linux/drivers/block/cpqarray.c, branch v2.6.19

[PATCH] cpqarray: fix iostat

2006-11-14T23:08:50Z

cpqarray needs to call disk_stat_add() for iostat to work. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

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

2006-10-05T14:10:12Z

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

2006-10-04T07:38:54Z

kbuild explicitly includes this at build time. Signed-off-by: Dave Jones

[PATCH] Kill various deprecated/unused block layer defines/functions

2006-09-30T18:29:38Z

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

[PATCH] drivers/block/cpqarray.c: remove an unused variable

2006-07-15T04:53:53Z

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk Acked-by: Mike Miller Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

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

2006-07-02T20:58:49Z

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

[PATCH] devfs: Remove the gendisk devfs_name field as it's no longer needed

2006-06-26T19:25:08Z

And remove the now unneeded number field. Also fixes all drivers that set these fields. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

[PATCH] devfs: Remove the devfs_fs_kernel.h file from the tree

2006-06-26T19:25:08Z

Also fixes up all files that #include it. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

[PATCH] devfs: Remove devfs_remove() function from the kernel tree

2006-06-26T19:25:07Z

Removes the devfs_remove() function and all callers of it. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

[PATCH] cpqarray section fix

2006-06-25T17:01:06Z

WARNING: drivers/block/cpqarray.o - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text: from .text between 'cpqarray_register_ctlr' (at offset 0xe98) and 'alloc_cpqarray_hba' WARNING: drivers/block/cpqarray.o - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text: from .text between 'cpqarray_register_ctlr' (at offset 0xe9c) and 'alloc_cpqarray_hba' Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds