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  1. May 04, 2007
    • Finn Thain's avatar
      m68k: macmace fixes · 8b6aaab8
      Finn Thain authored
      
      Fix a race condition in the transmit code, where the dma interrupt could update
      the free tx buffer count concurrently and wedge the tx queue.
      
      Fix the misuse of the rx frame status and rx frame length registers: no more
      "fifo overrun" errors caused by the OFLOW bit being tested in the frame length
      register (instead of the status register), and no more missed packets due to
      incorrect length taken from status register (instead of the frame length
      register).
      
      Fix a panic (skb_over_panic BUG) caused by allocating and then copying an
      incoming packet while the packet length register was changing.
      
      Cut-and-paste the reset code from the powermac mace driver (mace.c), so the NIC
      functions when MacOS does not initialise it (important for anyone wanting to
      use the Emile boot loader).
      
      Cut-and-paste the error counting and timeout recovery code from mace.c.
      
      Fix over allocation of rx buffer memory (it's page order, not page count).
      
      Converted to driver model.
      
      Converted to DMA API.
      
      Since I've run out of ways to make it fail, and since it performs well now,
      promote the driver from EXPERIMENTAL status. Tested on both quadra 840av and
      660av.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarFinn Thain <fthain@telegraphics.com.au>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarGeert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      8b6aaab8
  2. Apr 25, 2007
  3. Feb 05, 2007
  4. 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
  5. Sep 13, 2006
  6. Apr 16, 2005
    • 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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