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<title>PCI: Update my email address</title>
<updated>2014-04-25T18:25:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ben Hutchings</name>
<email>ben@decadent.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2014-04-25T18:25:42+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas &lt;bhelgaas@google.com&gt;
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Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas &lt;bhelgaas@google.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'pm+acpi-3.15-rc1-3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm</title>
<updated>2014-04-11T20:20:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-04-11T20:20:04+00:00</published>
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Pull more ACPI and power management fixes and updates from Rafael Wysocki:
 "This is PM and ACPI material that has emerged over the last two weeks
  and one fix for a CPU hotplug regression introduced by the recent CPU
  hotplug notifiers registration series.

  Included are intel_idle and turbostat updates from Len Brown (these
  have been in linux-next for quite some time), a new cpufreq driver for
  powernv (that might spend some more time in linux-next, but BenH was
  asking me so nicely to push it for 3.15 that I couldn't resist), some
  cpufreq fixes and cleanups (including fixes for some silly breakage in
  a couple of cpufreq drivers introduced during the 3.14 cycle),
  assorted ACPI cleanups, wakeup framework documentation fixes, a new
  sysfs attribute for cpuidle and a new command line argument for power
  domains diagnostics.

  Specifics:

   - Fix for a recently introduced CPU hotplug regression in ARM KVM
     from Ming Lei.

   - Fixes for breakage in the at32ap, loongson2_cpufreq, and unicore32
     cpufreq drivers introduced during the 3.14 cycle (-stable material)
     from Chen Gang and Viresh Kumar.

   - New powernv cpufreq driver from Vaidyanathan Srinivasan, with bits
     from Gautham R Shenoy and Srivatsa S Bhat.

   - Exynos cpufreq driver fix preventing it from being included into
     multiplatform builds that aren't supported by it from Sachin Kamat.

   - cpufreq cleanups related to the usage of the driver_data field in
     struct cpufreq_frequency_table from Viresh Kumar.

   - cpufreq ppc driver cleanup from Sachin Kamat.

   - Intel BayTrail support for intel_idle and ACPI idle from Len Brown.

   - Intel CPU model 54 (Atom N2000 series) support for intel_idle from
     Jan Kiszka.

   - intel_idle fix for Intel Ivy Town residency targets from Len Brown.

   - turbostat updates (Intel Broadwell support and output cleanups)
     from Len Brown.

   - New cpuidle sysfs attribute for exporting C-states' target
     residency information to user space from Daniel Lezcano.

   - New kernel command line argument to prevent power domains enabled
     by the bootloader from being turned off even if they are not in use
     (for diagnostics purposes) from Tushar Behera.

   - Fixes for wakeup sysfs attributes documentation from Geert
     Uytterhoeven.

   - New ACPI video blacklist entry for ThinkPad Helix from Stephen
     Chandler Paul.

   - Assorted ACPI cleanups and a Kconfig help update from Jonghwan
     Choi, Zhihui Zhang, Hanjun Guo"

* tag 'pm+acpi-3.15-rc1-3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm: (28 commits)
  ACPI: Update the ACPI spec information in Kconfig
  arm, kvm: fix double lock on cpu_add_remove_lock
  cpuidle: sysfs: Export target residency information
  cpufreq: ppc: Remove duplicate inclusion of fsl_soc.h
  cpufreq: create another field .flags in cpufreq_frequency_table
  cpufreq: use kzalloc() to allocate memory for cpufreq_frequency_table
  cpufreq: don't print value of .driver_data from core
  cpufreq: ia64: don't set .driver_data to index
  cpufreq: powernv: Select CPUFreq related Kconfig options for powernv
  cpufreq: powernv: Use cpufreq_frequency_table.driver_data to store pstate ids
  cpufreq: powernv: cpufreq driver for powernv platform
  cpufreq: at32ap: don't declare local variable as static
  cpufreq: loongson2_cpufreq: don't declare local variable as static
  cpufreq: unicore32: fix typo issue for 'clk'
  cpufreq: exynos: Disable on multiplatform build
  PM / wakeup: Correct presence vs. emptiness of wakeup_* attributes
  PM / domains: Add pd_ignore_unused to keep power domains enabled
  ACPI / dock: Drop dock_device_ids[] table
  ACPI / video: Favor native backlight interface for ThinkPad Helix
  ACPI / thermal: Fix wrong variable usage in debug statement
  ...
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<pre>
Pull more ACPI and power management fixes and updates from Rafael Wysocki:
 "This is PM and ACPI material that has emerged over the last two weeks
  and one fix for a CPU hotplug regression introduced by the recent CPU
  hotplug notifiers registration series.

  Included are intel_idle and turbostat updates from Len Brown (these
  have been in linux-next for quite some time), a new cpufreq driver for
  powernv (that might spend some more time in linux-next, but BenH was
  asking me so nicely to push it for 3.15 that I couldn't resist), some
  cpufreq fixes and cleanups (including fixes for some silly breakage in
  a couple of cpufreq drivers introduced during the 3.14 cycle),
  assorted ACPI cleanups, wakeup framework documentation fixes, a new
  sysfs attribute for cpuidle and a new command line argument for power
  domains diagnostics.

  Specifics:

   - Fix for a recently introduced CPU hotplug regression in ARM KVM
     from Ming Lei.

   - Fixes for breakage in the at32ap, loongson2_cpufreq, and unicore32
     cpufreq drivers introduced during the 3.14 cycle (-stable material)
     from Chen Gang and Viresh Kumar.

   - New powernv cpufreq driver from Vaidyanathan Srinivasan, with bits
     from Gautham R Shenoy and Srivatsa S Bhat.

   - Exynos cpufreq driver fix preventing it from being included into
     multiplatform builds that aren't supported by it from Sachin Kamat.

   - cpufreq cleanups related to the usage of the driver_data field in
     struct cpufreq_frequency_table from Viresh Kumar.

   - cpufreq ppc driver cleanup from Sachin Kamat.

   - Intel BayTrail support for intel_idle and ACPI idle from Len Brown.

   - Intel CPU model 54 (Atom N2000 series) support for intel_idle from
     Jan Kiszka.

   - intel_idle fix for Intel Ivy Town residency targets from Len Brown.

   - turbostat updates (Intel Broadwell support and output cleanups)
     from Len Brown.

   - New cpuidle sysfs attribute for exporting C-states' target
     residency information to user space from Daniel Lezcano.

   - New kernel command line argument to prevent power domains enabled
     by the bootloader from being turned off even if they are not in use
     (for diagnostics purposes) from Tushar Behera.

   - Fixes for wakeup sysfs attributes documentation from Geert
     Uytterhoeven.

   - New ACPI video blacklist entry for ThinkPad Helix from Stephen
     Chandler Paul.

   - Assorted ACPI cleanups and a Kconfig help update from Jonghwan
     Choi, Zhihui Zhang, Hanjun Guo"

* tag 'pm+acpi-3.15-rc1-3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm: (28 commits)
  ACPI: Update the ACPI spec information in Kconfig
  arm, kvm: fix double lock on cpu_add_remove_lock
  cpuidle: sysfs: Export target residency information
  cpufreq: ppc: Remove duplicate inclusion of fsl_soc.h
  cpufreq: create another field .flags in cpufreq_frequency_table
  cpufreq: use kzalloc() to allocate memory for cpufreq_frequency_table
  cpufreq: don't print value of .driver_data from core
  cpufreq: ia64: don't set .driver_data to index
  cpufreq: powernv: Select CPUFreq related Kconfig options for powernv
  cpufreq: powernv: Use cpufreq_frequency_table.driver_data to store pstate ids
  cpufreq: powernv: cpufreq driver for powernv platform
  cpufreq: at32ap: don't declare local variable as static
  cpufreq: loongson2_cpufreq: don't declare local variable as static
  cpufreq: unicore32: fix typo issue for 'clk'
  cpufreq: exynos: Disable on multiplatform build
  PM / wakeup: Correct presence vs. emptiness of wakeup_* attributes
  PM / domains: Add pd_ignore_unused to keep power domains enabled
  ACPI / dock: Drop dock_device_ids[] table
  ACPI / video: Favor native backlight interface for ThinkPad Helix
  ACPI / thermal: Fix wrong variable usage in debug statement
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge branches 'pm-wakeup' and 'pm-domains'</title>
<updated>2014-04-08T11:29:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rafael J. Wysocki</name>
<email>rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-04-08T11:29:49+00:00</published>
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* pm-wakeup:
  PM / wakeup: Correct presence vs. emptiness of wakeup_* attributes

* pm-domains:
  PM / domains: Add pd_ignore_unused to keep power domains enabled
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* pm-wakeup:
  PM / wakeup: Correct presence vs. emptiness of wakeup_* attributes

* pm-domains:
  PM / domains: Add pd_ignore_unused to keep power domains enabled
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'akpm' (incoming from Andrew)</title>
<updated>2014-04-07T23:38:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-04-07T23:38:06+00:00</published>
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Merge second patch-bomb from Andrew Morton:
 - the rest of MM
 - zram updates
 - zswap updates
 - exit
 - procfs
 - exec
 - wait
 - crash dump
 - lib/idr
 - rapidio
 - adfs, affs, bfs, ufs
 - cris
 - Kconfig things
 - initramfs
 - small amount of IPC material
 - percpu enhancements
 - early ioremap support
 - various other misc things

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;: (156 commits)
  MAINTAINERS: update Intel C600 SAS driver maintainers
  fs/ufs: remove unused ufs_super_block_third pointer
  fs/ufs: remove unused ufs_super_block_second pointer
  fs/ufs: remove unused ufs_super_block_first pointer
  fs/ufs/super.c: add __init to init_inodecache()
  doc/kernel-parameters.txt: add early_ioremap_debug
  arm64: add early_ioremap support
  arm64: initialize pgprot info earlier in boot
  x86: use generic early_ioremap
  mm: create generic early_ioremap() support
  x86/mm: sparse warning fix for early_memremap
  lglock: map to spinlock when !CONFIG_SMP
  percpu: add preemption checks to __this_cpu ops
  vmstat: use raw_cpu_ops to avoid false positives on preemption checks
  slub: use raw_cpu_inc for incrementing statistics
  net: replace __this_cpu_inc in route.c with raw_cpu_inc
  modules: use raw_cpu_write for initialization of per cpu refcount.
  mm: use raw_cpu ops for determining current NUMA node
  percpu: add raw_cpu_ops
  slub: fix leak of 'name' in sysfs_slab_add
  ...
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Merge second patch-bomb from Andrew Morton:
 - the rest of MM
 - zram updates
 - zswap updates
 - exit
 - procfs
 - exec
 - wait
 - crash dump
 - lib/idr
 - rapidio
 - adfs, affs, bfs, ufs
 - cris
 - Kconfig things
 - initramfs
 - small amount of IPC material
 - percpu enhancements
 - early ioremap support
 - various other misc things

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;: (156 commits)
  MAINTAINERS: update Intel C600 SAS driver maintainers
  fs/ufs: remove unused ufs_super_block_third pointer
  fs/ufs: remove unused ufs_super_block_second pointer
  fs/ufs: remove unused ufs_super_block_first pointer
  fs/ufs/super.c: add __init to init_inodecache()
  doc/kernel-parameters.txt: add early_ioremap_debug
  arm64: add early_ioremap support
  arm64: initialize pgprot info earlier in boot
  x86: use generic early_ioremap
  mm: create generic early_ioremap() support
  x86/mm: sparse warning fix for early_memremap
  lglock: map to spinlock when !CONFIG_SMP
  percpu: add preemption checks to __this_cpu ops
  vmstat: use raw_cpu_ops to avoid false positives on preemption checks
  slub: use raw_cpu_inc for incrementing statistics
  net: replace __this_cpu_inc in route.c with raw_cpu_inc
  modules: use raw_cpu_write for initialization of per cpu refcount.
  mm: use raw_cpu ops for determining current NUMA node
  percpu: add raw_cpu_ops
  slub: fix leak of 'name' in sysfs_slab_add
  ...
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<entry>
<title>zram: make compression algorithm selection possible</title>
<updated>2014-04-07T23:36:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sergey Senozhatsky</name>
<email>sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-04-07T22:38:17+00:00</published>
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Add and document `comp_algorithm' device attribute.  This attribute allows
to show supported compression and currently selected compression
algorithms:

	cat /sys/block/zram0/comp_algorithm
	[lzo] lz4

and change selected compression algorithm:
	echo lzo &gt; /sys/block/zram0/comp_algorithm

Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky &lt;sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Minchan Kim &lt;minchan@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Jerome Marchand &lt;jmarchan@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Nitin Gupta &lt;ngupta@vflare.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Add and document `comp_algorithm' device attribute.  This attribute allows
to show supported compression and currently selected compression
algorithms:

	cat /sys/block/zram0/comp_algorithm
	[lzo] lz4

and change selected compression algorithm:
	echo lzo &gt; /sys/block/zram0/comp_algorithm

Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky &lt;sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Minchan Kim &lt;minchan@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Jerome Marchand &lt;jmarchan@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Nitin Gupta &lt;ngupta@vflare.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>zram: add multi stream functionality</title>
<updated>2014-04-07T23:36:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sergey Senozhatsky</name>
<email>sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-04-07T22:38:14+00:00</published>
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Existing zram (zcomp) implementation has only one compression stream
(buffer and algorithm private part), so in order to prevent data
corruption only one write (compress operation) can use this compression
stream, forcing all concurrent write operations to wait for stream lock
to be released.  This patch changes zcomp to keep a compression streams
list of user-defined size (via sysfs device attr).  Each write operation
still exclusively holds compression stream, the difference is that we
can have N write operations (depending on size of streams list)
executing in parallel.  See TEST section later in commit message for
performance data.

Introduce struct zcomp_strm_multi and a set of functions to manage
zcomp_strm stream access.  zcomp_strm_multi has a list of idle
zcomp_strm structs, spinlock to protect idle list and wait queue, making
it possible to perform parallel compressions.

The following set of functions added:
- zcomp_strm_multi_find()/zcomp_strm_multi_release()
  find and release a compression stream, implement required locking
- zcomp_strm_multi_create()/zcomp_strm_multi_destroy()
  create and destroy zcomp_strm_multi

zcomp -&gt;strm_find() and -&gt;strm_release() callbacks are set during
initialisation to zcomp_strm_multi_find()/zcomp_strm_multi_release()
correspondingly.

Each time zcomp issues a zcomp_strm_multi_find() call, the following set
of operations performed:

- spin lock strm_lock
- if idle list is not empty, remove zcomp_strm from idle list, spin
  unlock and return zcomp stream pointer to caller
- if idle list is empty, current adds itself to wait queue. it will be
  awaken by zcomp_strm_multi_release() caller.

zcomp_strm_multi_release():
- spin lock strm_lock
- add zcomp stream to idle list
- spin unlock, wake up sleeper

Minchan Kim reported that spinlock-based locking scheme has demonstrated
a severe perfomance regression for single compression stream case,
comparing to mutex-based (see https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/2/18/16)

base                      spinlock                    mutex

==Initial write           ==Initial write             ==Initial  write
records:  5               records:  5                 records:   5
avg:      1642424.35      avg:      699610.40         avg:       1655583.71
std:      39890.95(2.43%) std:      232014.19(33.16%) std:       52293.96
max:      1690170.94      max:      1163473.45        max:       1697164.75
min:      1568669.52      min:      573429.88         min:       1553410.23
==Rewrite                 ==Rewrite                   ==Rewrite
records:  5               records:  5                 records:   5
avg:      1611775.39      avg:      501406.64         avg:       1684419.11
std:      17144.58(1.06%) std:      15354.41(3.06%)   std:       18367.42
max:      1641800.95      max:      531356.78         max:       1706445.84
min:      1593515.27      min:      488817.78         min:       1655335.73

When only one compression stream available, mutex with spin on owner
tends to perform much better than frequent wait_event()/wake_up().  This
is why single stream implemented as a special case with mutex locking.

Introduce and document zram device attribute max_comp_streams.  This
attr shows and stores current zcomp's max number of zcomp streams
(max_strm).  Extend zcomp's zcomp_create() with `max_strm' parameter.
`max_strm' limits the number of zcomp_strm structs in compression
backend's idle list (max_comp_streams).

max_comp_streams used during initialisation as follows:
-- passing to zcomp_create() max_strm equals to 1 will initialise zcomp
using single compression stream zcomp_strm_single (mutex-based locking).
-- passing to zcomp_create() max_strm greater than 1 will initialise zcomp
using multi compression stream zcomp_strm_multi (spinlock-based locking).

default max_comp_streams value is 1, meaning that zram with single stream
will be initialised.

Later patch will introduce configuration knob to change max_comp_streams
on already initialised and used zcomp.

TEST
iozone -t 3 -R -r 16K -s 60M -I +Z

       test           base       1 strm (mutex)     3 strm (spinlock)
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
 Initial write      589286.78       583518.39          718011.05
       Rewrite      604837.97       596776.38         1515125.72
  Random write      584120.11       595714.58         1388850.25
        Pwrite      535731.17       541117.38          739295.27
        Fwrite     1418083.88      1478612.72         1484927.06

Usage example:
set max_comp_streams to 4
        echo 4 &gt; /sys/block/zram0/max_comp_streams

show current max_comp_streams (default value is 1).
        cat /sys/block/zram0/max_comp_streams

Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky &lt;sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Minchan Kim &lt;minchan@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Jerome Marchand &lt;jmarchan@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Nitin Gupta &lt;ngupta@vflare.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<pre>
Existing zram (zcomp) implementation has only one compression stream
(buffer and algorithm private part), so in order to prevent data
corruption only one write (compress operation) can use this compression
stream, forcing all concurrent write operations to wait for stream lock
to be released.  This patch changes zcomp to keep a compression streams
list of user-defined size (via sysfs device attr).  Each write operation
still exclusively holds compression stream, the difference is that we
can have N write operations (depending on size of streams list)
executing in parallel.  See TEST section later in commit message for
performance data.

Introduce struct zcomp_strm_multi and a set of functions to manage
zcomp_strm stream access.  zcomp_strm_multi has a list of idle
zcomp_strm structs, spinlock to protect idle list and wait queue, making
it possible to perform parallel compressions.

The following set of functions added:
- zcomp_strm_multi_find()/zcomp_strm_multi_release()
  find and release a compression stream, implement required locking
- zcomp_strm_multi_create()/zcomp_strm_multi_destroy()
  create and destroy zcomp_strm_multi

zcomp -&gt;strm_find() and -&gt;strm_release() callbacks are set during
initialisation to zcomp_strm_multi_find()/zcomp_strm_multi_release()
correspondingly.

Each time zcomp issues a zcomp_strm_multi_find() call, the following set
of operations performed:

- spin lock strm_lock
- if idle list is not empty, remove zcomp_strm from idle list, spin
  unlock and return zcomp stream pointer to caller
- if idle list is empty, current adds itself to wait queue. it will be
  awaken by zcomp_strm_multi_release() caller.

zcomp_strm_multi_release():
- spin lock strm_lock
- add zcomp stream to idle list
- spin unlock, wake up sleeper

Minchan Kim reported that spinlock-based locking scheme has demonstrated
a severe perfomance regression for single compression stream case,
comparing to mutex-based (see https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/2/18/16)

base                      spinlock                    mutex

==Initial write           ==Initial write             ==Initial  write
records:  5               records:  5                 records:   5
avg:      1642424.35      avg:      699610.40         avg:       1655583.71
std:      39890.95(2.43%) std:      232014.19(33.16%) std:       52293.96
max:      1690170.94      max:      1163473.45        max:       1697164.75
min:      1568669.52      min:      573429.88         min:       1553410.23
==Rewrite                 ==Rewrite                   ==Rewrite
records:  5               records:  5                 records:   5
avg:      1611775.39      avg:      501406.64         avg:       1684419.11
std:      17144.58(1.06%) std:      15354.41(3.06%)   std:       18367.42
max:      1641800.95      max:      531356.78         max:       1706445.84
min:      1593515.27      min:      488817.78         min:       1655335.73

When only one compression stream available, mutex with spin on owner
tends to perform much better than frequent wait_event()/wake_up().  This
is why single stream implemented as a special case with mutex locking.

Introduce and document zram device attribute max_comp_streams.  This
attr shows and stores current zcomp's max number of zcomp streams
(max_strm).  Extend zcomp's zcomp_create() with `max_strm' parameter.
`max_strm' limits the number of zcomp_strm structs in compression
backend's idle list (max_comp_streams).

max_comp_streams used during initialisation as follows:
-- passing to zcomp_create() max_strm equals to 1 will initialise zcomp
using single compression stream zcomp_strm_single (mutex-based locking).
-- passing to zcomp_create() max_strm greater than 1 will initialise zcomp
using multi compression stream zcomp_strm_multi (spinlock-based locking).

default max_comp_streams value is 1, meaning that zram with single stream
will be initialised.

Later patch will introduce configuration knob to change max_comp_streams
on already initialised and used zcomp.

TEST
iozone -t 3 -R -r 16K -s 60M -I +Z

       test           base       1 strm (mutex)     3 strm (spinlock)
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
 Initial write      589286.78       583518.39          718011.05
       Rewrite      604837.97       596776.38         1515125.72
  Random write      584120.11       595714.58         1388850.25
        Pwrite      535731.17       541117.38          739295.27
        Fwrite     1418083.88      1478612.72         1484927.06

Usage example:
set max_comp_streams to 4
        echo 4 &gt; /sys/block/zram0/max_comp_streams

show current max_comp_streams (default value is 1).
        cat /sys/block/zram0/max_comp_streams

Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky &lt;sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Minchan Kim &lt;minchan@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Jerome Marchand &lt;jmarchan@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Nitin Gupta &lt;ngupta@vflare.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>zram: document failed_reads, failed_writes stats</title>
<updated>2014-04-07T23:36:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sergey Senozhatsky</name>
<email>sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-04-07T22:38:08+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=8dd1d3247e6c00b50ef83934ea8b22a1590015de'/>
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Document `failed_reads' and `failed_writes' device attributes.
Remove info about `discard' - there is no such zram attr.

Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky &lt;sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Minchan Kim &lt;minchan@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Jerome Marchand &lt;jmarchan@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Nitin Gupta &lt;ngupta@vflare.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Document `failed_reads' and `failed_writes' device attributes.
Remove info about `discard' - there is no such zram attr.

Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky &lt;sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Minchan Kim &lt;minchan@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Jerome Marchand &lt;jmarchan@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Nitin Gupta &lt;ngupta@vflare.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'for-f2fs-3.15' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jaegeuk/f2fs</title>
<updated>2014-04-07T17:55:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-04-07T17:55:36+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=3021112598d2b722eee54d8a662fea2089abbdbc'/>
<id>3021112598d2b722eee54d8a662fea2089abbdbc</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull f2fs updates from Jaegeuk Kim:
 "This patch-set includes the following major enhancement patches.
   - introduce large directory support
   - introduce f2fs_issue_flush to merge redundant flush commands
   - merge write IOs as much as possible aligned to the segment
   - add sysfs entries to tune the f2fs configuration
   - use radix_tree for the free_nid_list to reduce in-memory operations
   - remove costly bit operations in f2fs_find_entry
   - enhance the readahead flow for CP/NAT/SIT/SSA blocks

  The other bug fixes are as follows:
   - recover xattr node blocks correctly after sudden-power-cut
   - fix to calculate the maximum number of node ids
   - enhance to handle many error cases

  And, there are a bunch of cleanups"

* tag 'for-f2fs-3.15' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jaegeuk/f2fs: (62 commits)
  f2fs: fix wrong statistics of inline data
  f2fs: check the acl's validity before setting
  f2fs: introduce f2fs_issue_flush to avoid redundant flush issue
  f2fs: fix to cover io-&gt;bio with io_rwsem
  f2fs: fix error path when fail to read inline data
  f2fs: use list_for_each_entry{_safe} for simplyfying code
  f2fs: avoid free slab cache under spinlock
  f2fs: avoid unneeded lookup when xattr name length is too long
  f2fs: avoid unnecessary bio submit when wait page writeback
  f2fs: return -EIO when node id is not matched
  f2fs: avoid RECLAIM_FS-ON-W warning
  f2fs: skip unnecessary node writes during fsync
  f2fs: introduce fi-&gt;i_sem to protect fi's info
  f2fs: change reclaim rate in percentage
  f2fs: add missing documentation for dir_level
  f2fs: remove unnecessary threshold
  f2fs: throttle the memory footprint with a sysfs entry
  f2fs: avoid to drop nat entries due to the negative nr_shrink
  f2fs: call f2fs_wait_on_page_writeback instead of native function
  f2fs: introduce nr_pages_to_write for segment alignment
  ...
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<pre>
Pull f2fs updates from Jaegeuk Kim:
 "This patch-set includes the following major enhancement patches.
   - introduce large directory support
   - introduce f2fs_issue_flush to merge redundant flush commands
   - merge write IOs as much as possible aligned to the segment
   - add sysfs entries to tune the f2fs configuration
   - use radix_tree for the free_nid_list to reduce in-memory operations
   - remove costly bit operations in f2fs_find_entry
   - enhance the readahead flow for CP/NAT/SIT/SSA blocks

  The other bug fixes are as follows:
   - recover xattr node blocks correctly after sudden-power-cut
   - fix to calculate the maximum number of node ids
   - enhance to handle many error cases

  And, there are a bunch of cleanups"

* tag 'for-f2fs-3.15' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jaegeuk/f2fs: (62 commits)
  f2fs: fix wrong statistics of inline data
  f2fs: check the acl's validity before setting
  f2fs: introduce f2fs_issue_flush to avoid redundant flush issue
  f2fs: fix to cover io-&gt;bio with io_rwsem
  f2fs: fix error path when fail to read inline data
  f2fs: use list_for_each_entry{_safe} for simplyfying code
  f2fs: avoid free slab cache under spinlock
  f2fs: avoid unneeded lookup when xattr name length is too long
  f2fs: avoid unnecessary bio submit when wait page writeback
  f2fs: return -EIO when node id is not matched
  f2fs: avoid RECLAIM_FS-ON-W warning
  f2fs: skip unnecessary node writes during fsync
  f2fs: introduce fi-&gt;i_sem to protect fi's info
  f2fs: change reclaim rate in percentage
  f2fs: add missing documentation for dir_level
  f2fs: remove unnecessary threshold
  f2fs: throttle the memory footprint with a sysfs entry
  f2fs: avoid to drop nat entries due to the negative nr_shrink
  f2fs: call f2fs_wait_on_page_writeback instead of native function
  f2fs: introduce nr_pages_to_write for segment alignment
  ...
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>PM / wakeup: Correct presence vs. emptiness of wakeup_* attributes</title>
<updated>2014-04-07T12:18:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Geert Uytterhoeven</name>
<email>geert+renesas@glider.be</email>
</author>
<published>2014-03-28T10:15:14+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=d0549801659747c46092fb22db1488100d7923e4'/>
<id>d0549801659747c46092fb22db1488100d7923e4</id>
<content type='text'>
According to the documentation, the various wakeup_* attributes in sysfs
are not present if the device is not enabled to wake up the system.

This is not correct: the attributes are not present if the device is not
capable to wake up the system. They are empty if the device is not enabled
to wake up the system.

Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert+renesas@glider.be&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
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<pre>
According to the documentation, the various wakeup_* attributes in sysfs
are not present if the device is not enabled to wake up the system.

This is not correct: the attributes are not present if the device is not
capable to wake up the system. They are empty if the device is not enabled
to wake up the system.

Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert+renesas@glider.be&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'modules-next-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux</title>
<updated>2014-04-06T16:38:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-04-06T16:38:07+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=6f4c98e1c22c28e00b8f050cce895a6b74db15d1'/>
<id>6f4c98e1c22c28e00b8f050cce895a6b74db15d1</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull module updates from Rusty Russell:
 "Nothing major: the stricter permissions checking for sysfs broke a
  staging driver; fix included.  Greg KH said he'd take the patch but
  hadn't as the merge window opened, so it's included here to avoid
  breaking build"

* tag 'modules-next-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux:
  staging: fix up speakup kobject mode
  Use 'E' instead of 'X' for unsigned module taint flag.
  VERIFY_OCTAL_PERMISSIONS: stricter checking for sysfs perms.
  kallsyms: fix percpu vars on x86-64 with relocation.
  kallsyms: generalize address range checking
  module: LLVMLinux: Remove unused function warning from __param_check macro
  Fix: module signature vs tracepoints: add new TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
  module: remove MODULE_GENERIC_TABLE
  module: allow multiple calls to MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE() per module
  module: use pr_cont
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<pre>
Pull module updates from Rusty Russell:
 "Nothing major: the stricter permissions checking for sysfs broke a
  staging driver; fix included.  Greg KH said he'd take the patch but
  hadn't as the merge window opened, so it's included here to avoid
  breaking build"

* tag 'modules-next-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux:
  staging: fix up speakup kobject mode
  Use 'E' instead of 'X' for unsigned module taint flag.
  VERIFY_OCTAL_PERMISSIONS: stricter checking for sysfs perms.
  kallsyms: fix percpu vars on x86-64 with relocation.
  kallsyms: generalize address range checking
  module: LLVMLinux: Remove unused function warning from __param_check macro
  Fix: module signature vs tracepoints: add new TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
  module: remove MODULE_GENERIC_TABLE
  module: allow multiple calls to MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE() per module
  module: use pr_cont
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
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