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Paulius Zaleckas
de0561c435 6pack: use netstats in net_device structure
Use net_device_stats from net_device structure instead of local.
Kill sp_get_stats function, because by default it is used identical
internal_stats function from net/core/dev.c

Signed-off-by: Paulius Zaleckas <paulius.zaleckas@teltonika.lt>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
2008-05-13 01:35:24 -04:00
Alan Cox
39c2e60f8c tty: add throttle/unthrottle helpers
Something Arjan suggested which allows us to clean up the code nicely

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-30 08:29:47 -07:00
Alan Cox
f34d7a5b70 tty: The big operations rework
- Operations are now a shared const function block as with most other Linux
  objects

- Introduce wrappers for some optional functions to get consistent behaviour

- Wrap put_char which used to be patched by the tty layer

- Document which functions are needed/optional

- Make put_char report success/fail

- Cache the driver->ops pointer in the tty as tty->ops

- Remove various surplus lock calls we no longer need

- Remove proc_write method as noted by Alexey Dobriyan

- Introduce some missing sanity checks where certain driver/ldisc
  combinations would oops as they didn't check needed methods were present

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix fs/compat_ioctl.c build]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix isicom]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix arch/ia64/hp/sim/simserial.c build]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix kgdb]
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-30 08:29:47 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
b0d19a378a Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6:
  iwlwifi: Fix built-in compilation of iwlcore
  net: Unexport move_addr_to_{kernel,user}
  rt2x00: Select LEDS_CLASS.
  iwlwifi: Select LEDS_CLASS.
  leds: Do not guard NEW_LEDS with HAS_IOMEM
  [IPSEC]: Fix catch-22 with algorithm IDs above 31
  time: Export set_normalized_timespec.
  tcp: Make use of before macro in tcp_input.c
  hamradio: Remove unneeded and deprecated cli()/sti() calls in dmascc.c
  [NETNS]: Remove empty ->init callback.
  [DCCP]: Convert do_gettimeofday() to getnstimeofday().
  [NETNS]: Don't initialize err variable twice.
  [NETNS]: The ip6_fib_timer can work with garbage on net namespace stop.
  [IPV4]: Convert do_gettimeofday() to getnstimeofday().
  [IPV4]: Make icmp_sk_init() static.
  [IPV6]: Make struct ip6_prohibit_entry_template static.
  tcp: Trivial fix to correct function name in a comment in net/ipv4/tcp.c
  [NET]: Expose netdevice dev_id through sysfs
  skbuff: fix missing kernel-doc notation
  [ROSE]: Fix soft lockup wrt. rose_node_list_lock
2008-04-23 12:23:45 -07:00
Mark Asselstine
02651d20a3 hamradio: Remove unneeded and deprecated cli()/sti() calls in dmascc.c
These cli()/sti() calls are made in start_timer() and are therefor
redundant since the register_lock is now used to protect register
io from within scc_isr() and write_scc() (where all calls to
start_timer() originate).

Signed-off-by: Mark Asselstine <mark.asselstine@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-04-21 14:44:16 -07:00
Matthew Wilcox
6188e10d38 Convert asm/semaphore.h users to linux/semaphore.h
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com>
2008-04-18 22:22:54 -04:00
YOSHIFUJI Hideaki
c346dca108 [NET] NETNS: Omit net_device->nd_net without CONFIG_NET_NS.
Introduce per-net_device inlines: dev_net(), dev_net_set().
Without CONFIG_NET_NS, no namespace other than &init_net exists.
Let's explicitly define them to help compiler optimizations.

Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
2008-03-26 04:39:53 +09:00
Jarek Poplawski
9f30c768c0 mkiss: ax_bump() locking fix
According to one of OOPSes reported by Jann softirq can break
while skb is prepared for netif_rx. The report isn't complete,
so the real reason of the later bug could be different, but
IMHO this locking break in ax_bump is unsafe and unnecessary.

Reported-and-tested-by: Jann Traschewski <jann@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2008-02-15 10:51:51 -05:00
Randy Dunlap
cd8d627a6b hamradio: fix dmascc section mismatch
hw[] is used in both init and exit functions so it cannot be initdata (section
mismatch is when CONFIG_MODULES=n and CONFIG_DMASCC=y).

WARNING: vmlinux.o(.exit.text+0xba7): Section mismatch: reference to .init.data: (between 'dmascc_exit' and 'sixpack_exit_driver')

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Klaus Kudielka <klaus.kudielka@gmx.net>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-02-05 03:04:05 -08:00
Al Viro
79ea13ce07 NULL noise in drivers/net
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 15:07:12 -08:00
Jeff Garzik
1b36efe07f hamradio/scc: kill unnecessary use of 'irq' function arg
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
2008-01-28 15:03:39 -08:00
Alan Cox
d0127539ea [TTY]: Use tty_mode_ioctl() in network drivers.
We conciously make a change here - we permit mode and speed setting to
be done in things like SLIP mode. There isn't actually a technical
reason to disallow this. It's usually a silly thing to do but we can
do it and soemone might wish to do so.

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-11-07 04:14:24 -08:00
Jeff Garzik
5712cb3d81 [PARPORT] Remove unused 'irq' argument from parport irq functions
None of the drivers with a struct pardevice's ->irq_func() hook ever
used the 'irq' argument passed to it, so remove it.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
2007-10-23 19:53:16 -04:00
Robert P. J. Day
646b1c9dad Documentation: Fix erroneous "dmascc=" documentation
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
2007-10-20 00:11:36 +02:00
Jan Engelhardt
96de0e252c Convert files to UTF-8 and some cleanups
* Convert files to UTF-8.

  * Also correct some people's names
    (one example is Eißfeldt, which was found in a source file.
    Given that the author used an ß at all in a source file
    indicates that the real name has in fact a 'ß' and not an 'ss',
    which is commonly used as a substitute for 'ß' when limited to
    7bit.)

  * Correct town names (Goettingen -> Göttingen)

  * Update Eberhard Mönkeberg's address (http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/1/8/313)

Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
2007-10-19 23:21:04 +02:00
Jiri Slaby
1977f03272 remove asm/bitops.h includes
remove asm/bitops.h includes

including asm/bitops directly may cause compile errors. don't include it
and include linux/bitops instead. next patch will deny including asm header
directly.

Cc: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-19 11:53:41 -07:00
Al Viro
d9a19d200f hamradio: ->hard_header() takes packet type in host-endian
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-14 12:41:52 -07:00
Stephen Hemminger
3b04ddde02 [NET]: Move hardware header operations out of netdevice.
Since hardware header operations are part of the protocol class
not the device instance, make them into a separate object and
save memory.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:52:52 -07:00
Stephen Hemminger
0c4e85813d [NET]: Wrap netdevice hardware header creation.
Add inline for common usage of hardware header creation, and
fix bug in IPV6 mcast where the assumption about negative return is
an errno. Negative return from hard_header means not enough space
was available,(ie -N bytes).

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:52:50 -07:00
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
Ralf Baechle
10d024c1b2 [NET]: Nuke SET_MODULE_OWNER macro.
It's been a useless no-op for long enough in 2.6 so I figured it's time to
remove it.  The number of people that could object because they're
maintaining unified 2.4 and 2.6 drivers is probably rather small.

[ Handled drivers added by netdev tree and some missed IRDA cases... -DaveM ]

Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:51:13 -07:00
Eric W. Biederman
e9dc865340 [NET]: Make device event notification network namespace safe
Every user of the network device notifiers is either a protocol
stack or a pseudo device.  If a protocol stack that does not have
support for multiple network namespaces receives an event for a
device that is not in the initial network namespace it quite possibly
can get confused and do the wrong thing.

To avoid problems until all of the protocol stacks are converted
this patch modifies all netdev event handlers to ignore events on
devices that are not in the initial network namespace.

As the rest of the code is made network namespace aware these
checks can be removed.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:49:09 -07:00
Eric W. Biederman
e730c15519 [NET]: Make packet reception network namespace safe
This patch modifies every packet receive function
registered with dev_add_pack() to drop packets if they
are not from the initial network namespace.

This should ensure that the various network stacks do
not receive packets in a anything but the initial network
namespace until the code has been converted and is ready
for them.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:49:08 -07:00
Eric W. Biederman
457c4cbc5a [NET]: Make /proc/net per network namespace
This patch makes /proc/net per network namespace.  It modifies the global
variables proc_net and proc_net_stat to be per network namespace.
The proc_net file helpers are modified to take a network namespace argument,
and all of their callers are fixed to pass &init_net for that argument.
This ensures that all of the /proc/net files are only visible and
usable in the initial network namespace until the code behind them
has been updated to be handle multiple network namespaces.

Making /proc/net per namespace is necessary as at least some files
in /proc/net depend upon the set of network devices which is per
network namespace, and even more files in /proc/net have contents
that are relevant to a single network namespace.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:49:06 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney
b34bd06e48 bpqether: fix rcu usage
The rcu_dereference() primitive needs to be applied to an l-value in order to
ensure that compiler writers don't get an opportunity to apply reordering
optimizations that could result in multiple fetches or in other misbehavior.
This patch pulls the rcu_dereference() calls in bpq_seq_next() up to the point
at which the fetched pointers are still l-values, rather than after
list_entry() has transformed them into r-values.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-31 15:39:40 -07:00
Yoann Padioleau
dd00cc486a some kmalloc/memset ->kzalloc (tree wide)
Transform some calls to kmalloc/memset to a single kzalloc (or kcalloc).

Here is a short excerpt of the semantic patch performing
this transformation:

@@
type T2;
expression x;
identifier f,fld;
expression E;
expression E1,E2;
expression e1,e2,e3,y;
statement S;
@@

 x =
- kmalloc
+ kzalloc
  (E1,E2)
  ...  when != \(x->fld=E;\|y=f(...,x,...);\|f(...,x,...);\|x=E;\|while(...) S\|for(e1;e2;e3) S\)
- memset((T2)x,0,E1);

@@
expression E1,E2,E3;
@@

- kzalloc(E1 * E2,E3)
+ kcalloc(E1,E2,E3)

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: get kcalloc args the right way around]
Signed-off-by: Yoann Padioleau <padator@wanadoo.fr>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Acked-by: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Bryan Wu <bryan.wu@analog.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>
Acked-by: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Acked-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Pierre Ossman <drzeus-list@drzeus.cx>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Acked-by: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com>
Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@pol.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-19 10:04:50 -07:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge
86313c488a usermodehelper: Tidy up waiting
Rather than using a tri-state integer for the wait flag in
call_usermodehelper_exec, define a proper enum, and use that.  I've
preserved the integer values so that any callers I've missed should
still work OK.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Cc: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Cc: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
2007-07-18 08:47:40 -07:00
Robert P. J. Day
1591275cb5 Fix "deprecated" typoes.
Fix remaining misspellings of "depreciated" to "deprecated."

Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2007-05-09 07:18:01 +02:00
Folkert van Heusden
939456ac51 baycom_ser_fdx: also allow i/o ports >= 0x1000 and enhanced failure logging
The baycom_ser_fdx driver did not allow i/o ports >= 0x1000.  Now that
there are pci cards (with rs232 ports) which use for example 0xb800 this
limit should not exists.

Also, for non kernel coders find the cause of problems was challenging so I
added extra logging.

Signed-off-by: Folkert van Heusden <folkert@vanheusden.com>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2007-04-28 11:01:02 -04:00
Andrew Morton
55404bca6c [NET]: Fix yam.c
drivers/net/hamradio/yam.c: In function `yam_tx_byte':
drivers/net/hamradio/yam.c:643: warning: passing arg 1 of `skb_copy_from_linear_data_offset' from incompatible pointer type

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-26 00:55:53 -07:00
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
c1d2bbe1cd [SK_BUFF]: Introduce skb_reset_network_header(skb)
For the common, open coded 'skb->nh.raw = skb->data' operation, so that we can
later turn skb->nh.raw into a offset, reducing the size of struct sk_buff in
64bit land while possibly keeping it as a pointer on 32bit.

This one touches just the most simple case, next will handle the slightly more
"complex" cases.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25 22:24:46 -07:00
Andrew Morton
5efb764c86 drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_fdx build fix
sparc64:

drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_fdx.c: In function `ser12_open':
drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_fdx.c:417: error: `NR_IRQS' undeclared (first us
e in this function)
drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_fdx.c:417: error: (Each undeclared identifier is
 reported only once
drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_fdx.c:417: error: for each function it appears i
n.)

Cc: Folkert van Heusden <folkert@vanheusden.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2007-04-24 12:51:03 -04:00
Ralf Baechle
8b5b467181 Replace local random function with random32()
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2007-02-20 11:18:13 -05:00
Simon Depiets
6486abbf63 fix the BAYCOM_SER_HDX help text
This fixes kernel Bugzilla #4076.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2007-02-17 19:42:17 +01:00
Arjan van de Ven
d54b1fdb1d [PATCH] mark struct file_operations const 5
Many struct file_operations in the kernel can be "const".  Marking them const
moves these to the .rodata section, which avoids false sharing with potential
dirty data.  In addition it'll catch accidental writes at compile time to
these shared resources.

