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* drivers/net: return operator cleanupEric Dumazet2010-09-261-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | Change "return (EXPR);" to "return EXPR;" return is not a function, parentheses are not required. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* drivers/net: Remove unnecessary returns from void function()sJoe Perches2010-05-141-2/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch removes from drivers/net/ all the unnecessary return; statements that precede the last closing brace of void functions. It does not remove the returns that are immediately preceded by a label as gcc doesn't like that. It also does not remove null void functions with return. Done via: $ grep -rP --include=*.[ch] -l "return;\n}" net/ | \ xargs perl -i -e 'local $/ ; while (<>) { s/\n[ \t\n]+return;\n}/\n}/g; print; }' with some cleanups by hand. Compile tested x86 allmodconfig only. Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* net: trans_start cleanupsEric Dumazet2010-05-101-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | Now that core network takes care of trans_start updates, dont do it in drivers themselves, if possible. Drivers can avoid one cache miss (on dev->trans_start) in their start_xmit() handler. Exceptions are NETIF_F_LLTX drivers Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* netdev: remove HAVE_ leftoversAlexey Dobriyan2010-01-281-3/+0
| | | | | Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* don't use __devexit_p to wrap meth_removeUwe Kleine-König2009-10-011-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | The function meth_remove is defined using __exit, so don't use __devexit_p but __exit_p to wrap it. Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Cc: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* net: move meth's probe function to .devinit.textUwe Kleine-König2009-07-231-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | A pointer to meth_probe is passed to the core via platform_driver_register and so the function must not disappear when the .init sections are discarded. Otherwise (if also having HOTPLUG=y) unbinding and binding a device to the driver via sysfs will result in an oops as does a device being registered late. An alternative to this patch is using platform_driver_probe instead of platform_driver_register plus removing the pointer to the probe function from the struct platform_driver. Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com> Acked-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* net: use NETDEV_TX_OK instead of 0 in ndo_start_xmit() functionsPatrick McHardy2009-07-051-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | This patch is the result of an automatic spatch transformation to convert all ndo_start_xmit() return values of 0 to NETDEV_TX_OK. Some occurences are missed by the automatic conversion, those will be handled in a seperate patch. Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* Merge branch 'master' of ↵David S. Miller2009-05-181-13/+14
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 Conflicts: drivers/scsi/fcoe/fcoe.c
| * NET: Meth: Fix unsafe mix of irq and non-irq spinlocks.Ralf Baechle2009-05-171-13/+14
