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)
Intersil firmware 1.7.4 (and possibly others) loses the antenna
selection settings when the port is reset.
Signed-off-by: David Acker <dacker@roinet.com>
Signed-off-by: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
On Fri, 2006-06-30 at 15:45 -0700, Miles Lane wrote:
> Okay, I rebuilt my kernel with your combo patch applied.
> Then, I inserted my US Robotics USR2210 PCMCIA wifi card,
> ran "pccardutil eject", popped out the card and then inserted
> a Compaq iPaq wifi card. This triggered the following.
>
> [ INFO: possible circular locking dependency detected ]
> -------------------------------------------------------
> syslogd/1886 is trying to acquire lock:
> (&dev->queue_lock){-+..}, at: [<c11a50b5>] dev_queue_xmit+0x120/0x24b
>
> but task is already holding lock:
> (&dev->_xmit_lock){-+..}, at: [<c11a5118>] dev_queue_xmit+0x183/0x24b
>
> which lock already depends on the new lock.
ok this appears to be hostap playing games... it has 2 network devices
for one piece of hardware and one calls the other via the networking
layer; there is thankfully a natural ordering between the two, so just
making the slave one a separate type ought to make this work.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
The Coverity checker (CID: 59) noted that the call to prism2_hw_reset()
was dead code. Move prism2_hw_reset() call to a place where it is
actually executed.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jkmaline@cc.hut.fi>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Remove the "inline" keyword from a bunch of big functions in the kernel with
the goal of shrinking it by 30kb to 40kb
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This patch removes almost all inclusions of linux/version.h. The 3
#defines are unused in most of the touched files.
A few drivers use the simple KERNEL_VERSION(a,b,c) macro, which is
unfortunatly in linux/version.h.
There are also lots of #ifdef for long obsolete kernels, this was not
touched. In a few places, the linux/version.h include was move to where
the LINUX_VERSION_CODE was used.
quilt vi `find * -type f -name "*.[ch]"|xargs grep -El '(UTS_RELEASE|LINUX_VERSION_CODE|KERNEL_VERSION|linux/version.h)'|grep -Ev '(/(boot|coda|drm)/|~$)'`
search pattern:
/UTS_RELEASE\|LINUX_VERSION_CODE\|KERNEL_VERSION\|linux\/\(utsname\|version\).h
Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Unregister all netdevs before freeing local data. I was unable to
trigger any crashes without this change when running busy loops for
driver operations when ejecting a Prism2 PC Card. Anyway, should there
be a race condition with this, better make it less likely to happen by
unregistering the netdevs first.
Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jkmaline@cc.hut.fi>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Replace remaining WLAN_FC_* defines with the ones used in ieee80211
header file. This completes the move from hostap version of frame
control field processing to ieee80211 version.
Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jkmaline@cc.hut.fi>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Replace temporary HOSTAP_FC_GET_{TYPE,STYPE} macros with the ieee80211
version of WLAN_FC_GET_{TYPE,STYPE}.
Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jkmaline@cc.hut.fi>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
PCI version of Prism2.5/3 has undocumented DMA support for TX/RX data,
but this seems to have some hardware bugs that prevent it from being
used properly for TX. RX side could possibly be made to work reliably.
Even though DMA support would be very useful for saving host CPU (from
about 40% to 5-10% when operating at maximum throughput), it seems to
be best to just remove this code finally. The implementation has
always been commented out by default and has received very limited
testing. The code may have already been broken number of times and I
don't have much interested in trying to verify whether it works or
not. Getting this out makes it easier to maintain the driver and
allows some cleanups that have been partly postponed because of this
experimental bus master/DMA code.
Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jkmaline@cc.hut.fi>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Replace Host AP version of WEP, TKIP, CCMP implementation with
net/ieee80211 that has more or less identical implementation (since
it is based on the Host AP implementation). Remove Host AP specific
implementation and modules from drivers/net/wireless/hostap.
Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jkmaline@cc.hut.fi>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Preparations for starting to use net/ieee80211 instead of private
IEEE 802.11 implementation. Include net/ieee80211.h and
net/ieee80211_crypt.h into files that will be needed these in the
future. Remove duplicate definitions from hostap_common.h and
rename WLAN_FC_GET_{TYPE,STYPE} macros for now sinc net/ieee80211.h
is using incompatible definitions. This will be resolved in the
future by updating Host AP to use the versions that do not shift
type/stype.
Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jkmaline@cc.hut.fi>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Warning fix for 64-bit platforms
Hello!
The patch fixes following warning seen on 64-bit platforms (in my case -
x86_64, gcc-4.0):
In file included from /usr/local/src/hostap/driver/modules/hostap_cs.c:203:
/usr/local/src/hostap/driver/modules/hostap_hw.c: In function ?prism2_transmit_cb?:
/usr/local/src/hostap/driver/modules/hostap_hw.c:1674: warning: cast from pointer to integer of different size
/usr/local/src/hostap/driver/modules/hostap_hw.c: In function ?prism2_transmit?:
/usr/local/src/hostap/driver/modules/hostap_hw.c:1758: warning: cast to pointer from integer of different size
prism2_transmit_cb uses a (void *) argument to get an integer. A
simple fix would be to use double cast from pointer to long and then to
int (and vice versa when int is passed as a pointer). But I prefer a
slightly longer patch.
I believe that whenever an argument can hold both a pointer and an
integer, it should be declared long. long can hold both pointers and
integers (except win64, but we are not coding for Windows), it can be
cast to both of them and it's never assumed to be a valid pointer, which
could be useful for some automatic code checkers.
Signed-off-by: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jkmaline@cc.hut.fi>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Added support for setting channel mask for scan requests
('iwpriv wlan0 scan_channels 0x00ff' masks scans to use channels 1-8).
Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jkmaline@cc.hut.fi>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Create sysfs "device" files for hostap
I was writing some scripts to automatically build kismet source lines,
and I noticed that hostap devices don't have device files, unlike my
prism54 and ipw2200 cards:
$ ls -l /sys/class/net/eth0/device
/sys/class/net/eth0/device -> ../../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1e.0/0000:02:01.0
$ ls -l /sys/class/net/wifi0
ls: /sys/class/net/wifi0/device: No such file or directory
$ ls -l /sys/class/net/wlan0
ls: /sys/class/net/wlan0/device: No such file or directory
The following (quite small) patch makes sure that both the wlan and wifi
net devices have that pointer to the bus device.
This way, I can do things like
for i in /sys/class/net/*; do
if ! [ -e $i/device/drive ]; then
continue;
fi;
driver=$(basename $(readlink $i/device/driver))
case $driver in
hostap*)
echo -- hostap,$i,$i-$driver
break;
ipw2?00)
echo -- $driver,$i,$i-$driver
break;
prism54)
echo prism54g,$i
esac
done
Which should generate a working set of source lines for kismet no matter
what order I plug the cards in.
It might also be handy to have a link between the two net devices, but
that's a patch for another day.
That patch is against 2.6.13-rc1-mm1.
-- Dave
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jkmaline@cc.hut.fi>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
