- Eliminate casts to/from void*
- Eliminate checks for conditions that never occur. These typically
fall into two classes:
1) Checking for 'dev_id == NULL', then it is never called with
NULL as an argument.
2) Checking for invalid irq number, when the only caller (the
system) guarantees the irq handler is called with the proper
'irq' number argument.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
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)
AT91 CF updates, mostly for power management:
- Add suspend/resume methods to the AT91 CF driver, disabling
non-wakeup IRQs during system suspend. The card detect IRQ
serves as a wakeup event source.
- Convert the driver to the more-current "platform_driver" style.
So inserting or removing a CF card will wake the system, unless that
has been disabled by updating the sysfs file; and there will be no
more warnings about spurious IRQs during suspend/resume cycles.
Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
The at91_cf driver got out of sync with certain changes in the PCMCIA
layer, notably getting rid of some duplication of data ... causing the
version merged to kernel.org to fail compiling.
This patch gives the at91_cf platform device a new iomem resource, using
it so this new pcmcia scheme works. It also cleans up some whitepsace
bugs that have accumulated over time (mostly too-long lines).
Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This patch adds support for the Compact Flash controller integrated in
the Atmel AT91RM9200 processor.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Victor <andrew@sanpeople.com
Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Jeff Garzik