Hi Kyle,
this patch fixes the following section mismatch (EISA cards should be hotplug aware, but the EISA bus itself shouldn't):
WARNING: drivers/built-in.o(.text.eisa_probe+0x220): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:eisa_root_register (after 'eisa_probe')
Please apply,
Helge
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@parisc-linux.org>
Clean up ROUNDUP, Use ALIGN where ever appropriate.
Signed-off-by: Milind Arun Choudhary <milindchoudhary@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Grant Grundler <grundler@parisc-linux.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@parisc-linux.org>
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>
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: (49 commits)
[SCTP]: Set assoc_id correctly during INIT collision.
[SCTP]: Re-order SCTP initializations to avoid race with sctp_rcv()
[SCTP]: Fix the SO_REUSEADDR handling to be similar to TCP.
[SCTP]: Verify all destination ports in sctp_connectx.
[XFRM] SPD info TLV aggregation
[XFRM] SAD info TLV aggregationx
[AF_RXRPC]: Sort out MTU handling.
[AF_IUCV/IUCV] : Add missing section annotations
[AF_IUCV]: Implementation of a skb backlog queue
[NETLINK]: Remove bogus BUG_ON
[IPV6]: Some cleanups in include/net/ipv6.h
[TCP]: zero out rx_opt in tcp_disconnect()
[BNX2]: Fix TSO problem with small MSS.
[NET]: Rework dev_base via list_head (v3)
[TCP] Highspeed: Limited slow-start is nowadays in tcp_slow_start
[BNX2]: Update version and reldate.
[BNX2]: Print bus information for PCIE devices.
[BNX2]: Add 1-shot MSI handler for 5709.
[BNX2]: Restructure PHY event handling.
[BNX2]: Add indirect spinlock.
...
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-2.6:
remove "struct subsystem" as it is no longer needed
sysfs: printk format warning
DOC: Fix wrong identifier name in Documentation/driver-model/devres.txt
platform: reorder platform_device_del
Driver core: fix show_uevent from taking up way too much stack
Cleanup of dev_base list use, with the aim to simplify making device
list per-namespace. In almost every occasion, use of dev_base variable
and dev->next pointer could be easily replaced by for_each_netdev
loop. A few most complicated places were converted to using
first_netdev()/next_netdev().
Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelianov <xemul@openvz.org>
Acked-by: Kirill Korotaev <dev@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
I noticed that many source files include <linux/pci.h> while they do
not appear to need it. Here is an attempt to clean it all up.
In order to find all possibly affected files, I searched for all
files including <linux/pci.h> but without any other occurence of "pci"
or "PCI". I removed the include statement from all of these, then I
compiled an allmodconfig kernel on both i386 and x86_64 and fixed the
false positives manually.
My tests covered 66% of the affected files, so there could be false
positives remaining. Untested files are:
arch/alpha/kernel/err_common.c
arch/alpha/kernel/err_ev6.c
arch/alpha/kernel/err_ev7.c
arch/ia64/sn/kernel/huberror.c
arch/ia64/sn/kernel/xpnet.c
arch/m68knommu/kernel/dma.c
arch/mips/lib/iomap.c
arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/ras.c
arch/ppc/8260_io/enet.c
arch/ppc/8260_io/fcc_enet.c
arch/ppc/8xx_io/enet.c
arch/ppc/syslib/ppc4xx_sgdma.c
arch/sh64/mach-cayman/iomap.c
arch/xtensa/kernel/xtensa_ksyms.c
arch/xtensa/platform-iss/setup.c
drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-at91.c
drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-mpc.c
drivers/media/video/saa711x.c
drivers/misc/hdpuftrs/hdpu_cpustate.c
drivers/misc/hdpuftrs/hdpu_nexus.c
drivers/net/au1000_eth.c
drivers/net/fec_8xx/fec_main.c
drivers/net/fec_8xx/fec_mii.c
drivers/net/fs_enet/fs_enet-main.c
drivers/net/fs_enet/mac-fcc.c
drivers/net/fs_enet/mac-fec.c
drivers/net/fs_enet/mac-scc.c
drivers/net/fs_enet/mii-bitbang.c
drivers/net/fs_enet/mii-fec.c
drivers/net/ibm_emac/ibm_emac_core.c
drivers/net/lasi_82596.c
drivers/parisc/hppb.c
drivers/sbus/sbus.c
drivers/video/g364fb.c
drivers/video/platinumfb.c
drivers/video/stifb.c
drivers/video/valkyriefb.c
include/asm-arm/arch-ixp4xx/dma.h
sound/oss/au1550_ac97.c
I would welcome test reports for these files. I am fine with removing
the untested files from the patch if the general opinion is that these
changes aren't safe. The tested part would still be nice to have.
