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<title>Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/pci-2.6</title>
<updated>2007-07-12T20:40:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2007-07-12T20:40:57+00:00</published>
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* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/pci-2.6: (34 commits)
  PCI: Only build PCI syscalls on architectures that want them
  PCI: limit pci_get_bus_and_slot to domain 0
  PCI: hotplug: acpiphp: avoid acpiphp "cannot get bridge info" PCI hotplug failure
  PCI: hotplug: acpiphp: remove hot plug parameter write to PCI host bridge
  PCI: hotplug: acpiphp: fix slot poweroff problem on systems without _PS3
  PCI: hotplug: pciehp: wait for 1 second after power off slot
  PCI: pci_set_power_state(): check for PM capabilities earlier
  PCI: cpci_hotplug: Convert to use the kthread API
  PCI: add pci_try_set_mwi
  PCI: pcie: remove SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED
  PCI: ROUND_UP macro cleanup in drivers/pci
  PCI: remove pci_dac_dma_... APIs
  PCI: pci-x-pci-express-read-control-interfaces cleanups
  PCI: Fix typo in include/linux/pci.h
  PCI: pci_ids, remove double or more empty lines
  PCI: pci_ids, add atheros and 3com_2 vendors
  PCI: pci_ids, reorder some entries
  PCI: i386: traps, change VENDOR to DEVICE
  PCI: ATM: lanai, change VENDOR to DEVICE
  PCI: Change all drivers to use pci_device-&gt;revision
  ...
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* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/pci-2.6: (34 commits)
  PCI: Only build PCI syscalls on architectures that want them
  PCI: limit pci_get_bus_and_slot to domain 0
  PCI: hotplug: acpiphp: avoid acpiphp "cannot get bridge info" PCI hotplug failure
  PCI: hotplug: acpiphp: remove hot plug parameter write to PCI host bridge
  PCI: hotplug: acpiphp: fix slot poweroff problem on systems without _PS3
  PCI: hotplug: pciehp: wait for 1 second after power off slot
  PCI: pci_set_power_state(): check for PM capabilities earlier
  PCI: cpci_hotplug: Convert to use the kthread API
  PCI: add pci_try_set_mwi
  PCI: pcie: remove SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED
  PCI: ROUND_UP macro cleanup in drivers/pci
  PCI: remove pci_dac_dma_... APIs
  PCI: pci-x-pci-express-read-control-interfaces cleanups
  PCI: Fix typo in include/linux/pci.h
  PCI: pci_ids, remove double or more empty lines
  PCI: pci_ids, add atheros and 3com_2 vendors
  PCI: pci_ids, reorder some entries
  PCI: i386: traps, change VENDOR to DEVICE
  PCI: ATM: lanai, change VENDOR to DEVICE
  PCI: Change all drivers to use pci_device-&gt;revision
  ...
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<title>PCI: remove useless pci driver method</title>
<updated>2007-07-11T23:02:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Brownell</name>
<email>david-b@pacbell.net</email>
</author>
<published>2007-05-07T17:26:17+00:00</published>
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Remove pointless and never-called enable_wake() hook from pci_driver and
from documentation.  Evidently this was introduced in the 2.4.6 kernel,
but there's no evidence it was ever called; and it was rarely implemented.

Signed-off-by: David Brownell &lt;dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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Remove pointless and never-called enable_wake() hook from pci_driver and
from documentation.  Evidently this was introduced in the 2.4.6 kernel,
but there's no evidence it was ever called; and it was rarely implemented.

Signed-off-by: David Brownell &lt;dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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<title>[NET]: Kill eth_copy_and_sum().</title>
<updated>2007-07-11T05:08:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David S. Miller</name>
<email>davem@davemloft.net</email>
</author>
<published>2007-07-11T05:08:12+00:00</published>
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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 &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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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 &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<title>network drivers: eliminate unneeded kill_vid code</title>
<updated>2007-06-03T15:44:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Stephen Hemminger</name>
<email>shemminger@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2007-06-01T16:44:01+00:00</published>
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Many drivers had code that did kill_vid, but they weren't doing vlan
filtering. With new API the stub is unneeded unless device sets
NETIF_F_HW_VLAN_FILTER.

Bad habit: I couldn't resist fixing a couple of nearby style things
in acenic, and forcedeth.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger &lt;shemminger@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik &lt;jeff@garzik.org&gt;
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Many drivers had code that did kill_vid, but they weren't doing vlan
filtering. With new API the stub is unneeded unless device sets
NETIF_F_HW_VLAN_FILTER.

Bad habit: I couldn't resist fixing a couple of nearby style things
in acenic, and forcedeth.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger &lt;shemminger@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik &lt;jeff@garzik.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Fix occurrences of "the the "</title>
<updated>2007-05-09T06:57:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael Opdenacker</name>
<email>michael@free-electrons.com</email>
</author>
<published>2007-05-09T06:57:56+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Michael Opdenacker &lt;michael@free-electrons.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk &lt;bunk@stusta.de&gt;
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Signed-off-by: Michael Opdenacker &lt;michael@free-electrons.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk &lt;bunk@stusta.de&gt;
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<title>[ETH]: Make eth_type_trans set skb-&gt;dev like the other *_type_trans</title>
<updated>2007-04-26T05:24:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo</name>
<email>acme@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2007-04-26T00:40:23+00:00</published>
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One less thing for drivers writers to worry about.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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One less thing for drivers writers to worry about.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<title>[VLAN]: Avoid a 4-order allocation.</title>
<updated>2007-03-03T04:44:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dan Aloni</name>
<email>da-x@monatomic.org</email>
</author>
<published>2007-03-03T04:44:51+00:00</published>
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This patch splits the vlan_group struct into a multi-allocated struct. On
x86_64, the size of the original struct is a little more than 32KB, causing
a 4-order allocation, which is prune to problems caused by buddy-system
external fragmentation conditions.

I couldn't just use vmalloc() because vfree() cannot be called in the
softirq context of the RCU callback.

Signed-off-by: Dan Aloni &lt;da-x@monatomic.org&gt;
Acked-by: Jeff Garzik &lt;jeff@garzik.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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This patch splits the vlan_group struct into a multi-allocated struct. On
x86_64, the size of the original struct is a little more than 32KB, causing
a 4-order allocation, which is prune to problems caused by buddy-system
external fragmentation conditions.

I couldn't just use vmalloc() because vfree() cannot be called in the
softirq context of the RCU callback.

Signed-off-by: Dan Aloni &lt;da-x@monatomic.org&gt;
Acked-by: Jeff Garzik &lt;jeff@garzik.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>[PATCH] severing skbuff.h -&gt; mm.h</title>
<updated>2006-12-04T07:00:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2006-12-04T04:15:30+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<title>[NET]: Kill direct includes of asm/checksum.h</title>
<updated>2006-12-03T05:22:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2006-11-15T05:13:53+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>IRQ: Maintain regs pointer globally rather than passing to IRQ handlers</title>
<updated>2006-10-05T14:10:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Howells</name>
<email>dhowells@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2006-10-05T13:55:46+00:00</published>
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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 &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
(cherry picked from 1b16e7ac850969f38b375e511e3fa2f474a33867 commit)
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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 &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
(cherry picked from 1b16e7ac850969f38b375e511e3fa2f474a33867 commit)
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