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Ingo Molnar 174cd4b1e5 sched/headers: Prepare to move signal wakeup & sigpending methods from <linux/sched.h> into <linux/sched/signal.h>
Fix up affected files that include this signal functionality via sched.h.

Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2017-03-02 08:42:32 +01:00
Colin Ian King 0fa2c8eb27 ppdev: don't print a free'd string
A previous fix of a memory leak now prints the string 'name'
that was previously free'd.  Fix this by free'ing the string
at the end of the function and adding an error exit path for
the error conditions.

CoverityScan CID#1384523 ("Use after free")

Fixes: 2bd362d5f4 ("ppdev: fix memory leak")
Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
Acked-by: Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2017-01-11 09:14:19 +01:00
Sudip Mukherjee dd5c472a60 ppdev: check before attaching port
After parport starts using the device model, all pardevice drivers
should decide in their match_port callback function if they want to
attach with that particulatr port. ppdev has been converted to use the
new parport device-model code but pp_attach() tried to attach with all
the ports.
Create a new array of pointer and use that to remember the ports we
have attached. And use that information to skip attaching ports which
we have already attached.

Tested-by: Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Sudip Mukherjee <sudip.mukherjee@codethink.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2016-11-29 20:25:34 +01:00
Sudip Mukherjee 826a4c6574 ppdev: use pr_* macros
The coding style recommends not to use printk. Use pr_* macros.

Signed-off-by: Sudip Mukherjee <sudip.mukherjee@codethink.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2016-11-29 20:25:34 +01:00
Sudip Mukherjee 2bd362d5f4 ppdev: fix memory leak
The variable name was only released if parport_register_dev_model()
fails. Now that we are using the device-model the parport driver
will duplicate the name and use it. So we can release the variable
after the device has been registered with the parport.

Suggested-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Sudip Mukherjee <sudip.mukherjee@codethink.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2016-11-29 20:25:34 +01:00
Jann Horn b13d14339b ppdev: fix double-free of pp->pdev->name
free_pardevice() is called by parport_unregister_device() and already frees
pp->pdev->name, don't try to do it again.

This bug causes kernel crashes.

I found and verified this with KASAN and some added pr_emerg()s:

[   60.316568] pp_release: pp->pdev->name == ffff88039cb264c0
[   60.316692] free_pardevice: freeing par_dev->name at ffff88039cb264c0
[   60.316706] pp_release: kfree(ffff88039cb264c0)
[   60.316714] ==========================================================
[   60.316722] BUG: Double free or freeing an invalid pointer
[   60.316731] Unexpected shadow byte: 0xFB
[   60.316801] Object at ffff88039cb264c0, in cache kmalloc-32 size: 32
[   60.316813] Allocated:
[   60.316824] PID = 1695
[   60.316869] Freed:
[   60.316880] PID = 1695
[   60.316935] ==========================================================

Signed-off-by: Jann Horn <jann@thejh.net>
Acked-by: Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2016-11-10 15:24:02 +01:00
Sudip Mukherjee 8b7d3a9d90 ppdev: use new parport device model
Modify ppdev driver to use the new parallel port device model.

Initially submitted and committed as:
e7223f1860 ("ppdev: use new parport device model")

But due to some regression it was reverted by:
1701f68040 ("Revert "ppdev: use new parport device model"")

Now that the original source of regression is fixed by:
bbca503b2e ("parport: use subsys_initcall") we can again modify ppdev
to use device model.

Signed-off-by: Sudip Mukherjee <sudip.mukherjee@codethink.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2016-08-31 14:22:49 +02:00
Linus Torvalds 1701f68040 Revert "ppdev: use new parport device model"
This reverts commit e7223f1860.

It causes problems when a ppdev tries to register before the parport
driver has been registered with the device model. That will trigger the

        BUG_ON(!drv->bus->p);

at drivers/base/driver.c:153. The call chain is

  kernel_init ->
    kernel_init_freeable ->
      do_one_initcall ->
        ppdev_init ->
          __parport_register_driver ->
            driver_register *BOOM*

Reported-by: kernel test robot <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Reported-by: Ross Zwisler <zwisler@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Cc: Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-03-25 09:02:13 -07:00
Sudip Mukherjee 396ec3dea3 ppdev: use dev_* macros
It is more preffered to use the dev_* family of macros instead of using
the generic pr_*.

Signed-off-by: Sudip Mukherjee <sudip@vectorindia.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2016-02-14 17:43:50 -08:00
Sudip Mukherjee e7223f1860 ppdev: use new parport device model
Modify ppdev driver to use the new parallel port device model.

Signed-off-by: Sudip Mukherjee <sudip@vectorindia.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2016-02-14 17:43:50 -08:00
Sudip Mukherjee 3c8db58432 ppdev: remove space before tab
For alignment we should use tab in all possible places.
checkpatch was complaining for using space before tab.

Signed-off-by: Sudip Mukherjee <sudip@vectorindia.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2016-02-14 17:43:50 -08:00
Sudip Mukherjee a7c71c07a3 ppdev: fix parenthesis alignment
checkpatch was complaining that the alignment was not matching with the
open parenthesis.

Signed-off-by: Sudip Mukherjee <sudip@vectorindia.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2016-02-14 17:43:50 -08:00
Sudip Mukherjee 83e80605cc ppdev: remove braces
For single statement if and else blocks we do not need braces.

Signed-off-by: Sudip Mukherjee <sudip@vectorindia.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2016-02-14 17:43:50 -08:00
Sudip Mukherjee 27f3b8a3bf ppdev: add missing blank line
kernel coding style recommends a blank line after varaiable declaration.

Signed-off-by: Sudip Mukherjee <sudip@vectorindia.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2016-02-14 17:43:50 -08:00
Sudip Mukherjee d85c1a2d15 ppdev: remove whitespace around pointers
checkpatch was complaining about space around the pointer.

Signed-off-by: Sudip Mukherjee <sudip@vectorindia.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2016-02-14 17:43:50 -08:00
Sudip Mukherjee 783ea44db7 ppdev: space prohibited between function name and parenthesis
checkpatch was complaining about space between function name and open
parenthesis.

Signed-off-by: Sudip Mukherjee <sudip@vectorindia.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2016-02-14 17:43:50 -08:00
Bamvor Jian Zhang 17a3596f21 ppdev: add support for compat ioctl
The arg of ioctl in ppdev is the pointer of integer except the
timeval in PPSETTIME, PPGETTIME. Different size of timeval
is already supported by the previous patches. So, it is safe
to add compat support.

Signed-off-by: Bamvor Jian Zhang <bamvor.zhangjian@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Tested-by: Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2016-02-08 15:00:04 -08:00
Bamvor Jian Zhang 3b9ab374a1 ppdev: convert to y2038 safe
The y2038 issue for ppdev is changes of timeval in the ioctl
(PPSETTIME and PPGETTIME). The size of struct timeval changes from
8bytes to 16bytes due to the changes of time_t. It lead to the
changes of the command of ioctl, e.g. for PPGETTIME, We have:

on 32-bit (old): 0x80087095
on 32-bit (new): 0x80107095
on 64-bit      : 0x80107095

This patch define these two ioctl commands to support the 32bit
and 64bit time_t application at the same time. And, introduce
pp_set_timeout to remove some duplicated code.

Signed-off-by: Bamvor Jian Zhang <bamvor.zhangjian@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Tested-by: Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2016-02-08 15:00:04 -08:00
Al Viro 496ad9aa8e new helper: file_inode(file)
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2013-02-22 23:31:31 -05:00
Jiri Kosina 3bd7bf1f0f Merge branch 'master' into for-next
Sync up with Linus' tree to be able to apply Cesar's patch
against newer version of the code.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2012-10-28 19:29:19 +01:00
Alan Cox 5d0c3d4f3d parport: dead code in pp_write
We always update bytes_written before we check signal_pending so it
follows that we can't get a signal return for 0 bytes so we don't
need to check in the singal path. The cases a signal causes an earlier
abort are handled before this and will not hit this path

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2012-10-15 22:46:41 +02:00
Alexey Khoroshilov 9a32bb39d6 ppdev: ppdev_init: do not return zero in case of failure
Error handling of parport_register_driver() in ppdev_init()
is broken because it deallocates all resources but still
returns zero.

Currently parport_register_driver() always succeeds.
Nevertheless it is worth to fix the issue.

Found by Linux Driver Verification project (linuxtesting.org).

Signed-off-by: Alexey Khoroshilov <khoroshilov@ispras.ru>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2012-09-05 13:44:04 -07:00
Julia Lawall d98808a253 drivers/char/ppdev.c: put gotten port value
parport_find_number() calls parport_get_port() on its result, so there
should be a corresponding call to parport_put_port() before dropping the
reference.  Similar code is found in the function register_device() in the
same file.

The semantic match that finds this problem is as follows:
(http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)

  // <smpl>
  @exists@
  local idexpression struct parport * x;
  expression ra,rr;
  statement S1,S2;
  @@

  x = parport_find_number(...)
  ... when != x = rr
      when any
      when != parport_put_port(x,...)
      when != if (...) { ... parport_put_port(x,...) ...}
  (
  if(<+...x...+>) S1 else S2
  |
  if(...) { ... when != x = ra
       when forall
       when != parport_put_port(x,...)
  *return...;
  }
  )
  // </smpl>

Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-05-26 17:12:37 -07:00
Vasiliy Kulikov b9b1134260 drivers/char/ppdev.c: fix information leak to userland
Structure par_timeout is copied to userland with some padding fields
unitialized.  Field tv_usec has type __kernel_suseconds_t, it differs from
tv_sec's type on some architectures.  It leads to leaking of stack memory.

Signed-off-by: Vasiliy Kulikov <segooon@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-10-27 18:03:14 -07:00
Arnd Bergmann 613655fa39 drivers: autoconvert trivial BKL users to private mutex
All these files use the big kernel lock in a trivial
way to serialize their private file operations,
typically resulting from an earlier semi-automatic
pushdown from VFS.

None of these drivers appears to want to lock against
other code, and they all use the BKL as the top-level
lock in their file operations, meaning that there
is no lock-order inversion problem.

Consequently, we can remove the BKL completely,
replacing it with a per-file mutex in every case.
Using a scripted approach means we can avoid
typos.

These drivers do not seem to be under active
maintainance from my brief investigation. Apologies
to those maintainers that I have missed.

file=$1
name=$2
if grep -q lock_kernel ${file} ; then
    if grep -q 'include.*linux.mutex.h' ${file} ; then
            sed -i '/include.*<linux\/smp_lock.h>/d' ${file}
    else
            sed -i 's/include.*<linux\/smp_lock.h>.*$/include <linux\/mutex.h>/g' ${file}
    fi
    sed -i ${file} \
        -e "/^#include.*linux.mutex.h/,$ {
                1,/^\(static\|int\|long\)/ {
                     /^\(static\|int\|long\)/istatic DEFINE_MUTEX(${name}_mutex);

} }"  \
    -e "s/\(un\)*lock_kernel\>[ ]*()/mutex_\1lock(\&${name}_mutex)/g" \
    -e '/[      ]*cycle_kernel_lock();/d'
else
    sed -i -e '/include.*\<smp_lock.h\>/d' ${file}  \
                -e '/cycle_kernel_lock()/d'
fi

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
2010-10-05 15:01:04 +02:00
Julia Lawall 87575437d8 drivers/char/ppdev.c: use kasprintf
kasprintf combines kmalloc and sprintf, and takes care of the size
calculation itself.

The semantic patch that makes this change is as follows:
(http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)

// <smpl>
@@
expression a,flag;
expression list args;
statement S;
@@

  a =
-  \(kmalloc\|kzalloc\)(...,flag)
+  kasprintf(flag,args)
  <... when != a
  if (a == NULL || ...) S
  ...>
- sprintf(a,args);
// </smpl>

Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
Cc: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-05-27 09:12:50 -07:00
Tejun Heo 5a0e3ad6af include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h
percpu.h is included by sched.h and module.h and thus ends up being
included when building most .c files.  percpu.h includes slab.h which
in turn includes gfp.h making everything defined by the two files
universally available and complicating inclusion dependencies.

percpu.h -> slab.h dependency is about to be removed.  Prepare for
this change by updating users of gfp and slab facilities include those
headers directly instead of assuming availability.  As this conversion
needs to touch large number of source files, the following script is
used as the basis of conversion.

  http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/misc/slabh-sweep.py

The script does the followings.

