linux/drivers/char/ip2/ip2main.c, branch v2.6.19

[PATCH] i2Output always takes kernel data now

2006-10-11T18:17:07Z

Signed-off-by: Al Viro Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

IRQ: Maintain regs pointer globally rather than passing to IRQ handlers

2006-10-05T14:10:12Z

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 (cherry picked from 1b16e7ac850969f38b375e511e3fa2f474a33867 commit)

[PATCH] drivers/char/ip2: kill unused code, label

2006-10-03T15:03:41Z

Kill warning: drivers/char/ip2/ip2main.c: In function âip2_loadmainâ: drivers/char/ip2/ip2main.c:782: warning: label âout_classâ defined but not used This driver's initialization (and cleanup of errors during init) is extremely convoluted, and could stand to be transformed into the standard unwinding-goto style of error cleanup. Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik Acked-by: Michael H. Warfield Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] const struct tty_operations

2006-10-02T14:57:14Z

As part of an SMP cleanliness pass over UML, I consted a bunch of structures in order to not have to document their locking. One of these structures was a struct tty_operations. In order to const it in UML without introducing compiler complaints, the declaration of tty_set_operations needs to be changed, and then all of its callers need to be fixed. This patch declares all struct tty_operations in the tree as const. In all cases, they are static and used only as input to tty_set_operations. As an extra check, I ran an i386 allyesconfig build which produced no extra warnings. 53 drivers are affected. I checked the history of a bunch of them, and in most cases, there have been only a handful of maintenance changes in the last six months. serial_core.c was the busiest one that I looked at. Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike Acked-by: Alan Cox Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] ip2: use newer pci_get functions

2006-10-01T07:39:23Z

This is one of a series of patches I plan to gradually trickle into the tree which eliminates almost all remaining use of pci_find_* and lets me build a pci_find_* free kernel for all but some obscure ISDN and SCSI drivers. This is important as all pci_find_* users are not hotplug safe - even if they are not the device being plugged. Signed-off-by: Alan Cox Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] Add Computone IntelliPort Plus serial hotplug support

2006-07-10T20:24:13Z

Patch Description: Add "Computone IntelliPort Plus serial" hotplug support patch location: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/bcollins/ubuntu-dapper.git;a=commitdiff;h=8c36723187c0fa5efe0e5c6a9b1e66ed4b824792 [akpm@osdl.org: cleanup] Cc: Randy Dunlap Signed-off-by: Chuck Short Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] make more file_operation structs static

2006-07-03T22:26:59Z

Mark the static struct file_operations in drivers/char as const. Making them const prevents accidental bugs, and moves them to the .rodata section so that they no longer do any false sharing; in addition with the proper debug option they are then protected against corruption.. [akpm@osdl.org: build fix] Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] irq-flags: drivers/char: Use the new IRQF_ constants

2006-07-02T20:58:49Z

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: "David S. Miller" Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Remove obsolete #include

2006-06-30T17:25:36Z

Signed-off-by: Jörn Engel Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk

[PATCH] devfs: Rename TTY_DRIVER_NO_DEVFS to TTY_DRIVER_DYNAMIC_DEV

2006-06-26T19:25:09Z

I've always found this flag confusing. Now that devfs is no longer around, it has been renamed, and the documentation for when this flag should be used has been updated. Also fixes all drivers that use this flag. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman