1. 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
  2. 27 9月, 2006 1 次提交
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      [PATCH] EISA bus MODALIAS attributes support · 07563c71
      Michael Tokarev 提交于
      Add modalias attribute support for the almost forgotten now EISA bus and
      (at least some) EISA-aware modules.
      
      The modalias entry looks like (for an 3c509 NIC):
      
       eisa:sTCM5093
      
      and the in-module alias like:
      
       eisa:sTCM5093*
      
      The patch moves struct eisa_device_id declaration from include/linux/eisa.h
      to include/linux/mod_devicetable.h (so that the former now #includes the
      latter), adds proper MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(eisa, ...) statements for all
      drivers with EISA IDs I found (some drivers already have that DEVICE_TABLE
      declared), and adds recognision of __mod_eisa_device_table to
      scripts/mod/file2alias.c so that proper modules.alias will be generated.
      
      There's no support for /lib/modules/$kver/modules.eisamap, as it's not used
      by any existing tools, and because with in-kernel modalias mechanism those
      maps are obsolete anyway.
      
      The rationale for this patch is:
      
       a) to make EISA bus to act as other busses with modalias
          support, to unify driver loading
      
       b) to foget about EISA finally - with this patch, kernel
          (who still supports EISA) will be the only one who knows
          how to choose the necessary drivers for this bus ;)
      
      [akpm@osdl.org: fix the kbuild bit]
      Signed-off-by: NMichael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>
      Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
      Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
      Acked-the-net-bits-by: NJeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
      Acked-the-tulip-bit-by: NValerie Henson <val_henson@linux.intel.com>
      Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      07563c71
  3. 14 9月, 2006 2 次提交
  4. 12 9月, 2006 1 次提交
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      [PATCH] Remove more unnecessary driver printk's · d5b20697
      Andy Gospodarek 提交于
      As I promised last week, here is the first pass at removing all
      unnecessary printk's that exist in network device drivers currently in
      promiscuous mode.  The duplicate messages are not needed so they have
      been removed.  Some of these drivers are quite old and might not need an
      update, but I did them all anyway.
      
      I am currently auditing the remaining conditional printk's and will send
      out a patch for those soon.
      Signed-off-by: NAndy Gospodarek <andy@greyhouse.net>
      Signed-off-by: NJeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
      d5b20697
  5. 11 9月, 2006 8 次提交
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      [netdrvr] Remove Becker-template 'io_size' member, when invariant · c3d8e682
      Jeff Garzik 提交于
      Becker-derived drivers often have the 'io_size' member in their chip
      info struct, indicating the minimum required size of the I/O resource
      (usually a PCI BAR).  For many situations, this number is either
      constant or irrelevant (due to pci_iomap convenience behavior).
      
      This change removes the io_size invariant member, and replaces it with a
      compile-time constant.
      
      Drivers updated: fealnx, gt96100eth, winbond-840, yellowfin
      
      Additionally,
      - gt96100eth: unused 'drv_flags' removed from gt96100eth
      - winbond-840: unused struct match_info removed
      - winbond-840: mark pci_id_tbl[] const, __devinitdata
      Signed-off-by: NJeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
      c3d8e682
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      [netdrvr] Remove Linux-specific changelogs from several Becker template drivers · 03a8c661
      Jeff Garzik 提交于
      When in-kernel net drivers branched from Donald Becker's vanilla driver
      set, in the days before BitKeeper and git, a driver changelog was
      maintained in the driver source code.  These days, the kernel's
      changelog is far superior and much more accurate, so the in-driver
      changelogs are removed.
      
      Another relic of the Becker/kernel split was version numbering, using
      "foo-LKx.y.z" notation, resulting in weird version numbers like
      "1.17b-LK1.1.9".  These drivers are for older hardware, and see few
      changes these days, so the version numbers were all bumped to something
      more simple.
      
      Finally, in xircom_tulip_cb specifically, an additional cleanup removes
      the always-enabled CARDBUS cpp macro.
      Signed-off-by: NJeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
      03a8c661
  9. 03 7月, 2006 1 次提交
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  12. 27 6月, 2006 1 次提交
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      [netdrvr] Remove long-unused bits from Becker template drivers · 1f1bd5fc
      Jeff Garzik 提交于
      Symbols such as PCI_USES_IO, PCI_ADDR0, etc. originated from Donald
      Becker's net driver template, but have been long unused.  Remove.
      
      In a few drivers, this allows the further eliminate of the pci_flags (or
      just plain flags) member in the template driver probe structure.
      
      Most of this logic is simply open-coded in most drivers, since it never
      changes.
      
      Made a few other cleanups while I was in there, too:
      * constify, __devinitdata several PCI ID tables
      * replace table terminating entries such as "{0,}," and "{NULL},"
        with a more-clean "{ }".
      Signed-off-by: NJeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
      1f1bd5fc
  13. 24 6月, 2006 1 次提交
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      [NET]: Add netif_tx_lock · 932ff279
      Herbert Xu 提交于
      Various drivers use xmit_lock internally to synchronise with their
      transmission routines.  They do so without setting xmit_lock_owner.
      This is fine as long as netpoll is not in use.
      
      With netpoll it is possible for deadlocks to occur if xmit_lock_owner
      isn't set.  This is because if a printk occurs while xmit_lock is held
      and xmit_lock_owner is not set can cause netpoll to attempt to take
      xmit_lock recursively.
      
      While it is possible to resolve this by getting netpoll to use
      trylock, it is suboptimal because netpoll's sole objective is to
      maximise the chance of getting the printk out on the wire.  So
      delaying or dropping the message is to be avoided as much as possible.
      
      So the only alternative is to always set xmit_lock_owner.  The
      following patch does this by introducing the netif_tx_lock family of
      functions that take care of setting/unsetting xmit_lock_owner.
      
      I renamed xmit_lock to _xmit_lock to indicate that it should not be
      used directly.  I didn't provide irq versions of the netif_tx_lock
      functions since xmit_lock is meant to be a BH-disabling lock.
      
      This is pretty much a straight text substitution except for a small
      bug fix in winbond.  It currently uses
      netif_stop_queue/spin_unlock_wait to stop transmission.  This is
      unsafe as an IRQ can potentially wake up the queue.  So it is safer to
      use netif_tx_disable.
      
      The hamradio bits used spin_lock_irq but it is unnecessary as
      xmit_lock must never be taken in an IRQ handler.
      Signed-off-by: NHerbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
      Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      932ff279
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