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2006-10-05	IRQ: Maintain regs pointer globally rather than passing to IRQ handlers	David Howells	1	-1/+1
	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)
2006-07-02	[PATCH] irq-flags: sound: Use the new IRQF_ constants	Thomas Gleixner	1	-1/+1
	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: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@suse.cz> Cc: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-04-12	[ALSA] unregister platform device again if probe was unsuccessful	Rene Herman	1	-0/+4
	Unregister the platform device again if the probe was unsuccessful. This restores the behaviour of not loading the driver on probe() failure. Signed-off-by: Rene Herman <rene.herman@keyaccess.nl> Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
2006-04-12	[ALSA] continue on IS_ERR from platform device registration	Rene Herman	1	-10/+4
	Continue with the next one on error from device registration. This would seem the correct thing to do, even if it's not the probe() error that we're getting. Signed-off-by: Rene Herman <rene.herman@keyaccess.nl> Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
2006-03-22	[ALSA] Fix check of enable module option	Takashi Iwai	1	-1/+3
	Fix the check of enable module option in probe of platform_device drivers. It shouldn't break the loop but just ignore if enable[i] is false. Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
2006-01-03	[ALSA] unregister platform devices	Clemens Ladisch	1	-2/+14
	Call platform_device_unregister() for all platform devices that we've registered. Signed-off-by: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>
2006-01-03	[ALSA] sgalaxy - Use platform_device, add PM support	Takashi Iwai	1	-17/+76
	Modules: Sound Galaxy driver Rewrite the probe/remove with platform_device. Also, add the PM support. Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
2006-01-03	[ALSA] Remove xxx_t typedefs: ISA SB/AD-clone	Takashi Iwai	1	-7/+7
	Modules: ALS100 driver,AZT2320 driver,DT019x driver,Sound Galaxy driver Remove xxx_t typedefs from the ISA SB/AD-clone drivers (als100, azt2320, dt019x, sgalaxy). Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
2005-09-12	[ALSA] Add snd_card_set_generic_dev() call to ISA drivers	Takashi Iwai	1	-32/+33
	ISA,CMI8330 driver,ES18xx driver,OPL3SA2 driver,Sound Galaxy driver Sound Scape driver,AD1848 driver,CS4231 driver,CS4236+ driver ES1688 driver,GUS Classic driver,GUS Extreme driver,GUS MAX driver AMD InterWave driver,Opti9xx drivers,SB16/AWE driver,SB8 driver Wavefront drivers - Added snd_card_set_generic_dev() call. - Added SND_GENERIC_DRIVER to Kconfig. - Clean up the error path in probe if necessary. Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
2005-04-16	Linux-2.6.12-rc2	Linus Torvalds	1	-0/+322
	Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history, even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about 3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good infrastructure for it. Let it rip!