linux-toradex.git/drivers/char/sonypi.c, branch v2.6.19.2

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)

[PATCH] make more file_operation structs static

2006-07-03T22:26:59+00:00

Mark the static struct file_operations in drivers/char as const.  Making
them const prevents accidental bugs, and moves them to the .rodata section
so that they no longer do any false sharing; in addition with the proper
debug option they are then protected against corruption..

[akpm@osdl.org: build fix]
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] irq-flags: drivers/char: Use the new IRQF_ constants

2006-07-02T20:58:49+00:00

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: "David S. Miller" 
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Remove obsolete #include

2006-06-30T17:25:36+00:00

Signed-off-by: Jörn Engel 
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk

Pull acpi_bus_register_driver into release branch

2006-06-16T01:28:57+00:00

Conflicts:

	drivers/acpi/asus_acpi.c
	drivers/acpi/scan.c

[PATCH] sonypi: correct detection of new ICH7-based laptops

2006-04-20T14:54:04+00:00

Add a test to detect the ICH7 based Core Duo SONY laptops (such as the SZ1)
as type3 models.

Signed-off-by: Arnaud MAZIN < arnaud.mazin@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Stelian Pop 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

ACPI: fix sonypi ACPI driver registration to unregister on failure

2006-04-02T02:48:08+00:00

Remove the assumption that acpi_bus_register_driver() returns the number of
devices claimed.  Returning the count is unreliable because devices may be
hot-plugged in the future (admittedly not applicable for this driver).

This also fixes a bug: if sonypi_acpi_driver was registered but found no
devices, sonypi_exit() did not unregister it.

Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Len Brown

[PATCH] sonypi: Enable ACPI events for Sony laptop hotkeys

2006-01-09T04:14:03+00:00

Signed-off-by: Ben Collins 
Cc: "Brown, Len" 
Cc: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Stelian Pop 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] Sonypi: convert to the new platform device interface

2006-01-09T04:14:03+00:00

Do not use platform_device_register_simple() as it is going away, implement
->probe() and -remove() functions so manual binding and unbinding will work
with this driver.

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov 
Cc: Stelian Pop 
Cc: Mattia Dongili 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[DRIVER MODEL] Convert platform drivers to use struct platform_driver

2005-11-09T22:32:44+00:00

This allows us to eliminate the casts in the drivers, and eventually
remove the use of the device_driver function pointer methods for
platform device drivers.

Signed-off-by: Russell King 
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman