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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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      [PATCH] qla3xxx NIC driver · 5a4faa87
      Ron Mercer 提交于
      This is a complementary network driver for our ISP4XXX parts.
      
      There is a concurrent effort underway to get the iSCSI driver (qla4xxx)
      integrated upstream as well.
      
      I have been through several iterations with the linux-netdev list and have had
      much response from Stephen Hemminger.
      
      - Built and tested using kernel 2.6.17-rc4.
      
      - The chip supports two ethernet and two iSCSI functions.
      
      - The functions ql_sem_lock, ql_sem_spinlock, ql_sem_unlock, and
        ql_wait_for_drvr_lock are used to protect resources that are shared across
        the network and iSCSI functions.  This protection is mostly during chip
        initialization and resets, but also include link management.
      
      - The PHY/MII are not exported through ethtool due to the fact that the
        iSCSI function will control the common link at least 50% of the time.
      
      This driver has been through several iterations on the netdev list and we feel
      this driver is ready for inclusion in the upstream kernel.
      
      It has been built and tested on x86 and PPC64 platforms.
      
      Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
      Cc: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NRon Mercer <ron.mercer@qlogic.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NJeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
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