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2008-03-05axnet_cs: change debugging level for "Too much work at interrupt" message.Komuro
This message is frequently displayed even if normal file-transfer. Signed-off-by: Komuro <komurojun-mbn@nifty.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2008-02-23pcnet_cs: if AX88190-based card, printk "use axnet_cs instead" message.Komuro
* If ConfigBase is 0x03c0 && manfid is (0x0149,0xc1ab), printk "use axnet_cs instead" message. Actually, most of the card with manfid(0x0149, 0xc1ab) use pcnet_cs driver. * remove entry (0x021b, 0x0202) Signed-off-by: Komuro <komurojun-mbn@nifty.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2008-02-15Fix station address detection in smcChuck Ebbert
Megahertz EM1144 PCMCIA ethernet adapter needs special handling because it has two VERS_1 tuples and the station address is in the second one. Conversion to generic handling of these fields broke it. Reverting that fixes the device. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=233255 Thanks go to Jon Stanley for not giving up on this one until the problem was found. Signed-off-by: Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2008-02-05pcmcia/pcnet_cs: fix 'shadow variable' warningRichard Knutsson
Fixing: CHECK drivers/net/pcmcia/pcnet_cs.c drivers/net/pcmcia/pcnet_cs.c:523:15: warning: symbol 'hw_info' shadows an earlier one drivers/net/pcmcia/pcnet_cs.c:148:18: originally declared here Signed-off-by: Richard Knutsson <ricknu-0@student.ltu.se> Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-05pcmcia/fmvj18x_cs: fix 'shadow variable' warningRichard Knutsson
Fixing: CHECK drivers/net/pcmcia/fmvj18x_cs.c drivers/net/pcmcia/fmvj18x_cs.c:1205:6: warning: symbol 'i' shadows an earlier one drivers/net/pcmcia/fmvj18x_cs.c:1179:9: originally declared here Signed-off-by: Richard Knutsson <ricknu-0@student.ltu.se> Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-05pcmcia/axnet_cs: make use of 'max()' instead of handcrafted oneRichard Knutsson
Use 'max(x,y)' instead of 'x < y ? y : x'. Signed-off-by: Richard Knutsson <ricknu-0@student.ltu.se> Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-05pcmcia/axnet_cs: make functions staticRichard Knutsson
Fixing: CHECK drivers/net/pcmcia/axnet_cs.c drivers/net/pcmcia/axnet_cs.c:994:5: warning: symbol 'ax_close' was not declared. Should it be static? drivers/net/pcmcia/axnet_cs.c:1017:6: warning: symbol 'ei_tx_timeout' was not declared. Should it be static? Signed-off-by: Richard Knutsson <ricknu-0@student.ltu.se> Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-05pcmcia/3c574_cs: fix 'shadow variable' warningRichard Knutsson
Fixing: CHECK drivers/net/pcmcia/3c574_cs.c drivers/net/pcmcia/3c574_cs.c:695:7: warning: symbol 'i' shadows an earlier one drivers/net/pcmcia/3c574_cs.c:636:6: originally declared here Signed-off-by: Richard Knutson <ricknu-0@student.ltu.se> Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-05pcmcia: replace kio_addr_t with unsigned int everywhereOlof Johansson
Remove kio_addr_t, and replace it with unsigned int. No known architecture needs more than 32 bits for IO addresses and ports and having a separate type for it is just messy. Signed-off-by: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Cc: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-01-28pcmcia net: use roundup_pow_of_two() macro instead of grotesque loopRobert P. J. Day
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca> Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> Cc: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2008-01-28axnet_cs: use spin_lock_irqsave instead of spin_lock + disable_irqKomuro
Signed-off-by: Komuro <komurojun-mbn@nifty.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2008-01-28[netdrvr] irq handler minor cleanups in several driversJeff Garzik
* use irq_handler_t where appropriate * no need to use 'irq' function arg, its already stored in a data struct * rename irq handler 'irq' argument to 'dummy', where the function has been analyzed and proven not to use its first argument. * remove always-false "dev_id == NULL" test from irq handlers * remove pointless casts from void* * declance: irq argument is not const * add KERN_xxx printk prefix * fix minor whitespace weirdness Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
2008-01-183c574, 3c515 bitfields abuseAl Viro
wn3_config is shared by these cards; the way we deal with it is both bad C (union abuse) and broken on big-endian. For 3c515 it's less serious (ISA cards are quite rare outside of little-endian boxen), but 3c574 is a pcmcia one and that'd better be endian-independent... Fix is the same in both cases. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2007-12-223c574 and 3c589 endianness fixes (.24?)Al Viro
