linux/drivers/net/forcedeth.c, branch v2.6.19

Merge branch 'master' into upstream-fixes

2006-10-11T07:56:12Z

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] forcedeth: hardirq lockdep warning

2006-10-05T10:48:25Z

BUG: warning at kernel/lockdep.c:1816/trace_hardirqs_on() (Not tainted) Call Trace: show_trace dump_stack trace_hardirqs_on :forcedeth:nv_nic_irq_other handle_IRQ_event __do_IRQ do_IRQ ret_from_intr DWARF2 barf default_idle cpu_idle rest_init start_kernel _sinittext These 3 functions nv_nic_irq_tx(), nv_nic_irq_rx() and nv_nic_irq_other() are reachable from IRQ context and process context. Make use of the irq-save/restore spinlock variant. (Compile tested only, since I do not have the hardware) Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Jeff Garzik Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Arjan van de Ven Cc: Dave Jones Cc: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik

[PATCH] fix possible NULL ptr deref in forcedeth

2006-09-26T00:01:19Z

There seems to be a possible NULL pointer deref bug in drivers/net/forcedeth.c::nv_loopback_test(). If dev_alloc_skb() fails, the next line will call skb_put() with a NULL first argument which it'll then try to deref - kaboom: a NULL pointer deref. Found by coverity (#1337). Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl Cc: Ayaz Abdulla Cc: Manfred Spraul Cc: Stephen Hemminger Cc: Jeff Garzik Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik

Merge branch 'upstream-linus' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/netdev-2.6

2006-09-24T17:15:13Z

* 'upstream-linus' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/netdev-2.6: (217 commits) net/ieee80211: fix more crypto-related build breakage [PATCH] Spidernet: add ethtool -S (show statistics) [NET] GT96100: Delete bitrotting ethernet driver [PATCH] mv643xx_eth: restrict to 32-bit PPC_MULTIPLATFORM [PATCH] Cirrus Logic ep93xx ethernet driver r8169: the MMIO region of the 8167 stands behin BAR#1 e1000, ixgb: Remove pointless wrappers [PATCH] Remove powerpc specific parts of 3c509 driver [PATCH] s2io: Switch to pci_get_device [PATCH] gt96100: move to pci_get_device API [PATCH] ehea: bugfix for register access functions [PATCH] e1000 disable device on PCI error drivers/net/phy/fixed: #if 0 some incomplete code drivers/net: const-ify ethtool_ops declarations [PATCH] ethtool: allow const ethtool_ops [PATCH] sky2: big endian [PATCH] sky2: fiber support [PATCH] sky2: tx pause bug fix drivers/net: Trim trailing whitespace [PATCH] ehea: IBM eHEA Ethernet Device Driver ... Manually resolved conflicts in drivers/net/ixgb/ixgb_main.c and drivers/net/sky2.c related to CHECKSUM_HW/CHECKSUM_PARTIAL changes by commit 84fa7933a33f806bbbaae6775e87459b1ec584c0 that just happened to be next to unrelated changes in this update.

[NET]: Replace CHECKSUM_HW by CHECKSUM_PARTIAL/CHECKSUM_COMPLETE

2006-09-22T21:53:53Z

Replace CHECKSUM_HW by CHECKSUM_PARTIAL (for outgoing packets, whose checksum still needs to be completed) and CHECKSUM_COMPLETE (for incoming packets, device supplied full checksum). Patch originally from Herbert Xu, updated by myself for 2.6.18-rc3. Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

drivers/net: const-ify ethtool_ops declarations

2006-09-13T18:30:00Z

Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik

[PATCH] cleanup unnecessary forcedeth printk

2006-09-11T13:06:34Z

This removes unnecessary messages that show up every time I put my ethernet card in promiscuous mode. I'm already getting notification from the networking layer, I don't need notification from the driver as well. There are probably other drivers that do this as well -- I'll look around and see what I can find. Signed-off-by: Andy Gospodarek Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik

[PATCH] forcedeth: decouple vlan and rx checksum dependency

2006-09-06T14:57:37Z

This patch decouples the dependency between the rx checksum feature and vlan feature. This is done by ignoring the checksum information if the user has disabled rx checksum when vlan is enabled. Signed-Off-By: Ayaz Abdulla Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik

[PATCH] forcedeth: errata for marvell phys

2006-09-06T14:57:37Z

This patch addresses an errata found on certain marvell phys concerning the reset of the BMCR phy register during phy reset. Signed-Off-By: Ayaz Abdulla Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik