1. 09 2月, 2007 2 次提交
  2. 13 12月, 2006 1 次提交
  3. 05 10月, 2006 1 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
  4. 25 9月, 2006 1 次提交
  5. 23 9月, 2006 9 次提交
  6. 03 8月, 2006 1 次提交
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  10. 22 5月, 2006 1 次提交
  11. 28 4月, 2006 1 次提交
  12. 20 4月, 2006 1 次提交
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      [PATCH] sound: fix hang in mpu401_uart.c · 962f831f
      Jon Masters 提交于
      This fixes a hang in mpu401_uart.c that can occur when the mpu401 interface
      is non-existent or otherwise doesn't respond to commands but we issue IO
      anyway.  snd_mpu401_uart_cmd now returns an error code that is passed up
      the stack so that an open() will fail immediately in such cases.
      
      Eventually discovered after wine/cxoffice would constantly cause hard
      lockups on my desktop immediately after loading (emulating Windows too
      well).  Turned out that I'd recently moved my sound cards around and using
      /dev/sequencer now talks to a sound card with a broken MPU.
      
      This second version changes -EFAULT to -EIO and frees open resources on
      error too.  Test booted and seems to work ok.
      Signed-off-by: NJon Masters <jcm@jonmasters.org>
      Cc: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@suse.cz>
      Acked-by: NTakashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      962f831f
  13. 28 3月, 2006 1 次提交
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      [PATCH] pnp: mpu401: adjust pnp_register_driver signature · f301ae6a
      Bjorn Helgaas 提交于
      This series of patches removes the assumption that pnp_register_driver()
      returns the number of devices claimed.  Returning the count is unreliable
      because devices may be hot-plugged in the future.  (Many devices don't support
      hot-plug, of course, but PNP in general does.)
      
      This changes the convention to "zero for success, or a negative error value,"
      which matches pci_register_driver(), acpi_bus_register_driver(), and
      platform_driver_register().
      
      If drivers need to know the number of devices, they can count calls to their
      .probe() methods.
      
      This patch:
      
      Remove the assumption that pnp_register_driver() returns the number of devices
      claimed.
      Signed-off-by: NBjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
      Cc: Adam Belay <ambx1@neo.rr.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      f301ae6a
  14. 22 3月, 2006 6 次提交
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  16. 01 2月, 2006 1 次提交