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Mixing of normal and irq spinlocks results in the following lockdep messages on bootup on IP32: [...] Sending DHCP requests . ====================================================== [ INFO: SOFTIRQ-safe -> SOFTIRQ-unsafe lock order detected ] 2.6.30-rc5-00164-g41baeef #30 ------------------------------------------------------ swapper/1 [HC0[0]:SC0[1]:HE0:SE0] is trying to acquire: (&priv->meth_lock){+.+...}, at: [<ffffffff8026388c>] meth_tx+0x48/0x43c and this task is already holding: (_xmit_ETHER#2){+.-...}, at: [<ffffffff802d3a00>] __qdisc_run+0x118/0x30c which would create a new lock dependency: (_xmit_ETHER#2){+.-...} -> (&priv->meth_lock){+.+...} but this new dependency connects a SOFTIRQ-irq-safe lock: (_xmit_ETHER#2){+.-...} ... which became SOFTIRQ-irq-safe at: [<ffffffff80061458>] __lock_acquire+0x784/0x1a14 [<ffffffff800627e0>] lock_acquire+0xf8/0x150 [<ffffffff800128d0>] _spin_lock+0x30/0x44 [<ffffffff802d2b88>] dev_watchdog+0x70/0x398 [<ffffffff800433b8>] run_timer_softirq+0x1a8/0x248 [<ffffffff8003da5c>] __do_softirq+0xec/0x208 [<ffffffff8003dbd8>] do_softirq+0x60/0xe4 [<ffffffff8003dda0>] irq_exit+0x54/0x9c [<ffffffff80004420>] ret_from_irq+0x0/0x4 [<ffffffff80004720>] r4k_wait+0x20/0x40 [<ffffffff80015418>] cpu_idle+0x30/0x60 [<ffffffff804cd934>] start_kernel+0x3ec/0x404 to a SOFTIRQ-irq-unsafe lock: (&priv->meth_lock){+.+...} ... which became SOFTIRQ-irq-unsafe at: ... [<ffffffff800614f8>] __lock_acquire+0x824/0x1a14 [<ffffffff800627e0>] lock_acquire+0xf8/0x150 [<ffffffff800128d0>] _spin_lock+0x30/0x44 [<ffffffff80263f20>] meth_reset+0x118/0x2d8 [<ffffffff8026424c>] meth_open+0x28/0x140 [<ffffffff802c1ae8>] dev_open+0xe0/0x18c [<ffffffff802c1268>] dev_change_flags+0xd8/0x1d4 [<ffffffff804e7770>] ip_auto_config+0x1d4/0xf28 [<ffffffff80012e68>] do_one_initcall+0x58/0x170 [<ffffffff804cd190>] kernel_init+0x98/0x104 [<ffffffff8001520c>] kernel_thread_helper+0x10/0x18 other info that might help us debug this: 2 locks held by swapper/1: #0: (rcu_read_lock){.+.+..}, at: [<ffffffff802c0954>] dev_queue_xmit+0x1e0/0x4b0 #1: (_xmit_ETHER#2){+.-...}, at: [<ffffffff802d3a00>] __qdisc_run+0x118/0x30c the SOFTIRQ-irq-safe lock's dependencies: -> (_xmit_ETHER#2){+.-...} ops: 0 { HARDIRQ-ON-W at: [<ffffffff800614d0>] __lock_acquire+0x7fc/0x1a14 [<ffffffff800627e0>] lock_acquire+0xf8/0x150 [<ffffffff800128d0>] _spin_lock+0x30/0x44 [<ffffffff802d2b88>] dev_watchdog+0x70/0x398 [<ffffffff800433b8>] run_timer_softirq+0x1a8/0x248 [<ffffffff8003da5c>] __do_softirq+0xec/0x208 [<ffffffff8003dbd8>] do_softirq+0x60/0xe4 [<ffffffff8003dda0>] irq_exit+0x54/0x9c [<ffffffff80004420>] ret_from_irq+0x0/0x4 [<ffffffff80004720>] r4k_wait+0x20/0x40 [<ffffffff80015418>] cpu_idle+0x30/0x60 [<ffffffff804cd934>] start_kernel+0x3ec/0x404 IN-SOFTIRQ-W at: [<ffffffff80061458>] __lock_acquire+0x784/0x1a14 [<ffffffff800627e0>] lock_acquire+0xf8/0x150 [<ffffffff800128d0>] _spin_lock+0x30/0x44 [<ffffffff802d2b88>] dev_watchdog+0x70/0x398 [<ffffffff800433b8>] run_timer_softirq+0x1a8/0x248 [<ffffffff8003da5c>] __do_softirq+0xec/0x208 [<ffffffff8003dbd8>] do_softirq+0x60/0xe4 [<ffffffff8003dda0>] irq_exit+0x54/0x9c [<ffffffff80004420>] ret_from_irq+0x0/0x4 [<ffffffff80004720>] r4k_wait+0x20/0x40 [<ffffffff80015418>] cpu_idle+0x30/0x60 [<ffffffff804cd934>] start_kernel+0x3ec/0x404 INITIAL USE at: [<ffffffff80061570>] __lock_acquire+0x89c/0x1a14 [<ffffffff800627e0>] lock_acquire+0xf8/0x150 [<ffffffff800128d0>] _spin_lock+0x30/0x44 [<ffffffff802d2b88>] dev_watchdog+0x70/0x398 [<ffffffff800433b8>] run_timer_softirq+0x1a8/0x248 [<ffffffff8003da5c>] __do_softirq+0xec/0x208 [<ffffffff8003dbd8>] do_softirq+0x60/0xe4 [<ffffffff8003dda0>] irq_exit+0x54/0x9c [<ffffffff80004420>] ret_from_irq+0x0/0x4 [<ffffffff80004720>] r4k_wait+0x20/0x40 [<ffffffff80015418>] cpu_idle+0x30/0x60 [<ffffffff804cd934>] start_kernel+0x3ec/0x404 } ... key at: [<ffffffff80cf93f0>] netdev_xmit_lock_key+0x8/0x1c8 the SOFTIRQ-irq-unsafe lock's dependencies: -> (&priv->meth_lock){+.+...