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

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] Stop calling phy_stop_interrupts() twice

2006-08-03T21:29:59Z

Prevent phylib from freeing PHY IRQ twice on closing an eth device: phy_disconnect() first calls phy_stop_interrupts(), then it calls phy_stop_machine() which in turn calls phy_stop_interrupts() making the kernel complain on each bootup... Signed-off-by: Sergei Shtylyov Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik

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

2006-07-02T20:58:51Z

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: "David S. Miller" Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Cc: Jeff Garzik 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

Massive net driver const-ification.

2006-03-04T02:33:57Z

[PATCH] phy: Added a macro to represent the string format used to match a phy device

2006-01-12T21:31:52Z

Add the PHY_ID_FMT macro to ensure that the format of the id string used by a driver to match to its specific phy is consistent between the mdio_bus and the driver. Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik

Remove linux/version.h include from drivers/net/phy/* and net/ieee80211/*.

2005-11-06T04:39:54Z

Unused, and causes the files to be needlessly rebuilt in some cases.

[netdrvr] delete CONFIG_PHYCONTROL

2005-09-24T02:58:49Z

[PATCH] PHY Layer fixup

2005-08-29T00:28:25Z

This patch adds back the code that was taken out, thus re-enabling: * The PHY Layer to initialize without crashing * Drivers to actually connect to PHYs * The entire PHY Control Layer This patch is used by the gianfar driver, and other drivers which are in development. Signed-off-by: Andy Fleming Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik

phy subsystem: more cleanups

2005-08-11T06:47:54Z

- unexport symbols never used outside of home module - remove dead code - remove CONFIG_PHYCONTROL, make it unconditionally enabled