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Joe Perches
8e95a2026f drivers/net: Move && and || to end of previous line
Only files where David Miller is the primary git-signer.
wireless, wimax, ixgbe, etc are not modified.

Compile tested x86 allyesconfig only
Not all files compiled (not x86 compatible)

Added a few > 80 column lines, which I ignored.
Existing checkpatch complaints ignored.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-12-03 13:18:01 -08:00
Joe Perches
a0607fd3a2 drivers/net: request_irq - Remove unnecessary leading & from second arg
Not as fancy as coccinelle.  Checkpatch errors ignored.
Compile tested allyesconfig x86, not all files compiled.

grep -rPl --include=*.[ch] "\brequest_irq\s*\([^,\)]+,\s*\&" drivers/net | while read file ; do \
	perl -i -e 'local $/; while (<>) { s@(\brequest_irq\s*\([^,\)]+,\s*)\&@\1@g ; print ; }' $file ;\
done

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-11-18 23:29:17 -08:00
Ben Hutchings
7ab0f2736b netdev: Remove redundant checks for CAP_NET_ADMIN in MDIO implementations
dev_ioctl() already checks capable(CAP_NET_ADMIN) before calling the
driver's implementation of MDIO ioctls.

Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-09-03 20:02:11 -07:00
Ben Hutchings
aae5e7c30f netdev: Remove SIOCDEVPRIVATE aliases for MDIO ioctls
The standard MDIO ioctl numbers are well-established and these should
no longer be needed.

Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-09-03 20:02:09 -07:00
Stephen Hemminger
61357325f3 netdev: convert bulk of drivers to netdev_tx_t
In a couple of cases collapse some extra code like:
   int retval = NETDEV_TX_OK;
   ...
   return retval;
into
   return NETDEV_TX_OK;

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-09-01 01:14:07 -07:00
David S. Miller
aa11d958d1 Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
Conflicts:
	arch/microblaze/include/asm/socket.h
2009-08-12 17:44:53 -07:00
Joe Perches
ad361c9884 Remove multiple KERN_ prefixes from printk formats
Commit 5fd29d6ccb ("printk: clean up
handling of log-levels and newlines") changed printk semantics.  printk
lines with multiple KERN_<level> prefixes are no longer emitted as
before the patch.

<level> is now included in the output on each additional use.

Remove all uses of multiple KERN_<level>s in formats.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-07-08 10:30:03 -07:00
Patrick McHardy
6ed106549d net: use NETDEV_TX_OK instead of 0 in ndo_start_xmit() functions
This patch is the result of an automatic spatch transformation to convert
all ndo_start_xmit() return values of 0 to NETDEV_TX_OK.

Some occurences are missed by the automatic conversion, those will be
handled in a seperate patch.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-07-05 19:16:04 -07:00
Stephen Hemminger
23410495d7 natsemi: fix non-constant printk warnings
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-26 22:21:58 -08:00
Ben Hutchings
288379f050 net: Remove redundant NAPI functions
Following the removal of the unused struct net_device * parameter from
the NAPI functions named *netif_rx_* in commit 908a7a1, they are
exactly equivalent to the corresponding *napi_* functions and are
therefore redundant.

Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Acked-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-01-21 14:33:50 -08:00
Stephen Hemminger
2b7d0c7039 natsemi: update to net_device_ops
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-01-07 17:57:19 -08:00
Neil Horman
908a7a16b8 net: Remove unused netdev arg from some NAPI interfaces.
When the napi api was changed to separate its 1:1 binding to the net_device
struct, the netif_rx_[prep|schedule|complete] api failed to remove the now
vestigual net_device structure parameter.  This patch cleans up that api by
properly removing it..

Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-12-22 20:43:12 -08:00
David S. Miller
babcda74e9 drivers/net: Kill now superfluous ->last_rx stores.
The generic packet receive code takes care of setting
netdev->last_rx when necessary, for the sake of the
bonding ARP monitor.

Drivers need not do it any more.