Note that this patch depends on another header fixup patch I submitted
to LKML yesterday:
[PATCH] scatterlist.h needs types.h
http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/3/01/141
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Cc: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
We need to work on cleaning up the relationship between kobjects, ksets and
ktypes. The removal of 'struct subsystem' is the first step of this,
especially as it is not really needed at all.
Thanks to Kay for fixing the bugs in this patch.
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Herbert Xu conviced me that a new flag was overkill; every driver
currently overrides get_stats, so we might as well make the internal
one the default. If someone did fail to set get_stats, they would now
get all 0 stats instead of "No statistics available".
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Acked-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Network drivers which keep stats allocate their own stats structure
then write a get_stats() function to return them. It would be nice if
this were done by default.
1) Add a new "stats" field to "struct net_device".
2) Add a new feature field to say "this driver uses the internal one"
3) Have a default "get_stats" which returns NULL if that feature not set.
4) Change callers to check result of get_stats call for NULL, not if
->get_stats is set.
This should not break backwards compatibility with older drivers, yet
allow modern drivers to shed some boilerplate code.
Lightly tested: works for a modified lguest network driver.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kyle/parisc-2.6: (78 commits)
[PARISC] Use symbolic last syscall in __NR_Linux_syscalls
[PARISC] Add missing statfs64 and fstatfs64 syscalls
Revert "[PARISC] Optimize TLB flush on SMP systems"
[PARISC] Compat signal fixes for 64-bit parisc
[PARISC] Reorder syscalls to match unistd.h
Revert "[PATCH] make kernel/signal.c:kill_proc_info() static"
[PARISC] fix sys_rt_sigqueueinfo
[PARISC] fix section mismatch warnings in harmony sound driver
[PARISC] do not export get_register/set_register
[PARISC] add ENTRY()/ENDPROC() and simplify assembly of HP/UX emulation code
[PARISC] convert to use CONFIG_64BIT instead of __LP64__
[PARISC] use CONFIG_64BIT instead of __LP64__
[PARISC] add ASM_EXCEPTIONTABLE_ENTRY() macro
[PARISC] more ENTRY(), ENDPROC(), END() conversions
[PARISC] fix ENTRY() and ENDPROC() for 64bit-parisc
[PARISC] Fixes /proc/cpuinfo cache output on B160L
[PARISC] implement standard ENTRY(), END() and ENDPROC()
[PARISC] kill ENTRY_SYS_CPUS
[PARISC] clean up debugging printks in smp.c
[PARISC] factor syscall_restart code out of do_signal
...
Fix conflict in include/linux/sched.h due to kill_proc_info() being made
publicly available to PARISC again.
And remove it's reference in time.c.
Allow lcd_print() to take a const char *.
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@parisc-linux.org>
After Al Viro (finally) succeeded in removing the sched.h #include in module.h
recently, it makes sense again to remove other superfluous sched.h includes.
There are quite a lot of files which include it but don't actually need
anything defined in there. Presumably these includes were once needed for
macros that used to live in sched.h, but moved to other header files in the
course of cleaning it up.
To ease the pain, this time I did not fiddle with any header files and only
removed #includes from .c-files, which tend to cause less trouble.
Compile tested against 2.6.20-rc2 and 2.6.20-rc2-mm2 (with offsets) on alpha,
arm, i386, ia64, mips, powerpc, and x86_64 with allnoconfig, defconfig,
allmodconfig, and allyesconfig as well as a few randconfigs on x86_64 and all
configs in arch/arm/configs on arm. I also checked that no new warnings were
introduced by the patch (actually, some warnings are removed that were emitted
by unnecessarily included header files).
Signed-off-by: Tim Schmielau <tim@physik3.uni-rostock.de>
Acked-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Many struct file_operations in the kernel can be "const". Marking them const
moves these to the .rodata section, which avoids false sharing with potential
dirty data. In addition it'll catch accidental writes at compile time to
these shared resources.
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Bug: pnx8550 code creates directory but resets ->nlink to 1.
create_proc_entry() et al will correctly set ->nlink for you.
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fix/change module_param permissions parameter from an init value
to a permission value.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Run this:
#!/bin/sh
for f in $(grep -Erl "\([^\)]*\) *k[cmz]alloc" *) ; do
echo "De-casting $f..."
perl -pi -e "s/ ?= ?\([^\)]*\) *(k[cmz]alloc) *\(/ = \1\(/" $f
done
And then go through and reinstate those cases where code is casting pointers
to non-pointers.
And then drop a few hunks which conflicted with outstanding work.
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>, Ian Molton <spyro@f2s.com>
Cc: Mikael Starvik <starvik@axis.com>
Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>
Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Cc: Paul Fulghum <paulkf@microgate.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Karsten Keil <kkeil@suse.de>
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com>
Cc: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
Cc: Steven French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
Cc: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@suse.cz>
Cc: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Fix up some PA-RISC work items broken by the workstruct reduction.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@parisc-linux.org>
Firmware ignores Cardbus bridges, so when Linux assigns bus numbers,
it must override firmware's notion of what the busses are numbered.
This is not sufficient to support the Cardbus bridge as there is also
no interrupt routing table entry for them.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@parisc-linux.org>
This patch addresses the following issues:
* Removes an incorrect comment.
* Fixes a couple of compiler warnings.
* Properly detects the HP-PB bus on E-Class systems.
Signed-off-by: Ryan Bradetich <rbrad@parisc-linux.org>
Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@parisc-linux.org>
Fix various .c/.h typos in comments (no code changes).
Signed-off-by: Matt LaPlante <kernel1@cyberdogtech.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
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)
Pull out struct sba_device and struct lba_device into a
common ropes.h header. Also fold the parisc portion of
iosapic.h into this file. (Then delete the useless portion
of iosapic.h)
Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@parisc-linux.org>
Our prior mode of operation didn't allow nested interrupts
because it makes the interrupt code much simpler. However,
nested interrupts are better for latency.
This code uses the EIEM register to simulate level interrupts
and thus achieve nesting.
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@parisc-linux.org>
Add header for McKinley bus related code. Remove extern decl
of proc_mckinley_root in drivers/parisc/sba_iommu.c
Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@parisc-linux.org>
Many files include the filename at the beginning, serveral used a wrong one.
Signed-off-by: Uwe Zeisberger <Uwe_Zeisberger@digi.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
There are a few places in the kernel where the init task is signaled. The
ctrl+alt+del sequence is one them. It kills a task, usually init, using a
cached pid (cad_pid).
This patch replaces the pid_t by a struct pid to avoid pid wrap around
problem. The struct pid is initialized at boot time in init() and can be
modified through systctl with
/proc/sys/kernel/cad_pid
[ I haven't found any distro using it ? ]
It also introduces a small helper routine kill_cad_pid() which is used
where it seemed ok to use cad_pid instead of pid 1.
[akpm@osdl.org: cleanups, build fix]
Signed-off-by: Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com>
Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
In some places, particularly drivers and __init code, the init utsns is the
appropriate one to use. This patch replaces those with a the init_utsname
helper.
Changes: Removed several uses of init_utsname(). Hope I picked all the
right ones in net/ipv4/ipconfig.c. These are now changed to
utsname() (the per-process namespace utsname) in the previous
patch (2/7)
[akpm@osdl.org: CIFS fix]
Signed-off-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Kirill Korotaev <dev@openvz.org>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at>
Cc: Andrey Savochkin <saw@sw.ru>
Cc: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Use the new IRQF_ constants and remove the SA_INTERRUPT define
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
The remaining counters in page_state after the zoned VM counter patches
have been applied are all just for show in /proc/vmstat. They have no
essential function for the VM.
We use a simple increment of per cpu variables. In order to avoid the most
severe races we disable preempt. Preempt does not prevent the race between
an increment and an interrupt handler incrementing the same statistics
counter. However, that race is exceedingly rare, we may only loose one
increment or so and there is no requirement (at least not in kernel) that
the vm event counters have to be accurate.
