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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
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      [SCSI] update fc_transport for removal of block/unblock functions · 19a7b4ae
      James.Smart@Emulex.Com 提交于
      We recently went back to implement a board reset. When we perform the
      reset, we wanted to tear down the internal data structures and rebuild
      them. Unfortunately, when it came to the rport structure, things were
      odd. If we deleted them, the scsi targets and sdevs would be
      torn down. Not a good thing for a temporary reset. We could block the
      rports, but we either maintain the internal structures to keep the
      rport reference (perhaps even replicating what's in the transport),
      or we have to fatten the fc transport with new search routines to find
      the rport (and deal with a case of a dangling rport that the driver
      forgets).
      
      It dawned on me that we had actually reached this state incorrectly.
      When the fc transport first started, we did the block/unblock first, then
      added the rport interface. The purpose of block/unblock is to hide the
      temporary disappearance of the rport (e.g. being deleted, then readded).
      Why are we making the driver do the block/unblock ? We should be making
      the transport have only an rport add/delete, and the let the transport
      handle the block/unblock.
      
      So... This patch removes the existing fc_remote_port_block/unblock
      functions. It moves the block/unblock functionality into the
      fc_remote_port_add/delete functions.  Updates for the lpfc driver are
      included. Qlogic driver updates are also enclosed, thanks to the
      contributions of Andrew Vasquez. [Note: the qla2xxx changes are
      relative to the scsi-misc-2.6 tree as of this morning - which does
      not include the recent patches sent by Andrew]. The zfcp driver does
      not use the block/unblock functions.
      
      One last comment: The resulting behavior feels very clean. The LLDD is
      concerned only with add/delete, which corresponds to the physical
      disappearance.  However, the fact that the scsi target and sdevs are
      not immediately torn down after the LLDD calls delete causes an
      interesting scenario... the midlayer can call the xxx_slave_alloc and
      xxx_queuecommand functions with a sdev that is at the location the
      rport used to be. The driver must validate the device exists when it
      first enters these functions. In thinking about it, this has always
      been the case for the LLDD and these routines. The existing drivers
      already check for existence. However, this highlights that simple
      validation via data structure dereferencing needs to be watched.
      To deal with this, a new transport function, fc_remote_port_chkready()
      was created that LLDDs should call when they first enter these two
      routines. It validates the rport state, and returns a scsi result
      which could be returned. In addition to solving the above, it also
      creates consistent behavior from the LLDD's when the block and deletes
      are occuring.
      
      Rejections fixed up and
      Signed-off-by: NJames Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
      19a7b4ae
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