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2006-10-05IRQ: Maintain regs pointer globally rather than passing to IRQ handlersDavid Howells
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)
2006-09-13drivers/net: const-ify ethtool_ops declarationsJeff Garzik
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2006-09-13drivers/net: Trim trailing whitespaceJeff Garzik
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2006-09-12Merge branch 'tmp' into upstreamJeff Garzik
2006-09-12[PATCH] Remove more unnecessary driver printk'sAndy Gospodarek
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: Andy Gospodarek <andy@greyhouse.net> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2006-08-19drivers/net: Remove deprecated use of pci_module_init()Jeff Garzik
From: Michal Piotrowski <michal.k.k.piotrowski@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Michal Piotrowski <michal.k.k.piotrowski@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2006-08-19[PATCH] fealnx section fixAndrew Morton
With CONFIG_HOTPLUG=n it won't compile: distcc[25607] ERROR: compile drivers/net/fealnx.c on g5/64 failed version[] is referred to from both __init code and from __devinit code, so move it out of __init altogether. Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2006-07-05[netdrvr] use dev_xxx() printk helpers, rather than dev_printk(KERN_xxx, ...Jeff Garzik
Suggested by Jiri Slaby. Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2006-07-05[netdrvr] Use dev_printk() when ethernet interface isn't availableJeff Garzik
For messages prior to register_netdev(), prefer dev_printk() because that prints out both our driver name and our [PCI | whatever] bus id. Updates: 8139{cp,too}, b44, bnx2, cassini, {eepro,epic}100, fealnx, hamachi, ne2k-pci, ns83820, pci-skeleton, r8169. Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2006-07-05[netdrvr] minor cleanups in Becker-derived driversJeff Garzik
- fealnx: convert #define to enum - fealnx, sundance: mark chip info table __devinitdata - fealnx: use dev_printk() during probe - fealnx: formatting cleanups - starfire: remove obsolete comment - sundance, via-rhine: add some whitespace where useful, in tables - sundance: prefer "{ }" table terminator - via-rhine: mark PCI probe table const Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2006-07-05[netdrvr] Remove Becker-template 'io_size' member, when invariantJeff Garzik
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: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2006-07-02[PATCH] irq-flags: drivers/net: Use the new IRQF_ constantsThomas Gleixner
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-26[netdrvr] Remove long-unused bits from Becker template driversJeff Garzik
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: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2006-03-03Massive net driver const-ification.Arjan van de Ven
2005-06-28[NET]: Remove gratuitous use of skb->tail in network drivers.David S. Miller
Many drivers use skb->tail unnecessarily. In these situations, the code roughly looks like: dev = dev_alloc_skb(...); [optional] skb_reserve(skb, ...); ... skb->tail ... But even if the skb_reserve() happens, skb->data equals skb->tail. So it doesn't make any sense to use anything other than skb->data in these cases. Another case was the s2io.c driver directly mucking with the skb->data and skb->tail pointers. It really just wanted to do an skb_reserve(), so that's what the code was changed to do instead. Another reason I'm making this change as it allows some SKB cleanups I have planned simpler to merge. In those cleanups, skb->head, skb->tail, and skb->end pointers are removed, and replaced with skb->head_room and skb->tail_room integers. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Acked-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
2005-06-26[PATCH] fealnx.c calls dev_kfree_skb from atomic contextDenis Vlasenko
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
2005-04-16Linux-2.6.12-rc2v2.6.12-rc2Linus Torvalds
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history, even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about 3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good infrastructure for it. Let it rip!