26 Jan, 2011

1 commit

  • parport_unregister_device() should never be used when interrupts are
    enabled in hardware and irq handler is registered so there is no need to
    disable interrupts when using waitlist_lock. But there is no way to
    explain this subtle semantics to lockdep analyzer.

    So disable interrupts here too to simplify things. The price is
    negligible.

    Signed-off-by: Alexander Gordeev
    Cc: Ingo Molnar
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Alexander Gordeev
     

12 Oct, 2010

1 commit


03 Jun, 2009

1 commit

  • Ideally we should have a directory of drivers and a link to the 'active'
    driver. For now just show the first device which is effectively the existing
    semantics without a warning.

    This is an update on the original buggy patch that I then forgot to
    resubmit. Confusingly it was proposed by Red Hat, written by Etched Pixels
    fixed and submitted by Intel ...

    Resolves-Bug: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9749
    Signed-off-by: Alan Cox
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Alan Cox
     

17 Oct, 2008

1 commit


24 Oct, 2007

3 commits


09 May, 2007

1 commit

  • Currently a parport_driver can't get a handle on the device node for the
    underlying parport (PNPACPI, PCI, etc). That prevents correct placement of
    sysfs child nodes, which can affect things like power management.

    This patch adds a field to "struct parport" pointing to that device node, and
    updates non-legacy port drivers to initialize that device pointer. That field
    replaces the analagous PCI-only support in parport_pc.

    [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix powerpc build]
    Signed-off-by: David Brownell
    Cc: Paul Mackerras
    Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    David Brownell
     

05 Oct, 2006

1 commit

  • 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
    (cherry picked from 1b16e7ac850969f38b375e511e3fa2f474a33867 commit)

    David Howells
     

01 Jul, 2006

1 commit


26 Jun, 2006

1 commit


27 Mar, 2006

1 commit

  • Semaphore to mutex conversion.

    The conversion was generated via scripts, and the result was validated
    automatically via a script as well.

    Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar
    Cc: Dave Jones
    Cc: Paul Mackerras
    Cc: Ralf Baechle
    Cc: Jens Axboe
    Cc: Neil Brown
    Acked-by: Alasdair G Kergon
    Cc: Greg KH
    Cc: Dominik Brodowski
    Cc: Adam Belay
    Cc: Martin Schwidefsky
    Cc: "David S. Miller"
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Ingo Molnar
     

07 Jan, 2006

1 commit


07 Nov, 2005

1 commit

  • This is the remaining misc drivers/ part of the big kfree cleanup patch.

    Remove pointless checks for NULL prior to calling kfree() in misc files in
    drivers/.

    Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl
    Acked-by: Aristeu Sergio Rozanski Filho
    Acked-by: Roland Dreier
    Acked-by: Pierre Ossman
    Acked-by: Jean Delvare
    Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman
    Acked-by: Len Brown
    Acked-by: "Antonino A. Daplas"
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Jesper Juhl
     

17 Apr, 2005

1 commit

  • 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!

    Linus Torvalds