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Author SHA1 Message Date
Christian Borntraeger
611e097d77 hvc_console: rework setup to replace irq functions with callbacks
This patch tries to change hvc_console to not use request_irq/free_irq if
the backend does not use irqs. This allows virtio_console to use hvc_console
without having a linker reference to request_irq/free_irq.

In addition, together with patch 2/3 it improves the performance for virtio
console input. (an earlier version of this patch was tested by Yajin on lguest)

The irq specific code is moved to hvc_irq.c and selected by the drivers that
use irqs (System p, System i, XEN).

I replaced "int irq" with the opaque "int data". The request_irq and
free_irq calls are replaced with notifier_add and notifier_del. I have also
changed the code a bit to call the notifier_add and notifier_del inside the
spinlock area as the callbacks are found via hp->ops.

Changes since last version:
o remove ifdef
o reintroduce "irq_requested" as "notified"
o cleanups, sparse..

I did not move the timer based polling into a separate polling scheme. I
played with several variants, but it seems we need to sleep/schedule in
a thread even for irq based consoles, as there are throttleing and buffer
size constraints.

I also kept hvc_struct defined in hvc_console.h so that hvc_irq.c can access
the irq_requested element.

Feedback is appreciated. virtio_console is currently the only available console
for kvm on s390. I plan to push this change as soon as all affected parties
agree on it. I would love to get test results from System p, Xen etc.

Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2008-07-25 12:06:06 +10:00
Michael Ellerman
1c8950ff87 [POWERPC] Make cpus_in_xmon static and remove extern mess from hvc_console.c
This is a little messier than I'd like because xmon.h only exists
on powerpc and we can't have a static inline and an extern declaration
visible at the same time.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2008-05-14 22:31:57 +10:00
Stephen Rothwell
4e9e95a355 [POWERPC] Make the hvc_console output buffer size settable
So the iSeries console will be faster since it can send up to 200 bytes at
a time to the Hypervisor.  This only affects the tty part of the console,
the console writes are still in 16 byte lots.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
2006-07-13 18:53:32 +10:00
Ryan S. Arnold
45d607ed92 [PATCH] powerpc: hvc_console updates
These are some updates from both Ryan and Arnd for the hvc_console
driver:

The main point is to enable the inclusion of a console driver
for rtas, which is currrently needed for the cell platform.

Also shuffle around some data-type declarations and moves some
functions out of include/asm-ppc64/hvconsole.h and into a new
drivers/char/hvc_console.h file.

Signed-off-by: "Ryan S. Arnold" <rsa@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <abergman@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-03-28 16:45:26 +11:00