Both store MAC address in CIS; there's no decoder for that type (0x88) so the drivers work with raw data. It is byteswapped, so ntohs() works for little-endian, but for big-endian it's wrong. ntohs(le16_to_cpu()) does the right thing on both (and always expands to swab16()). Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2007-12-17pcnet_cs: add new idKomuro
add new id: Planex CF-10T Signed-off-by: Komuro <komurojun-mbn@nifty.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2007-10-29netdrvr/pcmcia: use IRQ_TYPE_DYNAMIC_SHARING flag for irq.Attributes.Komuro
The drivers below support IRQ-sharing. 3c574_cs, 3c589_cs, pcnet_cs, axnet_cs, smc91c92_cs, fmvj18x_cs. xirc2ps_cs, serial_cs. Signed-off-by: Komuro <komurojun-mbn@nifty.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2007-10-10PCMCIA-NETDEV : add new id (axnet_cs, pcnet_cs)Komuro
axnet_cs: Laneed LD-CDK/TX pcnet_cs: LEMEL LM-N89TX PRO Signed-off-by: Komuro <komurojun-mbn@nifty.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2007-10-10[NET]: Introduce and use print_mac() and DECLARE_MAC_BUF()Joe Perches
This is nicer than the MAC_FMT stuff. Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10drivers/net/: all drivers/net/ cleanup with ARRAY_SIZEDenis Cheng
Signed-off-by: Denis Cheng <crquan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2007-10-10[NET]: Nuke SET_MODULE_OWNER macro.Ralf Baechle
It's been a useless no-op for long enough in 2.6 so I figured it's time to remove it. The number of people that could object because they're maintaining unified 2.4 and 2.6 drivers is probably rather small. [ Handled drivers added by netdev tree and some missed IRDA cases... -DaveM ] Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-09-25Revert "drivers/net/pcmcia/3c589_cs: fix port configuration switcheroo"Jeff Garzik
This reverts commit fadacb1b80e35e0b36a90d43e21ef91eec4b889b. The change being reverted made the driver consistent with include/linux/netdevice.h, but then inconsistent with the other PCMCIA ethernet drivers. Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2007-09-15drivers/net/pcmcia/3c589_cs: fix port configuration switcherooJeff Garzik
10base2 and 10baseT were accidentally switched. Noticed by Andreas HÃŒbner, forwarded by Alan Cox. Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2007-07-30Fix a potential NULL pointer dereference in mace_interrupt() in ↵Micah Gruber
drivers/net/pcmcia/nmclan_cs.c This patch fixes a potential null dereference bug where we dereference DEV before a null check. This patch simply moves the dereferencing after the null check. Signed-off-by: Micah Gruber <micah.gruber@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2007-07-30PATCH kernel 2.6.22] PCMCIA-NETDEV : modify smc91c92_cs.c to become SMP safeKomuro
protect smc_start_xmit, smc_interrupt and media_check by spin_lock. Signed-off-by: Komuro <komurojun-mbn@nifty.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2007-07-19some kmalloc/memset ->kzalloc (tree wide)Yoann Padioleau
Transform some calls to kmalloc/memset to a single kzalloc (or kcalloc). Here is a short excerpt of the semantic patch performing this transformation: @@ type T2; expression x; identifier f,fld; expression E; expression E1,E2; expression e1,e2,e3,y; statement S; @@ x = - kmalloc + kzalloc (E1,E2) ... when != \(x->fld=E;\|y=f(...,x,...);\|f(...,x,...);\|x=E;\|while(...) S\|for(e1;e2;e3) S\) - memset((T2)x,0,E1); @@ expression E1,E2,E3; @@ - kzalloc(E1 * E2,E3) + kcalloc(E1,E2,E3) [akpm@linux-foundation.org: get kcalloc args the right way around] Signed-off-by: Yoann Padioleau <padator@wanadoo.fr> Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net> Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru> Acked-by: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: Bryan Wu <bryan.wu@analog.com> Acked-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com> Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@linux.ie> Acked-by: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com> Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> Acked-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Acked-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org> Acked-by: Pierre Ossman <drzeus-list@drzeus.cx> Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Acked-by: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com> Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@pol.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-10PCMCIA: add Socket Ethernet card into pcnet_csMarcin Juszkiewicz
One card submitted by Ångström user. Signed-off-by: Marcin Juszkiewicz <openembedded@hrw.one.pl> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2007-07-08add return value check of request_irq()Yoichi Yuasa
