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)
* 'upstream-linus' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/netdev-2.6: (48 commits)
[PATCH] bonding: update version number
[PATCH] git-netdev-all: pc300_tty build fix
[PATCH] Make PC300 WAN driver compile again
[PATCH] Modularize generic HDLC
[PATCH] more s2io __iomem annotations
[PATCH] restore __iomem annotations in e1000
[PATCH] 64bit bugs in s2io
[PATCH] bonding: Fix primary selection error at enslavement time
[PATCH] bonding: Don't mangle LACPDUs
[PATCH] bonding: Validate probe replies in ARP monitor
[PATCH] bonding: Don't release slaves when master is admin down
[PATCH] bonding: Add priv_flag to avoid event mishandling
[PATCH] bonding: Handle large hard_header_len
[PATCH] bonding: Remove unneeded NULL test
[PATCH] bonding: Format fix in seq_printf call
[PATCH] bonding: Convert delay value from s16 to int
[PATCH] bonding: Allow bonding to enslave a 10 Gig adapter
Delete unused drivers/net/gt64240eth.h
[PATCH] skge: fiber support
[PATCH] fix possible NULL ptr deref in forcedeth
...
The following patches reduce the size of the VFS inode structure by 28 bytes
on a UP x86. (It would be more on an x86_64 system). This is a 10% reduction
in the inode size on a UP kernel that is configured in a production mode
(i.e., with no spinlock or other debugging functions enabled; if you want to
save memory taken up by in-core inodes, the first thing you should do is
disable the debugging options; they are responsible for a huge amount of bloat
in the VFS inode structure).
This patch:
The filesystem or device-specific pointer in the inode is inside a union,
which is pretty pointless given that all 30+ users of this field have been
using the void pointer. Get rid of the union and rename it to i_private, with
a comment to explain who is allowed to use the void pointer. This is just a
cleanup, but it allows us to reuse the union 'u' for something something where
the union will actually be used.
[judith@osdl.org: powerpc build fix]
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Judith Lebzelter <judith@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
The setup for running long periodic work has a bug that leads to
netdev watchdog tx timeouts. This change eliminates the timeouts.
Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Acked-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
An error message is changed to a printk as the original dprintk
would be optimized away if debugging were not enabled. If the error
is triggered, a more meaningful message is returned.
Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
In bcm43xx-softmac, the bcm43xx_stats struct contains a variable that
is no longer used. In addition, two TODO entries related to noise
processing in bcm43xx_rx have been completed, and as unused one
is removed.
Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch updates the PHY initialization code for bcm43xx-softmac
to conform with recent changes in the clean-room specs at
http://bcm-specs.sipsolutions.net. Mostly, these changes implement
the sequence needed for chips with GPHY revision 8; however, the
patch also corrects a typo in one address, and some parts that were
missing from the spec when the initial coding was done.
Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Patch to make bcm43xx-softmac be compatible with the revised SSID
length of WE-21.
Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Coverity CID 1160 & 1161
Remove some dead code from bcm43xx_sysfs.c in 2.6.18-rc6
Signed-off-by: Darren Jenkins <darrenrjenkins@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch prints out the ucode debug status to sysfs. So, users can
watch the microcode status of their hardware.
Signed-off-by: Martin Langer <martin-langer@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch prints microcode revision, patchlevel, date and time to
KERN_INFO. Also, version 4.xx microcodes (rev>0x128) will be rejected
by the driver, because they still do not work.
Signed-off-by: Martin Langer <martin-langer@gmx.de>
Acked-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch removes code that was make obsolete when the wireless
statistics in bcm43xx-softmac were changed, but was overlooked at that
time. The value of bcm->stats.link_quality computed here is never used.
Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch fixes an out of sequence step in the bcm43xx_init_board
routine for bcm43xx-softmac.
Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This fixes various bugs in the init and shutdown code
that would lead to lockups and crashes.
Signed-Off-By: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch sets the floor of wireless level (signal) and noise at
-110 dBm, which makes them be comatible with RCPI, as discussed by
Simon Barber. With this change, bcm43xx-softmac and bcm43xx-d80211
behave the same.
Signed-Off-By: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
When bcm43xx-softmac is given an ifdown/ifup sequence, the value for
bcm->mac_suspended ends up wrong, which leads to a large number of
assert(bcm->mac_suspended>=0) messages. This one-line patch fixes
this problem.
Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-Off-By: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
hard_start_xmit should return a NETIF_TX_FOO error code.
Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-Off-By: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Convert the bitfields in the bcm43xx DMA code to properly
aligned u8 booleans. These flags are accessed in the DMA
hotpath, so it's a good idea to waste a few bytes of memory
for the sake of speed by not requiring masking (and probably
shifting) of the bitfields.
Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-Off-By: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Calls to bcm43xx_rng_init() and bcm43xx_rng_exit() got
lost due to merge trouble. Re-add them.
Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This is a rewrite of the bcm43xx DMA engine. It adds support
for >1G of memory (for chips that support the extension bits)
and 64-bit DMA (for chips that support it).
Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Fix-up missing mac_suspended initialization which resulted from
Linville's sloppy patch mangling.
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This minor patch for wireless-2.6 (softmac) adjusts the parameters of
the wireless statistics to improve the display of programs such as the
"Wireless Network Information" applet of KDE. Thanks to Dan Williams
and Jean Tourrilhes for valuable help in setting up the return of
info in dBm.
Signed-Off-By: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Rewrite of the bcm43xx initialization routines.
This fixes several issues:
* up-down-up-down-up... stale data issue
(May fix some DHCP issues)
* Fix the init vs IRQ handler race (and remove the workaround)
* Fix init for cards with multiple cores (APHY)
As softmac has no internal PHY handling (unlike dscape),
this adds the file "phymode" to sysfs.
The active PHY can be selected by writing either a, b or g
to this file. Current PHY can be determined by reading from it.
* Fix the controller restart code.
Controller restart can now also be triggered through
echo 1 > /debug/bcm43xx/ethX/restart
Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This fixes mac_suspend reference counting for
ifconfig up
ifconfig down
ifconfig up
Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Microoptimization:
This reduces the udelay in bcm43xx_mac_suspend.
Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Suspend MAC (and make MAC-suspend refcounting) when doing
long periodic work.
On long periodic work, we disable IRQs on the device, so
we don't want the MAC to stay operating and probably miss
packets due do non-delivery of interrupts.
Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Johann Uhrmann reported a bcm43xx crash and Michael Buesch tracked
it down to a problem with the new shared key auth code (recursive
calls into the driver)
This patch (effectively Michael's patch with a couple of small
modifications) solves the problem by sending the authentication
challenge response frame from a workqueue entry.
I also removed a lone \n from the bcm43xx messages relating to
authentication mode - this small change was previously discussed but
not patched in.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch improves the statistics returned from
bcm43xx_get_wireless_stats. The signal level comes from smoothing the
"rssi" value returned by the firmware after it is converted into a
dBm value by the driver. The quality value is a hack derived from the
smoothed level and an assumed RX_POWER_MAX of -10 dBM. The noise value
is still the one calculated from the clean-room formula. On my system,
this is roughly -65 dBm, which seems too high.
The revised version uses the ieee80211 spinlock to protect traversing
of the network list.
Signed-Off-By: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch adds voluntary preemption points into the
PHY calibration loops to allow non-CONFIG_PREEMPT machines
to not suffer from huge delays.
CONFIG_PREEMPT machines are already fine, because all this
code is run in non-atomic process context.
Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
As many people don't seem to like the locking "obfuscation"
in the bcm43xx driver, this patch removes it.
Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
An assert statement near the start of handle_irq_noise in the softmac
version of bcm43xx_main.c is there to protect against out of bound
addressing using variable bcm->noisecalc.nr_samples. The arrays in
question have a dimension of 8, thus the value must be < 8.
Signed-Off-By: Larry.Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
I recently patched softmac to enable shared key authentication. This small patch
will enable crazy or unfortunate bcm43xx users to use this new capability.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The current version of bcm43xx-softmac uses local routines to check
if a channel is valid. As noted in the comments, these routines do
not take any regulatory information into account. This patch converts
the code to use the equivalent routine in ieee80211, which is being
converted to know about regulatory information.
Signed-Off-By: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Place the Init-vs-IRQ workaround before any card register
access, because we might not have the wireless core mapped
at all times in init. So this will result in a Machine Check
caused by a bus error.
Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Use Softmac-suggested TX ratecode:
ieee80211softmac_suggest_txrate()
Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
include/linux/version.h contained both actual KERNEL version
and UTS_RELEASE that contains a subset from git SHA1 for when
kernel was compiled as part of a git repository.
This had the unfortunate side-effect that all files including version.h
would be recompiled when some git changes was made due to changes SHA1.
Split it out so we keep independent parts in separate files.
Also update checkversion.pl script to no longer check for UTS_RELEASE.
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
bcm43xx avoid pci_find_device
Change pci_find_device to safer pci_get_device with support for more
devices.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Make the heavy periodic work preemptible to avoid disabling
local IRQs for several msecs.
Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@buesch.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Redesign the bcm43xx locking.
This is pre-work to get a preemptible periodic work handler.
Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The debug logging in bcm43xx_ieee80211_set_security() is pretty noisy.
Make it more silent.
Signed-off-by: Jason Lunz <lunz@falooley.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Also add the Poll RX DMA Memory workaround to the DMA4
(xmitstatus) path.
Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
I still need this hack to work around the fact that softmac doesn't
attempt to associate when we bring the device up...
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
David Howells
Linus Torvalds
Theodore Ts'o
Larry Finger
Jeff Garzik
Michael Buesch
John W. Linville
Daniel Drake
Sam Ravnborg
Thomas Gleixner
Jiri Slaby
Jason Lunz
David Woodhouse