} ops: 0 { HARDIRQ-ON-W at: [<ffffffff800614d0>] __lock_acquire+0x7fc/0x1a14 [<ffffffff800627e0>] lock_acquire+0xf8/0x150 [<ffffffff800128d0>] _spin_lock+0x30/0x44 [<ffffffff80263f20>] meth_reset+0x118/0x2d8 [<ffffffff8026424c>] meth_open+0x28/0x140 [<ffffffff802c1ae8>] dev_open+0xe0/0x18c [<ffffffff802c1268>] dev_change_flags+0xd8/0x1d4 [<ffffffff804e7770>] ip_auto_config+0x1d4/0xf28 [<ffffffff80012e68>] do_one_initcall+0x58/0x170 [<ffffffff804cd190>] kernel_init+0x98/0x104 [<ffffffff8001520c>] kernel_thread_helper+0x10/0x18 SOFTIRQ-ON-W at: [<ffffffff800614f8>] __lock_acquire+0x824/0x1a14 [<ffffffff800627e0>] lock_acquire+0xf8/0x150 [<ffffffff800128d0>] _spin_lock+0x30/0x44 [<ffffffff80263f20>] meth_reset+0x118/0x2d8 [<ffffffff8026424c>] meth_open+0x28/0x140 [<ffffffff802c1ae8>] dev_open+0xe0/0x18c [<ffffffff802c1268>] dev_change_flags+0xd8/0x1d4 [<ffffffff804e7770>] ip_auto_config+0x1d4/0xf28 [<ffffffff80012e68>] do_one_initcall+0x58/0x170 [<ffffffff804cd190>] kernel_init+0x98/0x104 [<ffffffff8001520c>] kernel_thread_helper+0x10/0x18 INITIAL USE at: [<ffffffff80061570>] __lock_acquire+0x89c/0x1a14 [<ffffffff800627e0>] lock_acquire+0xf8/0x150 [<ffffffff800128d0>] _spin_lock+0x30/0x44 [<ffffffff80263f20>] meth_reset+0x118/0x2d8 [<ffffffff8026424c>] meth_open+0x28/0x140 [<ffffffff802c1ae8>] dev_open+0xe0/0x18c [<ffffffff802c1268>] dev_change_flags+0xd8/0x1d4 [<ffffffff804e7770>] ip_auto_config+0x1d4/0xf28 [<ffffffff80012e68>] do_one_initcall+0x58/0x170 [<ffffffff804cd190>] kernel_init+0x98/0x104 [<ffffffff8001520c>] kernel_thread_helper+0x10/0x18 } ... key at: [<ffffffff80cf6ce8>] __key.32424+0x0/0x8 stack backtrace: Call Trace: [<ffffffff8000ed0c>] dump_stack+0x8/0x34 [<ffffffff80060b74>] check_usage+0x470/0x4a0 [<ffffffff80060c34>] check_irq_usage+0x90/0x130 [<ffffffff80061f78>] __lock_acquire+0x12a4/0x1a14 [<ffffffff800627e0>] lock_acquire+0xf8/0x150 [<ffffffff80012a0c>] _spin_lock_irqsave+0x60/0x84 [<ffffffff8026388c>] meth_tx+0x48/0x43c [<ffffffff802d3a38>] __qdisc_run+0x150/0x30c [<ffffffff802c0aa8>] dev_queue_xmit+0x334/0x4b0 [<ffffffff804e7e6c>] ip_auto_config+0x8d0/0xf28 [<ffffffff80012e68>] do_one_initcall+0x58/0x170 [<ffffffff804cd190>] kernel_init+0x98/0x104 [<ffffffff8001520c>] kernel_thread_helper+0x10/0x18 ..... timed out! IP-Config: Retrying forever (NFS root)... Sending DHCP requests ., OK [...] Fixed by converting all locks to irq locks. Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Tested-by: Andrew Randrianasulu <randrik_a@yahoo.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* | meth: convert to net_device_opsAlexander Beregalov2009-04-161-13/+15
|/ | | | | Signed-off-by: Alexander Beregalov <a.beregalov@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* MIPS: Stop using <asm-generic/int-l64.h>.Ralf Baechle2009-03-301-1/+1
| | | | | | | This fixes a few warnings - and triggers a few new ones which the rest of this patch fixes. Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
* drivers/net: Kill now superfluous ->last_rx stores.David S. Miller2008-11-031-1/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | The generic packet receive code takes care of setting netdev->last_rx when necessary, for the sake of the bonding ARP monitor. Drivers need not do it any more. Some cases had to be skipped over because the drivers were making use of the ->last_rx value themselves. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* net: convert print_mac to %pMJohannes Berg2008-10-271-2/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | This converts pretty much everything to print_mac. There were a few things that had conflicts which I have just dropped for now, no harm done. I've built an allyesconfig with this and looked at the files that weren't built very carefully, but it's a huge patch. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* drivers/net: replace __FUNCTION__ with __func__Harvey Harrison2008-09-241-1/+1
| | | | | | | | __FUNCTION__ is gcc-specific, use __func__ Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
* METH: fix MAC address setupThomas Bogendoerfer2008-08-071-1/+1
| | | | | | | | Setup of the mac filter lost the upper 16bit of the mac address. This bug got unconvered by a patch, which fixed the promiscous handling. Signed-off-by: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
* Fix typo in meth driverChristoph Lameter2008-07-221-1/+1
| | | | | | | | An | in an if statement to check a bit? I think this needs to be a &. As a result of this typo meth will always operate in promiscuous mode. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
* net drivers: fix platform driver hotplug/coldplugKay Sievers2008-04-251-0/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Since 43cc71eed1250755986da4c0f9898f9a635cb3bf, the platform modalias is prefixed with "platform:". Add MODULE_ALIAS() to the hotpluggable network platform drivers, to re-enable auto loading. NOTE: didn't change drivers/net/fs_enet/fs_enet-main.c "old binding" support. That looks problematic in the first place (it even uses the ancient "struct device_driver" binding scheme for platform_bus!) and I suspect it will vanish soonish when arch/powerpc rules the world. Also, drivers/net/ne.c would have needed more thought to sort out. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix sgiseeq.c] [dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net: more drivers, registration fixes] Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> Cc: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com> Cc: Vitaly Bordug <vitb@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Dale Farnsworth <dale@farnsworth.org> Cc: Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Cc: Andrew Victor <andrew@sanpeople.com> Cc: Bryan Wu <bryan.wu@analog.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
* [METH]: Fix MAC address handling.Thomas Bogendoerfer2008-01-081-3/+7
| | | | | | | | | | | meth didn't set a valid mac address during probing, but later during open. Newer kernel refuse to open device with 00:00:00:00:00:00 as mac address -> dead ethernet. This patch sets the mac address in the probe function and uses only the mac address from the netdevice struct when setting up the hardware. Signed-off-by: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* cleanup asm/scatterlist.h includesAdrian Bunk2007-11-021-1/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | Not architecture specific code should not #include <asm/scatterlist.h>. This patch therefore either replaces them with #include <linux/scatterlist.h> or simply removes them if they were unused. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
* [NET]: Introduce and use print_mac() and DECLARE_MAC_BUF()Joe Perches2007-10-101-3/+3
| | | | | | | This is nicer than the MAC_FMT stuff. Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [NET] drivers/net: statistics cleanup #1 -- save memory and shrink codeJeff Garzik2007-10-101-18/+10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | We now have struct net_device_stats embedded in struct net_device, and the default ->get_stats() hook does the obvious thing for us. Run through drivers/net/* and remove the driver-local storage of statistics, and driver-local ->get_stats() hook where applicable. This was just the low-hanging fruit in drivers/net; plenty more drivers remain to be updated. [ Resolved conflicts with napi_struct changes and fix sunqe build regression... -DaveM ] Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* Don't use GFP_DMA for zone allocation.Ralf Baechle2007-08-251-1/+1
