1. 02 12月, 2006 5 次提交
  2. 29 11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)
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  4. 26 9月, 2006 1 次提交
  5. 12 9月, 2006 2 次提交
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  9. 06 7月, 2006 1 次提交
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      [PATCH] ZyDAS ZD1211 USB-WLAN driver · e85d0918
      Daniel Drake 提交于
      There are 60+ USB wifi adapters available on the market based on the ZyDAS
      ZD1211 chip.
      
      Unlike the predecessor (ZD1201), ZD1211 does not have a hardware MAC, so most
      data operations are coordinated by the device driver. The ZD1211 chip sits
      alongside an RF transceiver which is also controlled by the driver. Our driver
      currently supports 2 RF types, we know of one other available in a few marketed
      products which we will be supporting soon.
      
      Our driver also supports the newer revision of ZD1211, called ZD1211B. The
      initialization and RF operations are slightly different for the new revision,
      but the main difference is 802.11e support. Our driver does not support the
      QoS features yet, but we think we know how to use them.
      
      This driver is based on ZyDAS's own GPL driver available from www.zydas.com.tw.
      ZyDAS engineers have been responsive and supportive of our efforts, so thumbs
      up to them. Additionally, the firmware is redistributable and they have
      provided device specs.
      
      This driver has been written primarily by Ulrich Kunitz and myself. Graham
      Gower, Greg KH, Remco and Bryan Rittmeyer have also contributed. The
      developers of ieee80211 and softmac have made our lives so much easier- thanks!
      
      We maintain a small info-page: http://zd1211.ath.cx/wiki/DriverRewrite
      
      If there is enough time for review, we would like to aim for inclusion in
      2.6.18. The driver works nicely as a STA, and can connect to both open and
      encrypted networks (we are using software-based encryption for now). We will
      work towards supporting more advanced features in the future (ad-hoc, master
      mode, 802.11a, ...).
      Signed-off-by: NDaniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
      Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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