linux/include/asm-frv, branch v2.6.19

[PATCH] FRV: Use the correct preemption primitives in kmap_atomic() and co

2006-10-16T15:32:29Z

Use inc/dec_preempt_count() rather than preempt_enable/disable() and manually add in the compiler barriers that were provided by the latter. This makes FRV consistent with other archs. Furthermore, the compiler barrier effects are now there unconditionally - at least as far as preemption is concerned - because we don't want the compiler moving memory accesses out of the section of code in which the mapping is in force - in effect the kmap_atomic() must imply a LOCK-class barrier and the kunmap_atomic() must imply an UNLOCK-class barrier to the compiler. Signed-off-by: David Howells Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] Consolidate check_signature

2006-10-11T18:14:23Z

There's nothing arch-specific about check_signature(), so move it to . Use a cross between the Alpha and i386 implementations as the generic one. Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox Acked-by: Alan Cox Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 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)

fix file specification in comments

2006-10-03T21:01:26Z

Many files include the filename at the beginning, serveral used a wrong one. Signed-off-by: Uwe Zeisberger Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk

[PATCH] remove remaining errno and __KERNEL_SYSCALLS__ references

2006-10-02T14:57:23Z

The last in-kernel user of errno is gone, so we should remove the definition and everything referring to it. This also removes the now-unused lib/execve.c file that was introduced earlier. Also remove every trace of __KERNEL_SYSCALLS__ that still remained in the kernel. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann Cc: Andi Kleen Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Cc: Richard Henderson Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky Cc: Russell King Cc: Ian Molton Cc: Mikael Starvik Cc: David Howells Cc: Yoshinori Sato Cc: Hirokazu Takata Cc: Ralf Baechle Cc: Kyle McMartin Cc: Heiko Carstens Cc: Martin Schwidefsky Cc: Paul Mundt Cc: Kazumoto Kojima Cc: Richard Curnow Cc: William Lee Irwin III Cc: "David S. Miller" Cc: Jeff Dike Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso Cc: Miles Bader Cc: Chris Zankel Cc: "Luck, Tony" Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven Cc: Roman Zippel Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] paravirt: remove set pte atomic

2006-10-01T07:39:34Z

Now that ptep_establish has a definition in PAE i386 3-level paging code, the only paging model which is insane enough to have multi-word hardware PTEs which are not efficient to set atomically, we can remove the ghost of set_pte_atomic from other architectures which falesly duplicated it, and remove all knowledge of it from the generic pgtable code. set_pte_atomic is now a private pte operator which is specific to i386 Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden Cc: Rusty Russell Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge Cc: Andi Kleen Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] ntp: cleanup defines and comments

2006-10-01T07:39:27Z

Remove a few unused defines and remove obsolete information from comments. Signed-off-by: Roman Zippel Cc: john stultz Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] consistently use MAX_ERRNO in __syscall_return

2006-09-27T15:26:18Z

Consistently use MAX_ERRNO when checking for errors in __syscall_return(). [ralf@linux-mips.org: build fix] Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] FRV: Optimise ffs()

2006-09-26T15:48:54Z

Optimise ffs(x) by using fls(x & x - 1) which we optimise to use the SCAN instruction. Signed-off-by: David Howells Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] FRV: Implement fls64()

2006-09-26T15:48:54Z

Implement fls64() for FRV without recource to conditional jumps. Signed-off-by: David Howells Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds