Eric Lee / smarc-fsl-linux-kernel

11 Oct, 2006

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05 Oct, 2006

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  • 7d12e780e   IRQ: Maintain regs pointer globally rather than passing to IRQ handlers ... Browse Code »

    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
     

26 Sep, 2006

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  • 64f6b64df   [PATCH] skge: fiber support ... Browse Code »

    Add support for older fiber versions of the SysKonnect board. These chipsets
    use an internal PHY so they require special handling. The older sk98lin
    driver already supported these

    Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger
    Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik

    Stephen Hemminger
     

25 Sep, 2006

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  • a319a2773   Merge branch 'upstream-linus' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/netdev-2.6 ... Browse Code »

    * 'upstream-linus' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/netdev-2.6: (217 commits)
    net/ieee80211: fix more crypto-related build breakage
    [PATCH] Spidernet: add ethtool -S (show statistics)
    [NET] GT96100: Delete bitrotting ethernet driver
    [PATCH] mv643xx_eth: restrict to 32-bit PPC_MULTIPLATFORM
    [PATCH] Cirrus Logic ep93xx ethernet driver
    r8169: the MMIO region of the 8167 stands behin BAR#1
    e1000, ixgb: Remove pointless wrappers
    [PATCH] Remove powerpc specific parts of 3c509 driver
    [PATCH] s2io: Switch to pci_get_device
    [PATCH] gt96100: move to pci_get_device API
    [PATCH] ehea: bugfix for register access functions
    [PATCH] e1000 disable device on PCI error
    drivers/net/phy/fixed: #if 0 some incomplete code
    drivers/net: const-ify ethtool_ops declarations
    [PATCH] ethtool: allow const ethtool_ops
    [PATCH] sky2: big endian
    [PATCH] sky2: fiber support
    [PATCH] sky2: tx pause bug fix
    drivers/net: Trim trailing whitespace
    [PATCH] ehea: IBM eHEA Ethernet Device Driver
    ...

    Manually resolved conflicts in drivers/net/ixgb/ixgb_main.c and
    drivers/net/sky2.c related to CHECKSUM_HW/CHECKSUM_PARTIAL changes by
    commit 84fa7933a33f806bbbaae6775e87459b1ec584c0 that just happened to be
    next to unrelated changes in this update.

    Linus Torvalds
     

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  • 5b057c6b1   [NET]: Avoid allocating skb in skb_pad ... Browse Code »

    First of all it is unnecessary to allocate a new skb in skb_pad since
    the existing one is not shared. More importantly, our hard_start_xmit
    interface does not allow a new skb to be allocated since that breaks
    requeueing.

    This patch uses pskb_expand_head to expand the existing skb and linearize
    it if needed. Actually, someone should sift through every instance of
    skb_pad on a non-linear skb as they do not fit the reasons why this was
    originally created.

    Incidentally, this fixes a minor bug when the skb is cloned (tcpdump,
    TCP, etc.). As it is skb_pad will simply write over a cloned skb. Because
    of the position of the write it is unlikely to cause problems but still
    it's best if we don't do it.

    Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu
    Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

    Herbert Xu
     

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