linux-toradex.git/arch/frv, branch v2.6.19.2

[PATCH] vmlinux.lds: consolidate initcall sections

2006-10-27T22:34:51+00:00

Add a vmlinux.lds.h helper macro for defining the eight-level initcall table,
teach all the architectures to use it.

This is a prerequisite for a patch which performs initcall synchronisation for
multithreaded-probing.

Cc: Greg KH 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
[ Added AVR32 as well ]
Signed-off-by: Haavard Skinnemoen 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

IRQ: Maintain regs pointer globally rather than passing to IRQ handlers

2006-10-05T14:10:12+00:00

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 
(cherry picked from 1b16e7ac850969f38b375e511e3fa2f474a33867 commit)

Remove all inclusions of

2006-10-04T07:38:54+00:00

kbuild explicitly includes this at build time.

Signed-off-by: Dave Jones

Merge branch 'devel' of master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-serial

2006-10-03T16:13:29+00:00

* 'devel' of master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-serial: (21 commits)
  [SERIAL] add PNP IDs for FPI based touchscreens
  [SERIAL] Magic SysRq SAK does nothing on serial consoles
  [SERIAL] tickle NMI watchdog on serial output.
  [SERIAL] Fix oops when removing suspended serial port
  [SERIAL] Fix resume handling bug
  [SERIAL] Remove wrong asm/serial.h inclusions
  [SERIAL] CONFIG_PM=n slim: drivers/serial/8250_pci.c
  [SERIAL] OMAP1510 serial fix for 115200 baud
  [SERIAL] returning proper error from serial core driver
  [SERIAL] Make uart_line_info() correctly tell MMIO from I/O port
  [SERIAL] suspend/resume handlers don't have level arg anymore
  [SERIAL] 8250 resourse management fixes
  [SERIAL] serial_cs: Add quirk for brainboxes 2-port RS232 card
  [SERIAL] serial_cs: handle Nokia multi->single port bodge via config quirk
  [SERIAL] serial_cs: add configuration quirk
  [SERIAL] serial_cs: Convert Oxford 950 / Possio GCC wakeup quirk
  [SERIAL] serial_cs: convert IBM post-init handling to a quirk
  [SERIAL] serial_cs: allow wildcarded quirks
  [SERIAL] serial_cs: convert multi-port table to quirk table
  [SERIAL] serial_cs: Use clean up multiport card detection
  ...

[PATCH] FRV: Permit large kmalloc allocations [try #2]

2006-10-03T15:03:40+00:00

Permit kmalloc() to make allocations of up to 32MB if so configured.  This
may be useful under NOMMU conditions where vmalloc() can't do this.

Signed-off-by: David Howells 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] provide kernel_execve on all architectures

2006-10-02T14:57:23+00:00

This adds the new kernel_execve function on all architectures that were using
_syscall3() to implement execve.

The implementation uses code from the _syscall3 macros provided in the
unistd.h header file.  I don't have cross-compilers for any of these
architectures, so the patch is untested with the exception of i386.

Most architectures can probably implement this in a nicer way in assembly or
by combining it with the sys_execve implementation itself, but this should do
it for now.

[bunk@stusta.de: m68knommu build fix]
[markh@osdl.org: build fix]
[bero@arklinux.org: build fix]
[ralf@linux-mips.org: mips fix]
[schwidefsky@de.ibm.com: s390 fix]
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann 
Cc: Andi Kleen 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt 
Cc: Richard Henderson 
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky 
Cc: Russell King 
Cc: Ian Molton 
Cc: Mikael Starvik 
Cc: David Howells 
Cc: Yoshinori Sato 
Cc: Hirokazu Takata 
Cc: Ralf Baechle 
Cc: Kyle McMartin 
Cc: Heiko Carstens 
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky 
Cc: Paul Mundt 
Cc: Kazumoto Kojima 
Cc: Richard Curnow 
Cc: William Lee Irwin III 
Cc: "David S. Miller" 
Cc: Jeff Dike 
Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso 
Cc: Miles Bader 
Cc: Chris Zankel 
Cc: "Luck, Tony" 
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven 
Cc: Roman Zippel 
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle 
Signed-off-by: Bernhard Rosenkraenzer 
Signed-off-by: Mark Haverkamp 
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] nsproxy: move init_nsproxy into kernel/nsproxy.c

2006-10-02T14:57:20+00:00

Move the init_nsproxy definition out of arch/ into kernel/nsproxy.c.  This
avoids all arches having to be updated.  Compiles and boots on s390.

Signed-off-by: Serge E. Hallyn 
Cc: Kirill Korotaev 
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" 
Cc: Herbert Poetzl 
Cc: Andrey Savochkin 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] namespaces: add nsproxy

2006-10-02T14:57:20+00:00

This patch adds a nsproxy structure to the task struct.  Later patches will
move the fs namespace pointer into this structure, and introduce a new utsname
namespace into the nsproxy.

The vserver and openvz functionality, then, would be implemented in large part
by virtualizing/isolating more and more resources into namespaces, each
contained in the nsproxy.

[akpm@osdl.org: build fix]
Signed-off-by: Serge Hallyn 
Cc: Kirill Korotaev 
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" 
Cc: Herbert Poetzl 
Cc: Andrey Savochkin 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[SERIAL] Remove wrong asm/serial.h inclusions

2006-10-01T16:09:16+00:00

asm/serial.h is supposed to contain the definitions for the architecture
specific 8250 ports for the 8250 driver.  It may also define BASE_BAUD,
but this is the base baud for the architecture specific ports _only_.

Therefore, nothing other than the 8250 driver should be including this
header file.  In order to move towards this goal, here is a patch which
removes some of the more obvious incorrect includes of the file.

Acked-by: Paul Fulghum 
Acked-by: Tony Luck 
Acked-by: Ralf Baechle 
Acked-by: David Howells 
Signed-off-by: Russell King

[PATCH] simplify update_times (avoid jiffies/jiffies_64 aliasing problem)

2006-09-29T16:18:15+00:00

Pass ticks to do_timer() and update_times(), and adjust x86_64 and s390
timer interrupt handler with this change.

Currently update_times() calculates ticks by "jiffies - wall_jiffies", but
callers of do_timer() should know how many ticks to update.  Passing ticks
get rid of this redundant calculation.  Also there are another redundancy
pointed out by Martin Schwidefsky.

This cleanup make a barrier added by
5aee405c662ca644980c184774277fc6d0769a84 needless.  So this patch removes
it.

As a bonus, this cleanup make wall_jiffies can be removed easily, since now
wall_jiffies is always synced with jiffies.  (This patch does not really
remove wall_jiffies.  It would be another cleanup patch)

Signed-off-by: Atsushi Nemoto 
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky 
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: john stultz 
Cc: Andi Kleen 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt 
Cc: Richard Henderson 
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky 
Acked-by: Russell King 
Cc: Ian Molton 
Cc: Mikael Starvik 
Acked-by: David Howells 
Cc: Yoshinori Sato 
Cc: Hirokazu Takata 
Acked-by: Ralf Baechle 
Cc: Kyle McMartin 
Cc: Heiko Carstens 
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky 
Cc: Paul Mundt 
Cc: Kazumoto Kojima 
Cc: Richard Curnow 
Cc: William Lee Irwin III 
Cc: "David S. Miller" 
Cc: Jeff Dike 
Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso 
Cc: Miles Bader 
Cc: Chris Zankel 
Acked-by: "Luck, Tony" 
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven 
Cc: Roman Zippel 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds