1. 08 2月, 2007 1 次提交
  2. 08 12月, 2006 1 次提交
  3. 23 11月, 2006 8 次提交
  4. 22 11月, 2006 1 次提交
  5. 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
  6. 27 9月, 2006 3 次提交
  7. 07 8月, 2006 3 次提交
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  12. 28 2月, 2006 1 次提交
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  14. 05 1月, 2006 2 次提交
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      [PATCH] driver core: replace "hotplug" by "uevent" · 312c004d
      Kay Sievers 提交于
      Leave the overloaded "hotplug" word to susbsystems which are handling
      real devices. The driver core does not "plug" anything, it just exports
      the state to userspace and generates events.
      Signed-off-by: NKay Sievers <kay.sievers@suse.de>
      Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
      312c004d
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      [PATCH] merge kobject_uevent and kobject_hotplug · 5f123fbd
      Kay Sievers 提交于
      The distinction between hotplug and uevent does not make sense these
      days, netlink events are the default.
      
      udev depends entirely on netlink uevents. Only during early boot and
      in initramfs, /sbin/hotplug is needed. So merge the two functions and
      provide only one interface without all the options.
      
      The netlink layer got a nice generic interface with named slots
      recently, which is probably a better facility to plug events for
      subsystem specific events.
      Also the new poll() interface to /proc/mounts is a nicer way to
      notify about changes than sending events through the core.
      The uevents should only be used for driver core related requests to
      userspace now.
      Signed-off-by: NKay Sievers <kay.sievers@suse.de>
      Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
      5f123fbd
  15. 14 12月, 2005 1 次提交
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      [SCSI] ipr: Driver initialization fix for kexec/kdump · ce155cce
      brking@us.ibm.com 提交于
      When kexec booting a kernel when the previous kernel did not
      call ipr's shutdown method, the ipr adapter does not get
      properly initialized, which can result in the ipr adapter
      completing commands issued by the previous kernel. Fix ipr
      to detect this scenario by reading the adapter's interrupt
      mask register and the microprocessor interrupt register.
      If the interrupt mask register indicates that interrupts
      are enabled or the reset alert bit is set when the card is
      probed, this means the card is in an unknown state and we
      hard reset the card.
      Signed-off-by: NBrian King <brking@us.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: NJames Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
      ce155cce
  16. 07 11月, 2005 9 次提交