This patch has added return value check of request_irq() to pcmcia net drivers. Signed-off-by: Yoichi Yuasa <yoichi_yuasa@tripeaks.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2007-07-08PCMCIA-NETDEV : add new ID of lan&modem multifunction cardKomuro
fmvj18x_cs: NEC PK-UG-J001 Panasonic CF-VML201 Panasonic TO-PDL9610 pcnet_cs: MICRO-RESEARCH MC336LAN Signed-off-by: Komuro <komurojun-mbn@nifty.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2007-07-023c589_cs: fix local_bh_enable warningPatrick McHardy
Russell King wrote: > Having upgraded from 2.6.16 to 2.6.22-rc6, I'm now seeing the following. > > Looks like netfilter is calling local_bh_enable() with IRQs disabled, > which would appear to be illegal. Thankfully, this is a warn-once > warning. > > WARNING: at /home/rmk/git/linux-2.6-rmk/kernel/softirq.c:138 local_bh_enable() > [...] > [<c01447fc>] (nf_conntrack_destroy+0x0/0x2c) from [<c012c05c>] (__kfree_skb+0xd0/0x100) > [<c012bf8c>] (__kfree_skb+0x0/0x100) from [<c012c0d8>] (kfree_skb+0x4c/0x50) > r5:c12a3800 r4:00000300 > [<c012c08c>] (kfree_skb+0x0/0x50) from [<bf03cbb0>] (el3_start_xmit+0xb8/0xd0 [3c589_cs]) > [<bf03caf8>] (el3_start_xmit+0x0/0xd0 [3c589_cs]) from [<c01324dc>] (dev_hard_start_xmit+0x1a8/0x244) > r7:c12a3800 r6:c1a9aa00 r5:c1a9aa00 r4:c12a3800 > [<c0132334>] (dev_hard_start_xmit+0x0/0x244) from [<c013fcc0>] (__qdisc_run+0xb0/0x198) Thats a bug in the 3c589_cs driver. Patch attached. Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2007-06-28Fix Kconfig dependency problems wrt boolean menuconfigsTrent Piepho
If one has a dependency chain (tristate)FOO depends on (bool)BAR depends on (tristate)BAZ, build problems will result. If BAZ=m, then BAR can be set y, which allows FOO=y. It's possible to have FOO=y && BAZ=m, which wouldn't be allowed if FOO depended directly on BAZ. In effect, the bool promotes the tristate from m to y. This ends up causing a problem with several menuconfigs that look like: menuconfig BAR bool depends on BAZ [tristate] if BAR config FOO tristate endif The solution used here is to add the dependencies of BAR to the if statement, so that items in the if block will gain a direct non-bool-promoted dependency on BAZ. This is how it would work if a menu was used instead of an if block. Signed-off-by: Trent Piepho <xyzzy@speakeasy.org> Acked-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Acked-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> Cc: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net> Cc: Chas Williams <chas@cmf.nrl.navy.mil> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-11Use menuconfig objects II - netdev/pcmciaJan Engelhardt
Change Kconfig objects from "menu, config" into "menuconfig" so that the user can disable the whole feature without having to enter the menu first. Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@gmx.de> Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> Cc: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2007-05-09Fix hang on IBM Token Ring PCMCIA card ejectionPaul Walmsley
Ejecting a PCMCIA IBM Token Ring card that has not had its dev->open() called will reliably trigger an uninitialized spinlock oops when spinlock debugging is enabled. The system then hangs, occasionally softlockup oopsing. Apparently ibmtr.c:tok_interrupt() doesn't expect to be called before tok_open(), but tok_interrupt() gets called anyway when the card is ejected. So, set an already-existing flag which causes tok_interrupt() to bail out early upon card ejection. Tested by inserting and removing the PCMCIA card several times. Signed-off-by: Paul Walmsley <paul@booyaka.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2007-05-08PCMCIA-NETDEV : xirc2ps_cs: bugfix of multicast codeKomuro
Dear Jeff Subject: [PATCH] xirc2ps_cs: bugfix of multicast code Signed-off-by: Komuro <komurojun-mbn@nifty.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2007-04-25[SK_BUFF]: Introduce skb_copy_from_linear_data{_offset}Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
To clearly state the intent of copying from linear sk_buffs, _offset being a overly long variant but interesting for the sake of saving some bytes. Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2007-04-25[SK_BUFF]: Convert skb->tail to sk_buff_data_tArnaldo Carvalho de Melo
So that it is also an offset from skb->head, reduces its size from 8 to 4 bytes on 64bit architectures, allowing us to combine the 4 bytes hole left by the layer headers conversion, reducing struct sk_buff size to 256 bytes, i.e. 4 64byte cachelines, and since the sk_buff slab cache is SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN... :-) Many calculations that previously required that skb->{transport,network, mac}_header be first converted to a pointer now can be done directly, being meaningful as offsets or pointers. Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25[ETH]: Make eth_type_trans set skb->dev like the other *_type_transArnaldo Carvalho de Melo
One less thing for drivers writers to worry about. Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-03-14[PATCH] ibmtr probe is __devinit, not __initAl Viro
used by ->attach() in pcmcia analog Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Acked-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-17PCMCIA-NETDEV : the 2nd argument of el3_interrrupt and smc_interrupt is ↵Komuro
struct net_device* Signed-off-by: Komuro <komurojun-mbn@nifty.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2007-01-23modify 3c589_cs to be SMP safeKomuro
1. EL3WINDOW is always 1 when lock is not held. 2. The second argument of el3_interrupt is 'void *dev_id', not 'struct el3_private *lp'. Signed-off-by: komurojun-mbn@nifty.com Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2007-01-11[PATCH] PCMCIA: fix drivers broken by recent cleanupDaniel Ritz
Setting .ConfigBase and .Present is now done at the pcmcia core. The driver cleanup missed a few places where the driver did set .Present to PRESENT_OPTION and later to the values from the CIS. Setting to PRESENT_OPTION now overrides the values from the CIS. So just remove those lines. Signed-off-by: Daniel Ritz <daniel.ritz@gmx.ch> Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2007-01-09pcnet_cs : add new idKomuro
pcnet_cs: add new id. corega K.K. (CG-LAPCCTXD) Logitec LPM-LN10TE Signed-off-by: Komuro <komurojun-mbn@nifty.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2006-12-06Merge branch 'master' of ↵David Howells
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6 Conflicts: drivers/pcmcia/ds.c Fix up merge failures with Linus's head and fix new compile failures. Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
2006-12-05Merge branch 'master' of ↵David Howells
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6 Conflicts: drivers/infiniband/core/iwcm.c drivers/net/chelsio/cxgb2.c drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx/bcm43xx_main.c drivers/net/wireless/prism54/islpci_eth.c drivers/usb/core/hub.h drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c net/core/netpoll.c Fix up merge failures with Linus's head and fix new compilation failures. Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
2006-12-04[PATCH] pcmcia: conf.ConfigBase and conf.Present consolidationDominik Brodowski
struct pcmcia_device *p_dev->conf.ConfigBase and .Present are set in almost all PCMICA driver right at the beginning, using the same calls but slightly different implementations. Unfiy this in the PCMCIA core. Includes a small bugfix ("drivers/net/pcmcia/xirc2ps_cs.c: remove unused label") from and Signed-off-by Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
2006-12-04[PATCH] pcmcia: remove prod_id indirectionDominik Brodowski
As we read out the product information strings (VERS_1) from the PCMCIA device in the PCMCIA core, and device drivers can access those reliably in struct pcmcia_device's fields prod_id[], remove additional product information string detection logic from PCMCIA device drivers. Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
2006-12-04[PATCH] pcmcia: remove manf_id and card_id indirectionDominik Brodowski
As we read out the manufactor and card_id from the PCMCIA device in the PCMCIA core, and device drivers can access those reliably in struct pcmcia_device's fields manf_id and card_id, remove additional (and partly broken) manf_id and card_id detection logic from PCMCIA device drivers. Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
2006-12-02[PATCH] network: pcnet_cs: remove the code to change the E8390_CMD register ↵Komuro
from ei_watchdog() Remove the code to change the E8390_CMD register from ei_watchdog(). The 8390-page is always 0 outside the spin_lock. Signed-off-by: komurojun-mbn@nifty.com Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2006-11-22WorkStruct: make allyesconfigDavid Howells
Fix up for make allyesconfig. Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
2006-10-06drivers/net: eliminate irq handler impossible checks, needless castsJeff Garzik
- Eliminate check for irq handler 'dev_id==NULL' where the condition never occurs. - Eliminate needless casts to/from void* Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2006-10-05IRQ: Maintain regs pointer globally rather than passing to IRQ handlersDavid Howells
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)