16 Oct, 2007

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20 Jul, 2007

1 commit


12 Jul, 2007

1 commit

  • Instead of all drivers reading pci config space to get the revision
    ID, they can now use the pci_device->revision member.

    This exposes some issues where drivers where reading a word or a dword
    for the revision number, and adding useless error-handling around the
    read. Some drivers even just read it for no purpose of all.

    In devices where the revision ID is being copied over and used in what
    appears to be the equivalent of hotpath, I have left the copy code
    and the cached copy as not to influence the driver's performance.

    Compile tested with make all{yes,mod}config on x86_64 and i386.

    Signed-off-by: Auke Kok
    Acked-by: Dave Jones
    Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

    Auke Kok
     

11 May, 2007

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03 May, 2007

1 commit

  • I noticed that many source files include while they do
    not appear to need it. Here is an attempt to clean it all up.

    In order to find all possibly affected files, I searched for all
    files including but without any other occurence of "pci"
    or "PCI". I removed the include statement from all of these, then I
    compiled an allmodconfig kernel on both i386 and x86_64 and fixed the
    false positives manually.

    My tests covered 66% of the affected files, so there could be false
    positives remaining. Untested files are:

    arch/alpha/kernel/err_common.c
    arch/alpha/kernel/err_ev6.c
    arch/alpha/kernel/err_ev7.c
    arch/ia64/sn/kernel/huberror.c
    arch/ia64/sn/kernel/xpnet.c
    arch/m68knommu/kernel/dma.c
    arch/mips/lib/iomap.c
    arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/ras.c
    arch/ppc/8260_io/enet.c
    arch/ppc/8260_io/fcc_enet.c
    arch/ppc/8xx_io/enet.c
    arch/ppc/syslib/ppc4xx_sgdma.c
    arch/sh64/mach-cayman/iomap.c
    arch/xtensa/kernel/xtensa_ksyms.c
    arch/xtensa/platform-iss/setup.c
    drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-at91.c
    drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-mpc.c
    drivers/media/video/saa711x.c
    drivers/misc/hdpuftrs/hdpu_cpustate.c
    drivers/misc/hdpuftrs/hdpu_nexus.c
    drivers/net/au1000_eth.c
    drivers/net/fec_8xx/fec_main.c
    drivers/net/fec_8xx/fec_mii.c
    drivers/net/fs_enet/fs_enet-main.c
    drivers/net/fs_enet/mac-fcc.c
    drivers/net/fs_enet/mac-fec.c
    drivers/net/fs_enet/mac-scc.c
    drivers/net/fs_enet/mii-bitbang.c
    drivers/net/fs_enet/mii-fec.c
    drivers/net/ibm_emac/ibm_emac_core.c
    drivers/net/lasi_82596.c
    drivers/parisc/hppb.c
    drivers/sbus/sbus.c
    drivers/video/g364fb.c
    drivers/video/platinumfb.c
    drivers/video/stifb.c
    drivers/video/valkyriefb.c
    include/asm-arm/arch-ixp4xx/dma.h
    sound/oss/au1550_ac97.c

    I would welcome test reports for these files. I am fine with removing
    the untested files from the patch if the general opinion is that these
    changes aren't safe. The tested part would still be nice to have.

    Note that this patch depends on another header fixup patch I submitted
    to LKML yesterday:
    [PATCH] scatterlist.h needs types.h
    http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/3/01/141

    Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare
    Cc: Badari Pulavarty
    Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

    Jean Delvare
     

09 Feb, 2007

4 commits


20 Dec, 2006

4 commits


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
     

23 Sep, 2006

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13 Jul, 2006

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23 Jun, 2006

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28 Apr, 2006

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22 Jan, 2006

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03 Jan, 2006

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