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-12 09:48:45 -08:00
Al Viro
9d6ed92196 [PATCH] radio modems sitting on serial port are not for s390
Won't build (request_irq()/free_irq()), even if you manage to find an
s390 box with 8250-compatible UART they are expecting.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Acked-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-01 16:17:06 -08:00
Ralf Baechle
f654c854d1 [HAMRADIO]: Fix baycom_epp.c compile failure.
Fix foobar in 15b1c0e822 and
e8cc49bb0f patch series.

Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-12-11 14:35:01 -08:00
Ralf Baechle
15b1c0e822 [AX.25]: Fix default address and broadcast address initialization.
Only the callsign but not the SSID part of an AX.25 address is ASCII
based but Linux by initializes the SSID which should be just a 4-bit
number from ASCII anyway.

Fix that and convert the code to use a shared constant for both default
addresses.  While at it, use the same style for null_ax25_address also.

Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-12-08 17:19:26 -08:00
Al Viro
7a87b6c228 [PATCH] hamradio/dmascc: fix up work_struct-induced breakage
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-06 11:06:46 -08:00
David Howells
4c1ac1b491 Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6
Conflicts:

	drivers/infiniband/core/iwcm.c
	drivers/net/chelsio/cxgb2.c
	drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx/bcm43xx_main.c
	drivers/net/wireless/prism54/islpci_eth.c
	drivers/usb/core/hub.h
	drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c
	net/core/netpoll.c

Fix up merge failures with Linus's head and fix new compilation failures.

Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
2006-12-05 14:37:56 +00:00
Jean Delvare
95f6134e17 [6PACK]: Masking bug in 6pack driver.
Looks like a broken masking to me, binary not is used where bitwise
not was intended.

Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-11-25 15:16:50 -08:00
David Howells
c4028958b6 WorkStruct: make allyesconfig
Fix up for make allyesconfig.

Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
2006-11-22 14:57:56 +00:00
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
Ralf Baechle
1eeb7e4288 [BPQ] lockdep: fix false positive
Bpqether is encapsulating AX.25 frames into ethernet frames.  There is a
virtual bpqether device paired with each ethernet devices, so it's normal
to pass through dev_queue_xmit twice for each frame which triggers the
locking detector.

Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-07-10 14:50:33 -07:00
Thomas Gleixner
1fb9df5d30 [PATCH] irq-flags: drivers/net: Use the new IRQF_ constants
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-07-02 13:58:51 -07:00
Jörn Engel
6ab3d5624e Remove obsolete #include <linux/config.h>
Signed-off-by: Jörn Engel <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-06-30 19:25:36 +02:00
Adrian Bunk
e2fdbc039a [PATCH] drivers/net/hamradio/dmascc.c: fix section mismatch
dev_setup() is using the __initdata variables ax25_broadcast and
ax25_test.

Since the only caller of dev_setup() (setup_adapter()) is already
__init, the solution is to make dev_setup() __init, too.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2006-06-26 22:03:24 -04:00
Herbert Xu
932ff279a4 [NET]: Add netif_tx_lock
Various drivers use xmit_lock internally to synchronise with their
transmission routines.  They do so without setting xmit_lock_owner.
This is fine as long as netpoll is not in use.

With netpoll it is possible for deadlocks to occur if xmit_lock_owner
isn't set.  This is because if a printk occurs while xmit_lock is held
and xmit_lock_owner is not set can cause netpoll to attempt to take
xmit_lock recursively.

While it is possible to resolve this by getting netpoll to use
trylock, it is suboptimal because netpoll's sole objective is to
maximise the chance of getting the printk out on the wire.  So
delaying or dropping the message is to be avoided as much as possible.

So the only alternative is to always set xmit_lock_owner.  The
following patch does this by introducing the netif_tx_lock family of
functions that take care of setting/unsetting xmit_lock_owner.

I renamed xmit_lock to _xmit_lock to indicate that it should not be
used directly.  I didn't provide irq versions of the netif_tx_lock
functions since xmit_lock is meant to be a BH-disabling lock.

This is pretty much a straight text substitution except for a small
bug fix in winbond.  It currently uses
netif_stop_queue/spin_unlock_wait to stop transmission.  This is
unsafe as an IRQ can potentially wake up the queue.  So it is safer to
use netif_tx_disable.

The hamradio bits used spin_lock_irq but it is unnecessary as
xmit_lock must never be taken in an IRQ handler.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-06-17 21:30:14 -07:00
Ralf Baechle DL5RB
3ab33dcc82 [HAMRADIO]: Remove remaining SET_MODULE_OWNER calls from hamradio drivers.
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle DL5RB <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-05-03 23:24:35 -07:00