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)
The atmel_console_get_options() function initializes the baud,
parity and bits settings from the actual hardware setup, in
case it has been initialized by a e.g. boot loader.
The baud rate, however, is not necessarily exactly equal to one of
the standard baud rates (115200, etc.) This means that the baud rate
calculated by this function may be slightly higher or slightly lower
than one of the standard baud rates.
If the baud rate is slightly lower than the target, this causes
problems when uart_set_option() tries to match the detected baud rate
against the standard baud rate, as it will always select a baud rate
that is lower or equal to the target rate. For example if the
detected baud rate is slightly lower than 115200, usart_set_options()
will select 57600.
This patch fixes the problem by subtracting 1 from the value in BRGR
when calculating the baud rate. The detected baud rate will thus
always be higher than the nearest standard baud rate, and
uart_set_options() will end up doing the right thing.
Tested on ATSTK1000 and AT91RM9200-EK boards. Both are broken without
this patch.
Signed-off-by: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com>
Acked-by: Andrew Victor <andrew@sanpeople.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Make CONFIG_SERIAL_ATMEL selectable on AVR32 and #ifdef out some ARM-
specific code in the driver.
Signed-off-by: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com>
Acked-by: Andrew Victor <andrew@sanpeople.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
In order to initialize the serial console early, the atmel_serial
driver had to do a hack where it compared the physical address of the
port with an address known to be permanently mapped, and used it as a
virtual address. This got around the limitation that ioremap() isn't
always available when the console is being initalized.
This patch removes that hack and replaces it with a new "regs" field
in struct atmel_uart_data that the board-specific code can initialize
to a fixed virtual mapping for platform devices where this is possible.
It also initializes the DBGU's regs field with the address the driver
used to check against.
On AVR32, the "regs" field is initialized from the physical base
address when this it can be accessed through a permanently 1:1 mapped
segment, i.e. the P4 segment.
If regs is NULL, the console initialization is delayed until the "real"
driver is up and running and ioremap() can be used.
Signed-off-by: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com>
Acked-by: Andrew Victor <andrew@sanpeople.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Rename at91_register_uart_fns and associated structs and variables
to make it consistent with the atmel_ prefix used by the rest of
the driver.
Signed-off-by: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com>
Acked-by: Andrew Victor <andrew@sanpeople.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
The at91_serial driver can be used with both AT32 and AT91 devices
from Atmel and has therefore been renamed atmel_serial. The only
thing left is to rename PORT_AT91 PORT_ATMEL.
Signed-off-by: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com>
Acked-by: Andrew Victor <andrew@sanpeople.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Prefix all internal functions and variables with atmel_ instead of
at91_.
The at91_register_uart_fns() stuff is left as is since I can't find
any actual users of it.
Signed-off-by: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com>
Acked-by: Andrew Victor <andrew@sanpeople.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
David Howells