1. 02 12月, 2006 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)
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  3. 04 10月, 2006 1 次提交
  4. 28 9月, 2006 1 次提交
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      USB: u132-hcd: host controller driver for ELAN U132 adapter · d774efea
      Tony Olech 提交于
      This "u132-hcd" module is one half of the "driver" for
      ELAN's U132 which is a USB to CardBus OHCI controller
      adapter. This module needs the "ftdi-elan" module in
      order to communicate to CardBus OHCI controller inserted
      into the U132 adapter.
      
      When the "ftdi-elan" module detects a supported CardBus
      OHCI controller in the U132 adapter it loads this "u132-hcd"
      module.
      
      Upon a successful device probe() the single workqueue
      is started up which does all the processing of commands
      from the USB core that implement the host controller.
      
      The workqueue maintains the urb queues and issues commands
      via the functions exported by the "ftdi-elan" module. Each
      such command will result in a callback.
      
      Note that the "ftdi-elan" module is a USB client driver.
      
      Note that this "u132-hcd" module is a (cut-down OHCI)
      host controller.
      
      Thus we have a topology with the parent of a host controller
      being a USB client! This really stresses the USB subsystem
      semaphore/mutex handling in the module removal.
      Signed-off-by: NTony Olech <tony.olech@elandigitalsystems.com>
      Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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