ie&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Bob Picco &lt;bpicco@meloft.net&gt;
Acked-by: KOSAKI Motohiro &lt;kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'writeback' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wfg/linux</title>
<updated>2012-05-28T16:54:45Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2012-05-28T16:54:45Z</published>
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<content type='text'>
Pull writeback tree from Wu Fengguang:
 "Mainly from Jan Kara to avoid iput() in the flusher threads."

* tag 'writeback' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wfg/linux:
  writeback: Avoid iput() from flusher thread
  vfs: Rename end_writeback() to clear_inode()
  vfs: Move waiting for inode writeback from end_writeback() to evict_inode()
  writeback: Refactor writeback_single_inode()
  writeback: Remove wb-&gt;list_lock from writeback_single_inode()
  writeback: Separate inode requeueing after writeback
  writeback: Move I_DIRTY_PAGES handling
  writeback: Move requeueing when I_SYNC set to writeback_sb_inodes()
  writeback: Move clearing of I_SYNC into inode_sync_complete()
  writeback: initialize global_dirty_limit
  fs: remove 8 bytes of padding from struct writeback_control on 64 bit builds
  mm: page-writeback.c: local functions should not be exposed globally
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fs</title>
<updated>2012-05-25T15:14:59Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2012-05-25T15:14:59Z</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.amat.us/linux/commit/?id=ece78b7df734726e790dcab207f463401ff80440'/>
<id>urn:sha1:ece78b7df734726e790dcab207f463401ff80440</id>
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Pull ext2, ext3 and quota fixes from Jan Kara:
 "Interesting bits are:
   - removal of a special i_mutex locking subclass (I_MUTEX_QUOTA) since
     quota code does not need i_mutex anymore in any unusual way.
   - backport (from ext4) of a fix of a checkpointing bug (missing cache
     flush) that could lead to fs corruption on power failure

  The rest are just random small fixes &amp; cleanups."

* 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fs:
  ext2: trivial fix to comment for ext2_free_blocks
  ext2: remove the redundant comment for ext2_export_ops
  ext3: return 32/64-bit dir name hash according to usage type
  quota: Get rid of nested I_MUTEX_QUOTA locking subclass
  quota: Use precomputed value of sb_dqopt in dquot_quota_sync
  ext2: Remove i_mutex use from ext2_quota_write()
  reiserfs: Remove i_mutex use from reiserfs_quota_write()
  ext4: Remove i_mutex use from ext4_quota_write()
  ext3: Remove i_mutex use from ext3_quota_write()
  quota: Fix double lock in add_dquot_ref() with CONFIG_QUOTA_DEBUG
  jbd: Write journal superblock with WRITE_FUA after checkpointing
  jbd: protect all log tail updates with j_checkpoint_mutex
  jbd: Split updating of journal superblock and marking journal empty
  ext2: do not register write_super within VFS
  ext2: Remove s_dirt handling
  ext2: write superblock only once on unmount
  ext3: update documentation with barrier=1 default
  ext3: remove max_debt in find_group_orlov()
  jbd: Refine commit writeout logic
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace</title>
<updated>2012-05-24T00:42:39Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2012-05-24T00:42:39Z</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.amat.us/linux/commit/?id=644473e9c60c1ff4f6351fed637a6e5551e3dce7'/>
<id>urn:sha1:644473e9c60c1ff4f6351fed637a6e5551e3dce7</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull user namespace enhancements from Eric Biederman:
 "This is a course correction for the user namespace, so that we can
  reach an inexpensive, maintainable, and reasonably complete
  implementation.

  Highlights:
   - Config guards make it impossible to enable the user namespace and
     code that has not been converted to be user namespace safe.

   - Use of the new kuid_t type ensures the if you somehow get past the
     config guards the kernel will encounter type errors if you enable
     user namespaces and attempt to compile in code whose permission
     checks have not been updated to be user namespace safe.

   - All uids from child user namespaces are mapped into the initial
     user namespace before they are processed.  Removing the need to add
     an additional check to see if the user namespace of the compared
     uids remains the same.

   - With the user namespaces compiled out the performance is as good or
     better than it is today.

   - For most operations absolutely nothing changes performance or
     operationally with the user namespace enabled.

   - The worst case performance I could come up with was timing 1
     billion cache cold stat operations with the user namespace code
     enabled.  This went from 156s to 164s on my laptop (or 156ns to
     164ns per stat operation).

