The release_firmware() function tests whether its argument is NULL and then
returns immediately. Thus the test around the call is not needed.
This issue was detected by using the Coccinelle software.
Signed-off-by: Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
None of these files are actually using any __init type directives
and hence don't need to include <linux/init.h>. Most are just a
left over from __devinit and __cpuinit removal, or simply due to
code getting copied from one driver to the next.
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Pull workqueue changes from Tejun Heo:
"This is workqueue updates for v3.7-rc1. A lot of activities this
round including considerable API and behavior cleanups.
* delayed_work combines a timer and a work item. The handling of the
timer part has always been a bit clunky leading to confusing
cancelation API with weird corner-case behaviors. delayed_work is
updated to use new IRQ safe timer and cancelation now works as
expected.
* Another deficiency of delayed_work was lack of the counterpart of
mod_timer() which led to cancel+queue combinations or open-coded
timer+work usages. mod_delayed_work[_on]() are added.
These two delayed_work changes make delayed_work provide interface
and behave like timer which is executed with process context.
* A work item could be executed concurrently on multiple CPUs, which
is rather unintuitive and made flush_work() behavior confusing and
half-broken under certain circumstances. This problem doesn't
exist for non-reentrant workqueues. While non-reentrancy check
isn't free, the overhead is incurred only when a work item bounces
across different CPUs and even in simulated pathological scenario
the overhead isn't too high.
All workqueues are made non-reentrant. This removes the
distinction between flush_[delayed_]work() and
flush_[delayed_]_work_sync(). The former is now as strong as the
latter and the specified work item is guaranteed to have finished
execution of any previous queueing on return.
* In addition to the various bug fixes, Lai redid and simplified CPU
hotplug handling significantly.
* Joonsoo introduced system_highpri_wq and used it during CPU
hotplug.
There are two merge commits - one to pull in IRQ safe timer from
tip/timers/core and the other to pull in CPU hotplug fixes from
wq/for-3.6-fixes as Lai's hotplug restructuring depended on them."
Fixed a number of trivial conflicts, but the more interesting conflicts
were silent ones where the deprecated interfaces had been used by new
code in the merge window, and thus didn't cause any real data conflicts.
Tejun pointed out a few of them, I fixed a couple more.
* 'for-3.7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq: (46 commits)
workqueue: remove spurious WARN_ON_ONCE(in_irq()) from try_to_grab_pending()
workqueue: use cwq_set_max_active() helper for workqueue_set_max_active()
workqueue: introduce cwq_set_max_active() helper for thaw_workqueues()
workqueue: remove @delayed from cwq_dec_nr_in_flight()
workqueue: fix possible stall on try_to_grab_pending() of a delayed work item
workqueue: use hotcpu_notifier() for workqueue_cpu_down_callback()
workqueue: use __cpuinit instead of __devinit for cpu callbacks
workqueue: rename manager_mutex to assoc_mutex
workqueue: WORKER_REBIND is no longer necessary for idle rebinding
workqueue: WORKER_REBIND is no longer necessary for busy rebinding
workqueue: reimplement idle worker rebinding
workqueue: deprecate __cancel_delayed_work()
workqueue: reimplement cancel_delayed_work() using try_to_grab_pending()
workqueue: use mod_delayed_work() instead of __cancel + queue
workqueue: use irqsafe timer for delayed_work
workqueue: clean up delayed_work initializers and add missing one
workqueue: make deferrable delayed_work initializer names consistent
workqueue: cosmetic whitespace updates for macro definitions
workqueue: deprecate system_nrt[_freezable]_wq
workqueue: deprecate flush[_delayed]_work_sync()
...
flush[_delayed]_work_sync() are now spurious. Mark them deprecated
and convert all users to flush[_delayed]_work().
If you're cc'd and wondering what's going on: Now all workqueues are
non-reentrant and the regular flushes guarantee that the work item is
not pending or running on any CPU on return, so there's no reason to
use the sync flushes at all and they're going away.
This patch doesn't make any functional difference.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Mattia Dongili <malattia@linux.it>
Cc: Kent Yoder <key@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: David Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Cc: Karsten Keil <isdn@linux-pingi.de>
Cc: Bryan Wu <bryan.wu@canonical.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Alasdair Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
Cc: Florian Tobias Schandinat <FlorianSchandinat@gmx.de>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Anton Vorontsov <cbou@mail.ru>
Cc: Sangbeom Kim <sbkim73@samsung.com>
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
Cc: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Cc: Petr Vandrovec <petr@vandrovec.name>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
module_param(bool) used to counter-intuitively take an int. In
fddd5201 (mid-2009) we allowed bool or int/unsigned int using a messy
trick.