| | | | | | | | IP32 doesn't even have a ZONE_DMA so no point in using GFP_DMA in any IP32-specific device driver. Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
* meth driver renovationRalf Baechle2007-05-241-23/+45
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The meth ethernet driver for the SGI IP32 aka O2 is so far still an old style driver which does not use the device driver model. This is now causing issues with some udev based gadgetry in debian-stable. Fixed by converting the meth driver to a platform device. Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> -- Fixes since previous patch: o Fixed typo in meth_exit_module() Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
* [SK_BUFF]: Introduce skb_copy_from_linear_data{_offset}Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo2007-04-251-5/+5
| | | | | | | To clearly state the intent of copying from linear sk_buffs, _offset being a overly long variant but interesting for the sake of saving some bytes. Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
* [ETH]: Make eth_type_trans set skb->dev like the other *_type_transArnaldo Carvalho de Melo2007-04-251-1/+0
| | | | | | | One less thing for drivers writers to worry about. Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* Convert meth to netdev_privRalf Baechle2007-02-171-13/+13
| | | | | | | And while at it loose plenty of useless casts. Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
* [PATCH] remove many unneeded #includes of sched.hTim Schmielau2007-02-141-1/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | After Al Viro (finally) succeeded in removing the sched.h #include in module.h recently, it makes sense again to remove other superfluous sched.h includes. There are quite a lot of files which include it but don't actually need anything defined in there. Presumably these includes were once needed for macros that used to live in sched.h, but moved to other header files in the course of cleaning it up. To ease the pain, this time I did not fiddle with any header files and only removed #includes from .c-files, which tend to cause less trouble. Compile tested against 2.6.20-rc2 and 2.6.20-rc2-mm2 (with offsets) on alpha, arm, i386, ia64, mips, powerpc, and x86_64 with allnoconfig, defconfig, allmodconfig, and allyesconfig as well as a few randconfigs on x86_64 and all configs in arch/arm/configs on arm. I also checked that no new warnings were introduced by the patch (actually, some warnings are removed that were emitted by unnecessarily included header files). Signed-off-by: Tim Schmielau <tim@physik3.uni-rostock.de> Acked-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* [NET]: Kill direct includes of asm/checksum.hAl Viro2006-12-021-1/+0
| | | | | Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* IRQ: Maintain regs pointer globally rather than passing to IRQ handlersDavid Howells2006-10-051-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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)
* drivers/net: Trim trailing whitespaceJeff Garzik2006-09-131-7/+7
| | | | Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
* [PATCH] Remove MODULE_PARMRusty Russell2006-03-251-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | MODULE_PARM was actually breaking: recent gcc version optimize them out as unused. It's time to replace the last users, which are generally in the most unloved drivers anyway. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* Linux-2.6.12-rc2v2.6.12-rc2Linus Torvalds2005-04-161-0/+843
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!
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