kernel.git/drivers/net/wan/farsync.c, branch linux-2.6.25.y

wan/farsync: copy_from_user() to iomem is wrong

2008-03-17T11:56:29Z

kmalloc intermediate buffer(), do copy_from_user() + memcpy_toio() Signed-off-by: Al Viro Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik

[netdrvr] irq handler minor cleanups in several drivers

2008-01-28T23:03:40Z

* use irq_handler_t where appropriate * no need to use 'irq' function arg, its already stored in a data struct * rename irq handler 'irq' argument to 'dummy', where the function has been analyzed and proven not to use its first argument. * remove always-false "dev_id == NULL" test from irq handlers * remove pointless casts from void* * declance: irq argument is not const * add KERN_xxx printk prefix * fix minor whitespace weirdness Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik

some kmalloc/memset ->kzalloc (tree wide)

2007-07-19T17:04:50Z

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

[SK_BUFF]: Introduce skb_reset_mac_header(skb)

2007-04-26T05:24:32Z

For the common, open coded 'skb->mac.raw = skb->data' operation, so that we can later turn skb->mac.raw into a offset, reducing the size of struct sk_buff in 64bit land while possibly keeping it as a pointer on 32bit. This one touches just the most simple case, next will handle the slightly more "complex" cases. Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

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)

drivers/net: Remove deprecated use of pci_module_init()

2006-08-19T21:48:59Z

From: Michal Piotrowski Signed-off-by: Michal Piotrowski Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik

[PATCH] irq-flags: drivers/net: Use the new IRQF_ constants

2006-07-02T20:58:51Z

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: "David S. Miller" Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Cc: Jeff Garzik Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] drivers/net/wan/: possible cleanups

2005-09-14T12:36:54Z

This patch contains possible cleanups including the following: - make needlessly global code static - #if 0 the following unused global function: - sdladrv.c: sdla_intde - remove the following unused global variable: - lmc_media.c: lmc_t1_cables - remove the following unneeded EXPORT_SYMBOL's: - cycx_drv.c: cycx_inten - sdladrv.c: sdla_inten - sdladrv.c: sdla_intde - sdladrv.c: sdla_intack - sdladrv.c: sdla_intr - syncppp.c: sppp_input - syncppp.c: sppp_change_mtu Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik

[PATCH] drivers/net: fix-up schedule_timeout() usage

2005-09-14T12:33:24Z

Use schedule_timeout_interruptible() instead of set_current_state()/schedule_timeout() to reduce kernel size. Signed-off-by: Nishanth Aravamudan Cc: Jeff Garzik Cc: "David S. Miller" Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik

[NET]: __be'ify *_type_trans()

2005-07-12T19:08:43Z

tr_type_trans(), hippi_type_trans() left as-is. Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan Signed-off-by: David S. Miller