Merge tag 'v3.11-rc2' into patchwork

Linux 3.11-rc2

* tag 'v3.11-rc2': (9535 commits)
  Linux 3.11-rc2
  ext3: fix a BUG when opening a file with O_TMPFILE flag
  ext4: fix a BUG when opening a file with O_TMPFILE flag
  vfs: constify dentry parameter in d_count()
  livelock avoidance in sget()
  allow O_TMPFILE to work with O_WRONLY
  Btrfs: fix wrong write offset when replacing a device
  Btrfs: re-add root to dead root list if we stop dropping it
  Btrfs: fix lock leak when resuming snapshot deletion
  Btrfs: update drop progress before stopping snapshot dropping
  arm64: use common reboot infrastructure
  arm64: mm: don't treat user cache maintenance faults as writes
  arm64: add '#ifdef CONFIG_COMPAT' for aarch32_break_handler()
  arm64: Only enable local interrupts after the CPU is marked online
  MIPS: kvm: Kconfig: Drop HAVE_KVM dependency from VIRTUALIZATION
  um: remove dead code
  um: siginfo cleanup
  MIPS: Octeon: Fix DT pruning bug with pip ports
  uml: Fix which_tmpdir failure when /dev/shm is a symlink, and in other edge cases
  um: Fix wait_stub_done() error handling
  ...

1 files changed, 39 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/workqueue.h b/include/linux/workqueue.h
index 623488fdc1f5..a0ed78ab54d7 100644
--- a/include/linux/workqueue.h
+++ b/include/linux/workqueue.h
@@ -303,6 +303,33 @@ enum {
 	WQ_CPU_INTENSIVE	= 1 << 5, /* cpu instensive workqueue */
 	WQ_SYSFS		= 1 << 6, /* visible in sysfs, see wq_sysfs_register() */
 
+	/*
+	 * Per-cpu workqueues are generally preferred because they tend to
+	 * show better performance thanks to cache locality.  Per-cpu
+	 * workqueues exclude the scheduler from choosing the CPU to
+	 * execute the worker threads, which has an unfortunate side effect
+	 * of increasing power consumption.
+	 *
+	 * The scheduler considers a CPU idle if it doesn't have any task
+	 * to execute and tries to keep idle cores idle to conserve power;
+	 * however, for example, a per-cpu work item scheduled from an
+	 * interrupt handler on an idle CPU will force the scheduler to
+	 * excute the work item on that CPU breaking the idleness, which in
+	 * turn may lead to more scheduling choices which are sub-optimal
+	 * in terms of power consumption.
+	 *
+	 * Workqueues marked with WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT are per-cpu by default
+	 * but become unbound if workqueue.power_efficient kernel param is
+	 * specified.  Per-cpu workqueues which are identified to
+	 * contribute significantly to power-consumption are identified and
+	 * marked with this flag and enabling the power_efficient mode
+	 * leads to noticeable power saving at the cost of small
+	 * performance disadvantage.
+	 *
+	 * http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1480396
+	 */
+	WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT	= 1 << 7,
+
 	__WQ_DRAINING		= 1 << 16, /* internal: workqueue is draining */
 	__WQ_ORDERED		= 1 << 17, /* internal: workqueue is ordered */
 
@@ -333,11 +360,19 @@ enum {
  *
  * system_freezable_wq is equivalent to system_wq except that it's
  * freezable.
+ *
+ * *_power_efficient_wq are inclined towards saving power and converted
+ * into WQ_UNBOUND variants if 'wq_power_efficient' is enabled; otherwise,
+ * they are same as their non-power-efficient counterparts - e.g.
+ * system_power_efficient_wq is identical to system_wq if
+ * 'wq_power_efficient' is disabled.  See WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT for more info.
  */
 extern struct workqueue_struct *system_wq;
 extern struct workqueue_struct *system_long_wq;
 extern struct workqueue_struct *system_unbound_wq;
 extern struct workqueue_struct *system_freezable_wq;
+extern struct workqueue_struct *system_power_efficient_wq;
+extern struct workqueue_struct *system_freezable_power_efficient_wq;
 
 static inline struct workqueue_struct * __deprecated __system_nrt_wq(void)
 {
@@ -410,11 +445,12 @@ __alloc_workqueue_key(const char *fmt, unsigned int flags, int max_active,
 	alloc_workqueue(fmt, WQ_UNBOUND | __WQ_ORDERED | (flags), 1, ##args)
 
 #define create_workqueue(name)						\
-	alloc_workqueue((name), WQ_MEM_RECLAIM, 1)
+	alloc_workqueue("%s", WQ_MEM_RECLAIM, 1, (name))
 #define create_freezable_workqueue(name)				\
-	alloc_workqueue((name), WQ_FREEZABLE | WQ_UNBOUND | WQ_MEM_RECLAIM, 1)
+	alloc_workqueue("%s", WQ_FREEZABLE | WQ_UNBOUND | WQ_MEM_RECLAIM, \
+			1, (name))
 #define create_singlethread_workqueue(name)				\
-	alloc_workqueue((name), WQ_UNBOUND | WQ_MEM_RECLAIM, 1)
+	alloc_workqueue("%s", WQ_UNBOUND | WQ_MEM_RECLAIM, 1, (name))
 
 extern void destroy_workqueue(struct workqueue_struct *wq);