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authorDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>2006-10-05 09:55:46 -0400
committerDavid Howells <dhowells@warthog.cambridge.redhat.com>2006-10-05 10:10:12 -0400
commit7d12e780e003f93433d49ce78cfedf4b4c52adc5 (patch)
tree6748550400445c11a306b132009f3001e3525df8 /drivers/input/keyboard/locomokbd.c
parentda482792a6d1a3fbaaa25fae867b343fb4db3246 (diff)
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)
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/input/keyboard/locomokbd.c')
-rw-r--r--drivers/input/keyboard/locomokbd.c8
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/input/keyboard/locomokbd.c b/drivers/input/keyboard/locomokbd.c
index 83906f80ba21..fd33c9cc3272 100644
--- a/drivers/input/keyboard/locomokbd.c
+++ b/drivers/input/keyboard/locomokbd.c
@@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ static inline void locomokbd_reset_col(unsigned long membase, int col)
126 */ 126 */
127 127
128/* Scan the hardware keyboard and push any changes up through the input layer */ 128/* Scan the hardware keyboard and push any changes up through the input layer */
129static void locomokbd_scankeyboard(struct locomokbd *locomokbd, struct pt_regs *regs) 129static void locomokbd_scankeyboard(struct locomokbd *locomokbd)
130{ 130{
131 unsigned int row, col, rowd, scancode; 131 unsigned int row, col, rowd, scancode;
132 unsigned long flags; 132 unsigned long flags;
@@ -135,8 +135,6 @@ static void locomokbd_scankeyboard(struct locomokbd *locomokbd, struct pt_regs *
135 135
136 spin_lock_irqsave(&locomokbd->lock, flags); 136 spin_lock_irqsave(&locomokbd->lock, flags);
137 137
138 input_regs(locomokbd->input, regs);
139
140 locomokbd_charge_all(membase); 138 locomokbd_charge_all(membase);
141 139
142 num_pressed = 0; 140 num_pressed = 0;
@@ -171,13 +169,13 @@ static void locomokbd_scankeyboard(struct locomokbd *locomokbd, struct pt_regs *
171/* 169/*
172 * LoCoMo keyboard interrupt handler. 170 * LoCoMo keyboard interrupt handler.
173 */ 171 */
174static irqreturn_t locomokbd_interrupt(int irq, void *dev_id, struct pt_regs *regs) 172static irqreturn_t locomokbd_interrupt(int irq, void *dev_id)
175{ 173{
176 struct locomokbd *locomokbd = dev_id; 174 struct locomokbd *locomokbd = dev_id;
177 /** wait chattering delay **/ 175 /** wait chattering delay **/
178 udelay(100); 176 udelay(100);
179 177
180 locomokbd_scankeyboard(locomokbd, regs); 178 locomokbd_scankeyboard(locomokbd);
181 179
182 return IRQ_HANDLED; 180 return IRQ_HANDLED;
183} 181}