These changes are the raw update to linux-4.4.6-rt14. Kernel sources

are taken from kernel.org, and rt patch from the rt wiki download page.

During the rebasing, the following patch collided:

Force tick interrupt and get rid of softirq magic(I70131fb85).

Collisions have been removed because its logic was found on the
source already.

Change-Id: I7f57a4081d9deaa0d9ccfc41a6c8daccdee3b769
Signed-off-by: José Pekkarinen <jose.pekkarinen@nokia.com>

1 files changed, 85 insertions, 24 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/Documentation/cgroups/blkio-controller.txt b/kernel/Documentation/cgroups/blkio-controller.txt
index cd556b914..52fa9f353 100644
--- a/kernel/Documentation/cgroups/blkio-controller.txt
+++ b/kernel/Documentation/cgroups/blkio-controller.txt
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ cgroups. Here is what you can do.
 - At macro level, first dd should finish first. To get more precise data, keep
   on looking at (with the help of script), at blkio.disk_time and
   blkio.disk_sectors files of both test1 and test2 groups. This will tell how
-  much disk time (in milli seconds), each group got and how many secotors each
+  much disk time (in milliseconds), each group got and how many sectors each
   group dispatched to the disk. We provide fairness in terms of disk time, so
   ideally io.disk_time of cgroups should be in proportion to the weight.
 
@@ -201,7 +201,7 @@ Proportional weight policy files
 	  specifies the number of bytes.
 
 - blkio.io_serviced
-	- Number of IOs completed to/from the disk by the group. These
+	- Number of IOs (bio) issued to the disk by the group. These
 	  are further divided by the type of operation - read or write, sync
 	  or async. First two fields specify the major and minor number of the
 	  device, third field specifies the operation type and the fourth field
@@ -327,18 +327,11 @@ Note: If both BW and IOPS rules are specified for a device, then IO is
       subjected to both the constraints.
 
 - blkio.throttle.io_serviced
-	- Number of IOs (bio) completed to/from the disk by the group (as
-	  seen by throttling policy). These are further divided by the type
-	  of operation - read or write, sync or async. First two fields specify
-	  the major and minor number of the device, third field specifies the
-	  operation type and the fourth field specifies the number of IOs.
-
-	  blkio.io_serviced does accounting as seen by CFQ and counts are in
-	  number of requests (struct request). On the other hand,
-	  blkio.throttle.io_serviced counts number of IO in terms of number
-	  of bios as seen by throttling policy.  These bios can later be
-	  merged by elevator and total number of requests completed can be
-	  lesser.
+	- Number of IOs (bio) issued to the disk by the group. These
+	  are further divided by the type of operation - read or write, sync
+	  or async. First two fields specify the major and minor number of the
+	  device, third field specifies the operation type and the fourth field
+	  specifies the number of IOs.
 
 - blkio.throttle.io_service_bytes
 	- Number of bytes transferred to/from the disk by the group. These
@@ -347,11 +340,6 @@ Note: If both BW and IOPS rules are specified for a device, then IO is
 	  device, third field specifies the operation type and the fourth field
 	  specifies the number of bytes.
 
-	  These numbers should roughly be same as blkio.io_service_bytes as
-	  updated by CFQ. The difference between two is that
-	  blkio.io_service_bytes will not be updated if CFQ is not operating
-	  on request queue.
-
 Common files among various policies
 -----------------------------------
 - blkio.reset_stats
@@ -387,8 +375,81 @@ groups and put applications in that group which are not driving enough
 IO to keep disk busy. In that case set group_idle=0, and CFQ will not idle
 on individual groups and throughput should improve.
 
-What works
-==========
-- Currently only sync IO queues are support. All the buffered writes are
-  still system wide and not per group. Hence we will not see service
-  differentiation between buffered writes between groups.
+Writeback
+=========
+
+Page cache is dirtied through buffered writes and shared mmaps and
+written asynchronously to the backing filesystem by the writeback
+mechanism.  Writeback sits between the memory and IO domains and
+regulates the proportion of dirty memory by balancing dirtying and
+write IOs.
+
+On traditional cgroup hierarchies, relationships between different
+controllers cannot be established making it impossible for writeback
+to operate accounting for cgroup resource restrictions and all
+writeback IOs are attributed to the root cgroup.
+
+If both the blkio and memory controllers are used on the v2 hierarchy
+and the filesystem supports cgroup writeback, writeback operations
+correctly follow the resource restrictions imposed by both memory and
+blkio controllers.
+
+Writeback examines both system-wide and per-cgroup dirty memory status
+and enforces the more restrictive of the two.  Also, writeback control
+parameters which are absolute values - vm.dirty_bytes and
+vm.dirty_background_bytes - are distributed across cgroups according
+to their current writeback bandwidth.
+
+There's a peculiarity stemming from the discrepancy in ownership
+granularity between memory controller and writeback.  While memory
+controller tracks ownership per page, writeback operates on inode
+basis.  cgroup writeback bridges the gap by tracking ownership by
+inode but migrating ownership if too many foreign pages, pages which
+don't match the current inode ownership, have been encountered while
+writing back the inode.
+
+This is a conscious design choice as writeback operations are
+inherently tied to inodes making strictly following page ownership
+complicated and inefficient.  The only use case which suffers from
+this compromise is multiple cgroups concurrently dirtying disjoint
+regions of the same inode, which is an unlikely use case and decided
+to be unsupported.  Note that as memory controller assigns page
+ownership on the first use and doesn't update it until the page is
+released, even if cgroup writeback strictly follows page ownership,
+multiple cgroups dirtying overlapping areas wouldn't work as expected.
+In general, write-sharing an inode across multiple cgroups is not well
+supported.
+
+Filesystem support for cgroup writeback
+---------------------------------------
+
+A filesystem can make writeback IOs cgroup-aware by updating
+address_space_operations->writepage[s]() to annotate bio's using the
+following two functions.
+
+* wbc_init_bio(@wbc, @bio)
+
+  Should be called for each bio carrying writeback data and associates
+  the bio with the inode's owner cgroup.  Can be called anytime
+  between bio allocation and submission.
+
+* wbc_account_io(@wbc, @page, @bytes)
+
+  Should be called for each data segment being written out.  While
+  this function doesn't care exactly when it's called during the
+  writeback session, it's the easiest and most natural to call it as
+  data segments are added to a bio.
+
+With writeback bio's annotated, cgroup support can be enabled per
+super_block by setting MS_CGROUPWB in ->s_flags.  This allows for
+selective disabling of cgroup writeback support which is helpful when
+certain filesystem features, e.g. journaled data mode, are
+incompatible.
+
+wbc_init_bio() binds the specified bio to its cgroup.  Depending on
+the configuration, the bio may be executed at a lower priority and if
+the writeback session is holding shared resources, e.g. a journal
+entry, may lead to priority inversion.  There is no one easy solution
+for the problem.  Filesystems can try to work around specific problem
+cases by skipping wbc_init_bio() or using bio_associate_blkcg()
+directly.