* Scan files for gfp and slab usages and update includes such that
  only the necessary includes are there.  ie. if only gfp is used,
  gfp.h, if slab is used, slab.h.

* When the script inserts a new include, it looks at the include
  blocks and try to put the new include such that its order conforms
  to its surrounding.  It's put in the include block which contains
  core kernel includes, in the same order that the rest are ordered -
  alphabetical, Christmas tree, rev-Xmas-tree or at the end if there
  doesn't seem to be any matching order.

* If the script can't find a place to put a new include (mostly
  because the file doesn't have fitting include block), it prints out
  an error message indicating which .h file needs to be added to the
  file.

The conversion was done in the following steps.

1. The initial automatic conversion of all .c files updated slightly
   over 4000 files, deleting around 700 includes and adding ~480 gfp.h
   and ~3000 slab.h inclusions.  The script emitted errors for ~400
   files.

2. Each error was manually checked.  Some didn't need the inclusion,
   some needed manual addition while adding it to implementation .h or
   embedding .c file was more appropriate for others.  This step added
   inclusions to around 150 files.

3. The script was run again and the output was compared to the edits
   from #2 to make sure no file was left behind.

4. Several build tests were done and a couple of problems were fixed.
   e.g. lib/decompress_*.c used malloc/free() wrappers around slab
   APIs requiring slab.h to be added manually.

5. The script was run on all .h files but without automatically
   editing them as sprinkling gfp.h and slab.h inclusions around .h
   files could easily lead to inclusion dependency hell.  Most gfp.h
   inclusion directives were ignored as stuff from gfp.h was usually
   wildly available and often used in preprocessor macros.  Each
   slab.h inclusion directive was examined and added manually as
   necessary.

6. percpu.h was updated not to include slab.h.

7. Build test were done on the following configurations and failures
   were fixed.  CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL was turned off for all tests (as my
   distributed build env didn't work with gcov compiles) and a few
   more options had to be turned off depending on archs to make things
   build (like ipr on powerpc/64 which failed due to missing writeq).

   * x86 and x86_64 UP and SMP allmodconfig and a custom test config.
   * powerpc and powerpc64 SMP allmodconfig
   * sparc and sparc64 SMP allmodconfig
   * ia64 SMP allmodconfig
   * s390 SMP allmodconfig
   * alpha SMP allmodconfig
   * um on x86_64 SMP allmodconfig

8. percpu.h modifications were reverted so that it could be applied as
   a separate patch and serve as bisection point.

Given the fact that I had only a couple of failures from tests on step
6, I'm fairly confident about the coverage of this conversion patch.
If there is a breakage, it's likely to be something in one of the arch
headers which should be easily discoverable easily on most builds of
the specific arch.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Guess-its-ok-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>
2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
Michael Buesch 81fc401e42 ppdev: reduce kernel log spam
One of my programs frequently grabs the parport, does something with it
and then drops it again. This results in spamming of the kernel log with

"... registered pardevice"
"... unregistered pardevice"

These messages are completely useless, except for debugging ppdev,
probably.  So put them under DEBUG (or dynamic debug).

Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-06-18 13:03:54 -07:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman 03457cd455 device create: char: convert device_create_drvdata to device_create
Now that device_create() has been audited, rename things back to the
original call to be sane.

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-10-16 09:24:42 -07:00
Alan Cox 6d535d3e6a ppdev: wrap ioctl handler in driver and push lock down
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-25 10:53:43 -07:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman 47aa5793f7 device create: char: convert device_create to device_create_drvdata
device_create() is race-prone, so use the race-free
device_create_drvdata() instead as device_create() is going away.

