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Al Viro db2a144bed block_device_operations->release() should return void
The value passed is 0 in all but "it can never happen" cases (and those
only in a couple of drivers) *and* it would've been lost on the way
out anyway, even if something tried to pass something meaningful.
Just don't bother.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2013-05-07 02:16:21 -04:00
Tejun Heo 9fd097b149 block: unexport DISK_EVENT_MEDIA_CHANGE for legacy/fringe drivers
In-kernel disk event polling doesn't matter for legacy/fringe drivers
and may lead to infinite event loop if ->check_events() implementation
generates events on level condition instead of edge.

Now that block layer supports suppressing exporting unlisted events,
simply leaving disk->events cleared allows these drivers to keep the
internal revalidation behavior intact while avoiding weird
interactions with userland event handler.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-04-21 21:33:05 +02:00
Tejun Heo 1a8a74f03f floppy,{ami|ata}flop: Convert to bdops->check_events()
Convert the floppy drivers from ->media_changed() to ->check_events().
Both floppy and ataflop buffer media changed state bit and clear them
on revalidation and will behave correctly with kernel event polling.

I can't tell how amiflop clears its event and it's possible that it
may generate spurious events when polled.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
2011-03-09 19:54:27 +01:00
Vivek Goyal 3e9bb2a071 block: fix amiga and atari floppy driver compile warning
Geert, my crosstool don't produce warning below. I guess this has to do
something with compiler version.

- Geert noticed following warning during compilation.

  drivers/block/amiflop.c:1344: warning: ‘rq’ may be used uninitialized in
  this function
  drivers/block/ataflop.c:1402: warning: ‘rq’ may be used uninitialized in
  this function

- Initialize rq to NULL to fix the warning. If we can't find a suitable request
  to dispatch, this function should return NULL instead of a possibly garbage
  pointer.

- Cross compile tested only. Don't have hardware to test it.

Reported-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-11-15 19:32:43 +01:00
Linus Torvalds 8abfc6e7a4 Merge branch 'for-2.6.37/drivers' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block
* 'for-2.6.37/drivers' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: (95 commits)
  cciss: fix PCI IDs for new Smart Array controllers
  drbd: add race-breaker to drbd_go_diskless
  drbd: use dynamic_dev_dbg to optionally log uuid changes
  dynamic_debug.h: Fix dynamic_dev_dbg() macro if CONFIG_DYNAMIC_DEBUG not set
  drbd: cleanup: change "<= 0" to "== 0"
  drbd: relax the grace period of the md_sync timer again
  drbd: add some more explicit drbd_md_sync
  drbd: drop wrong debug asserts, fix recently introduced race
  drbd: cleanup useless leftover warn/error printk's
  drbd: add explicit drbd_md_sync to drbd_resync_finished
  drbd: Do not log an ASSERT for P_OV_REQUEST packets while C_CONNECTED
  drbd: fix for possible deadlock on IO error during resync
  drbd: fix unlikely access after free and list corruption
  drbd: fix for spurious fullsync (uuids rotated too fast)
  drbd: allow for explicit resync-finished notifications
  drbd: preparation commit, using full state in receive_state()
  drbd: drbd_send_ack_dp must not rely on header information
  drbd: Fix regression in recv_bm_rle_bits (compressed bitmap)
  drbd: Fixed a stupid copy and paste error
  drbd: Allow larger values for c-fill-target.
  ...

Fix up trivial conflict in drivers/block/ataflop.c due to BKL removal
2010-10-22 17:03:12 -07:00
Arnd Bergmann 2a48fc0ab2 block: autoconvert trivial BKL users to private mutex
The block device drivers have all gained new lock_kernel
calls from a recent pushdown, and some of the drivers
were already using the BKL before.

This turns the BKL into a set of per-driver mutexes.
Still need to check whether this is safe to do.

file=$1
name=$2
if grep -q lock_kernel ${file} ; then
    if grep -q 'include.*linux.mutex.h' ${file} ; then
            sed -i '/include.*<linux\/smp_lock.h>/d' ${file}
    else
            sed -i 's/include.*<linux\/smp_lock.h>.*$/include <linux\/mutex.h>/g' ${file}
    fi
    sed -i ${file} \
        -e "/^#include.*linux.mutex.h/,$ {
                1,/^\(static\|int\|long\)/ {
                     /^\(static\|int\|long\)/istatic DEFINE_MUTEX(${name}_mutex);

} }"  \
    -e "s/\(un\)*lock_kernel\>[ ]*()/mutex_\1lock(\&${name}_mutex)/g" \
    -e '/[      ]*cycle_kernel_lock();/d'
else
    sed -i -e '/include.*\<smp_lock.h\>/d' ${file}  \
                -e '/cycle_kernel_lock()/d'
fi

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
2010-10-05 15:01:10 +02:00
Vivek Goyal 639e2f2aa7 atari floppy: Stop sharing request queue across multiple gendisks
o Use one request queue per gendisk instead of sharing the queue.

o Don't have hardware. No compile testing or run time testing done. Completely
  untested.

Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-09-24 20:35:45 +02:00
Arnd Bergmann 6e9624b8ca block: push down BKL into .open and .release
The open and release block_device_operations are currently
called with the BKL held. In order to change that, we must
first make sure that all drivers that currently rely
on this have no regressions.

This blindly pushes the BKL into all .open and .release
operations for all block drivers to prepare for the
next step. The drivers can subsequently replace the BKL
with their own locks or remove it completely when it can
be shown that it is not needed.

The functions blkdev_get and blkdev_put are the only
remaining users of the big kernel lock in the block
layer, besides a few uses in the ioctl code, none
of which need to serialize with blkdev_{get,put}.

Most of these two functions is also under the protection
of bdev->bd_mutex, including the actual calls to
->open and ->release, and the common code does not
access any global data structures that need the BKL.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-08-07 18:25:34 +02:00
Arnd Bergmann 8a6cfeb6de block: push down BKL into .locked_ioctl
As a preparation for the removal of the big kernel
lock in the block layer, this removes the BKL
from the common ioctl handling code, moving it
into every single driver still using it.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-08-07 18:25:00 +02:00
Geert Uytterhoeven 41fb11ca90 ataflop: Killl warning about unused variable flags
After commit e0c0978699 ("ataflop: remove
buggy/commented-out IRQ disable from do_fd_request()") the `flags' variable
became unused:

drivers/block/ataflop.c:1473: warning: unused variable 'flags'

Hence remove it.

Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
2010-02-27 18:27:15 +01:00
Jiri Kosina e0c0978699 ataflop: remove buggy/commented-out IRQ disable from do_fd_request()
There is a nice gem in drivers/block/ataflop.c::do_fd_request()

      void do_fd_request(struct request_queue * q)
      {
              unsigned long flags;

              DPRINT(("do_fd_request for pid %d\n",current->pid));
              while( fdc_busy ) sleep_on( &fdc_wait );
              fdc_busy = 1;
              stdma_lock(floppy_irq, NULL);

              atari_disable_irq( IRQ_MFP_FDC );
              local_save_flags(flags);        /* The request function is called with ints
              local_irq_disable();             * disabled... so must save the IPL for later */
              redo_fd_request();
              local_irq_restore(flags);
              atari_enable_irq( IRQ_MFP_FDC );
      }

If you look at the code long enough, you will notioce that the
local_irq_disable() call is actually commented out. This has been
introduced back in 2002 in [1], but as you can see, the same bug has been
there even before, with the sti() call being commented out in the very
same way :)

I am not familiar with the code myself at all, but I guess that the whole
stuff can just be removed. Why do we need save_flags/restore_flags at all,
without actually disabling the local IRQs afterwards? The
redo_fd_request() doesn't seem to do anything that would mess with flags
inconsistently.

[1] http://lkml.org/lkml/2002/12/27/58

Jens:
That does look odd. The comment is correct that the function is entered
with interrupts disabled (and the queue lock held). So I'd say your
patch looks fine, the whole save/restore business looks meaningless.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Michael Schmitz <schmitz@biophys.uni-duesseldorf.de>
2009-11-09 09:40:57 +01:00
Alexey Dobriyan 83d5cde47d const: make block_device_operations const
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 07:17:25 -07:00
Julia Lawall 8f47428704 ataflop: adjust NULL test
dtp is derefenced on the lines above the test !dtp, and so it cannot be
NULL at this point.

A simplified version of the semantic match that finds this problem is as
follows: (http://www.emn.fr/x-info/coccinelle/)

// <smpl>
@r@
expression x,E,E1;
identifier f,l;
position p1,p2;
@@

*x@p1->f = E1;
... when != x = E
    when != goto l;
(
*x@p2 == NULL
|
*x@p2 != NULL
)
// </smpl>

Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2009-07-17 15:29:58 +09:00
Tejun Heo 9934c8c045 block: implement and enforce request peek/start/fetch
Till now block layer allowed two separate modes of request execution.
A request is always acquired from the request queue via
elv_next_request().  After that, drivers are free to either dequeue it
or process it without dequeueing.  Dequeue allows elv_next_request()
to return the next request so that multiple requests can be in flight.

Executing requests without dequeueing has its merits mostly in
allowing drivers for simpler devices which can't do sg to deal with
segments only without considering request boundary.  However, the
benefit this brings is dubious and declining while the cost of the API
ambiguity is increasing.  Segment based drivers are usually for very
old or limited devices and as converting to dequeueing model isn't
difficult, it doesn't justify the API overhead it puts on block layer
and its more modern users.

Previous patches converted all block low level drivers to dequeueing
model.  This patch completes the API transition by...

* renaming elv_next_request() to blk_peek_request()

* renaming blkdev_dequeue_request() to blk_start_request()

* adding blk_fetch_request() which is combination of peek and start

* disallowing completion of queued (not started) requests

* applying new API to all LLDs

Renamings are for consistency and to break out of tree code so that
it's apparent that out of tree drivers need updating.

[ Impact: block request issue API cleanup, no functional change ]

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Cc: Mike Miller <mike.miller@hp.com>
Cc: unsik Kim <donari75@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Clements <paul.clements@steeleye.com>
Cc: Tim Waugh <tim@cyberelk.net>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Laurent Vivier <Laurent@lvivier.info>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Cc: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
Cc: Adrian McMenamin <adrian@mcmen.demon.co.uk>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <petkovbb@googlemail.com>
Cc: Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com>
Cc: Alex Dubov <oakad@yahoo.com>
Cc: Pierre Ossman <drzeus@drzeus.cx>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Markus Lidel <Markus.Lidel@shadowconnect.com>
Cc: Stefan Weinhuber <wein@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com>
Cc: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-05-11 09:52:18 +02:00
Tejun Heo a336ca6fe6 ataflop: dequeue and track in-flight request
ataflop has single request in flight.  Till now, whenever it needs to
access the in-flight request it called elv_next_request().  This patch
makes ataflop track the in-flight request directly and dequeue it when
processing starts.  The added complexity is minimal and this will help
future block layer changes.

[ Impact: dequeue in-flight request, one elv_next_request() per request ]

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-05-11 09:52:15 +02:00
Tejun Heo 83096ebf12 block: convert to pos and nr_sectors accessors
With recent cleanups, there is no place where low level driver
directly manipulates request fields.  This means that the 'hard'
request fields always equal the !hard fields.  Convert all
rq->sectors, nr_sectors and current_nr_sectors references to
accessors.

While at it, drop superflous blk_rq_pos() < 0 test in swim.c.

