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)
This is needed if we wish to change the size of the resource structures.
Based on an original patch from Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
cx88-alsa was resetting the card on load, causing the IRQ IR handler
to go away (maybe others, too). There's no actual need to reset the
card, though, so that line was removed
Signed-off-by: Ricardo Cerqueira <v4l@cerqueira.org>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
Video_buf were concerned to allow PCI devices to be used as
video capture devices. This patch extends video_buf features
by virtualizing pci-dependent functions and allowing other
type of devices to use it.
It is still DMA centric, although it may be used also by
devices that emulates scatter/gather behavior or a DMA device
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
If the call to cx88_core_get returns a NULL value, it is dereferenced
by cx88_reset, and perhaps by cx88_core_put. Spotted by the Coverity
checker.
Signed-off-by: Duncan Sands <baldrick@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
- Not sure what went wrong here, but SND_PCI_PM_CALLBACKS got deleted.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
- Static vars are equal to zero by default. Removed unnecessary =0 from them,
saving some data space
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
- This module is co-authored by Ricardo Cerqueira <v4l@cerqueira.org>.
- Added digital audio support for cx88-based boards that have function
01 enabled. These boards can be identified by having PCI id 1471:8801
or 1471:8811.
- Increased DMA buffer from 512 to 4096 seems to fix audio distortion.
- Existing audio DMA uses conflict with cx88-alsa. Should be disabled when
cx88-alsa module is compiled.
Signed-off-by: Ricardo Cerqueira <v4l@cerqueira.org>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@brturbo.com.br>
David Howells