1. 25 7月, 2008 2 次提交
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      virtio: console as a config option · 7721c494
      Christian Borntraeger 提交于
      I also added a small Kconfig change that allows the user to specify the
      virtio console in menuconfig.
      
      (Fixes to export symbols from Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>)
      (Fixes for CONFIG_VIRTIO_CONSOLE=y vs CONFIG_VIRTIO=m from Christian himself)
      Signed-off-by: NRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
      Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
      7721c494
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      hvc_console: rework setup to replace irq functions with callbacks · 611e097d
      Christian Borntraeger 提交于
      This patch tries to change hvc_console to not use request_irq/free_irq if
      the backend does not use irqs. This allows virtio_console to use hvc_console
      without having a linker reference to request_irq/free_irq.
      
      In addition, together with patch 2/3 it improves the performance for virtio
      console input. (an earlier version of this patch was tested by Yajin on lguest)
      
      The irq specific code is moved to hvc_irq.c and selected by the drivers that
      use irqs (System p, System i, XEN).
      
      I replaced "int irq" with the opaque "int data". The request_irq and
      free_irq calls are replaced with notifier_add and notifier_del. I have also
      changed the code a bit to call the notifier_add and notifier_del inside the
      spinlock area as the callbacks are found via hp->ops.
      
      Changes since last version:
      o remove ifdef
      o reintroduce "irq_requested" as "notified"
      o cleanups, sparse..
      
      I did not move the timer based polling into a separate polling scheme. I
      played with several variants, but it seems we need to sleep/schedule in
      a thread even for irq based consoles, as there are throttleing and buffer
      size constraints.
      
      I also kept hvc_struct defined in hvc_console.h so that hvc_irq.c can access
      the irq_requested element.
      
      Feedback is appreciated. virtio_console is currently the only available console
      for kvm on s390. I plan to push this change as soon as all affected parties
      agree on it. I would love to get test results from System p, Xen etc.
      Signed-off-by: NChristian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: NRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
      611e097d
  2. 14 5月, 2008 1 次提交
  3. 07 2月, 2008 1 次提交
  4. 25 1月, 2008 1 次提交
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      kobject: convert hvc_console to use kref, not kobject · 12b20ded
      Greg Kroah-Hartman 提交于
      hvc_console is using a kobject only for reference counting, nothing
      else.  So switch it to use a kref instead, which is all that is needed,
      and is much smaller.
      
      Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@au.ibm.com>
      Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@au.ibm.com>
      Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
      Cc: Ryan S. Arnold <rsa@us.ibm.com>
      Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
      Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
      12b20ded
  5. 17 10月, 2007 1 次提交
  6. 18 7月, 2007 1 次提交
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      Freezer: make kernel threads nonfreezable by default · 83144186
      Rafael J. Wysocki 提交于
      Currently, the freezer treats all tasks as freezable, except for the kernel
      threads that explicitly set the PF_NOFREEZE flag for themselves.  This
      approach is problematic, since it requires every kernel thread to either
      set PF_NOFREEZE explicitly, or call try_to_freeze(), even if it doesn't
      care for the freezing of tasks at all.
      
      It seems better to only require the kernel threads that want to or need to
      be frozen to use some freezer-related code and to remove any
      freezer-related code from the other (nonfreezable) kernel threads, which is
      done in this patch.
      
      The patch causes all kernel threads to be nonfreezable by default (ie.  to
      have PF_NOFREEZE set by default) and introduces the set_freezable()
      function that should be called by the freezable kernel threads in order to
      unset PF_NOFREEZE.  It also makes all of the currently freezable kernel
      threads call set_freezable(), so it shouldn't cause any (intentional)
      change of behaviour to appear.  Additionally, it updates documentation to
      describe the freezing of tasks more accurately.
      
      [akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fixes]
      Signed-off-by: NRafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
      Acked-by: NNigel Cunningham <nigel@nigel.suspend2.net>
      Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
      Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
      Cc: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      83144186
  7. 10 7月, 2007 1 次提交
  8. 09 5月, 2007 1 次提交
  9. 24 4月, 2007 2 次提交
  10. 27 2月, 2007 1 次提交
  11. 08 12月, 2006 1 次提交
  12. 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
  13. 02 10月, 2006 1 次提交
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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
  14. 17 9月, 2006 1 次提交
  15. 13 9月, 2006 1 次提交
  16. 13 7月, 2006 1 次提交
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  18. 01 7月, 2006 1 次提交
  19. 27 6月, 2006 1 次提交
  20. 09 6月, 2006 1 次提交
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      [PATCH] powerpc: Make rtas console _much_ faster · b5374461
      Michael Ellerman 提交于
      Currently the hvc_rtas driver is painfully slow to use. Our "benchmark" is
      ls -R /etc, which spits out about 27866 characters. The theoretical maximum
      speed would be about 2.2 seconds, the current code takes ~50 seconds.
      
      The core of the problem is that sometimes when the tty layer asks us to push
      characters the firmware isn't able to handle some or all of them, and so
      returns an error. The current code sees this and just returns to the tty code
      with the buffer half sent.
      
      The khvcd thread will eventually wake up and try to push more characters, which
      will usually work because by then the firmware's had time to make room. But
      the khvcd thread only wakes up every 10 milliseconds, which isn't fast enough.
      
      So change the khvcd thread logic so that if there's an incomplete write we
      yield() and then immediately try writing again. Doing so makes POLL_QUICK and
      POLL_WRITE synonymous, so remove POLL_QUICK.
      