[ Impact: use pos and nr_sectors accessors ]

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com>
Tested-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
Acked-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
Tested-by: Adrian McMenamin <adrian@mcmen.demon.co.uk>
Acked-by: Adrian McMenamin <adrian@mcmen.demon.co.uk>
Acked-by: Mike Miller <mike.miller@hp.com>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <petkovbb@googlemail.com>
Cc: Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com>
Cc: Eric Moore <Eric.Moore@lsi.com>
Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Cc: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Cc: Paul Clements <paul.clements@steeleye.com>
Cc: Tim Waugh <tim@cyberelk.net>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Cc: Alex Dubov <oakad@yahoo.com>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Dario Ballabio <ballabio_dario@emc.com>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: unsik Kim <donari75@gmail.com>
Cc: Laurent Vivier <Laurent@lvivier.info>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-05-11 09:50:54 +02:00
Tejun Heo 5b5c5d12b9 amiflop,ataflop,xd,mg_disk: clean up unnecessary stuff from block drivers
rq_data_dir() can only be READ or WRITE and rq->sector and nr_sectors
are always automatically updated after partial request completion.
Don't worry about rq_data_dir() not being either READ or WRITE or
manually update sector and nr_sectors.

[ Impact: cleanup ]

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Jörg Dorchain <joerg@dorchain.net>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: unsik Kim <donari75@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-04-28 08:14:50 +02:00
Tejun Heo f06d9a2b52 block: replace end_request() with [__]blk_end_request_cur()
end_request() has been kept around for backward compatibility;
however, it's about time for it to go away.

* There aren't too many users left.

* Its use of @updtodate is pretty confusing.

* In some cases, newer code ends up using mixture of end_request() and
  [__]blk_end_request[_all](), which is way too confusing.

So, add [__]blk_end_request_cur() and replace end_request() with it.
Most conversions are straightforward.  Noteworthy ones are...

* paride/pcd: next_request() updated to take 0/-errno instead of 1/0.

* paride/pf: pf_end_request() and next_request() updated to take
  0/-errno instead of 1/0.

* xd: xd_readwrite() updated to return 0/-errno instead of 1/0.

* mtd/mtd_blkdevs: blktrans_discard_request() updated to return
  0/-errno instead of 1/0.  Unnecessary local variable res
  initialization removed from mtd_blktrans_thread().

[ Impact: cleanup ]

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Joerg Dorchain <joerg@dorchain.net>
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Acked-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
Acked-by: Laurent Vivier <Laurent@lvivier.info>
Cc: Tim Waugh <tim@cyberelk.net>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Cc: Markus Lidel <Markus.Lidel@shadowconnect.com>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com>
Cc: unsik Kim <donari75@gmail.com>
2009-04-28 07:37:36 +02:00
Geert Uytterhoeven 3d92e8f3ae m68k: atari - Rename "mfp" to "st_mfp"
http://kisskb.ellerman.id.au/kisskb/buildresult/72115/:
| net/mac80211/ieee80211_i.h:327: error: syntax error before 'volatile'
| net/mac80211/ieee80211_i.h:350: error: syntax error before '}' token
| net/mac80211/ieee80211_i.h:455: error: field 'sta' has incomplete type
| distcc[19430] ERROR: compile net/mac80211/main.c on sprygo/32 failed

This is caused by

| # define mfp ((*(volatile struct MFP*)MFP_BAS))

in arch/m68k/include/asm/atarihw.h, which conflicts with the new "mfp" enum in
net/mac80211/ieee80211_i.h.

Rename "mfp" to "st_mfp", as it's a way too generic name for a global #define.

Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-02-22 09:23:02 -08:00
Al Viro 60ad234007 [PATCH] switch ataflop
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-10-21 07:47:42 -04:00
Al Viro d4430d62fa [PATCH] beginning of methods conversion
To keep the size of changesets sane we split the switch by drivers;
to keep the damn thing bisectable we do the following:
	1) rename the affected methods, add ones with correct
prototypes, make (few) callers handle both.  That's this changeset.
	2) for each driver convert to new methods.  *ALL* drivers
are converted in this series.
	3) kill the old (renamed) methods.