   - (uid_t)-1 and (gid_t)-1 are reserved as an internal error value.
     Most uid/gid setting system calls treat these value specially
     anyway so attempting to use -1 as a uid would likely cause
     entertaining failures in userspace.

   - If setuid is called with a uid that can not be mapped setuid fails.
     I have looked at sendmail, login, ssh and every other program I
     could think of that would call setuid and they all check for and
     handle the case where setuid fails.

   - If stat or a similar system call is called from a context in which
     we can not map a uid we lie and return overflowuid.  The LFS
     experience suggests not lying and returning an error code might be
     better, but the historical precedent with uids is different and I
     can not think of anything that would break by lying about a uid we
     can't map.

   - Capabilities are localized to the current user namespace making it
     safe to give the initial user in a user namespace all capabilities.

  My git tree covers all of the modifications needed to convert the core
  kernel and enough changes to make a system bootable to runlevel 1."

Fix up trivial conflicts due to nearby independent changes in fs/stat.c

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace: (46 commits)
  userns:  Silence silly gcc warning.
  cred: use correct cred accessor with regards to rcu read lock
  userns: Convert the move_pages, and migrate_pages permission checks to use uid_eq
  userns: Convert cgroup permission checks to use uid_eq
  userns: Convert tmpfs to use kuid and kgid where appropriate
  userns: Convert sysfs to use kgid/kuid where appropriate
  userns: Convert sysctl permission checks to use kuid and kgids.
  userns: Convert proc to use kuid/kgid where appropriate
  userns: Convert ext4 to user kuid/kgid where appropriate
  userns: Convert ext3 to use kuid/kgid where appropriate
  userns: Convert ext2 to use kuid/kgid where appropriate.
  userns: Convert devpts to use kuid/kgid where appropriate
  userns: Convert binary formats to use kuid/kgid where appropriate
  userns: Add negative depends on entries to avoid building code that is userns unsafe
  userns: signal remove unnecessary map_cred_ns
  userns: Teach inode_capable to understand inodes whose uids map to other namespaces.
  userns: Fail exec for suid and sgid binaries with ids outside our user namespace.
  userns: Convert stat to return values mapped from kuids and kgids
  userns: Convert user specfied uids and gids in chown into kuids and kgid
  userns: Use uid_eq gid_eq helpers when comparing kuids and kgids in the vfs
  ...
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'pm-for-3.5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm</title>
<updated>2012-05-23T21:07:06Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2012-05-23T21:07:06Z</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.amat.us/linux/commit/?id=468f4d1a855f8039dabf441b8bf68cae264033ff'/>
<id>urn:sha1:468f4d1a855f8039dabf441b8bf68cae264033ff</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull power management updates from Rafael Wysocki:

 - Implementation of opportunistic suspend (autosleep) and user space
   interface for manipulating wakeup sources.

 - Hibernate updates from Bojan Smojver and Minho Ban.

 - Updates of the runtime PM core and generic PM domains framework
   related to PM QoS.

 - Assorted fixes.

* tag 'pm-for-3.5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm: (25 commits)
  epoll: Fix user space breakage related to EPOLLWAKEUP
  PM / Domains: Make it possible to add devices to inactive domains
  PM / Hibernate: Use get_gendisk to verify partition if resume_file is integer format
  PM / Domains: Fix computation of maximum domain off time
  PM / Domains: Fix link checking when add subdomain
  PM / Sleep: User space wakeup sources garbage collector Kconfig option
  PM / Sleep: Make the limit of user space wakeup sources configurable
  PM / Documentation: suspend-and-cpuhotplug.txt: Fix typo
  PM / Domains: Cache device stop and domain power off governor results, v3
  PM / Domains: Make device removal more straightforward
  PM / Sleep: Fix a mistake in a conditional in autosleep_store()
  epoll: Add a flag, EPOLLWAKEUP, to prevent suspend while epoll events are ready
  PM / QoS: Create device constraints objects on notifier registration
  PM / Runtime: Remove device fields related to suspend time, v2
  PM / Domains: Rework default domain power off governor function, v2
  PM / Domains: Rework default device stop governor function, v2
  PM / Sleep: Add user space interface for manipulating wakeup sources, v3
  PM / Sleep: Add "prevent autosleep time" statistics to wakeup sources
  PM / Sleep: Implement opportunistic sleep, v2
  PM / Sleep: Add wakeup_source_activate and wakeup_source_deactivate tracepoints
  ...
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'sound-3.5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound</title>
<updated>2012-05-23T20:05:43Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2012-05-23T20:05:43Z</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.amat.us/linux/commit/?id=2e341ca686042aa464efa755447e7bcee91d1eb6'/>
<id>urn:sha1:2e341ca686042aa464efa755447e7bcee91d1eb6</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull sound updates from Takashi Iwai:
 "This is the first big chunk for 3.5 merges of sound stuff.

  There are a few big changes in different areas.  First off, the
  streaming logic of USB-audio endpoints has been largely rewritten for
  the better support of "implicit feedback".  If anything about USB got
  broken, this change has to be checked.

  For HD-audio, the resume procedure was changed; instead of delaying
  the resume of the hardware until the first use, now waking up
  immediately at resume.  This is for buggy BIOS.

  For ASoC, dynamic PCM support and the improved support for digital
  links between off-SoC devices are major framework changes.

  Some highlights are below:

  * HD-audio
   - Avoid accesses of invalid pin-control bits that may stall the codec
   - V-ref setup cleanups
   - Fix the races in power-saving code
   - Fix the races in codec cache hashes and connection lists
   - Split some common codes for BIOS auto-parser to hda_auto_parser.c
   - Changed the PM resume code to wake up immediately for buggy BIOS
   - Creative SoundCore3D support
   - Add Conexant CX20751/2/3/4 codec support

  * ASoC
   - Dynamic PCM support, allowing support for SoCs with internal
     routing through components with tight sequencing and formatting
     constraints within their internal paths or where there are multiple
     components connected with CPU managed DMA controllers inside the
     SoC.
   - Greatly improved support for direct digital links between off-SoC
     devices, providing a much simpler way of connecting things like
     digital basebands to CODECs.
   - Much more fine grained and robust locking, cleaning up some of the
     confusion that crept in with multi-component.
   - CPU support for nVidia Tegra 30 I2S and audio hub controllers and
     ST-Ericsson MSP I2S controolers
   - New CODEC drivers for Cirrus CS42L52, LAPIS Semiconductor ML26124,
     Texas Instruments LM49453.
   - Some regmap changes needed by the Tegra I2S driver.
   - mc13783 audio support.

  * Misc
   - Rewrite with module_pci_driver()
   - Xonar DGX support for snd-oxygen
   - Improvement of packet handling in snd-firewire driver
   - New USB-endpoint streaming logic
   - Enhanced M-audio FTU quirks and relevant cleanups
   - Increment the support of OSS devices to 256
   - snd-aloop accuracy improvement

  There are a few more pending changes for 3.5, but they will be sent
  slightly later as partly depending on the changes of DRM."

Fix up conflicts in regmap (due to duplicate patches, with some further
updates then having already come in from the regmap tree).  Also some
fairly trivial context conflicts in the imx and mcx soc drivers.

* tag 'sound-3.5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound: (280 commits)
  ALSA: snd-usb: fix stream info output in /proc
  ALSA: pcm - Add proper state checks to snd_pcm_drain()
  ALSA: sh: Fix up namespace collision in sh_dac_audio.
  ALSA: hda/realtek - Fix unused variable compile warning
  ASoC: sh: fsi: enable chip specific data transfer mode
  ASoC: sh: fsi: call fsi_hw_startup/shutdown from fsi_dai_trigger()
  ASoC: sh: fsi: use same format for IN/OUT
  ASoC: sh: fsi: add fsi_version() and removed meaningless version check
  ASoC: sh: fsi: use register field macro name on IN/OUT_DMAC
  ASoC: tegra: Add machine driver for WM8753 codec
  ALSA: hda - Fix possible races of accesses to connection list array
  ASoC: OMAP: HDMI: Introduce codec
  ARM: mx31_3ds: Add sound support
  ASoC: imx-mc13783 cleanup
  mx31moboard: Add sound support
  ASoC: mc13783 codec cleanups
  ASoC: add imx-mc13783 sound support
  ASoC: Add mc13783 codec
  mfd: mc13xxx: add codec platform data
  ASoC: don't flip master of DT-instantiated DAI links
  ...
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