In the non preempt case this results in a simple increment for each
counter. For many architectures this will be reduced by the compiler to a
single instruction. This single instruction is atomic for i386 and x86_64.
And therefore even the rare race condition in an interrupt is avoided for
both architectures in most cases.
The patchset also adds an off switch for embedded systems that allows a
building of linux kernels without these counters.
The implementation of these counters is through inline code that hopefully
results in only a single instruction increment instruction being emitted
(i386, x86_64) or in the increment being hidden though instruction
concurrency (EPIC architectures such as ia64 can get that done).
Benefits:
- VM event counter operations usually reduce to a single inline instruction
on i386 and x86_64.
- No interrupt disable, only preempt disable for the preempt case.
Preempt disable can also be avoided by moving the counter into a spinlock.
- Handling is similar to zoned VM counters.
- Simple and easily extendable.
- Can be omitted to reduce memory use for embedded use.
References:
RFC http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=113512330605497&w=2
RFC http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=114988082814934&w=2
local_t http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=114991748606690&w=2
V2 http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=115014808400007&r=1&w=2
V3 http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=115024767022346&w=2
V4 http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=115047968808926&w=2
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kyle/parisc-2.6: (23 commits)
[PARISC] Move os_id_to_string() inside #ifndef __ASSEMBLY__
[PARISC] Fix do_gettimeofday() hang
[PARISC] Fix PCREL22F relocation problem for most modules
[PARISC] Refactor show_regs in traps.c
[PARISC] Add os_id_to_string helper
[PARISC] OS_ID_LINUX == 0x0006
[PARISC] Ensure Space ID hashing is turned off
[PARISC] Match show_cache_info with reality
[PARISC] Remove unused macro fixup_branch in syscall.S
[PARISC] Add is_compat_task() helper
[PARISC] Update Thibaut Varene's CREDITS entry
[PARISC] Reduce data footprint in pdc_stable.c
[PARISC] pdc_stable version 0.30
[PARISC] Work around machines which do not support chassis warnings
[PARISC] PDC_CHASSIS is implemented on all machines
[PARISC] Remove unconditional #define PIC in syscall macros
[PARISC] Use MFIA in current_text_addr on pa2.0 processors
[PARISC] Remove dead function pc_in_user_space
[PARISC] Test ioc_needs_fdc variable instead of open coding
[PARISC] Fix gcc 4.1 warnings in sba_iommu.c
...
This patch-queue improves the generic IRQ layer to be truly generic, by adding
various abstractions and features to it, without impacting existing
functionality.
While the queue can be best described as "fix and improve everything in the
generic IRQ layer that we could think of", and thus it consists of many
smaller features and lots of cleanups, the one feature that stands out most is
the new 'irq chip' abstraction.
The irq-chip abstraction is about describing and coding and IRQ controller
driver by mapping its raw hardware capabilities [and quirks, if needed] in a
straightforward way, without having to think about "IRQ flow"
(level/edge/etc.) type of details.
This stands in contrast with the current 'irq-type' model of genirq
architectures, which 'mixes' raw hardware capabilities with 'flow' details.
The patchset supports both types of irq controller designs at once, and
converts i386 and x86_64 to the new irq-chip design.
As a bonus side-effect of the irq-chip approach, chained interrupt controllers
(master/slave PIC constructs, etc.) are now supported by design as well.
The end result of this patchset intends to be simpler architecture-level code
and more consolidation between architectures.
We reused many bits of code and many concepts from Russell King's ARM IRQ
layer, the merging of which was one of the motivations for this patchset.
This patch:
rename desc->handler to desc->chip.
Originally i did not want to do this, because it's a big patch. But having
both "desc->handler", "desc->handle_irq" and "action->handler" caused a
large degree of confusion and made the code appear alot less clean than it
truly is.
I have also attempted a dual approach as well by introducing a
desc->chip alias - but that just wasnt robust enough and broke
frequently.
So lets get over with this quickly. The conversion was done automatically
via scripts and converts all the code in the kernel.
This renaming patch is the first one amongst the patches, so that the
remaining patches can stay flexible and can be merged and split up
without having some big monolithic patch act as a merge barrier.
[akpm@osdl.org: build fix]
[akpm@osdl.org: another build fix]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