Some cases had to be skipped over because the drivers
were making use of the ->last_rx value themselves.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-11-03 21:11:17 -08:00
Johannes Berg
e174961ca1 net: convert print_mac to %pM
This converts pretty much everything to print_mac. There were
a few things that had conflicts which I have just dropped for
now, no harm done.

I've built an allyesconfig with this and looked at the files
that weren't built very carefully, but it's a huge patch.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-10-27 17:06:18 -07:00
Arjan van de Ven
ed4cb1337b netdev: uniquify the tx_timeout name
there's several drivers that have use "tx_timeout" for the .. tx
timeout function.  All fine with that, they're static, however for
doing stats on how often which driver hits the timeout it's a tad
unfortunate. The patch below gives the ones I found in the
kerneloops.org database unique names.

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-10-08 17:09:54 -07:00
Jeff Garzik
7d2e3cb700 [netdrvr] Trim trailing whitespace for several drivers
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
2008-05-13 01:41:58 -04:00
Sergei Shtylyov
703bb99ca7 natsemi: fix MMIO for PPC 44x platforms
The driver stores the PCI resource address into 'unsigned long' variable before
calling ioremap()  on it. This warrants a kernel oops when the registers are
accessed on PPC 44x platforms which (being 32-bit) have PCI memory space mapped
beyond 4 GB.

The arch/ppc/ kernel has a fixup in ioremap() that creates an illusion of the
PCI memory resources are mapped below 4 GB, but arch/powerpc/ code got rid of
this trick, having instead CONFIG_RESOURCES_64BIT enabled.

Signed-off-by: Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
2008-04-17 15:31:31 -04:00
Al Viro
eca1ad82bd misc drivers/net annotations
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2008-03-26 00:18:43 -04:00
Andrew Morton
aa738adf89 natsemi: section fix
gcc-3.4.4 on powerpc:

drivers/net/natsemi.c:245: error: natsemi_pci_info causes a section type conflict

Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-02-09 23:41:08 -08:00
Mark Brown
6344f0521a natsemi: Update locking documentation
The documentation regarding synchronisation at the head of the natsemi
driver was badly bitrotted so replace it with a general statement about
the techniques used which is less likely to bitrot.

Also remove the note saying these chips are uncommon - it makes little
difference but they were used in a number of laptops and at least one mass
market PCI ethernet card.

Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@sirena.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-02-03 04:28:42 -08:00
David S. Miller
4ec2411980 [NET]: Do not check netif_running() and carrier state in ->poll()
Drivers do this to try to break out of the ->poll()'ing loop
when the device is being brought administratively down.

Now that we have a napi_disable() "pending" state we are going
to solve that problem generically.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-08 23:30:09 -08:00
Ingo Molnar
bbbab5ca83 natsemi: fix oops, link back netdevice from private-struct
* Andrew Nelless <andrew@nelless.net> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I booted up 2.6.24-rc1 this morning [Real early over a brew ;-)] and
> was having a problems with multiple ~5 second hangs on SATA/drive init
> (Something to do with "EH" something-or-other and resets but I'll
> email in separately about it later unless its fixed by the time I get
> the chance).
>
> Anyway, I went to fire up netconsole to get a decent log dump and hit
> across the following nasty. Netconsole works fine in 2.6.23.1 with a
> similar config and the same kernel parameters.
>
> A shot of the screen is the only method I could come up with to
> capture the log, I hope that is OK, it is pretty readable.
>
>
> The nasty:
> http://andotnet.nfshost.com/linux/2.6.24-rc1-netconsole-nullderef.jpg

the NULL dereference is here:

 (gdb) list *0xffffffff804a9504
 0xffffffff804a9504 is in natsemi_poll (drivers/net/natsemi.c:717).
 712             return count;
 713     }
 714
 715     static inline void __iomem *ns_ioaddr(struct net_device *dev)
 716     {
 717             return (void __iomem *) dev->base_addr;
 718     }
 719

which is this code from natsemi.c:

 2227            struct net_device *dev = np->dev;
 2228            void __iomem * ioaddr = ns_ioaddr(dev);
 2229            int work_done = 0;

seems like the NAPI changes in -rc1 added an np->dev field but forgot to
initialize it ...

does the patch below fix the oops for you?

	Ingo

-------------------->
Subject: natsemi: fix oops, link back netdevice from private-struct
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

this commit:

  commit bea3348eef
  Author: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
  Date:   Wed Oct 3 16:41:36 2007 -0700

      [NET]: Make NAPI polling independent of struct net_device objects.

added np->dev to drivers/net/natsemi.c's struct netdev_private, but
forgot to initialize that new field upon driver init. The result was
a predictable NULL dereference oops the first time the hardware
generated an interrupt.

Reported-by: Andrew Nelless <andrew@nelless.net>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2007-10-25 03:31:14 -04:00
Rolf Eike Beer
405bbe9fa3 Typo: depricated -> deprecated
Typo: depricated -> deprecated

Signed-off-by: Rolf Eike Beer <eike-kernel@sf-tec.de>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
2007-10-20 03:10:57 +02:00
Mark Brown
a8a935dae5 natsemi: Check return value for pci_enable_device()
pci_enable_device() is __must_check so do that in natsemi_resume().

Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@sirena.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2007-10-15 14:20:45 -04:00
Mark Brown
0e5d5442cb natsemi: Use round_jiffies() for slow timers
Unless we have failed to fill the RX ring the timer used by the natsemi
driver is not particularly urgent and can use round_jiffies() to allow
grouping with other timers.

Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@sirena.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2007-10-15 14:20:45 -04:00
Mark Brown
f2cade1337 natsemi: Use NATSEMI_TIMER_FREQ consistently
The natsemi driver has a define NATSEMI_TIMER_FREQ which looks like it
controls the normal frequency of the chip poll timer but in fact only
takes effect for the first run of the timer.  Adjust the value of the
define to match that used by the timer and use the define consistently.

Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@sirena.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2007-10-10 16:55:29 -07:00
Stephen Hemminger
ddfce6bb43 network drivers: sparse warning fixes
Fix some of the easy warnings in network device drivers.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2007-10-10 16:55:27 -07:00
Joe Perches
0795af5729 [NET]: Introduce and use print_mac() and DECLARE_MAC_BUF()
This is nicer than the MAC_FMT stuff.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:51:42 -07:00
Ralf Baechle
10d024c1b2 [NET]: Nuke SET_MODULE_OWNER macro.
It's been a useless no-op for long enough in 2.6 so I figured it's time to
remove it.  The number of people that could object because they're
maintaining unified 2.4 and 2.6 drivers is probably rather small.

[ Handled drivers added by netdev tree and some missed IRDA cases... -DaveM ]

Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:51:13 -07:00
Stephen Hemminger
bea3348eef [NET]: Make NAPI polling independent of struct net_device objects.
Several devices have multiple independant RX queues per net
device, and some have a single interrupt doorbell for several
queues.

In either case, it's easier to support layouts like that if the
structure representing the poll is independant from the net
device itself.

The signature of the ->poll() call back goes from:

	int foo_poll(struct net_device *dev, int *budget)

to

	int foo_poll(struct napi_struct *napi, int budget)

The caller is returned the number of RX packets processed (or
the number of "NAPI credits" consumed if you want to get
abstract).  The callee no longer messes around bumping
dev->quota, *budget, etc. because that is all handled in the
caller upon return.

The napi_struct is to be embedded in the device driver private data
structures.

Furthermore, it is the driver's responsibility to disable all NAPI
instances in it's ->stop() device close handler.  Since the
napi_struct is privatized into the driver's private data structures,
only the driver knows how to get at all of the napi_struct instances
it may have per-device.

With lots of help and suggestions from Rusty Russell, Roland Dreier,
Michael Chan, Jeff Garzik, and Jamal Hadi Salim.

Bug fixes from Thomas Graf, Roland Dreier, Peter Zijlstra,
Joseph Fannin, Scott Wood, Hans J. Koch, and Michael Chan.

[ Ported to current tree and all drivers converted.  Integrated
  Stephen's follow-on kerneldoc additions, and restored poll_list
  handling to the old style to fix mutual exclusion issues.  -DaveM ]

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:47:45 -07:00
Andrew Morton
c76720cf7b natsemi: fix netdev error acounting
When a detailed netdev error is counted, we also must account for it in the
aggregated error count.

