linux.git/drivers/misc/ibmasm, branch v2.6.25

NULL noise: drivers/misc

2008-03-30T21:18:41+00:00

Signed-off-by: Al Viro 
Acked-by: Harvey Harrison 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

kobject: convert ibmasm to use kref, not kobject

2008-01-25T04:40:08+00:00

The IBM asm driver is using a kobject only for reference counting,
nothing else.  So switch it to use a kref instead, which is all that is
needed, and is much smaller.

Cc: Max Asböck 
Cc: Kay Sievers 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Convert files to UTF-8 and some cleanups

2007-10-19T21:21:04+00:00

* Convert files to UTF-8.

  * Also correct some people's names
    (one example is Eißfeldt, which was found in a source file.
    Given that the author used an ß at all in a source file
    indicates that the real name has in fact a 'ß' and not an 'ss',
    which is commonly used as a substitute for 'ß' when limited to
    7bit.)

  * Correct town names (Goettingen -> Göttingen)

  * Update Eberhard Mönkeberg's address (http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/1/8/313)

Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt 
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk

get rid of input BIT* duplicate defines

2007-10-19T18:53:42+00:00

get rid of input BIT* duplicate defines

use newly global defined macros for input layer. Also remove includes of
input.h from non-input sources only for BIT macro definiton. Define the
macro temporarily in local manner, all those local definitons will be
removed further in this patchset (to not break bisecting).
BIT macro will be globally defined (1<
Cc: 
Acked-by: Jiri Kosina 
Cc: 
Acked-by: Marcel Holtmann 
Cc: 
Acked-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab 
Cc: 
Cc: 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

some kmalloc/memset ->kzalloc (tree wide)

2007-07-19T17:04:50+00:00

Transform some calls to kmalloc/memset to a single kzalloc (or kcalloc).

Here is a short excerpt of the semantic patch performing
this transformation:

@@
type T2;
expression x;
identifier f,fld;
expression E;
expression E1,E2;
expression e1,e2,e3,y;
statement S;
@@

 x =
- kmalloc
+ kzalloc
  (E1,E2)
  ...  when != \(x->fld=E;\|y=f(...,x,...);\|f(...,x,...);\|x=E;\|while(...) S\|for(e1;e2;e3) S\)
- memset((T2)x,0,E1);

@@
expression E1,E2,E3;
@@

- kzalloc(E1 * E2,E3)
+ kcalloc(E1,E2,E3)

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: get kcalloc args the right way around]
Signed-off-by: Yoann Padioleau 
Cc: Richard Henderson 
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky 
Acked-by: Russell King 
Cc: Bryan Wu 
Acked-by: Jiri Slaby 
Cc: Dave Airlie 
Acked-by: Roland Dreier 
Cc: Jiri Kosina 
Acked-by: Dmitry Torokhov 
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt 
Acked-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab 
Acked-by: Pierre Ossman 
Cc: Jeff Garzik 
Cc: "David S. Miller" 
Acked-by: Greg KH 
Cc: James Bottomley 
Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

IBMASM: miscellaneous fixes

2007-07-17T17:23:04+00:00

IBMASM: miscellaneous fixes

Fix some minor issues, such as:
 - properly set up ID of keyboard device (was mixed up with mouse)
 - constify translation tables
 - change some variables to #defines
 - set up input device's parent to form proper sysfs hierarchy
 - minor formatting changes

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov 
Cc: Vernon Mauery 
Cc: Max Asbock 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

IBMASM: dont use extern in function declarations

2007-07-17T17:23:04+00:00

IBMASM: don't use extern in function declarations

We normally don't use extern in function declarations located in header files.

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov 
Cc: Vernon Mauery 
Cc: Max Asbock 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

IBMASM: whitespace cleanup

2007-07-17T17:23:04+00:00

IBMASM: whitespace cleanup

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov 
Cc: Vernon Mauery 
Cc: Max Asbock 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] mark struct file_operations const 5

2007-02-12T17:48:45+00:00

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 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

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

2006-10-05T14:10:12+00:00

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)