It's time to remove the int/unsigned int option. For this version
it'll simply give a warning, but it'll break next kernel version.
Acked-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
This converts the drivers in drivers/usb/* to use the
module_usb_driver() macro which makes the code smaller and a bit
simpler.
Added bonus is that it removes some unneeded kernel log messages about
drivers loading and/or unloading.
Cc: Simon Arlott <cxacru@fire.lp0.eu>
Cc: Duncan Sands <duncan.sands@free.fr>
Cc: Matthieu CASTET <castet.matthieu@free.fr>
Cc: Stanislaw Gruszka <stf_xl@wp.pl>
Cc: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com>
Cc: Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.name>
Cc: Juergen Stuber <starblue@users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: Cesar Miquel <miquel@df.uba.ar>
Cc: Matthew Dharm <mdharm-usb@one-eyed-alien.net>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Sarah Sharp <sarah.a.sharp@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Kuninori Morimoto <kuninori.morimoto.gx@renesas.com>
Cc: Felipe Balbi <balbi@ti.com>
Cc: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi>
Cc: Michael Hund <mhund@ld-didactic.de>
Cc: Zack Parsons <k3bacon@gmail.com>
Cc: Melchior FRANZ <mfranz@aon.at>
Cc: Tomoki Sekiyama <tomoki.sekiyama@gmail.com>
Cc: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
With cmwq, there's no reason to use separate workqueues. Drop
uea_softc->work_q and use system_wq instead. The used work item is
sync flushed on driver detach.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Stanislaw Gruszka <stf_xl@wp.pl>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
A race exists when initializing ueagle-atm devices where the generic atm
device may not yet be created before the driver attempts to initialize
it's PHY signal state, which checks whether the atm device has been
created or not. This often causes the sysfs 'carrier' attribute to be
'1' even though no signal has actually been found.
uea_probe
usbatm_usb_probe
driver->bind (uea_bind)
uea_boot
kthread_run(uea_kthread) uea_kthread
usbatm_atm_init uea_start_reset
atm_dev_register UPDATE_ATM_SIGNAL
UPDATE_ATM_SIGNAL checks whether the ATM device has been created and if
not, will not update the PHY signal state. Because of the race that
does not always happen in time, and the PHY signal state remains
ATM_PHY_SIG_FOUND even though no signal exists.
To fix the race, just create the kthread during initialization, and only
after initialization is complete, start the thread that reboots the
device and initializes PHY state.
[ 3030.490931] uea_probe: calling usbatm_usb_probe
[ 3030.490946] ueagle-atm 8-2:1.0: usbatm_usb_probe: trying driver ueagle-atm with vendor=1110, product=9031, ifnum 0
[ 3030.493691] uea_bind: setting usbatm
[ 3030.496932] usb 8-2: [ueagle-atm] using iso mode
[ 3030.497283] ueagle-atm 8-2:1.0: usbatm_usb_probe: using 3021 byte buffer for rx channel 0xffff880125953508
<kthread already started before usbatm_usb_probe() has returned>
[ 3030.497292] usb 8-2: [ueagle-atm] (re)booting started
<UPDATE_ATM_SIGNAL checks whether ATM device has been created yet before setting PHY state>
[ 3030.497298] uea_start_reset: atm dev (null)
<and since it hasn't been created yet PHY state is not set>
[ 3030.497306] ueagle-atm 8-2:1.0: usbatm_usb_probe: using 3392 byte buffer for tx channel 0xffff8801259535b8
[ 3030.497374] usbatm_usb_probe: about to init
[ 3030.497379] usbatm_usb_probe: calling usbatm_atm_init
<atm device finally gets created>
[ 3030.497384] usbatm_atm_init: creating atm device!
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Some of the sysfs files had the incorrect permissions. Some didn't make
sense at all (writable for a file that you could not write to?)
Reported-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Matthieu Castet <castet.matthieu@free.fr>
Cc: Stanislaw Gruszka <stf_xl@wp.pl>
Cc: Damien Bergamini <damien.bergamini@free.fr>
Cc: stable <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Since the writing to sysfs can free the old one, we need to block that
when we access the charp variables.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Reviewed-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Tested-by: Phil Carmody <ext-phil.2.carmody@nokia.com>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>
Cc: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: Jing Huang <huangj@brocade.com>
Cc: James E.J. Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Cc: libertas-dev@lists.infradead.org
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-usb@vger.kernel.org
Recent kernel has common method to convert hex digit to its value.
Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <ext-andriy.shevchenko@nokia.com>
Cc: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Fixed coding styles in the ueagle usb driver.
Signed-off-by: Javier Blanco de Torres <jblanco@neurowork.net>
Signed-off-by: Alejandro Sánchez Acosta <asanchez@neurowork.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
percpu.h is included by sched.h and module.h and thus ends up being
included when building most .c files. percpu.h includes slab.h which
in turn includes gfp.h making everything defined by the two files
universally available and complicating inclusion dependencies.
percpu.h -> slab.h dependency is about to be removed. Prepare for
this change by updating users of gfp and slab facilities include those
headers directly instead of assuming availability. As this conversion
needs to touch large number of source files, the following script is
used as the basis of conversion.
http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/misc/slabh-sweep.py
The script does the followings.
* Scan files for gfp and slab usages and update includes such that
only the necessary includes are there. ie. if only gfp is used,
gfp.h, if slab is used, slab.h.
* When the script inserts a new include, it looks at the include
blocks and try to put the new include such that its order conforms
to its surrounding. It's put in the include block which contains
core kernel includes, in the same order that the rest are ordered -
alphabetical, Christmas tree, rev-Xmas-tree or at the end if there
doesn't seem to be any matching order.
* If the script can't find a place to put a new include (mostly
because the file doesn't have fitting include block), it prints out
an error message indicating which .h file needs to be added to the
file.
The conversion was done in the following steps.
1. The initial automatic conversion of all .c files updated slightly
over 4000 files, deleting around 700 includes and adding ~480 gfp.h
and ~3000 slab.h inclusions. The script emitted errors for ~400
files.
2. Each error was manually checked. Some didn't need the inclusion,
some needed manual addition while adding it to implementation .h or
embedding .c file was more appropriate for others. This step added
inclusions to around 150 files.
3. The script was run again and the output was compared to the edits
from #2 to make sure no file was left behind.
4. Several build tests were done and a couple of problems were fixed.
e.g. lib/decompress_*.c used malloc/free() wrappers around slab
APIs requiring slab.h to be added manually.
5. The script was run on all .h files but without automatically
editing them as sprinkling gfp.h and slab.h inclusions around .h
files could easily lead to inclusion dependency hell. Most gfp.h
inclusion directives were ignored as stuff from gfp.h was usually
wildly available and often used in preprocessor macros. Each
slab.h inclusion directive was examined and added manually as
necessary.
6. percpu.h was updated not to include slab.h.
7. Build test were done on the following configurations and failures
were fixed. CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL was turned off for all tests (as my
distributed build env didn't work with gcov compiles) and a few
more options had to be turned off depending on archs to make things
build (like ipr on powerpc/64 which failed due to missing writeq).
* x86 and x86_64 UP and SMP allmodconfig and a custom test config.
* powerpc and powerpc64 SMP allmodconfig
* sparc and sparc64 SMP allmodconfig
* ia64 SMP allmodconfig
* s390 SMP allmodconfig
* alpha SMP allmodconfig
* um on x86_64 SMP allmodconfig
8. percpu.h modifications were reverted so that it could be applied as
a separate patch and serve as bisection point.
Given the fact that I had only a couple of failures from tests on step
6, I'm fairly confident about the coverage of this conversion patch.
If there is a breakage, it's likely to be something in one of the arch
headers which should be easily discoverable easily on most builds of
the specific arch.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Guess-its-ok-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>
Unfortunately, one cannot hold on to the struct firmware
that request_firmware_nowait() hands off, which is needed
in some cases. Allow this by requiring the callback to
free it (via release_firmware).
Additionally, give it a gfp_t parameter -- all the current
users call it from a GFP_KERNEL context so the GFP_ATOMIC
isn't necessary. This also marks an API break which is
useful in a sense, although that is obviously not the
primary purpose of this change.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Acked-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
Cc: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
Cc: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
Cc: Abhay Salunke <abhay_salunke@dell.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
We're going to remove the FIRMWARE_NAME_MAX definition in order to avoid any
firmware name length restriction.
This patch replaces the shared FIRMWARE_NAME_MAX definition with a ueagle
local one.
Signed-off-by: Samuel Ortiz <sameo@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Damien Bergamini <damien.bergamini@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
This patch lets the files using linux/version.h match the files that
#include it.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* endianness annotations
* endianness fixes
* missing get_unaligned/put_unaligned
It's pretty much all over the place, changes to different files are independent.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Serial-parts-Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
__FUNCTION__ is gcc-specific, use __func__
Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Update copyrights and remove not necessary warning (ueagle-atm works
well on suspend/resume).
Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <stf_xl@wp.pl>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Do not sleep in kernel thread when device is disconnected, this make faster
suspending and module unloading. Use one wait queue for sleeping.
Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <stf_xl@wp.pl>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Ueagle-atm driver load DSP firmware in function, which is running from
common workqueue. In some (error) circumstances loading firmware may
sleep for long periods (even 60 seconds, depending on timeout). This
block keyboard driver, which also use common workqueue. To fix problem
use custom workqueue in ueagle-atm.
Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <stf_xl@wp.pl>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Let's user control how much USB bus bandwidth will be reserved by
ueagle-atm device. This make possible to share bus with other devices
when ueagle-atm driver works in isochronous mode.
Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <stf_xl@wp.pl>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Support for Devolo and Elsa chipsets. These chipsets have no information
about ADSL annex (line type) encoded in USB descriptors. Driver try to
get this information from USB VID and PID or it can be explicitly set by
the user through module parameter. Thanks to Johann Hanne, whose make
most of this patch.
Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <stf_xl@wp.pl>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Add support to newest chipset of eagle family. It is compatible with
older chipsets at USB level. However DSP firmware and CMVs
(Configuration and Management Variables) have different format of data
and are sent/received by different way.
Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <stf_xl@wp.pl>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
This done in anticipation of removal of urb->status, which will make
that patch easier to review and apply in the future.
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Currently, the freezer treats all tasks as freezable, except for the kernel
threads that explicitly set the PF_NOFREEZE flag for themselves. This
approach is problematic, since it requires every kernel thread to either
set PF_NOFREEZE explicitly, or call try_to_freeze(), even if it doesn't
care for the freezing of tasks at all.
It seems better to only require the kernel threads that want to or need to
be frozen to use some freezer-related code and to remove any
freezer-related code from the other (nonfreezable) kernel threads, which is
done in this patch.
The patch causes all kernel threads to be nonfreezable by default (ie. to
have PF_NOFREEZE set by default) and introduces the set_freezable()
function that should be called by the freezable kernel threads in order to
unset PF_NOFREEZE. It also makes all of the currently freezable kernel
threads call set_freezable(), so it shouldn't cause any (intentional)
change of behaviour to appear. Additionally, it updates documentation to
describe the freezing of tasks more accurately.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fixes]
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Acked-by: Nigel Cunningham <nigel@nigel.suspend2.net>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Move process freezing functions from include/linux/sched.h to freezer.h, so
that modifications to the freezer or the kernel configuration don't require
recompiling just about everything.
[akpm@osdl.org: fix ueagle driver]
Signed-off-by: Nigel Cunningham <nigel@suspend2.net>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Conflicts:
drivers/infiniband/core/iwcm.c
drivers/net/chelsio/cxgb2.c
drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx/bcm43xx_main.c
drivers/net/wireless/prism54/islpci_eth.c
drivers/usb/core/hub.h
drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c
net/core/netpoll.c
Fix up merge failures with Linus's head and fix new compilation failures.
Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
replace open coded kmemdup() to save some screen space,
and allow inlining/not inlining to be triggered by gcc.
Signed-off-by: Eric Sesterhenn <snakebyte@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
The array of attribute passed to sysfs_create_group() must be
NULL-terminated.
The sysfs entries are created before the start of the modem state machine
to avoid to stop it in case of errors in sysfs creation. Also
{destroy,create}_fs_entries are removed as they do nothing.
Signed-off-by: Laurent Riffard <laurent.riffard@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Matthieu CASTET <castet.matthieu@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Hi,
this patch does some cosmetic changes :
- dump firwmare version as soon as possible and export it on sysfs
- hint about wrong cmv/dsp
- Display a message to warn user when the modem is ready : it can help
people to detect problems on the line without debug trace
- Fix wrong indent
- display modem type (pots/isdn)
- increase version number
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Castet <castet.matthieu@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
this patch use wait_event_interruptible_timeout and msleep_interruptible
beacause uninterruptible sleep (task state 'D') is counted as 1 towards
load average, like running processes.
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Castet <castet.matthieu@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
this patch avoid that the kernel thread block the suspend process.
Some work is still need to recover after a resume.
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Castet <castet.matthieu@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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)