Addresses http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8106

Cc: Tim Hockin <thockin@hockin.org>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Cc: Chongfeng Hu <loveminix@yahoo.com.cn>
Cc: Natalie Protasevich <protasnb@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2007-08-14 01:36:39 -04:00
Jeff Garzik
f6c4286590 [netdrvr] natsemi: Fix device removal bug
This episode illustrates how an overused warning can train people to
ignore that warning, which winds up hiding bugs.

The warning

drivers/net/natsemi.c: In function ‘natsemi_remove1’:
drivers/net/natsemi.c:3222: warning: ignoring return value of
‘device_create_file’, declared with attribute warn_unused_result

is oft-ignored, even though at close inspection one notices this occurs
in the /remove/ function, not normally where creation occurs.  A quick
s/create/remove/ and we are fixed, with the warning gone.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2007-07-17 16:17:59 -04:00
David S. Miller
8c7b7faaa6 [NET]: Kill eth_copy_and_sum().
It hasn't "summed" anything in over 7 years, and it's
just a straight mempcy ala skb_copy_to_linear_data()
so just get rid of it.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-10 22:08:12 -07:00
Gregory Haskins
d41f2d17f8 natsemi irq flags
The spinlock irq flags should be a unsigned long to properly support 64 bit

Signed-off-by: Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2007-06-20 19:15:04 -04:00
Markus Dahms
2c2a8c531e remove broken URLs from net drivers' output
Remove broken URLs (www.scyld.com) from network drivers' logging output.
URLs in comments and other strings are left intact.

Signed-off-by: Markus Dahms <dahms@fh-brandenburg.de>
Acked-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
igned-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2007-05-09 08:58:18 +02:00
Mark Brown
1a14780960 Subject: natsemi: Allow users to disable workaround for DspCfg reset
The natsemi driver contains a workaround for broken hardware which can
partially reset the chip at unpredictable times, detected by checking for
spontaneous changes in the DspCfg register.  The effects of the hardware
bug appear to be variable and can range from minor problems like small
numbers of corrupted packets to major ones such as the chip becoming
non-functional.  In the case of minor problems the chip reconfiguration
required to work around the hardware can cause more problems than the bug
itself.

Since we have no way of automatically determining how badly the problem
manifests on any given system provide an option in sysfs allowing users to
disable the workaround at runtime and provides a module option to set the
default.

Signed-Off-By: Mark Brown <broonie@sirena.org.uk>

Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2007-05-08 01:15:35 -04:00
Mark Brown
d0ed48640e natsemi: Improve diagnostics for DspCfg workaround
The natsemi driver has a workaround for broken hardware which resets itself
from time to time.  There is a diagnostic message for this workaround but
it is not printed by default, making the driver behavior more obscure than
it needs to be.  Make the message be displayed by default.

Signed-Off-By: Mark Brown <broonie@sirena.org.uk>

Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2007-05-08 01:15:35 -04:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
4c13eb6657 [ETH]: Make eth_type_trans set skb->dev like the other *_type_trans
One less thing for drivers writers to worry about.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25 22:24:30 -07:00
broonie@sirena.org.uk
d2a900365b natsemi: Avoid IntrStatus lossage if RX state machine resets.
This patch fixes the poll routine for the natsemi driver so that if the
driver detects an RX state machine lockup then no interrupts will be
lost while the driver recovers from that.

Signed-Off-By: Mark Brown <broonie@sirena.org.uk>

Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2007-03-15 10:59:54 -04:00
broonie@sirena.org.uk
069f825636 natsemi: Fix NAPI for interrupt sharing
The interrupt status register for the natsemi chips is clear on read and
was read unconditionally from both the interrupt and from the NAPI poll
routine, meaning that if the interrupt service routine was called (for
example, due to a shared interrupt) while a NAPI poll was scheduled
interrupts could be missed.  This patch fixes that by ensuring that the
interrupt status register is only read by the interrupt handler when
interrupts are enabled from the chip.

