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* IRQ: Maintain regs pointer globally rather than passing to IRQ handlersDavid Howells2006-10-051-4/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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)
* Merge branch 'master' into upstreamJeff Garzik2006-09-221-1/+2
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | Conflicts: net/ieee80211/ieee80211_crypt_tkip.c net/ieee80211/ieee80211_crypt_wep.c
| * [POWERPC] clean up pseries hcall interfacesAnton Blanchard2006-08-011-1/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Our pseries hcall interfaces are out of control: plpar_hcall_norets plpar_hcall plpar_hcall_8arg_2ret plpar_hcall_4out plpar_hcall_7arg_7ret plpar_hcall_9arg_9ret Create 3 interfaces to cover all cases: plpar_hcall_norets: 7 arguments no returns plpar_hcall: 6 arguments 4 returns plpar_hcall9: 9 arguments 9 returns There are only 2 cases in the kernel that need plpar_hcall9, hopefully we can keep it that way. Pass in a buffer to stash return parameters so we avoid the &dummy1, &dummy2 madness. Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> -- Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
* | drivers/net: const-ify ethtool_ops declarationsJeff Garzik2006-09-131-1/+1
|/ | | | Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
* Remove obsolete #include <linux/config.h>Jörn Engel2006-06-301-1/+0
| | | | | Signed-off-by: Jörn Engel <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
* Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpcLinus Torvalds2006-06-221-1/+1
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc: (139 commits) [POWERPC] re-enable OProfile for iSeries, using timer interrupt [POWERPC] support ibm,extended-*-frequency properties [POWERPC] Extra sanity check in EEH code [POWERPC] Dont look for class-code in pci children [POWERPC] Fix mdelay badness on shared processor partitions [POWERPC] disable floating point exceptions for init [POWERPC] Unify ppc syscall tables [POWERPC] mpic: add support for serial mode interrupts [POWERPC] pseries: Print PCI slot location code on failure [POWERPC] spufs: one more fix for 64k pages [POWERPC] spufs: fail spu_create with invalid flags [POWERPC] spufs: clear class2 interrupt status before wakeup [POWERPC] spufs: fix Makefile for "make clean" [POWERPC] spufs: remove stop_code from struct spu [POWERPC] spufs: fix spu irq affinity setting [POWERPC] spufs: further abstract priv1 register access [POWERPC] spufs: split the Cell BE support into generic and platform dependant parts [POWERPC] spufs: dont try to access SPE channel 1 count [POWERPC] spufs: use kzalloc in create_spu [POWERPC] spufs: fix initial state of wbox file ... Manually resolved conflicts in: drivers/net/phy/Makefile include/asm-powerpc/spu.h
| * [PATCH] powerpc: Quiet VETH version printkOlof Johansson2006-04-221-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | ibmveth_printk() is only used to print the driver version when the module initializes, which means on all machines as long as it's compiled in. If it's really only needed for debugging, boot with loglevel=8, or get it from dmesg instead. Signed-off-by: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
* | [netdrvr ibmlana, ibmveth] trim trailing whitespaceJeff Garzik2006-05-241-45/+45
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* | [PATCH] ibmveth change buffer pools dynamicallySantiago Leon2006-05-241-43/+168
|/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch provides a sysfs interface to change some properties of the ibmveth buffer pools (size of the buffers, number of buffers per pool, and whether a pool is active). Ethernet drivers use ethtool to provide this type of functionality. However, the buffers in the ibmveth driver can have an arbitrary size (not only regular, mini, and jumbo which are the only sizes that ethtool can change), and also ibmveth can have an arbitrary number of buffer pools Under heavy load we have seen dropped packets which obviously kills TCP performance. We have created several fixes that mitigate this issue, but we definitely need a way of changing the number of buffers for an adapter dynamically. Also, changing the size of the buffers allows users to change the MTU to something big (bigger than a jumbo frame) greatly improving performance on partition to partition transfers. The patch creates directories pool1...pool4 in the device directory in sysfs, each with files: num, size, and active (which default to the values in the mainline version). Comments and suggestions are welcome... -- Santiago A. Leon Power Linux Development IBM Linux Technology Center Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
* [PATCH] powerpc/pseries: Change H_StudlyCaps to H_SHOUTING_CAPSSegher Boessenkool2006-04-011-15/+15
| | | | | | | Also cleans up some nearby whitespace problems. Signed-off-by: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
* [PATCH] disable DEBUG in ibmvethAnton Blanchard2005-11-111-1/+1
| | | | | | | | At the moment ibmveth has DEBUG enabled which is rather verbose. Disable it. Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
* [PATCH] changing CONFIG_LOCALVERSION rebuilds too much, for no good reasonOlaf Hering2005-11-091-1/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch removes almost all inclusions of linux/version.h. The 3 #defines are unused in most of the touched files. A few drivers use the simple KERNEL_VERSION(a,b,c) macro, which is unfortunatly in linux/version.h. There are also lots of #ifdef for long obsolete kernels, this was not touched. In a few places, the linux/version.h include was move to where the LINUX_VERSION_CODE was used. quilt vi `find * -type f -name "*.[ch]"|xargs grep -El '(UTS_RELEASE|LINUX_VERSION_CODE|KERNEL_VERSION|linux/version.h)'|grep -Ev '(/(boot|coda|drm)/|~$)'` search pattern: /UTS_RELEASE\|LINUX_VERSION_CODE\|KERNEL_VERSION\|linux\/\(utsname\|version\).h Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] ibmveth fix panic in initial replenish cycleSantiago Leon2005-11-011-1/+1
| | | | | | | This patch fixes a panic in the current tree caused by a race condition between the initial replenish cycle and the rx processing of the first packets trying to replenish the buffers. Signed-off-by: Santiago Leon <santil@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* Merge ../linux-2.6 by handPaul Mackerras2005-10-311-79/+107
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| * drivers/net: Remove pointless checks for NULL prior to calling kfree()Jesper Juhl2005-10-281-4/+2
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| * [PATCH] ibmveth fix failed addbufSantiago Leon2005-10-281-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch fixes a bug that happens when the hypervisor can't add a buffer. The old code wrote IBM_VETH_INVALID_MAP into the free_map array, so next time the index was used, a ibmveth_assert() caught it and called BUG(). The patch writes the right value into the free_map array so that the index can be reused. Signed-off-by: Santiago Leon <santil@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
| * [PATCH] ibmveth lockless TXSantiago Leon2005-10-281-15/+29
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch adds the lockless TX feature to the ibmveth driver. The hypervisor has its own locking so the only change that is necessary is to protect the statistics counters. Signed-off-by: Santiago Leon <santil@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
| * [PATCH] ibmveth fix buffer replenishingSantiago Leon2005-10-281-40/+8
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch removes the allocation of RX skb's buffers from a workqueue to be called directly at RX processing time. This change was suggested by Dave Miller when the driver was starving the RX buffers and deadlocking under heavy traffic: > Allocating RX SKBs via tasklet is, IMHO, the worst way to > do it. It is no surprise that there are starvation cases. > > If tasklets or work queues get delayed in any way, you lose, > and it's very easy for a card to catch up with the driver RX'ing > packets very fast, no matter how aggressive you make the > replenishing. By the time you detect that you need to be > "more aggressive" it is already too late. > The only pseudo-reliable way is to allocate at RX processing time. > Signed-off-by: Santiago Leon <santil@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
| * [PATCH] ibmveth fix buffer pool managementSantiago Leon2005-10-281-28/+74
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch changes the way the ibmveth driver handles the receive buffers. The old code mallocs and maps all the buffers in the pools regardless of MTU size and it also limits the number of buffer pools to three. This patch makes the driver malloc and map the buffers necessary to support the current MTU. It also changes the hardcoded names of the buffer pool number, size, and elements to arrays to make it easier to change (with the hope of making them runtime parameters in the future). Signed-off-by: Santiago Leon <santil@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
| * [PATCH] ibmveth fix bondingSantiago Leon2005-10-281-0/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch updates dev->trans_start and dev->last_rx so that the ibmveth driver can be used with the ARP monitor in the bonding driver. Signed-off-by: Santiago Leon <santil@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
* | [PATCH] ppc64: make dma_addr_t 64 bitsStephen Rothwell2005-10-271-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | There has been a need expressed for dma_addr_t to be 64 bits on PPC64. This patch does that. Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
* | powerpc: set the driver.owner field for all vio driversStephen Rothwell2005-10-241-1/+1
| | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
* | powerpc: don't duplicate name between vio_driver and device_driverStephen Rothwell2005-10-241-4/+6
|/ | | | | | | Just set the name field directly in the device_driver structure contained in the vio_driver struct. Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
* [PATCH] proc_mkdir() should be used to create procfs directoriesAl Viro2005-09-291-3/+3
| | | | | | | | A bunch of create_proc_dir_entry() calls creating directories had crept in since the last sweep; converted to proc_mkdir(). Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] Make MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE work for vio devicesStephen Rothwell2005-08-301-1/+1
| | | | | | | Make MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE work for vio devices. Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
* Linux-2.6.12-rc2v2.6.12-rc2Linus Torvalds2005-04-161-0/+1175
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!
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