kernel.git/arch/powerpc/xmon, branch linux-2.6.19.y

[POWERPC] Fix xmon IRQ handler for pt_regs removal

2006-10-10T01:47:07Z

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras

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

2006-10-05T14:10:12Z

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)

[POWERPC] Don't try to just continue if xmon has no input device

2006-10-04T04:52:40Z

Currently, if xmon has no input device (as is generally the case on G5 powermacs), and we drop into xmon as a result of a fatal exception, it will return 1, which die() interprets as "continue without causing an oops". This fixes it by making xmon() return 0 in the case where it has no input device. Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras

[POWERPC] Fix xmon=off and cleanup xmon initialisation

2006-10-04T04:52:22Z

My patch to make the early xmon logic work with earlier early param parsing (480f6f35a149802a94ad5c1a2673ed6ec8d2c158) breaks xmon=off. No one does this obviously as xmon rocks, but it should really work as documented. While fixing that it struck me that we could move the xmon param handling into xmon.c, and also consolidate the xmon_init()/do_early_xmon logic into xmon_setup(). This means xmon=early drops into xmon a little earlier on 32-bit, but it seems to work just fine. Tested on PSERIES and CLASSIC32. Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras

[POWERPC] print backtrace when entering xmon

2006-09-13T08:39:53Z

xmon does not print a backtrace per default. This is bad on systems with USB keyboard, the most needed info about the crash is lost. print a backtrace during the very first xmon entry. Booting with xmon=nobt disables the autobacktrace functionality. Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras

Remove obsolete #include

2006-06-30T17:25:36Z

Signed-off-by: Jörn Engel Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk

[PATCH] Rewritten backlight infrastructure for portable Apple computers

2006-06-25T17:00:59Z

This patch contains a total rewrite of the backlight infrastructure for portable Apple computers. Backward compatibility is retained. A sysfs interface allows userland to control the brightness with more steps than before. Userland is allowed to upload a brightness curve for different monitors, similar to Mac OS X. [akpm@osdl.org: add needed exports] Signed-off-by: Michael Hanselmann Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Cc: Richard Purdie Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] powerpc: add a raw dump command to xmon

2006-03-17T02:22:33Z

Dump a stream of rawbytes with a new 'dr' command. Produces less output and it is simpler to feed the output to scripts. Also, dr has no dumpsize limits. Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras

[PATCH] powerpc: xmon namespace cleanups

2006-01-12T09:39:14Z

These symbols are only used in the file that they are defined in, so they should not be in the global namespace. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras

[PATCH] powerpc: Add a is_kernel_addr() macro

2006-01-09T03:51:50Z

There's a bunch of code that compares an address with KERNELBASE to see if it's a "kernel address", ie. >= KERNELBASE. The proper test is actually to compare with PAGE_OFFSET, since we're going to change KERNELBASE soon. So replace all of them with an is_kernel_addr() macro that does that. Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras