Merge tag 'md/3.12' of git://neil.brown.name/md

Pull md update from Neil Brown:
"Headline item is multithreading for RAID5 so that more IO/sec can be
supported on fast (SSD) devic

Merge tag 'md/3.12' of git://neil.brown.name/md

Pull md update from Neil Brown:
"Headline item is multithreading for RAID5 so that more IO/sec can be
supported on fast (SSD) devices. Also TILE-Gx SIMD suppor for RAID6
calculations and an assortment of bug fixes"

* tag 'md/3.12' of git://neil.brown.name/md:
raid5: only wakeup necessary threads
md/raid5: flush out all pending requests before proceeding with reshape.
md/raid5: use seqcount to protect access to shape in make_request.
raid5: sysfs entry to control worker thread number
raid5: offload stripe handle to workqueue
raid5: fix stripe release order
raid5: make release_stripe lockless
md: avoid deadlock when dirty buffers during md_stop.
md: Don't test all of mddev->flags at once.
md: Fix apparent cut-and-paste error in super_90_validate
raid6/test: replace echo -e with printf
RAID: add tilegx SIMD implementation of raid6
md: fix safe_mode buglet.
md: don't call md_allow_write in get_bitmap_file.

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RAID: add tilegx SIMD implementation of raid6

This change adds TILE-Gx SIMD instructions to the software raid
(md), modeling the Altivec implementation. This is only for Syndrome
gen

RAID: add tilegx SIMD implementation of raid6

This change adds TILE-Gx SIMD instructions to the software raid
(md), modeling the Altivec implementation. This is only for Syndrome
generation; there is more that could be done to improve recovery,
as in the recent Intel SSE3 recovery implementation.

The code unrolls 8 times; this turns out to be the best on tilegx
hardware among the set 1, 2, 4, 8 or 16. The code reads one
cache-line of data from each disk, stores P and Q then goes to the
next cache-line.

The test code in sys/linux/lib/raid6/test reports 2008 MB/s data
read rate for syndrome generation using 18 disks (16 data and 2
parity). It was 1512 MB/s before this SIMD optimizations. This is
running on 1 core with all the data in cache.

This is based on the paper The Mathematics of RAID-6.
(http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/hpa/raid6.pdf).

Signed-off-by: Ken Steele <ken@tilera.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>

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lib/raid6: add ARM-NEON accelerated syndrome calculation

Rebased/reworked a patch contributed by Rob Herring that uses
NEON intrinsics to perform the RAID-6 syndrome calculations.
It

lib/raid6: add ARM-NEON accelerated syndrome calculation

Rebased/reworked a patch contributed by Rob Herring that uses
NEON intrinsics to perform the RAID-6 syndrome calculations.
It uses the existing unroll.awk code to generate several
unrolled versions of which the best performing one is selected
at boot time.

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org>
Cc: hpa@linux.intel.com

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lib/raid6: build proper files on corresponding arch

sse and avx2 stuff only exist on x86 arch, and we don't need to build
altivec on x86. And we can do that at lib/raid6/Makefile.

lib/raid6: build proper files on corresponding arch

sse and avx2 stuff only exist on x86 arch, and we don't need to build
altivec on x86. And we can do that at lib/raid6/Makefile.

Proposed-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Yuanhan Liu <yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Jim Kukunas <james.t.kukunas@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>

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lib/raid6: Add AVX2 optimized gen_syndrome functions

Add AVX2 optimized gen_syndrom functions, which is simply based on
sse2.c written by hpa.

Signed-off-by: Yuanhan Liu <yuanha

lib/raid6: Add AVX2 optimized gen_syndrome functions

Add AVX2 optimized gen_syndrom functions, which is simply based on
sse2.c written by hpa.

Signed-off-by: Yuanhan Liu <yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Jim Kukunas <james.t.kukunas@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>

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lib/raid6: Add AVX2 optimized recovery functions

Optimize RAID6 recovery functions to take advantage of
the 256-bit YMM integer instructions introduced in AVX2.

The patch was te

lib/raid6: Add AVX2 optimized recovery functions

Optimize RAID6 recovery functions to take advantage of
the 256-bit YMM integer instructions introduced in AVX2.

The patch was tested and benchmarked before submission.
However hardware is not yet released so benchmark numbers
cannot be reported.

Acked-by: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Jim Kukunas <james.t.kukunas@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>

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lib/raid6: Add SSSE3 optimized recovery functions

Add SSSE3 optimized recovery functions, as well as a system
for selecting the most appropriate recovery functions to use.

Origi

lib/raid6: Add SSSE3 optimized recovery functions

Add SSSE3 optimized recovery functions, as well as a system
for selecting the most appropriate recovery functions to use.

Originally-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Jim Kukunas <james.t.kukunas@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>

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Rename raid6 files now they're in a 'raid6' directory.

Linus asks 'why "raid6" twice?'. No reason.

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>

Merge branch 'async' of macbook:git/btrfs-unstable

Conflicts:
drivers/md/Makefile
lib/raid6/unroll.pl

md: Factor out RAID6 algorithms into lib/

We'll want to use these in btrfs too.

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>