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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)
2006-09-23[SCSI] aacraid: merge rx and rkt codeMark Haverkamp
Received from Mark Salyzyn: The only real difference between the rkt and rx platform modules is the offset of the message registers. This patch recognizes this similarity and simplifies the driver to reduce it's code footprint and to improve maintainability by reducing the code duplication. Visibly, the 'rkt.c' portion of this patch looks more complicated than it really is. View it as retaining the rkt-only specifics of the interface. Signed-off-by: Mark Haverkamp <markh@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
2006-07-02[PATCH] irq-flags: scsi: Use the new IRQF_ constantsThomas Gleixner
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-05-20[SCSI] aacraid: sa race condition fixMark Haverkamp
Received From Mark Salyzyn A race condition existed that could result in a lost completion of a command to the ppc based cards. Signed-off-by: Mark Haverkamp <markh@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
2006-05-20[SCSI] aacraid: adjustable timeoutsMark Haverkamp
Received From Mark Salyzyn Add the ability to adjust for unusual corner case failures. Both of these additional module parameters deal with embedded, non-intel or complicated system scenarios. Aif_timeout can be increased past the default 2 minute timeout to drop application registrations when a system has an unusually high event load resulting from continuing management requests, or simultaneous builds, or sluggish user space as a result of system load. Startup_timeout can be increased past the default 3 minute timeout to drop an adapter initialization for systems that have a very large number of targets, or slow to spin-up targets, or a complicated set of array configurations that extend the time for the firmware to declare that it is operational. This timeout would only have an affect on non-intel based systems, as the (more patient) BIOS would generally be where the startup delay would be dealt with. Signed-off-by: Mark Haverkamp <markh@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
2006-04-13[SCSI] aacraid: General driver cleanupMark Haverkamp
Received from Mark Salyzyn Remove superfluous code, optimize code, harden code, cast code, correct some text, use msleep instead of schedule_timeout_interruptible. No bugs. Signed-off-by: Mark Haverkamp <markh@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
2005-11-07[PATCH] drivers/scsi: fix-up schedule_timeout() usageNishanth Aravamudan
Use schedule_timeout_uninterruptible() instead of set_current_state()/schedule_timeout() to reduce kernel size. Signed-off-by: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com> Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-28[SCSI] aacraid: Newer adapter communication iterface supportMark Haverkamp
Received from Mark Salyzyn. This patch adds the 'new comm' interface, which modern AAC based adapters that are less than a year old support in the name of much improved performance. These modern adapters support both the legacy and the 'new comm' interfaces. Signed-off-by: Mark Haverkamp <markh@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
2005-08-05[SCSI] aacraid: driver shutdown methodMark Haverkamp
Add in pci shutdown method so that the adapter shuts down correctly and flushes its cache. Shutdown should also disable the adapter's interrupt when shutdown (in particularly if the driver is rmmod'd) to prevent spurious hardware activities. Signed-off-by: Mark Haverkamp <markh@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
2005-05-20[SCSI] 2.6 aacraid: Variable FIB size (updated patch)Mark Haverkamp
New code from the Adaptec driver. Performance enhancement for newer adapters. I hope that this isn't too big for a single patch. I believe that other than the few small cleanups mentioned, that the changes are all related. - Added Variable FIB size negotiation for new adapters. - Added support to maximize scatter gather tables and thus permit requests larger than 64KB/each. - Limit Scatter Gather to 34 elements for ROMB platforms. - aac_printf is only enabled with AAC_QUIRK_34SG - Large FIB ioctl support - some minor cleanup Passes sparse check. I have tested it on x86 and ppc64 machines. Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
2005-05-20[SCSI] aacraid: remove sparse warningsMark Haverkamp
This patch addresses the sparse -Wbitwise warnings that Christoph wanted me to eliminate. This mostly consisted of making data structure elements of hardware associated structures the __le* equivalent. Although there were a couple places where there was mixing of cpu and le variable math. These changes have been tested on both an x86 and ppc machine running bonnie++. The usage of the LE32_ALL_ONES macro has been eliminated. Signed-off-by: Mark Haverkamp <markh@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
2005-05-20[SCSI] drivers/scsi/aacraid/: make some functions staticAdrian Bunk
This patch makes some needlessly global functions static. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
2005-04-16Linux-2.6.12-rc2Linus Torvalds
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!