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)
Add a capability flag for drivers to set when they can perform multi-
block transfers to cards _and_ correctly report the number of bytes
transferred should an error occur.
The last point is very important - if a driver reports more bytes than
were actually accepted by the card and an error occurs, there is the
possibility for data loss.
Pierre Ossman provided the patch for wbsd and sdhci.
Signed-off-by: Pierre Ossman <drzeus@drzeus.cx>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
This is needed if we wish to change the size of the resource structures.
Based on an original patch from Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Rather than having every driver duplicate the set_ios debugging,
provide a single version in mmc.c which can be expanded as we
add additional functionality.
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Rather than each driver test MMC_DEBUG itself, and define DEBUG,
pass it in via the makefile instead.
Fix drivers to use pr_debug() where appropriate, and avoid defining
a DEBUG() macro.
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
If a data transfer is small (less than a FIFO size) we would
hang waiting for the data to be read due to the PIO interrupt
not occuring. We allowed for this in our PIO interrupt handler,
but not when setting up a data transfer.
Apply the "fix" when setting up a data transfer as well.
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Since the ARM AMBA bus is used on MIPS as well as ARM, we need
to make the bus available for other architectures to use. Move
the AMBA include files from include/asm-arm/hardware/ to
include/linux/amba/
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Since MMCI currently uses PIO to read data, we have to take steps
to ensure data cache coherency on aliasing CPU caches. Add the
necessary flush_dcache_page() calls.
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
It seems that clk_use() and clk_unuse() are additional complexity
which isn't required anymore. Remove them from the clock framework
to avoid the additional confusion which they cause, and update all
ARM machine types except for OMAP.
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Change mmc_detect_change() to take a delay argument such that
the detection of card insertions and removals can be delayed
according to the requirements of the host driver or platform.
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
This fixes u32 vs. pm_message_t in drivers/mmc, drivers/mtd and
drivers/scsi.
Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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!
David Howells