1. 01 6月, 2007 1 次提交
  2. 19 5月, 2007 2 次提交
  3. 10 5月, 2007 1 次提交
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      rename thread_info to stack · f7e4217b
      Roman Zippel 提交于
      This finally renames the thread_info field in task structure to stack, so that
      the assumptions about this field are gone and archs have more freedom about
      placing the thread_info structure.
      
      Nonbroken archs which have a proper thread pointer can do the access to both
      current thread and task structure via a single pointer.
      
      It'll allow for a few more cleanups of the fork code, from which e.g.  ia64
      could benefit.
      Signed-off-by: NRoman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
      [akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix]
      Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
      Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
      Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
      Cc: Ian Molton <spyro@f2s.com>
      Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com>
      Cc: Mikael Starvik <starvik@axis.com>
      Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
      Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>
      Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
      Cc: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org>
      Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
      Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
      Cc: Greg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org>
      Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
      Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
      Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
      Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
      Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
      Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
      Cc: Kazumoto Kojima <kkojima@rr.iij4u.or.jp>
      Cc: Richard Curnow <rc@rc0.org.uk>
      Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
      Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
      Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
      Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
      Cc: Miles Bader <uclinux-v850@lsi.nec.co.jp>
      Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
      Cc: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      f7e4217b
  4. 09 5月, 2007 2 次提交
  5. 08 5月, 2007 1 次提交
  6. 03 5月, 2007 2 次提交
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      PCI: Cleanup the includes of <linux/pci.h> · 6473d160
      Jean Delvare 提交于
      I noticed that many source files include <linux/pci.h> while they do
      not appear to need it. Here is an attempt to clean it all up.
      
      In order to find all possibly affected files, I searched for all
      files including <linux/pci.h> but without any other occurence of "pci"
      or "PCI". I removed the include statement from all of these, then I
      compiled an allmodconfig kernel on both i386 and x86_64 and fixed the
      false positives manually.
      
      My tests covered 66% of the affected files, so there could be false
      positives remaining. Untested files are:
      
      arch/alpha/kernel/err_common.c
      arch/alpha/kernel/err_ev6.c
      arch/alpha/kernel/err_ev7.c
      arch/ia64/sn/kernel/huberror.c
      arch/ia64/sn/kernel/xpnet.c
      arch/m68knommu/kernel/dma.c
      arch/mips/lib/iomap.c
      arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/ras.c
      arch/ppc/8260_io/enet.c
      arch/ppc/8260_io/fcc_enet.c
      arch/ppc/8xx_io/enet.c
      arch/ppc/syslib/ppc4xx_sgdma.c
      arch/sh64/mach-cayman/iomap.c
      arch/xtensa/kernel/xtensa_ksyms.c
      arch/xtensa/platform-iss/setup.c
      drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-at91.c
      drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-mpc.c
      drivers/media/video/saa711x.c
      drivers/misc/hdpuftrs/hdpu_cpustate.c
      drivers/misc/hdpuftrs/hdpu_nexus.c
      drivers/net/au1000_eth.c
      drivers/net/fec_8xx/fec_main.c
      drivers/net/fec_8xx/fec_mii.c
      drivers/net/fs_enet/fs_enet-main.c
      drivers/net/fs_enet/mac-fcc.c
      drivers/net/fs_enet/mac-fec.c
      drivers/net/fs_enet/mac-scc.c
      drivers/net/fs_enet/mii-bitbang.c
      drivers/net/fs_enet/mii-fec.c
      drivers/net/ibm_emac/ibm_emac_core.c
      drivers/net/lasi_82596.c
      drivers/parisc/hppb.c
      drivers/sbus/sbus.c
      drivers/video/g364fb.c
      drivers/video/platinumfb.c
      drivers/video/stifb.c
      drivers/video/valkyriefb.c
      include/asm-arm/arch-ixp4xx/dma.h
      sound/oss/au1550_ac97.c
      
      I would welcome test reports for these files. I am fine with removing
      the untested files from the patch if the general opinion is that these
      changes aren't safe. The tested part would still be nice to have.
      
      Note that this patch depends on another header fixup patch I submitted
      to LKML yesterday:
        [PATCH] scatterlist.h needs types.h
        http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/3/01/141Signed-off-by: NJean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
      Cc: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
      6473d160
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      [PATCH] x86: Allow percpu variables to be page-aligned · b6e3590f
      Jeremy Fitzhardinge 提交于
      Let's allow page-alignment in general for per-cpu data (wanted by Xen, and
      Ingo suggested KVM as well).
      
      Because larger alignments can use more room, we increase the max per-cpu
      memory to 64k rather than 32k: it's getting a little tight.
      Signed-off-by: NRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
      Signed-off-by: NJeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
      Acked-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      b6e3590f
  7. 26 4月, 2007 2 次提交
  8. 13 2月, 2007 1 次提交
  9. 12 2月, 2007 4 次提交
  10. 14 12月, 2006 1 次提交
  11. 11 12月, 2006 3 次提交
  12. 09 12月, 2006 1 次提交
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      [PATCH] LOG2: Implement a general integer log2 facility in the kernel · f0d1b0b3
      David Howells 提交于
      This facility provides three entry points:
      
      	ilog2()		Log base 2 of unsigned long
      	ilog2_u32()	Log base 2 of u32
      	ilog2_u64()	Log base 2 of u64
      
      These facilities can either be used inside functions on dynamic data:
      
      	int do_something(long q)
      	{
      		...;
      		y = ilog2(x)
      		...;
      	}
      
      Or can be used to statically initialise global variables with constant values:
      
      	unsigned n = ilog2(27);
      
      When performing static initialisation, the compiler will report "error:
      initializer element is not constant" if asked to take a log of zero or of
      something not reducible to a constant.  They treat negative numbers as
      unsigned.
      
      When not dealing with a constant, they fall back to using fls() which permits
      them to use arch-specific log calculation instructions - such as BSR on
      x86/x86_64 or SCAN on FRV - if available.
      
      [akpm@osdl.org: MMC fix]
      Signed-off-by: NDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
      Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
      Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
      Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
      Cc: Wojtek Kaniewski <wojtekka@toxygen.net>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      f0d1b0b3
  13. 28 10月, 2006 1 次提交
  14. 04 10月, 2006 3 次提交
  15. 02 10月, 2006 3 次提交
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      [PATCH] provide kernel_execve on all architectures · fe74290d
      Arnd Bergmann 提交于
      This adds the new kernel_execve function on all architectures that were using
      _syscall3() to implement execve.
      
      The implementation uses code from the _syscall3 macros provided in the
      unistd.h header file.  I don't have cross-compilers for any of these
      architectures, so the patch is untested with the exception of i386.
      
      Most architectures can probably implement this in a nicer way in assembly or
      by combining it with the sys_execve implementation itself, but this should do
      it for now.
      
      [bunk@stusta.de: m68knommu build fix]
      [markh@osdl.org: build fix]
      [bero@arklinux.org: build fix]
      [ralf@linux-mips.org: mips fix]
      [schwidefsky@de.ibm.com: s390 fix]
      Signed-off-by: NArnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
      Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
      Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
      Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
      Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
      Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
      Cc: Ian Molton <spyro@f2s.com>
      Cc: Mikael Starvik <starvik@axis.com>
      Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
      Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>
      Cc: Hirokazu Takata <takata.hirokazu@renesas.com>
      Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
      Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
      Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
      Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
      Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
      Cc: Kazumoto Kojima <kkojima@rr.iij4u.or.jp>
      Cc: Richard Curnow <rc@rc0.org.uk>
      Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
      Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
      Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
      Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
      Cc: Miles Bader <uclinux-v850@lsi.nec.co.jp>
      Cc: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net>
      Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
      Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
      Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
      Signed-off-by: NRalf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
      Signed-off-by: NBernhard Rosenkraenzer <bero@arklinux.org>
      Signed-off-by: NMark Haverkamp <markh@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NAdrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      fe74290d
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      [PATCH] namespaces: utsname: switch to using uts namespaces · e9ff3990
      Serge E. Hallyn 提交于
      Replace references to system_utsname to the per-process uts namespace
      where appropriate.  This includes things like uname.
      
      Changes: Per Eric Biederman's comments, use the per-process uts namespace
      	for ELF_PLATFORM, sunrpc, and parts of net/ipv4/ipconfig.c
      
      [jdike@addtoit.com: UML fix]
      [clg@fr.ibm.com: cleanup]
      [akpm@osdl.org: build fix]
      Signed-off-by: NSerge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
      Cc: Kirill Korotaev <dev@openvz.org>
      Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
      Cc: Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at>
      Cc: Andrey Savochkin <saw@sw.ru>
      Signed-off-by: NCedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com>
      Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      e9ff3990
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      [PATCH] const struct tty_operations · b68e31d0
      Jeff Dike 提交于
      As part of an SMP cleanliness pass over UML, I consted a bunch of
      structures in order to not have to document their locking.  One of these
      structures was a struct tty_operations.  In order to const it in UML
      without introducing compiler complaints, the declaration of
      tty_set_operations needs to be changed, and then all of its callers need to
      be fixed.
      
      This patch declares all struct tty_operations in the tree as const.  In all
      cases, they are static and used only as input to tty_set_operations.  As an
      extra check, I ran an i386 allyesconfig build which produced no extra
      warnings.
      
      53 drivers are affected.  I checked the history of a bunch of them, and in
      most cases, there have been only a handful of maintenance changes in the
      last six months.  serial_core.c was the busiest one that I looked at.
      Signed-off-by: NJeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
      Acked-by: NAlan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      b68e31d0
  16. 01 10月, 2006 1 次提交
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      [PATCH] kill wall_jiffies · 8ef38609
      Atsushi Nemoto 提交于
      With 2.6.18-rc4-mm2, now wall_jiffies will always be the same as jiffies.
      So we can kill wall_jiffies completely.
      
      This is just a cleanup and logically should not change any real behavior
      except for one thing: RTC updating code in (old) ppc and xtensa use a
      condition "jiffies - wall_jiffies == 1".  This condition is never met so I
      suppose it is just a bug.  I just remove that condition only instead of
      kill the whole "if" block.
      
      [heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com: s390 build fix and cleanup]
      Signed-off-by: NAtsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp>
      Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
      Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
      Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
      Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
      Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
      Cc: Ian Molton <spyro@f2s.com>
      Cc: Mikael Starvik <starvik@axis.com>
      Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
      Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>
      Cc: Hirokazu Takata <takata.hirokazu@renesas.com>
      Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
      Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
      Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
      Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
      Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
      Cc: Kazumoto Kojima <kkojima@rr.iij4u.or.jp>
      Cc: Richard Curnow <rc@rc0.org.uk>
      Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
      Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
      Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
      Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
      Cc: Miles Bader <uclinux-v850@lsi.nec.co.jp>
      Cc: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net>
      Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
      Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
      Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
      Signed-off-by: NHeiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      8ef38609
  17. 30 9月, 2006 2 次提交
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      [PATCH] simplify update_times (avoid jiffies/jiffies_64 aliasing problem) · 3171a030
      Atsushi Nemoto 提交于
      Pass ticks to do_timer() and update_times(), and adjust x86_64 and s390
      timer interrupt handler with this change.
      
      Currently update_times() calculates ticks by "jiffies - wall_jiffies", but
      callers of do_timer() should know how many ticks to update.  Passing ticks
      get rid of this redundant calculation.  Also there are another redundancy
      pointed out by Martin Schwidefsky.
      
      This cleanup make a barrier added by
      5aee405c needless.  So this patch removes
      it.
      
      As a bonus, this cleanup make wall_jiffies can be removed easily, since now
      wall_jiffies is always synced with jiffies.  (This patch does not really
      remove wall_jiffies.  It would be another cleanup patch)
      Signed-off-by: NAtsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp>
      Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
      Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
      Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
      Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
      Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
      Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
      Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
      Acked-by: NRussell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
      Cc: Ian Molton <spyro@f2s.com>
      Cc: Mikael Starvik <starvik@axis.com>
      Acked-by: NDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
      Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>
      Cc: Hirokazu Takata <takata.hirokazu@renesas.com>
      Acked-by: NRalf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
      Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
      Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
      Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
      Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
      Cc: Kazumoto Kojima <kkojima@rr.iij4u.or.jp>
      Cc: Richard Curnow <rc@rc0.org.uk>
      Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
      Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
      Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
      Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
      Cc: Miles Bader <uclinux-v850@lsi.nec.co.jp>
      Cc: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net>
      Acked-by: N"Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
      Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
      Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      3171a030
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      [PATCH] pidspace: is_init() · f400e198
      Sukadev Bhattiprolu 提交于
      This is an updated version of Eric Biederman's is_init() patch.
      (http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/2/6/280).  It applies cleanly to 2.6.18-rc3 and
      replaces a few more instances of ->pid == 1 with is_init().
      
      Further, is_init() checks pid and thus removes dependency on Eric's other
      patches for now.
      
      Eric's original description:
      
      	There are a lot of places in the kernel where we test for init
      	because we give it special properties.  Most  significantly init
      	must not die.  This results in code all over the kernel test
      	->pid == 1.
      
