05 Oct, 2006
1 commit
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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)
04 Oct, 2006
1 commit
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Many files include the filename at the beginning, serveral used a wrong one.
Signed-off-by: Uwe Zeisberger
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk
27 Sep, 2006
1 commit
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i2c-algo-bit: Discard the mdelay data struct member
The i2c_algo_bit_data structure has an mdelay member, which is not
used by the algorithm code (the code has always been ifdef'd out.)
Let's discard it to save some code and memory.Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare
Acked-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab
Cc: Adrian Bunk
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman
03 Jul, 2006
1 commit
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Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner
Cc: Ingo Molnar
Cc: "David S. Miller"
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
01 Jul, 2006
3 commits
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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bunk/trivial:
Remove obsolete #include
remove obsolete swsusp_encrypt
arch/arm26/Kconfig typos
Documentation/IPMI typos
Kconfig: Typos in net/sched/Kconfig
v9fs: do not include linux/version.h
Documentation/DocBook/mtdnand.tmpl: typo fixes
typo fixes: specfic -> specific
typo fixes in Documentation/networking/pktgen.txt
typo fixes: occuring -> occurring
typo fixes: infomation -> information
typo fixes: disadvantadge -> disadvantage
typo fixes: aquire -> acquire
typo fixes: mecanism -> mechanism
typo fixes: bandwith -> bandwidth
fix a typo in the RTC_CLASS help text
smb is no longer maintainedManually merged trivial conflict in arch/um/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
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Don't show a menu that can't be entered due to lack of contents on arm (the
options are only available on arm26).Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk
Acked-by: Ian Molton
Cc: Russell King
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Signed-off-by: Jörn Engel
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk
12 Jan, 2006
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- Move capable() from sched.h to capability.h;
- Use where capable() is used
(in include/, block/, ipc/, kernel/, a few drivers/,
mm/, security/, & sound/;
many more drivers/ to go)Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
09 Jan, 2006
1 commit
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HDIO_GETGEO is implemented in most block drivers, and all of them have to
duplicate the code to copy the structure to userspace, as well as getting
the start sector. This patch moves that to common code [1] and adds a
->getgeo method to fill out the raw kernel hd_geometry structure. For many
drivers this means ->ioctl can go away now.[1] the s390 block drivers are odd in this respect. xpram sets ->start
to 4 always which seems more than odd, and the dasd driver shifts
the start offset around, probably because of it's non-standard
sector size.Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig
Cc: Jens Axboe
Cc:
Cc: Jeff Dike
Cc: Paolo Giarrusso
Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
Cc: Neil Brown
Cc: Markus Lidel
Cc: Russell King
Cc: David Woodhouse
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky
Cc: James Bottomley
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
06 Jan, 2006
3 commits
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Now that i2c_add_driver() doesn't need the module owner to be set by
hand, we can delete it from the drivers. This patch catches all of the
drivers that I found in the current tree (if a driver sets the .owner by
hand, it's not a problem, just not needed.)Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman
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We should use the i2c_driver.driver's .name and .owner fields
instead of the i2c_driver's ones.This patch updates the drivers for acorn arch.
Signed-off-by: Laurent Riffard
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare
Acked-by: Russell King
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Just about every i2c chip driver sets the I2C_DF_NOTIFY flag, so we
can simply make it the default and drop the flag. If any driver really
doesn't want to be notified when i2c adapters are added, that driver
can simply omit to set .attach_adapter. This approach is also more
robust as it prevents accidental NULL pointer dereferences.Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman
31 Oct, 2005
1 commit
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Signed-off-by: Russell King
21 Sep, 2005
1 commit
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Seems that the Acorn RTC driver missed an update. Fix it.
Signed-off-by: Russell King
10 Sep, 2005
1 commit
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Clean up timer initialization by introducing DEFINE_TIMER a'la
DEFINE_SPINLOCK. Build and boot-tested on x86. A similar patch has been
been in the -RT tree for some time.Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
07 Aug, 2005
1 commit
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Doesn't make the local irq disabling around it less buggy, but at
least we replace the offender with the right kind of primitive.Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig
Signed-off-by: Russell King
22 Jun, 2005
1 commit
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Some months ago, you killed the address ranges mechanism from all
sensors i2c chip drivers (both the module parameters and the in-code
address lists). I think it was a very good move, as the ranges can
easily be replaced by individual addresses, and this allowed for
significant cleanups in the i2c core (let alone the impressive size
shrink for all these drivers).Unfortunately you did not do the same for non-sensors i2c chip drivers.
These need the address ranges even less, so we could get rid of the
ranges here as well for another significant i2c core cleanup. Here comes
a patch which does just that. Since the process is exactly the same as
what you did for the other drivers set already, I did not split this one
in parts.A documentation update is included.
The change saves 308 bytes in the i2c core, and an average 1382 bytes
for chip drivers which use I2C_CLIENT_INSMOD, 126 bytes for those which
do not.This change is required if we want to merge the sensors and non-sensors
i2c code (and we want to do this).Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-HartmanIndex: gregkh-2.6/Documentation/i2c/writing-clients
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17 Apr, 2005
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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!
