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Eric Dumazet
807540baae drivers/net: return operator cleanup
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>
2010-09-26 18:34:29 -07:00
Joe Perches
a4b770972b drivers/net: Remove unnecessary returns from void function()s
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>
2010-05-14 00:19:28 -07:00
Eric Dumazet
1ae5dc342a net: trans_start cleanups
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>
2010-05-10 05:01:31 -07:00
Alexey Dobriyan
257ddbdad1 netdev: remove HAVE_ leftovers
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-01-28 06:01:35 -08:00
Uwe Kleine-König
1ebb5a1aa9 don't use __devexit_p to wrap meth_remove
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>
2009-10-01 14:34:40 -07:00
Uwe Kleine-König
dd93667711 net: move meth's probe function to .devinit.text
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>
2009-07-23 18:01:06 -07:00
Patrick McHardy
6ed106549d net: use NETDEV_TX_OK instead of 0 in ndo_start_xmit() functions
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>
2009-07-05 19:16:04 -07:00
David S. Miller
bb803cfbec Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
Conflicts:
	drivers/scsi/fcoe/fcoe.c
2009-05-18 21:08:20 -07:00
Ralf Baechle
a8f492c6ac NET: Meth: Fix unsafe mix of irq and non-irq spinlocks.
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>
2009-05-17 21:11:36 -07:00
Alexander Beregalov
d53bc2df18 meth: convert to net_device_ops
Signed-off-by: Alexander Beregalov <a.beregalov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-04-16 02:20:17 -07:00
Ralf Baechle
12e22e8e60 MIPS: Stop using <asm-generic/int-l64.h>.
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>
2009-03-30 14:49:41 +02:00
David S. Miller
babcda74e9 drivers/net: Kill now superfluous ->last_rx stores.
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>
2008-11-03 21:11:17 -08:00
Johannes Berg
e174961ca1 net: convert print_mac to %pM
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>
2008-10-27 17:06:18 -07:00
Harvey Harrison
b39d66a81f drivers/net: replace __FUNCTION__ with __func__
__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>
2008-09-24 18:59:00 -04:00
Thomas Bogendoerfer
d91d4bb9db METH: fix MAC address setup
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>
2008-08-07 02:11:19 -04:00
Christoph Lameter
cdc18a6709 Fix typo in meth driver
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>
2008-07-22 19:34:21 -04:00
Kay Sievers
72abb46101 net drivers: fix platform driver hotplug/coldplug
Since 43cc71eed1, 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>
2008-04-25 02:08:54 -04:00
Thomas Bogendoerfer
edba2a1fef [METH]: Fix MAC address handling.
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>
2008-01-08 23:30:00 -08:00
Adrian Bunk
87ae9afdca cleanup asm/scatterlist.h includes
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>
2007-11-02 08:47:06 +01:00
Joe Perches
0795af5729 [NET]: Introduce and use print_mac() and DECLARE_MAC_BUF()
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>
2007-10-10 16:51:42 -07:00
Jeff Garzik
09f75cd7bf [NET] drivers/net: statistics cleanup #1 -- save memory and shrink code
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>
2007-10-10 16:51:16 -07:00
Ralf Baechle
09e06f652d Don't use GFP_DMA for zone allocation.
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>
2007-08-25 02:30:59 -04:00
Ralf Baechle
e971290133 meth driver renovation
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>
2007-05-24 17:20:49 -04:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
d626f62b11 [SK_BUFF]: Introduce skb_copy_from_linear_data{_offset}
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>
2007-04-25 22:28:23 -07:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
4c13eb6657 [ETH]: Make eth_type_trans set skb->dev like the other *_type_trans
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>
2007-04-25 22:24:30 -07:00
Ralf Baechle
daeafdc360 Convert meth to netdev_priv
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>
2007-02-17 15:30:47 -05:00
Tim Schmielau
cd354f1ae7 [PATCH] remove many unneeded #includes of sched.h
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>
2007-02-14 08:09:54 -08:00
Al Viro
3277c39f8d [NET]: Kill direct includes of asm/checksum.h
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-12-02 21:22:59 -08:00
David Howells
7d12e780e0 IRQ: Maintain regs pointer globally rather than passing to IRQ handlers
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)
2006-10-05 15:10:12 +01:00
Jeff Garzik
6aa20a2235 drivers/net: Trim trailing whitespace
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2006-09-13 13:24:59 -04:00
Rusty Russell
8d3b33f67f [PATCH] Remove MODULE_PARM
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>
2006-03-25 08:22:52 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
1da177e4c3 Linux-2.6.12-rc2
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!
2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00