      	Introduce is_init to capture this case.
      
      	With multiple pid spaces for all of the cases affected we are
      	looking for only the first process on the system, not some other
      	process that has pid == 1.
      Signed-off-by: NEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
      Signed-off-by: NSukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.com>
      Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
      Cc: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
      Cc: Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com>
      Cc: <lxc-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
      Acked-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      f400e198
  18. 29 9月, 2006 1 次提交
  19. 02 9月, 2006 1 次提交
  20. 15 8月, 2006 1 次提交
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      [PATCH] Change panic_on_oops message to "Fatal exception" · 012c437d
      Horms 提交于
      Previously the message was "Fatal exception: panic_on_oops", as introduced
      in a recent patch whith removed a somewhat dangerous call to ssleep() in
      the panic_on_oops path.  However, Paul Mackerras suggested that this was
      somewhat confusing, leadind people to believe that it was panic_on_oops
      that was the root cause of the fatal exception.  On his suggestion, this
      patch changes the message to simply "Fatal exception".  A suitable oops
      message should already have been displayed.
      Signed-off-by: NSimon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
      Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
      012c437d
  21. 01 8月, 2006 1 次提交
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      [PATCH] panic_on_oops: remove ssleep() · cea6a4ba
      Horms 提交于
      This patch is part of an effort to unify the panic_on_oops behaviour across
      all architectures that implement it.
      
      It was pointed out to me by Andi Kleen that if an oops has occured in
      interrupt context, then calling sleep() in the oops path will only cause a
      panic, and that it would be really better for it not to be in the path at
      all.
      
      This patch removes the ssleep() call and reworks the console message
      accordinly.  I have a slght concern that the resulting console message is
      too long, feedback welcome.
      
      For powerpc it also unifies the 32bit and 64bit behaviour.
      
      Fror x86_64, this patch only updates the console message, as ssleep() is
      already not present.
      Signed-off-by: NHorms <horms@verge.net.au>
      Acked-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
      Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
      Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
      Cc: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      cea6a4ba
  22. 11 7月, 2006 1 次提交
  23. 03 7月, 2006 1 次提交
  24. 01 7月, 2006 1 次提交
  25. 30 6月, 2006 1 次提交
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      [PATCH] genirq: rename desc->handler to desc->chip · d1bef4ed
      Ingo Molnar 提交于
      This patch-queue improves the generic IRQ layer to be truly generic, by adding
      various abstractions and features to it, without impacting existing
      functionality.
      
      While the queue can be best described as "fix and improve everything in the
      generic IRQ layer that we could think of", and thus it consists of many
      smaller features and lots of cleanups, the one feature that stands out most is
      the new 'irq chip' abstraction.
      
      The irq-chip abstraction is about describing and coding and IRQ controller
      driver by mapping its raw hardware capabilities [and quirks, if needed] in a
      straightforward way, without having to think about "IRQ flow"
      (level/edge/etc.) type of details.
      
      This stands in contrast with the current 'irq-type' model of genirq
      architectures, which 'mixes' raw hardware capabilities with 'flow' details.
      The patchset supports both types of irq controller designs at once, and
      converts i386 and x86_64 to the new irq-chip design.
      
      As a bonus side-effect of the irq-chip approach, chained interrupt controllers
      (master/slave PIC constructs, etc.) are now supported by design as well.
      
      The end result of this patchset intends to be simpler architecture-level code
      and more consolidation between architectures.
      
      We reused many bits of code and many concepts from Russell King's ARM IRQ
      layer, the merging of which was one of the motivations for this patchset.
      
      This patch:
      
      rename desc->handler to desc->chip.
      
      Originally i did not want to do this, because it's a big patch.  But having
      both "desc->handler", "desc->handle_irq" and "action->handler" caused a
      large degree of confusion and made the code appear alot less clean than it
      truly is.
      
      I have also attempted a dual approach as well by introducing a
      desc->chip alias - but that just wasnt robust enough and broke
      frequently.
      
      So lets get over with this quickly.  The conversion was done automatically
      via scripts and converts all the code in the kernel.
      
      This renaming patch is the first one amongst the patches, so that the
      remaining patches can stay flexible and can be merged and split up
      without having some big monolithic patch act as a merge barrier.
      
      [akpm@osdl.org: build fix]
      [akpm@osdl.org: another build fix]
      Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      Signed-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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  26. 28 6月, 2006 1 次提交