1. 16 10月, 2006 10 次提交
  2. 12 10月, 2006 1 次提交
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      [PATCH] mm: use symbolic names instead of indices for zone initialisation · 6391af17
      Mel Gorman 提交于
      Arch-independent zone-sizing is using indices instead of symbolic names to
      offset within an array related to zones (max_zone_pfns).  The unintended
      impact is that ZONE_DMA and ZONE_NORMAL is initialised on powerpc instead
      of ZONE_DMA and ZONE_HIGHMEM when CONFIG_HIGHMEM is set.  As a result, the
      the machine fails to boot but will boot with CONFIG_HIGHMEM turned off.
      
      The following patch properly initialises the max_zone_pfns[] array and uses
      symbolic names instead of indices in each architecture using
      arch-independent zone-sizing.  Two users have successfully booted their
      powerpcs with it (one an ibook G4).  It has also been boot tested on x86,
      x86_64, ppc64 and ia64.  Please merge for 2.6.19-rc2.
      
      Credit to Benjamin Herrenschmidt for identifying the bug and rolling the
      first fix.  Additional credit to Johannes Berg and Andreas Schwab for
      reporting the problem and testing on powerpc.
      Signed-off-by: NMel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
      Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      6391af17
  3. 10 10月, 2006 10 次提交
  4. 09 10月, 2006 2 次提交
  5. 07 10月, 2006 5 次提交
  6. 06 10月, 2006 8 次提交
  7. 05 10月, 2006 4 次提交
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      IRQ: Maintain regs pointer globally rather than passing to IRQ handlers · 7d12e780
      David Howells 提交于
      Maintain a per-CPU global "struct pt_regs *" variable which can be used instead
      of passing regs around manually through all ~1800 interrupt handlers in the
      Linux kernel.
      
      The regs pointer is used in few places, but it potentially costs both stack
      space and code to pass it around.  On the FRV arch, removing the regs parameter
      from all the genirq function results in a 20% speed up of the IRQ exit path
      (ie: from leaving timer_interrupt() to leaving do_IRQ()).
      
      Where appropriate, an arch may override the generic storage facility and do
      something different with the variable.  On FRV, for instance, the address is
      maintained in GR28 at all times inside the kernel as part of general exception
      handling.
      
      Having looked over the code, it appears that the parameter may be handed down
      through up to twenty or so layers of functions.  Consider a USB character
      device attached to a USB hub, attached to a USB controller that posts its
      interrupts through a cascaded auxiliary interrupt controller.  A character
      device driver may want to pass regs to the sysrq handler through the input
      layer which adds another few layers of parameter passing.
      
      I've build this code with allyesconfig for x86_64 and i386.  I've runtested the
      main part of the code on FRV and i386, though I can't test most of the drivers.
      I've also done partial conversion for powerpc and MIPS - these at least compile
      with minimal configurations.
      
      This will affect all archs.  Mostly the changes should be relatively easy.
      Take do_IRQ(), store the regs pointer at the beginning, saving the old one:
      
      	struct pt_regs *old_regs = set_irq_regs(regs);
      
      And put the old one back at the end:
      
      	set_irq_regs(old_regs);
      
      Don't pass regs through to generic_handle_irq() or __do_IRQ().
      
      In timer_interrupt(), this sort of change will be necessary:
      
      	-	update_process_times(user_mode(regs));
      	-	profile_tick(CPU_PROFILING, regs);
      	+	update_process_times(user_mode(get_irq_regs()));
      	+	profile_tick(CPU_PROFILING);
      
      I'd like to move update_process_times()'s use of get_irq_regs() into itself,
      except that i386, alone of the archs, uses something other than user_mode().
      
      Some notes on the interrupt handling in the drivers:
      
       (*) input_dev() is now gone entirely.  The regs pointer is no longer stored in
           the input_dev struct.
      
       (*) finish_unlinks() in drivers/usb/host/ohci-q.c needs checking.  It does
           something different depending on whether it's been supplied with a regs
           pointer or not.
      
       (*) Various IRQ handler function pointers have been moved to type
           irq_handler_t.
      Signed-Off-By: NDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
      (cherry picked from 1b16e7ac850969f38b375e511e3fa2f474a33867 commit)
      7d12e780
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      [POWERPC] cell: fix bugs found by sparse · 43b4f406
      Arnd Bergmann 提交于
      - Some long constants should be marked 'ul'.
      - When using desc->handler_data to pass an __iomem
        register area, we need to add casts to and from
        __iomem.
      Signed-off-by: NArnd Bergmann <arnd.bergmann@de.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      43b4f406
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      [POWERPC] spiderpic: enable new style devtree support · f7e2ce78
      Arnd Bergmann 提交于
      This enables support for new firmware test releases.
      Signed-off-by: NArnd Bergmann <arnd.bergmann@de.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      f7e2ce78
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      [POWERPC] Update cell_defconfig · 68272047
      Arnd Bergmann 提交于
      This adds defaults for new configuration options added since
      2.6.18 and it enables the option for 64kb pages by default.
      Signed-off-by: NArnd Bergmann <arnd.bergmann@de.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      68272047