Merge commit 'a849088aa1' from rmk/fixes into cleanup/io-pci

As Stephen Rothwell reports, a849088aa155 ("ARM: Fix ioremap() of
address zero") from the arm-current tree and commit c2794437091a ("ARM:

Merge commit 'a849088aa1' from rmk/fixes into cleanup/io-pci

As Stephen Rothwell reports, a849088aa155 ("ARM: Fix ioremap() of
address zero") from the arm-current tree and commit c2794437091a ("ARM:
Add fixed PCI i/o mapping") from the arm-soc tree conflict in
a nontrivial way in arch/arm/mm/mmu.c.

Rob Herring explains:
The PCI i/o reserved area has a dummy physical address of 0 and
needs to be skipped by ioremap searches. So we don't set
VM_ARM_STATIC_MAPPING to prevent matches by ioremap. The vm_struct
settings don't really matter when we do the real mapping of the
i/o space.

Since commit a849088aa155 is at the start of the fixes branch
in the arm tree, we can merge it into the branch that contains
the other ioremap changes.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Rob Herring <rob.herring@calxeda.com>
Cc: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>

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Merge tag 'v3.6-rc4'

Merge 3.6-rc4 to get latest OMAP and device tree fixes.

Merge branch 'master' into upstream

Sync with Linus' tree so that we don't have build falures
due to Quanta 3001 ID reshuffling.

Merge tag 'v3.6-rc2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux

Having missed the merge window, update to 3.6-rc2 to avoid conflicts with
new patches.

Signed-off-by: David Wood

Merge tag 'v3.6-rc2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux

Having missed the merge window, update to 3.6-rc2 to avoid conflicts with
new patches.

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

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Merge tag 'perf-core-for-mingo' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux into perf/core

Pull perf/core improvements and fixes from Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo:

* Fix include order

Merge tag 'perf-core-for-mingo' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux into perf/core

Pull perf/core improvements and fixes from Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo:

* Fix include order for bison/flex-generated C files, from Ben Hutchings

* Build fixes and documentation corrections from David Ahern

* Group parsing support, from Jiri Olsa

* UI/gtk refactorings and improvements from Namhyung Kim

* NULL deref fix for perf script, from Namhyung Kim

* Assorted cleanups from Robert Richter

* Let O= makes handle relative paths, from Steven Rostedt

* perf script python fixes, from Feng Tang.

* Improve 'perf lock' error message when the needed tracepoints
are not present, from David Ahern.

* Initial bash completion support, from Frederic Weisbecker

* Allow building without libelf, from Namhyung Kim.

* Support DWARF CFI based unwind to have callchains when %bp
based unwinding is not possible, from Jiri Olsa.

* Symbol resolution fixes, while fixing support PPC64 files with an .opt ELF
section was the end goal, several fixes for code that handles all
architectures and cleanups are included, from Cody Schafer.

* Add a description for the JIT interface, from Andi Kleen.

* Assorted fixes for Documentation and build in 32 bit, from Robert Richter

* Add support for non-tracepoint events in perf script python, from Feng Tang

* Cache the libtraceevent event_format associated to each evsel early, so that we
avoid relookups, i.e. calling pevent_find_event repeatedly when processing
tracepoint events.

[ This is to reduce the surface contact with libtraceevents and make clear what
is that the perf tools needs from that lib: so far parsing the common and per
event fields. ]

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

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Merge tag 'asoc-3.6' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/broonie/sound into for-linus

ASoC: Additional updates for 3.6

A batch more bugfixes, all driver-specific and fairly small and
u

Merge tag 'asoc-3.6' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/broonie/sound into for-linus

ASoC: Additional updates for 3.6

A batch more bugfixes, all driver-specific and fairly small and
unremarkable in a global context. The biggest batch are for the newly
added Arizona drivers.

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Merge tag 'v3.6-rc2' into next

Linux 3.6-rc2

Resync with Linus.

Merge tag 'v3.6-rc2' into drm-intel-next

Backmerge Linux 3.6-rc2 to resolve a few funny conflicts before we put
even more madness on top:

- drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_irq.c: Just a spurious WARN rem

Merge tag 'v3.6-rc2' into drm-intel-next

Backmerge Linux 3.6-rc2 to resolve a few funny conflicts before we put
even more madness on top:

- drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_irq.c: Just a spurious WARN removed in
-fixes, that has been changed in a variable-rename in -next, too.

- drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_ringbuffer.c: -next remove scratch_addr
(since all their users have been extracted in another fucntion),
-fixes added another user for a hw workaroudn.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>

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Merge commit 'v3.6-rc1' into linux-next

* commit 'v3.6-rc1': (9532 commits)
Linux 3.6-rc1
mm: remove node_start_pfn checking in new WARN_ON for now
ARM: mmp: add missing irqs.h
arm: mvebu: f

Merge commit 'v3.6-rc1' into linux-next

* commit 'v3.6-rc1': (9532 commits)
Linux 3.6-rc1
mm: remove node_start_pfn checking in new WARN_ON for now
ARM: mmp: add missing irqs.h
arm: mvebu: fix typo in .dtsi comment for Armada XP SoCs
ARM: PRIMA2: delete redundant codes to restore LATCHED when timer resumes
libceph: fix crypto key null deref, memory leak
ceph: simplify+fix atomic_open
sh: explicitly include sh_dma.h in setup-sh7722.c
um: Add arch/x86/um to MAINTAINERS
um: pass siginfo to guest process
um: fix ubd_file_size for read-only files
md/dm-raid: DM_RAID should select MD_RAID10
md/raid1: submit IO from originating thread instead of md thread.
raid5: raid5d handle stripe in batch way
raid5: make_request use batch stripe release
um: pull interrupt_end() into userspace()
um: split syscall_trace(), pass pt_regs to it
um: switch UPT_SET_RETURN_VALUE and regs_return_value to pt_regs
MIPS: Loongson 2: Sort out clock managment.
locks: remove unused lm_release_private
...

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Merge tty-next into 3.6-rc1

This handles the merge issue in:
arch/um/drivers/line.c
arch/um/drivers/line.h
And resolves the duplicate patches that were in both trees do to the
tty-next branch not

Merge tty-next into 3.6-rc1

This handles the merge issue in:
arch/um/drivers/line.c
arch/um/drivers/line.h
And resolves the duplicate patches that were in both trees do to the
tty-next branch not getting merged into 3.6-rc1.

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

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Merge remote-tracking branch 'upstream' into next

- bring back critical fixes (esp. aa67f6096c19bc)
- provide an updated base for development

* upstream: (4334 commits)
missed mnt_drop_write()

Merge remote-tracking branch 'upstream' into next

- bring back critical fixes (esp. aa67f6096c19bc)
- provide an updated base for development

* upstream: (4334 commits)
missed mnt_drop_write() in do_dentry_open()
UBIFS: nuke pdflush from comments
gfs2: nuke pdflush from comments
drbd: nuke pdflush from comments
nilfs2: nuke write_super from comments
hfs: nuke write_super from comments
vfs: nuke pdflush from comments
jbd/jbd2: nuke write_super from comments
btrfs: nuke pdflush from comments
btrfs: nuke write_super from comments
ext4: nuke pdflush from comments
ext4: nuke write_super from comments
ext3: nuke write_super from comments
Documentation: fix the VM knobs descritpion WRT pdflush
Documentation: get rid of write_super
vfs: kill write_super and sync_supers
ACPI processor: Fix tick_broadcast_mask online/offline regression
ACPI: Only count valid srat memory structures
ACPI: Untangle a return statement for better readability
Linux 3.6-rc1
...

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>

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Merge tag 'v3.6-rc1' into staging/for_v3.6

Linux 3.6-rc1

* tag 'v3.6-rc1': (18733 commits)
Linux 3.6-rc1
mm: remove node_start_pfn checking in new WARN_ON for now
ARM: mmp: add missing irqs.h

Merge tag 'v3.6-rc1' into staging/for_v3.6

Linux 3.6-rc1

* tag 'v3.6-rc1': (18733 commits)
Linux 3.6-rc1
mm: remove node_start_pfn checking in new WARN_ON for now
ARM: mmp: add missing irqs.h
arm: mvebu: fix typo in .dtsi comment for Armada XP SoCs
ARM: PRIMA2: delete redundant codes to restore LATCHED when timer resumes
libceph: fix crypto key null deref, memory leak
ceph: simplify+fix atomic_open
sh: explicitly include sh_dma.h in setup-sh7722.c
um: Add arch/x86/um to MAINTAINERS
um: pass siginfo to guest process
um: fix ubd_file_size for read-only files
md/dm-raid: DM_RAID should select MD_RAID10
md/raid1: submit IO from originating thread instead of md thread.
raid5: raid5d handle stripe in batch way
raid5: make_request use batch stripe release
um: pull interrupt_end() into userspace()
um: split syscall_trace(), pass pt_regs to it
um: switch UPT_SET_RETURN_VALUE and regs_return_value to pt_regs
MIPS: Loongson 2: Sort out clock managment.
locks: remove unused lm_release_private
...

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Merge branch 'topic/next' into for-next

Merge branches 'delete-gts-bfs', 'misc', 'novell-bugzilla-757888-numa' and 'osc-pcie' into base

Merge branch 'sh/dmaengine' into sh-latest

Merge branch 'x86-mm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

Pull x86/mm changes from Peter Anvin:
"The big change here is the patchset by Alex Shi to use INVLPG to flus

Merge branch 'x86-mm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

Pull x86/mm changes from Peter Anvin:
"The big change here is the patchset by Alex Shi to use INVLPG to flush
only the affected pages when we only need to flush a small page range.

It also removes the special INVALIDATE_TLB_VECTOR interrupts (32
vectors!) and replace it with an ordinary IPI function call."

Fix up trivial conflicts in arch/x86/include/asm/apic.h (added code next
to changed line)

* 'x86-mm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/tlb: Fix build warning and crash when building for !SMP
x86/tlb: do flush_tlb_kernel_range by 'invlpg'
x86/tlb: replace INVALIDATE_TLB_VECTOR by CALL_FUNCTION_VECTOR
x86/tlb: enable tlb flush range support for x86
mm/mmu_gather: enable tlb flush range in generic mmu_gather
x86/tlb: add tlb_flushall_shift knob into debugfs
x86/tlb: add tlb_flushall_shift for specific CPU
x86/tlb: fall back to flush all when meet a THP large page
x86/flush_tlb: try flush_tlb_single one by one in flush_tlb_range
x86/tlb_info: get last level TLB entry number of CPU
x86: Add read_mostly declaration/definition to variables from smp.h
x86: Define early read-mostly per-cpu macros

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x86/flush_tlb: try flush_tlb_single one by one in flush_tlb_range

x86 has no flush_tlb_range support in instruction level. Currently the
flush_tlb_range just implemented by flushing all page table.

x86/flush_tlb: try flush_tlb_single one by one in flush_tlb_range

x86 has no flush_tlb_range support in instruction level. Currently the
flush_tlb_range just implemented by flushing all page table. That is not
the best solution for all scenarios. In fact, if we just use 'invlpg' to
flush few lines from TLB, we can get the performance gain from later
remain TLB lines accessing.

But the 'invlpg' instruction costs much of time. Its execution time can
compete with cr3 rewriting, and even a bit more on SNB CPU.

So, on a 512 4KB TLB entries CPU, the balance points is at:
(512 - X) * 100ns(assumed TLB refill cost) =
X(TLB flush entries) * 100ns(assumed invlpg cost)

Here, X is 256, that is 1/2 of 512 entries.

But with the mysterious CPU pre-fetcher and page miss handler Unit, the
assumed TLB refill cost is far lower then 100ns in sequential access. And
2 HT siblings in one core makes the memory access more faster if they are
accessing the same memory. So, in the patch, I just do the change when
the target entries is less than 1/16 of whole active tlb entries.
Actually, I have no data support for the percentage '1/16', so any
suggestions are welcomed.

As to hugetlb, guess due to smaller page table, and smaller active TLB
entries, I didn't see benefit via my benchmark, so no optimizing now.

My micro benchmark show in ideal scenarios, the performance improves 70
percent in reading. And in worst scenario, the reading/writing
performance is similar with unpatched 3.4-rc4 kernel.

Here is the reading data on my 2P * 4cores *HT NHM EP machine, with THP
'always':

multi thread testing, '-t' paramter is thread number:
with patch unpatched 3.4-rc4
./mprotect -t 1 14ns 24ns
./mprotect -t 2 13ns 22ns
./mprotect -t 4 12ns 19ns
./mprotect -t 8 14ns 16ns
./mprotect -t 16 28ns 26ns
./mprotect -t 32 54ns 51ns
./mprotect -t 128 200ns 199ns

Single process with sequencial flushing and memory accessing:

with patch unpatched 3.4-rc4
./mprotect 7ns 11ns
./mprotect -p 4096 -l 8 -n 10240
21ns 21ns

[ hpa: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1B4B44D9196EFF41AE41FDA404FC0A100BFF94@SHSMSX101.ccr.corp.intel.com
has additional performance numbers. ]

Signed-off-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1340845344-27557-3-git-send-email-alex.shi@intel.com
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>

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Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-next into wl12xx-next

Merge branch 'master' into x86/memblock

Conflicts & resolutions:

* arch/x86/xen/setup.c

dc91c728fd "xen: allow extra memory to be in multiple regions"
24aa07882b "memblock, x86: Replace memblock

Merge branch 'master' into x86/memblock

Conflicts & resolutions:

* arch/x86/xen/setup.c

dc91c728fd "xen: allow extra memory to be in multiple regions"
24aa07882b "memblock, x86: Replace memblock_x86_reserve/free..."

conflicted on xen_add_extra_mem() updates. The resolution is
trivial as the latter just want to replace
memblock_x86_reserve_range() with memblock_reserve().

* drivers/pci/intel-iommu.c

166e9278a3f "x86/ia64: intel-iommu: move to drivers/iommu/"
5dfe8660a3d "bootmem: Replace work_with_active_regions() with..."

conflicted as the former moved the file under drivers/iommu/.
Resolved by applying the chnages from the latter on the moved
file.

* mm/Kconfig

6661672053a "memblock: add NO_BOOTMEM config symbol"
c378ddd53f9 "memblock, x86: Make ARCH_DISCARD_MEMBLOCK a config option"

conflicted trivially. Both added config options. Just
letting both add their own options resolves the conflict.

* mm/memblock.c

d1f0ece6cdc "mm/memblock.c: small function definition fixes"
ed7b56a799c "memblock: Remove memblock_memory_can_coalesce()"

confliected. The former updates function removed by the
latter. Resolution is trivial.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>

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Merge branch 'next' into for-linus

Merge branch 'master' into for-next

Fast-forward merge with Linus to be able to merge patches
based on more recent version of the tree.

Merge commit 'v3.1-rc4' into next

Merge branch 'mw-3.1-jul25' of git://oss.oracle.com/git/smushran/linux-2.6 into ocfs2-fixes

Merge commit 'v3.1-rc2' into HEAD

Merge branch 'fix/hda' into topic/hda