Note that it _is_ a flagday; all in-tree drivers are converted and by the
end of this series no trace of old methods remain.  The only reason why
we do that this way is to keep the damn thing bisectable and allow per-driver
debugging if anything goes wrong.

New methods:
	open(bdev, mode)
	release(disk, mode)
	ioctl(bdev, mode, cmd, arg)		/* Called without BKL */
	compat_ioctl(bdev, mode, cmd, arg)
	locked_ioctl(bdev, mode, cmd, arg)	/* Called with BKL, legacy */

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-10-21 07:47:32 -04:00
Al Viro 86d434dede [PATCH] eliminate use of ->f_flags in block methods
store needed information in f_mode

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-10-21 07:47:08 -04:00
Al Viro aeb5d72706 [PATCH] introduce fmode_t, do annotations
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-10-21 07:47:06 -04:00
Adrian Bunk 29c8a24672 m68k: Remove the broken Hades support
This patch removes the Hades support that was marked as BROKEN 5 years ago.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-14 10:23:27 -07:00
Geert Uytterhoeven e945b568e2 m68k: Return -ENODEV if no device is found
According to the tests in do_initcalls(), the proper error code in case no
device is found is -ENODEV, not -ENXIO or -EIO.

Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-20 17:24:38 -07:00
Geert Uytterhoeven 5ceadd2a2a Atari floppy: Rename disk_type to atari_disk_type
Commit edfaa7c365

    Driver core: convert block from raw kobjects to core devices

    This moves the block devices to /sys/class/block. It will create a
    flat list of all block devices, with the disks and partitions in one
    directory. For compatibility /sys/block is created and contains symlinks
    to the disks.

introduced a global disk_type variable in <linux/genhd.h>, causing the
following compile error on Atari:

    drivers/block/ataflop.c:93: error: conflicting types for 'disk_type'
    include/linux/genhd.h:21: error: previous declaration of 'disk_type' was here

Rename the local disk_type variable in drivers/block/ataflop.c to
atari_disk_type, to avoid the conflict.

Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-06 10:41:10 -08:00
Jens Axboe 165125e1e4 [BLOCK] Get rid of request_queue_t typedef
Some of the code has been gradually transitioned to using the proper
struct request_queue, but there's lots left. So do a full sweet of
the kernel and get rid of this typedef and replace its uses with
the proper type.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2007-07-24 09:28:11 +02:00
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
Rusty Russell 8d3b33f67f [PATCH] Remove MODULE_PARM
MODULE_PARM was actually breaking: recent gcc version optimize them out as
unused.  It's time to replace the last users, which are generally in the
most unloved drivers anyway.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-25 08:22:52 -08:00
Al Viro 639074354b [PATCH] m68k: kill mach_floppy_setup, convert to proper __setup() in drivers
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-12 09:09:05 -08:00
Al Viro 2c7af51129 [PATCH] m68k: ataflop __user annotations, NULL noise removal
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-12 09:09:03 -08:00
Tobias Klauser 945f390f02 [PATCH] drivers/block: Use ARRAY_SIZE macro
Use ARRAY_SIZE macro instead of sizeof(x)/sizeof(x[0]) and remove a
duplicate of ARRAY_SIZE. Some trailing whitespaces are also removed.

drivers/block/acsi* has been left out as it's marked BROKEN.

Signed-off-by: Tobias Klauser <tklauser@nuerscht.ch>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-08 20:14:08 -08:00
Ingo Molnar 8d06afab73 [PATCH] timer initialization cleanup: DEFINE_TIMER
Clean up timer initialization by introducing DEFINE_TIMER a'la
DEFINE_SPINLOCK.  Build and boot-tested on x86.  A similar patch has been
been in the -RT tree for some time.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-09 14:03:48 -07:00
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