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David Howells
7d12e780e0 IRQ: Maintain regs pointer globally rather than passing to IRQ handlers
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)
2006-10-05 15:10:12 +01:00
Thomas Gleixner
1d6f359a2e [PATCH] irq-flags: scsi: Use the new IRQF_ constants
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-07-02 13:58:53 -07:00
Jörn Engel
6ab3d5624e Remove obsolete #include <linux/config.h>
Signed-off-by: Jörn Engel <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-06-30 19:25:36 +02:00
Christoph Hellwig
d0be4a7d29 [SCSI] remove Scsi_Host_Template typedef
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
2005-11-09 15:44:09 -05:00
Jesper Juhl
c9475cb0c3 [PATCH] kfree cleanup: drivers/scsi
This is the drivers/scsi/ part of the big kfree cleanup patch.

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

Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com>
Acked-by: Kai Makisara <kai.makisara@kolumbus.fi>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-07 07:54:01 -08:00
Jeff Garzik
422c0d61d5 [SCSI] use scmd_id(), scmd_channel() throughout code
Wrap a highly common idiom.  Makes the code easier to read, helps pave
the way for sdev->{id,channel} removal, and adds a token that can easily
by grepped-for in the future.

There are a couple sdev_id() and scmd_printk() updates thrown in as well.

Rejections fixed up and
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
2005-10-28 21:10:16 -05:00
Jeff Garzik
017560fca4 [SCSI] use sfoo_printk() in drivers
Rejections fixed up and
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
2005-10-28 21:04:15 -05:00
Christoph Hellwig
a4c8f62851 [SCSI] remove scsi_cmnd.eh_state
it's never set to anything, and just three broken drivers are looking
at it and doing odd things.

Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
2005-06-26 12:14:10 -05:00
Jeff Garzik
df0ae2497d [SCSI] allow sleeping in ->eh_host_reset_handler()
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
2005-06-17 12:05:18 -05:00
Jeff Garzik
3471c28803 [SCSI] Remove no-op implementations of SCSI EH hooks
Drivers need not implement a hook that returns FAILED, and does nothing
else, since the SCSI midlayer code will do that for us.

Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
2005-06-17 12:04:45 -05:00
Linus Torvalds
1da177e4c3 Linux-2.6.12-rc2
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!
2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00