      With this patch our "benchmark" takes ~2.8 seconds.
      Signed-off-by: NMichael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
      Signed-off-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      b5374461
  21. 28 3月, 2006 1 次提交
  22. 27 3月, 2006 1 次提交
  23. 24 2月, 2006 1 次提交
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      [PATCH] Fix race condition in hvc console. · fb5c594c
      Michal Ostrowski 提交于
      tty_schedule_flip() would schedule a thread that would call flush_to_ldisc().
      If tty_buffer_request_room() gets called prior to that thread running --
      which is likely in this loop in hvc_poll(), it would set the active flag
      in the tty buffer and consequently flush_to_ldisc() would ignore it.
      
      The result is that input on the hvc console is not processed.
      
      This fix calls tty_flip_buffer_push (and flags the tty as
      "low_latency").  The push to the ldisc thus happens synchronously.
      Signed-off-by: NMichal Ostrowski <mostrows@watson.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      fb5c594c
  24. 11 1月, 2006 1 次提交
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      [PATCH] TTY layer buffering revamp · 33f0f88f
      Alan Cox 提交于
      The API and code have been through various bits of initial review by
      serial driver people but they definitely need to live somewhere for a
      while so the unconverted drivers can get knocked into shape, existing
      drivers that have been updated can be better tuned and bugs whacked out.
      
      This replaces the tty flip buffers with kmalloc objects in rings. In the
      normal situation for an IRQ driven serial port at typical speeds the
      behaviour is pretty much the same, two buffers end up allocated and the
      kernel cycles between them as before.
      
      When there are delays or at high speed we now behave far better as the
      buffer pool can grow a bit rather than lose characters. This also means
      that we can operate at higher speeds reliably.
      
      For drivers that receive characters in blocks (DMA based, USB and
      especially virtualisation) the layer allows a lot of driver specific
      code that works around the tty layer with private secondary queues to be
      removed. The IBM folks need this sort of layer, the smart serial port
      people do, the virtualisers do (because a virtualised tty typically
      operates at infinite speed rather than emulating 9600 baud).
      
      Finally many drivers had invalid and unsafe attempts to avoid buffer
      overflows by directly invoking tty methods extracted out of the innards
      of work queue structs. These are no longer needed and all go away. That
      fixes various random hangs with serial ports on overflow.
      
      The other change in here is to optimise the receive_room path that is
      used by some callers. It turns out that only one ldisc uses receive room
      except asa constant and it updates it far far less than the value is
      read. We thus make it a variable not a function call.
      
      I expect the code to contain bugs due to the size alone but I'll be
      watching and squashing them and feeding out new patches as it goes.
      
      Because the buffers now dynamically expand you should only run out of
      buffering when the kernel runs out of memory for real.  That means a lot of
      the horrible hacks high performance drivers used to do just aren't needed any
      more.
      
      Description:
      
      tty_insert_flip_char is an old API and continues to work as before, as does
      tty_flip_buffer_push() [this is why many drivers dont need modification].  It
      does now also return the number of chars inserted
      
      There are also
      
      tty_buffer_request_room(tty, len)
      
      which asks for a buffer block of the length requested and returns the space
      found.  This improves efficiency with hardware that knows how much to
      transfer.
      
      and tty_insert_flip_string_flags(tty, str, flags, len)
      
      to insert a string of characters and flags
      
      For a smart interface the usual code is
      
          len = tty_request_buffer_room(tty, amount_hardware_says);
          tty_insert_flip_string(tty, buffer_from_card, len);
      
      More description!
      
      At the moment tty buffers are attached directly to the tty.  This is causing a
      lot of the problems related to tty layer locking, also problems at high speed
      and also with bursty data (such as occurs in virtualised environments)
      
      I'm working on ripping out the flip buffers and replacing them with a pool of
      dynamically allocated buffers.  This allows both for old style "byte I/O"
      devices and also helps virtualisation and smart devices where large blocks of
      data suddenely materialise and need storing.
      
      So far so good.  Lots of drivers reference tty->flip.*.  Several of them also
      call directly and unsafely into function pointers it provides.  This will all
      break.  Most drivers can use tty_insert_flip_char which can be kept as an API
      but others need more.
      
      At the moment I've added the following interfaces, if people think more will
      be needed now is a good time to say
      
       int tty_buffer_request_room(tty, size)
      
      Try and ensure at least size bytes are available, returns actual room (may be
      zero).  At the moment it just uses the flipbuf space but that will change.
      Repeated calls without characters being added are not cumulative.  (ie if you
      call it with 1, 1, 1, and then 4 you'll have four characters of space.  The
      other functions will also try and grow buffers in future but this will be a
      more efficient way when you know block sizes.
      
       int tty_insert_flip_char(tty, ch, flag)
      
      As before insert a character if there is room.  Now returns 1 for success, 0
      for failure.
      
       int tty_insert_flip_string(tty, str, len)
      
      Insert a block of non error characters.  Returns the number inserted.
      
       int tty_prepare_flip_string(tty, strptr, len)
      
      Adjust the buffer to allow len characters to be added.  Returns a buffer
      pointer in strptr and the length available.  This allows for hardware that
      needs to use functions like insl or mencpy_fromio.
      Signed-off-by: NAlan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
      Cc: Paul Fulghum <paulkf@microgate.com>
      Signed-off-by: NHirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org>
      Signed-off-by: NSerge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: NJeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
      Signed-off-by: NJohn Hawkes <hawkes@sgi.com>
      Signed-off-by: NMartin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAdrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      33f0f88f
  25. 15 9月, 2005 1 次提交
  26. 08 7月, 2005 12 次提交
  27. 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