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authorDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>2006-10-05 14:55:46 +0100
committerDavid Howells <dhowells@warthog.cambridge.redhat.com>2006-10-05 15:10:12 +0100
commit7d12e780e003f93433d49ce78cfedf4b4c52adc5 (patch)
tree6748550400445c11a306b132009f3001e3525df8 /arch/frv/kernel
parentda482792a6d1a3fbaaa25fae867b343fb4db3246 (diff)
IRQ: Maintain regs pointer globally rather than passing to IRQ handlers
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: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> (cherry picked from 1b16e7ac850969f38b375e511e3fa2f474a33867 commit)
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/frv/kernel')
-rw-r--r--arch/frv/kernel/dma.c5
-rw-r--r--arch/frv/kernel/irq-mb93091.c4
-rw-r--r--arch/frv/kernel/irq-mb93093.c4
-rw-r--r--arch/frv/kernel/irq-mb93493.c4
-rw-r--r--arch/frv/kernel/irq.c2
-rw-r--r--arch/frv/kernel/time.c8
6 files changed, 13 insertions, 14 deletions
diff --git a/arch/frv/kernel/dma.c b/arch/frv/kernel/dma.c
index f5de6cf7df4..156184e17e5 100644
--- a/arch/frv/kernel/dma.c
+++ b/arch/frv/kernel/dma.c
@@ -121,15 +121,14 @@ unsigned long frv_dma_inprogress;
/*
* DMA irq handler - determine channel involved, grab status and call real handler
*/
-static irqreturn_t dma_irq_handler(int irq, void *_channel, struct pt_regs *regs)
+static irqreturn_t dma_irq_handler(int irq, void *_channel)
{
struct frv_dma_channel *channel = _channel;
frv_clear_dma_inprogress(channel - frv_dma_channels);
return channel->handler(channel - frv_dma_channels,
__get_DMAC(channel->ioaddr, CSTR),
- channel->data,
- regs);
+ channel->data);
} /* end dma_irq_handler() */
diff --git a/arch/frv/kernel/irq-mb93091.c b/arch/frv/kernel/irq-mb93091.c
index 369bc0a7443..ad753c1e9b8 100644
--- a/arch/frv/kernel/irq-mb93091.c
+++ b/arch/frv/kernel/irq-mb93091.c
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ static struct irq_chip frv_fpga_pic = {
/*
* FPGA PIC interrupt handler
*/
-static irqreturn_t fpga_interrupt(int irq, void *_mask, struct pt_regs *regs)
+static irqreturn_t fpga_interrupt(int irq, void *_mask)
{
uint16_t imr, mask = (unsigned long) _mask;
@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ static irqreturn_t fpga_interrupt(int irq, void *_mask, struct pt_regs *regs)
irq = 31 - irq;
mask &= ~(1 << irq);
- generic_handle_irq(IRQ_BASE_FPGA + irq, regs);
+ generic_handle_irq(IRQ_BASE_FPGA + irq);
}
return IRQ_HANDLED;
diff --git a/arch/frv/kernel/irq-mb93093.c b/arch/frv/kernel/irq-mb93093.c
index a43a2215895..e0983f6926e 100644
--- a/arch/frv/kernel/irq-mb93093.c
+++ b/arch/frv/kernel/irq-mb93093.c
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ static struct irq_chip frv_fpga_pic = {
/*
* FPGA PIC interrupt handler
*/
-static irqreturn_t fpga_interrupt(int irq, void *_mask, struct pt_regs *regs)
+static irqreturn_t fpga_interrupt(int irq, void *_mask)
{
uint16_t imr, mask = (unsigned long) _mask;
@@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ static irqreturn_t fpga_interrupt(int irq, void *_mask, struct pt_regs *regs)
irq = 31 - irq;
mask &= ~(1 << irq);
- generic_irq_handle(IRQ_BASE_FPGA + irq, regs);
+ generic_irq_handle(IRQ_BASE_FPGA + irq);
}
return IRQ_HANDLED;
diff --git a/arch/frv/kernel/irq-mb93493.c b/arch/frv/kernel/irq-mb93493.c
index 39c0188a349..c157eeff871 100644
--- a/arch/frv/kernel/irq-mb93493.c
+++ b/arch/frv/kernel/irq-mb93493.c
@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ static struct irq_chip frv_mb93493_pic = {
/*
* MB93493 PIC interrupt handler
*/
-static irqreturn_t mb93493_interrupt(int irq, void *_piqsr, struct pt_regs *regs)
+static irqreturn_t mb93493_interrupt(int irq, void *_piqsr)
{
volatile void *piqsr = _piqsr;
uint32_t iqsr;
@@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ static irqreturn_t mb93493_interrupt(int irq, void *_piqsr, struct pt_regs *regs
irq = 31 - irq;
iqsr &= ~(1 << irq);
- generic_handle_irq(IRQ_BASE_MB93493 + irq, regs);
+ generic_handle_irq(IRQ_BASE_MB93493 + irq);
}
return IRQ_HANDLED;
diff --git a/arch/frv/kernel/irq.c b/arch/frv/kernel/irq.c
index 5ac041c7c0a..87f360a4ea2 100644
--- a/arch/frv/kernel/irq.c
+++ b/arch/frv/kernel/irq.c
@@ -143,7 +143,7 @@ static struct irq_chip frv_cpu_pic = {
asmlinkage void do_IRQ(void)
{
irq_enter();
- generic_handle_irq(__get_IRL(), __frame);
+ generic_handle_irq(__get_IRL());
irq_exit();
}
diff --git a/arch/frv/kernel/time.c b/arch/frv/kernel/time.c
index 44a9aebc4f5..ed588d73d7d 100644
--- a/arch/frv/kernel/time.c
+++ b/arch/frv/kernel/time.c
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ unsigned long __nongprelbss __dsu_clock_speed_HZ;
unsigned long __nongprelbss __serial_clock_speed_HZ;
unsigned long __delay_loops_MHz;
-static irqreturn_t timer_interrupt(int irq, void *dummy, struct pt_regs *regs);
+static irqreturn_t timer_interrupt(int irq, void *dummy);
static struct irqaction timer_irq = {
timer_interrupt, IRQF_DISABLED, CPU_MASK_NONE, "timer", NULL, NULL
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ static inline int set_rtc_mmss(unsigned long nowtime)
* timer_interrupt() needs to keep up the real-time clock,
* as well as call the "do_timer()" routine every clocktick
*/
-static irqreturn_t timer_interrupt(int irq, void *dummy, struct pt_regs * regs)
+static irqreturn_t timer_interrupt(int irq, void *dummy)
{
/* last time the cmos clock got updated */
static long last_rtc_update = 0;
@@ -70,8 +70,8 @@ static irqreturn_t timer_interrupt(int irq, void *dummy, struct pt_regs * regs)
write_seqlock(&xtime_lock);
do_timer(1);
- update_process_times(user_mode(regs));
- profile_tick(CPU_PROFILING, regs);
+ update_process_times(user_mode(get_irq_regs()));
+ profile_tick(CPU_PROFILING);
/*
* If we have an externally synchronized Linux clock, then update