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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 <dhowells@redhat.com> (cherry picked from 1b16e7ac850969f38b375e511e3fa2f474a33867 commit) |
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ati_pcigart.c | ||
drm_agpsupport.c | ||
drm_auth.c | ||
drm_bufs.c | ||
drm_context.c | ||
drm_core.h | ||
drm_dma.c | ||
drm_drawable.c | ||
drm_drv.c | ||
drm_fops.c | ||
drm_hashtab.c | ||
drm_hashtab.h | ||
drm_ioc32.c | ||
drm_ioctl.c | ||
drm_irq.c | ||
drm_lock.c | ||
drm_memory_debug.h | ||
drm_memory.c | ||
drm_memory.h | ||
drm_mm.c | ||
drm_os_linux.h | ||
drm_pci.c | ||
drm_pciids.h | ||
drm_proc.c | ||
drm_sarea.h | ||
drm_scatter.c | ||
drm_sman.c | ||
drm_sman.h | ||
drm_stub.c | ||
drm_sysfs.c | ||
drm_vm.c | ||
drm.h | ||
drmP.h | ||
ffb_context.c | ||
ffb_drv.c | ||
ffb_drv.h | ||
i810_dma.c | ||
i810_drm.h | ||
i810_drv.c | ||
i810_drv.h | ||
i830_dma.c | ||
i830_drm.h | ||
i830_drv.c | ||
i830_drv.h | ||
i830_irq.c | ||
i915_dma.c | ||
i915_drm.h | ||
i915_drv.c | ||
i915_drv.h | ||
i915_ioc32.c | ||
i915_irq.c | ||
i915_mem.c | ||
Kconfig | ||
Makefile | ||
mga_dma.c | ||
mga_drm.h | ||
mga_drv.c | ||
mga_drv.h | ||
mga_ioc32.c | ||
mga_irq.c | ||
mga_state.c | ||
mga_ucode.h | ||
mga_warp.c | ||
r128_cce.c | ||
r128_drm.h | ||
r128_drv.c | ||
r128_drv.h | ||
r128_ioc32.c | ||
r128_irq.c | ||
r128_state.c | ||
r300_cmdbuf.c | ||
r300_reg.h | ||
radeon_cp.c | ||
radeon_drm.h | ||
radeon_drv.c | ||
radeon_drv.h | ||
radeon_ioc32.c | ||
radeon_irq.c | ||
radeon_mem.c | ||
radeon_state.c | ||
README.drm | ||
savage_bci.c | ||
savage_drm.h | ||
savage_drv.c | ||
savage_drv.h | ||
savage_state.c | ||
sis_drm.h | ||
sis_drv.c | ||
sis_drv.h | ||
sis_mm.c | ||
tdfx_drv.c | ||
tdfx_drv.h | ||
via_3d_reg.h | ||
via_dma.c | ||
via_dmablit.c | ||
via_dmablit.h | ||
via_drm.h | ||
via_drv.c | ||
via_drv.h | ||
via_irq.c | ||
via_map.c | ||
via_mm.c | ||
via_mm.h | ||
via_verifier.c | ||
via_verifier.h | ||
via_video.c |
************************************************************ * For the very latest on DRI development, please see: * * http://dri.sourceforge.net/ * ************************************************************ The Direct Rendering Manager (drm) is a device-independent kernel-level device driver that provides support for the XFree86 Direct Rendering Infrastructure (DRI). The DRM supports the Direct Rendering Infrastructure (DRI) in four major ways: 1. The DRM provides synchronized access to the graphics hardware via the use of an optimized two-tiered lock. 2. The DRM enforces the DRI security policy for access to the graphics hardware by only allowing authenticated X11 clients access to restricted regions of memory. 3. The DRM provides a generic DMA engine, complete with multiple queues and the ability to detect the need for an OpenGL context switch. 4. The DRM is extensible via the use of small device-specific modules that rely extensively on the API exported by the DRM module. Documentation on the DRI is available from: http://precisioninsight.com/piinsights.html For specific information about kernel-level support, see: The Direct Rendering Manager, Kernel Support for the Direct Rendering Infrastructure http://precisioninsight.com/dr/drm.html Hardware Locking for the Direct Rendering Infrastructure http://precisioninsight.com/dr/locking.html A Security Analysis of the Direct Rendering Infrastructure http://precisioninsight.com/dr/security.html ************************************************************ * For the very latest on DRI development, please see: * * http://dri.sourceforge.net/ * ************************************************************