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-07-21 21:54:41 -07:00
Jonathan Corbet f2b9857eee Add a bunch of cycle_kernel_lock() calls
All of the open() functions which don't need the BKL on their face may
still depend on its acquisition to serialize opens against driver
initialization.  So make those functions acquire then release the BKL to be
on the safe side.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2008-06-20 14:05:53 -06:00
Jonathan Corbet d21c95c569 Add "no BKL needed" comments to several drivers
This documents the fact that somebody looked at the relevant open()
functions and concluded that, due to their trivial nature, no locking was
needed.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2008-06-20 14:05:50 -06:00
Jeff Garzik 5712cb3d81 [PARPORT] Remove unused 'irq' argument from parport irq functions
None of the drivers with a struct pardevice's ->irq_func() hook ever
used the 'irq' argument passed to it, so remove it.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
2007-10-23 19:53:16 -04:00
Jesper Juhl 3f1a4373e7 Clean up duplicate includes in drivers/char/
This patch cleans up duplicate includes in
	drivers/char/

Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Cc: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:42:48 -07:00
Randy Dunlap e63340ae6b header cleaning: don't include smp_lock.h when not used
Remove includes of <linux/smp_lock.h> where it is not used/needed.
Suggested by Al Viro.

Builds cleanly on x86_64, i386, alpha, ia64, powerpc, sparc,
sparc64, and arm (all 59 defconfigs).

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-08 11:15:07 -07:00
David Brownell da67529642 layered parport code uses parport->dev
Update some of the layered parport_driver code to use parport->dev:

	- i2c-parport (parent of i2c_adapter)
	- spi_butterfly (parent of spi_master, allowing cruft removal)
	- lp (creating class_device)
	- ppdev (parent of parportN device)
	- tipar (creating class_device)

There are still drivers that should be updated, like some of the input
drivers; but they won't be any worse off than they are today.

Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-08 11:15:05 -07:00
Josef Sipek a7113a9662 [PATCH] struct path: convert char-drivers
Signed-off-by: Josef Sipek <jsipek@fsl.cs.sunysb.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-08 08:28:44 -08:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman 04880edae5 Driver core: convert ppdev code to use struct device
Converts from using struct "class_device" to "struct device" making
everything show up properly in /sys/devices/ with symlinks from the
/sys/class directory.

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-12-01 14:52:00 -08:00
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
Arjan van de Ven 62322d2554 [PATCH] make more file_operation structs static
Mark the static struct file_operations in drivers/char as const.  Making
them const prevents accidental bugs, and moves them to the .rodata section
so that they no longer do any false sharing; in addition with the proper
debug option they are then protected against corruption..

[akpm@osdl.org: build fix]
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-07-03 15:26:59 -07:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman ff23eca3e8 [PATCH] devfs: Remove the devfs_fs_kernel.h file from the tree
Also fixes up all files that #include it.

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-06-26 12:25:08 -07:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman 8ab5e4c15b [PATCH] devfs: Remove devfs_remove() function from the kernel tree
Removes the devfs_remove() function and all callers of it.

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-06-26 12:25:07 -07:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman 7c69ef7974 [PATCH] devfs: Remove devfs_mk_cdev() function from the kernel tree
Removes the devfs_mk_cdev() function and all callers of it.

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-06-26 12:25:07 -07:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman 95dc112a57 [PATCH] devfs: Remove devfs_mk_dir() function from the kernel tree
Removes the devfs_mk_dir() function and all callers of it.

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-06-26 12:25:06 -07:00
Rene Herman e6a6784627 [PATCH] parport: move PP_MAJOR from ppdev.h to major.h
Today I wondered about /dev/parport<n> after not seeing anything in
drivers/parport register char-major-99.  Having PP_MAJOR in
include/linux/major.h would've allowed me to more quickly determine that it
was the ppdev driver driving these.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-25 08:22:53 -08:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman 53f4654272 [PATCH] Driver Core: fix up all callers of class_device_create()
The previous patch adding the ability to nest struct class_device
changed the paramaters to the call class_device_create().  This patch
fixes up all in-kernel users of the function.

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-10-28 09:52:52 -07:00
gregkh@suse.de ca8eca6884 [PATCH] class: convert drivers/char/* to use the new class api instead of class_simple
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-06-20 15:15:08 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 1da177e4c3 Linux-2.6.12-rc2
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!
2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00