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  1. Oct 10, 2007
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    • Jeff Morrow's avatar
      bugfixes and new hardware support for arcnet driver · 52edc17f
      Jeff Morrow authored
      
      The modifications and bug fixes noted below were done by Realtime Control
      Works and Contemporary Control Systems, Inc, Jan 2005.  They were
      incorporated into the 2.6 kernel by Jeff Morrow of Sierra Analytics, Feb
      2007.  <jmorrow@massspec.com>
      
      The changes have been tested on a Contemporary Controls PCI20U-4000.
      
      Summary of changes:
      
      Arc-rawmode.c:
            rx():
            - Fixed error in received packet lengths; 256 byte packets were
              being received as 257 bytes packets.
      
            prepare_tx():
            - Fixed error in transmit length calcs; 257 byte packets were being
              transmitted as 260 byte packets.
      
      com20020.c:
            com20020_check():
            - We now load the SETUP2 register if the 'clockm' parameter is
              non-zero, instead of checking for ARC_CAN_10MBIT. The user is
              now responsible for whether or not SETUP2 is loaded.  If the
              clock multiplier is non-zero, this means that the user wants a
              baud rate greater than 2.5Mbps. This is not possible unless the
              SETUP2 register is present (COM20020D, or COM20022). So, we're
              relying on the user to be smart about what kind of chip he's
              dealing with...
      
      com20020-pci.c
            - Added several entries to com20020pci_id_table[].
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJeff Morrow <jmorrow@massspec.com>
      Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
      Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
      52edc17f
  5. Feb 12, 2007
  6. Nov 10, 2006
  7. Oct 05, 2006
    • David Howells's avatar
      IRQ: Maintain regs pointer globally rather than passing to IRQ handlers · 7d12e780
      David Howells authored
      
      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: default avatarDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
      (cherry picked from 1b16e7ac850969f38b375e511e3fa2f474a33867 commit)
      7d12e780
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    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Linux-2.6.12-rc2 · 1da177e4
      Linus Torvalds authored
      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!
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