It also reverts a workaround for this problem from the netpoll hook and
improves the trace for interrupt events.

Thanks to Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com> for spotting the
issue, Mark Huth <mhuth@mvista.com> for a simpler method and Simon
Blake <simon@citylink.co.nz> for testing resources.

Signed-Off-By: Mark Brown <broonie@sirena.org.uk>

Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2007-03-15 10:59:54 -04:00
broonie@sirena.org.uk
14fdd90ef2 natsemi: Consistently use interrupt enable/disable functions
The natsemi drivers include functions for enabling and disabling
interrupts from the chip but these are not used in all code paths.  This
patch changes the code paths that touch the interrupt enable register to
use the functions.  In all cases this adds an extra PCI read to post the
operation but since none of these are in fast paths this shouldn't be
too much of a problem.

Signed-Off-By: Mark Brown <broonie@sirena.org.uk>

Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2007-03-15 10:59:54 -04:00
Sergei Shtylyov
6006f7f517 natsemi: netpoll fixes
Fix two issues in this driver's netpoll path: one usual, with spin_unlock_irq()
enabling interrupts which nobody asks it to do (that has been fixed recently in
a number of drivers) and one unusual, with poll_controller() method possibly
causing loss of interrupts due to the interrupt status register being cleared
by a simple read and the interrpupt handler simply storing it, not accumulating.

Signed-off-by: Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2007-03-06 06:10:01 -05:00
Mark Brown
36c843d5e3 natsemi: Fix detection of vanilla natsemi cards
Bob Tracy <rct@gherkin.frus.com> reported that the addition of support
for Aculab E1/T1 cPCI carrier cards broke detection of vanilla natsemi
cards.  This patch fixes that: the problem is that the driver-specific
ta in the PCI device table is an index into a second table and this
had not been updated for the vanilla cards.

This patch fixes the problem minimally.

Signed-Off-By: Mark Brown <broonie@sirena.org.uk>

Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2007-02-27 04:30:43 -05:00
Mark Brown
6aab44475a natsemi: Support Aculab E1/T1 PMXc cPCI carrier cards
Aculab E1/T1 PMXc cPCI carrier card cards present a natsemi on the cPCI
bus with an oversized EEPROM using a direct MII<->MII connection with no
PHY.  This patch adds a new device table entry supporting these cards.

Signed-Off-By: Mark Brown <broonie@sirena.org.uk>

Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2007-02-20 11:18:13 -05:00
Mark Brown
68c90166e4 natsemi: Add support for using MII port with no PHY
This patch provides code paths which allow the natsemi driver to use the
external MII port on the chip but ignore any PHYs that may be attached to it.
The link state will be left as it was when the driver started and can be
configured via ethtool.  Any PHYs that are present can be accessed via the MII
ioctl()s.

This is useful for systems where the device is connected without a PHY
or where either information or actions outside the scope of the driver
are required in order to use the PHYs.

Signed-Off-By: Mark Brown <broonie@sirena.org.uk>

Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2007-02-20 11:18:13 -05:00
David Howells
7d12e780e0 IRQ: Maintain regs pointer globally rather than passing to IRQ handlers
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)
2006-10-05 15:10:12 +01:00
Jeff Garzik
7282d491ec drivers/net: const-ify ethtool_ops declarations
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2006-09-13 14:30:00 -04:00
Jeff Garzik
6aa20a2235 drivers/net: Trim trailing whitespace
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2006-09-13 13:24:59 -04:00
Jeff Garzik
4e83b7fad8 Merge branch 'tmp' into upstream 2006-09-12 11:45:33 -04:00
Andy Gospodarek
d5b20697ca [PATCH] Remove more unnecessary driver printk's
As I promised last week, here is the first pass at removing all
unnecessary printk's that exist in network device drivers currently in
promiscuous mode.  The duplicate messages are not needed so they have
been removed.  Some of these drivers are quite old and might not need an
update, but I did them all anyway.

I am currently auditing the remaining conditional printk's and will send
out a patch for those soon.

Signed-off-by: Andy Gospodarek <andy@greyhouse.net>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2006-09-12 11:45:19 -04:00