3 files changed, 41 insertions, 13 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/compat.c b/kernel/compat.c
index e167efce8423..c9e2ec0b34a8 100644
--- a/kernel/compat.c
+++ b/kernel/compat.c
@@ -1126,3 +1126,24 @@ compat_sys_sysinfo(struct compat_sysinfo __user *info)
 
         return 0;
 }
+
+/*
+ * Allocate user-space memory for the duration of a single system call,
+ * in order to marshall parameters inside a compat thunk.
+ */
+void __user *compat_alloc_user_space(unsigned long len)
+{
+        void __user *ptr;
+
+        /* If len would occupy more than half of the entire compat space... */
+        if (unlikely(len > (((compat_uptr_t)~0) >> 1)))
+                return NULL;
+
+        ptr = arch_compat_alloc_user_space(len);
+
+        if (unlikely(!access_ok(VERIFY_WRITE, ptr, len)))
+                return NULL;
+
+        return ptr;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(compat_alloc_user_space);
diff --git a/kernel/sched_fair.c b/kernel/sched_fair.c
index 9b5b4f86b742..a171138a9402 100644
--- a/kernel/sched_fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched_fair.c
@@ -54,13 +54,13 @@ enum sched_tunable_scaling sysctl_sched_tunable_scaling
  * Minimal preemption granularity for CPU-bound tasks:
  * (default: 2 msec * (1 + ilog(ncpus)), units: nanoseconds)
  */
-unsigned int sysctl_sched_min_granularity = 2000000ULL;
-unsigned int normalized_sysctl_sched_min_granularity = 2000000ULL;
+unsigned int sysctl_sched_min_granularity = 750000ULL;
+unsigned int normalized_sysctl_sched_min_granularity = 750000ULL;
 
 /*
  * is kept at sysctl_sched_latency / sysctl_sched_min_granularity
  */
-static unsigned int sched_nr_latency = 3;
+static unsigned int sched_nr_latency = 8;
 
 /*
  * After fork, child runs first. If set to 0 (default) then
diff --git a/kernel/workqueue.c b/kernel/workqueue.c
index 727f24e563ae..f77afd939229 100644
--- a/kernel/workqueue.c
+++ b/kernel/workqueue.c
@@ -1,19 +1,26 @@
 /*
- * linux/kernel/workqueue.c
+ * kernel/workqueue.c - generic async execution with shared worker pool
  *
- * Generic mechanism for defining kernel helper threads for running
- * arbitrary tasks in process context.
+ * Copyright (C) 2002           Ingo Molnar
  *
- * Started by Ingo Molnar, Copyright (C) 2002
+ *   Derived from the taskqueue/keventd code by:
+ *     David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
+ *     Andrew Morton
+ *     Kai Petzke <wpp@marie.physik.tu-berlin.de>
+ *     Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
  *
- * Derived from the taskqueue/keventd code by:
+ * Made to use alloc_percpu by Christoph Lameter.
  *
- *   David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
- *   Andrew Morton
- *   Kai Petzke <wpp@marie.physik.tu-berlin.de>
- *   Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
+ * Copyright (C) 2010           SUSE Linux Products GmbH
+ * Copyright (C) 2010           Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
  *
- * Made to use alloc_percpu by Christoph Lameter.
+ * This is the generic async execution mechanism.  Work items as are
+ * executed in process context.  The worker pool is shared and
+ * automatically managed.  There is one worker pool for each CPU and
+ * one extra for works which are better served by workers which are
+ * not bound to any specific CPU.
+ *
+ * Please read Documentation/workqueue.txt for details.
  */
 
 #include <linux/module.h>