1. 10 3月, 2007 1 次提交
  2. 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
  3. 23 9月, 2006 1 次提交
  4. 14 9月, 2006 1 次提交
  5. 12 9月, 2006 1 次提交
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      [PATCH] Remove more unnecessary driver printk's · d5b20697
      Andy Gospodarek 提交于
      As I promised last week, here is the first pass at removing all
      unnecessary printk's that exist in network device drivers currently in
      promiscuous mode.  The duplicate messages are not needed so they have
      been removed.  Some of these drivers are quite old and might not need an
      update, but I did them all anyway.
      
      I am currently auditing the remaining conditional printk's and will send
      out a patch for those soon.
      Signed-off-by: NAndy Gospodarek <andy@greyhouse.net>
      Signed-off-by: NJeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
      d5b20697
  6. 20 8月, 2006 4 次提交
  7. 06 7月, 2006 2 次提交
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      [netdrvr] minor cleanups in Becker-derived drivers · 46009c8b
      Jeff Garzik 提交于
      - fealnx: convert #define to enum
      - fealnx, sundance: mark chip info table __devinitdata
      - fealnx: use dev_printk() during probe
      - fealnx: formatting cleanups
      - starfire: remove obsolete comment
      - sundance, via-rhine: add some whitespace where useful, in tables
      - sundance: prefer "{ }" table terminator
      - via-rhine: mark PCI probe table const
      Signed-off-by: NJeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
      46009c8b
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      [netdrvr] Remove Linux-specific changelogs from several Becker template drivers · 03a8c661
      Jeff Garzik 提交于
      When in-kernel net drivers branched from Donald Becker's vanilla driver
      set, in the days before BitKeeper and git, a driver changelog was
      maintained in the driver source code.  These days, the kernel's
      changelog is far superior and much more accurate, so the in-driver
      changelogs are removed.
      
      Another relic of the Becker/kernel split was version numbering, using
      "foo-LKx.y.z" notation, resulting in weird version numbers like
      "1.17b-LK1.1.9".  These drivers are for older hardware, and see few
      changes these days, so the version numbers were all bumped to something
      more simple.
      
      Finally, in xircom_tulip_cb specifically, an additional cleanup removes
      the always-enabled CARDBUS cpp macro.
      Signed-off-by: NJeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
      03a8c661
  8. 03 7月, 2006 1 次提交
  9. 23 6月, 2006 1 次提交
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      [NET]: Avoid allocating skb in skb_pad · 5b057c6b
      Herbert Xu 提交于
      First of all it is unnecessary to allocate a new skb in skb_pad since
      the existing one is not shared.  More importantly, our hard_start_xmit
      interface does not allow a new skb to be allocated since that breaks
      requeueing.
      
      This patch uses pskb_expand_head to expand the existing skb and linearize
      it if needed.  Actually, someone should sift through every instance of
      skb_pad on a non-linear skb as they do not fit the reasons why this was
      originally created.
      
      Incidentally, this fixes a minor bug when the skb is cloned (tcpdump,
      TCP, etc.).  As it is skb_pad will simply write over a cloned skb.  Because
      of the position of the write it is unlikely to cause problems but still
      it's best if we don't do it.
      Signed-off-by: NHerbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
      Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      5b057c6b
  10. 20 5月, 2006 1 次提交
  11. 03 5月, 2006 1 次提交
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      [PATCH] via-rhine: zero pad short packets on Rhine I ethernet cards · 3e0d167a
      Craig Brind 提交于
      Fixes Rhine I cards disclosing fragments of previously transmitted frames
      in new transmissions.
      
      Before transmission, any socket buffer (skb) shorter than the ethernet
      minimum length of 60 bytes was zero-padded.  On Rhine I cards the data can
      later be copied into an aligned transmission buffer without copying this
      padding.  This resulted in the transmission of the frame with the extra
      bytes beyond the provided content leaking the previous contents of this
      buffer on to the network.
      
      Now zero-padding is repeated in the local aligned buffer if one is used.
      
      Following a suggestion from the via-rhine maintainer, no attempt is made
      here to avoid the duplicated effort of padding the skb if it is known that
      an aligned buffer will definitely be used.  This is to make the change
      "obviously correct" and allow it to be applied to a stable kernel if
      necessary.  There is no change to the flow of control and the changes are
      only to the Rhine I code path.
      
      The patch has run on an in-service Rhine-I host without incident.  Frames
      shorter than 60 bytes are now correctly zero-padded when captured on a
      separate host.  I see no unusual stats reported by ifconfig, and no unusual
      log messages.
      Signed-off-by: NCraig Brind <craigbrind@gmail.com>
      Signed-off-by: NRoger Luethi <rl@hellgate.ch>
      Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NJeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
      3e0d167a
  12. 13 4月, 2006 2 次提交
  13. 30 3月, 2006 1 次提交
  14. 19 10月, 2005 1 次提交
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      [PATCH] via-rhine: change mdelay to msleep and remove from ISR path · 6ba98d31
      John W. Linville 提交于
      Get rid of the mdelay call in rhine_disable_linkmon.  The function
      is called from the via-rhine versions of mdio_read and mdio_write.
      Those functions are indirectly called from rhine_check_media and
      rhine_tx_timeout, both of which can be called in interrupt context.
      
      So, create tx_timeout_task and check_media_task as instances of struct
      work_struct inside of rhine_private.  Then, change rhine_tx_timeout to
      invoke schedule_work for tx_timeout_task (i.e. rhine_tx_timeout_task),
      moving the work to process context.  Also, change rhine_error (invoked
      from rhine_interrupt) to invoke schedule_work for check_media_task
      (i.e. rhine_check_media_task), which simply calls rhine_check media
      in process context.  Finally, add a call to flush_scheduled_work in
      rhine_close to avoid any resource conflicts with pending work items.
      Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
      Signed-off-by: NJeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
      6ba98d31
  15. 14 9月, 2005 1 次提交
  16. 29 6月, 2005 1 次提交
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      [NET]: Remove gratuitous use of skb->tail in network drivers. · 689be439
      David S. Miller 提交于
      Many drivers use skb->tail unnecessarily.
      
      In these situations, the code roughly looks like:
      
      	dev = dev_alloc_skb(...);
      
      	[optional] skb_reserve(skb, ...);
      
      	... skb->tail ...
      
      But even if the skb_reserve() happens, skb->data equals
      skb->tail.  So it doesn't make any sense to use anything
      other than skb->data in these cases.
      
      Another case was the s2io.c driver directly mucking with
      the skb->data and skb->tail pointers.  It really just wanted
      to do an skb_reserve(), so that's what the code was changed
      to do instead.
      
      Another reason I'm making this change as it allows some SKB
      cleanups I have planned simpler to merge.  In those cleanups,
      skb->head, skb->tail, and skb->end pointers are removed, and
      replaced with skb->head_room and skb->tail_room integers.
      Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      Acked-by: NJeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
      689be439
  17. 28 6月, 2005 1 次提交
  18. 27 6月, 2005 2 次提交
  19. 17 4月, 2005 1 次提交
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      Linux-2.6.12-rc2 · 1da177e4
      Linus Torvalds 提交于
      Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
      even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
      archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
      3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
      git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
      infrastructure for it.
      
      Let it rip!
      1da177e4