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2006-10-05IRQ: Maintain regs pointer globally rather than passing to IRQ handlersDavid Howells
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)
2006-10-01[SCSI] stex: add new device (id 0x8650) supportEd Lin
A new device (id 0x8650, nickname 'yosemite') support is added. It's basically the same, except for following items: - mapping of id and lun by firmware - special handling for some commands in interrupt routine - change of internal copy function for these special commands - different reset handling code - different shutdown notification command Signed-off-by: Ed Lin <ed.lin@promise.com> Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
2006-10-01[SCSI] stex: cancel unused field in struct req_msgEd Lin
The payload_sz field in struct req_msg is not big enough to indicate the size of req_msg, as its type is u8. It is confirmed that this field is not used by firmware, so cancel it here. Signed-off-by: Ed Lin <ed.lin@promise.com> Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
2006-09-02[SCSI] add failure return to scsi_init_shared_tag_map()James Bottomley
And use it in the stex driver. Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
2006-09-02[SCSI] stex: add shared tags from blockEd Lin
Use block shared tags entirely within the driver. In the case of shutdown, assume that there are no other outstanding commands, so tag 0 is fine. Signed-off-by: Ed Lin <ed.lin@promise.com> Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
2006-09-02[SCSI] Add Promise SuperTrak driverJeff Garzik
Add Promise SuperTrak 'stex' driver, supporting SuperTrak EX8350/8300/16350/16300 controllers. The controller's firmware accepts SCSI commands, handing them to the underlying RAID or JBOD disks. The driver consisted of the following cleanups and fixes, beyond its initial submission: Ed Lin: stex: cleanup and minor fixes stex: add new device ids stex: update internal copy code path stex: add hard reset function stex: adjust command timeout in slave_config routine stex: use more efficient method for unload/shutdown flush Jeff Garzik: [SCSI] Add Promise SuperTrak 'shasta' driver. Rename drivers/scsi/shasta.c to stex.c ("SuperTrak EX"). [SCSI] stex: update with community comments from 'Promise SuperTrak' thread [SCSI] stex: Fix warning, trim trailing whitespace. [SCSI] stex: remove last remnants of "shasta" project code name [SCSI] stex: removed 6-byte command emulation [SCSI] stex: minor cleanups [SCSI] stex: minor fixes: irq flag, error return value [SCSI] stex: use dma_alloc_coherent() Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>