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)
Fixed 'section mismatch' errors in ALSA PCI drivers:
- removed invalid __devinitdata from pci id tables
- fix/remove __devinit of functions called in suspend/resume
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@suse.cz>
Use schedule_timeout_{,un}interruptible() instead of
set_current_state()/schedule_timeout() to reduce kernel size. Also use
human-time conversion functions instead of hard-coded division to avoid
rounding issues.
Signed-off-by: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Remove the code for supporting eight cards from the integrated
controller drivers because There Can Be Only One controller of
each type per mainboard.
Signed-off-by: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>
This patch cleans last ac97 audio/modem codec interception in
initialization procedures (ac97_mixer_new()) and removes obsolete
SHARED_TYPE 'locking' which prevents from AMC codecs to function
correctly.
Signed-off-by: Sasha Khapyorsky <sashak@smlink.com>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Digigram VX core,CS4231 driver,ATIIXP driver,VIA82xx driver
VIA82xx-modem driver,au88x0 driver,CS46xx driver,Trident driver
This patch disables SNDRV_PCM_INFO_RESUME flag for drivers which does not
support the full resume.
Signed-off-by: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@suse.cz>
ENS1370/1+ driver,ES1968 driver,Intel8x0 driver,VIA82xx driver
VIA82xx-modem driver,AC97 Codec,ALI5451 driver,CS46xx driver
MIXART driver,RME HDSP driver,Trident driver,YMFPCI driver
Description: Fix-up sleeping in sound/pci. These changes fall under the
following two categories:
1) Replace schedule_timeout() with msleep() to guarantee the
task delays as expected. This also involved replacing/removing
custom sleep functions.
2) Do not assume jiffies will only increment by one if you
request a 1 jiffy sleep, i.e. use time_after/time_before in
while loops.
Signed-off-by: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@suse.cz>
Timer Midlevel,ALSA sequencer,ALSA<-OSS sequencer,Digigram VX core
I2C tea6330t,GUS Library,VIA82xx driver,VIA82xx-modem driver
CA0106 driver,CS46xx driver,EMU10K1/EMU10K2 driver,YMFPCI driver
Digigram VX Pocket driver,Common EMU synth,USB generic driver,USB USX2Y
Checking a pointer for NULL before calling kfree() on it is redundant,
kfree() deals with NULL pointers just fine.
This patch removes such checks from sound/
This patch also makes another, but closely related, change.
It avoids casting pointers about to be kfree()'ed.
Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <juhl-lkml@dif.dk>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
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