linux_dsm_epyc7002/arch/mips/kernel
David Howells 7d12e780e0 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)
2006-10-05 15:10:12 +01:00
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apm.c [MIPS] Don't include obsolete <linux/config.h>. 2006-07-13 21:25:58 +01:00
asm-offsets.c Remove obsolete #include <linux/config.h> 2006-06-30 19:25:36 +02:00
binfmt_elfn32.c [MIPS] jiffies_to_compat_timeval fix 2006-02-21 16:58:23 +00:00
binfmt_elfo32.c [MIPS] jiffies_to_compat_timeval fix 2006-02-21 16:58:23 +00:00
branch.c [MIPS] Unify mips_fpu_soft_struct and mips_fpu_hard_structs. 2006-06-19 17:39:18 +01:00
cpu-bugs64.c Remove obsolete #include <linux/config.h> 2006-06-30 19:25:36 +02:00
cpu-probe.c [MIPS] Reduce race between cpu_wait() and need_resched() checking 2006-09-27 13:37:40 +01:00
dma-no-isa.c Dummy ISA DMA functions for systems that don't have ISA but share 2005-10-29 19:30:17 +01:00
entry.S [MIPS] TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT support. 2006-07-13 21:26:09 +01:00
gdb-low.S [MIPS] TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT support. 2006-07-13 21:26:09 +01:00
gdb-stub.c Remove obsolete #include <linux/config.h> 2006-06-30 19:25:36 +02:00
genex.S [MIPS] Stacktrace build-fix and improvement 2006-10-01 23:16:58 +01:00
head.S [MIPS] TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT support. 2006-07-13 21:26:09 +01:00
i8253.c Input: pcspkr - separate device and driver registration 2006-03-14 00:11:50 -05:00
i8259.c [MIPS] Update i8259 resources. 2006-10-01 23:16:59 +01:00
init_task.c [PATCH] nsproxy: move init_nsproxy into kernel/nsproxy.c 2006-10-02 07:57:20 -07:00
irix5sys.S Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
irixelf.c [PATCH] FDPIC: Move roundup() into linux/kernel.h 2006-07-10 13:24:22 -07:00
irixinv.c Sparseify MIPS. 2005-10-29 19:30:50 +01:00
irixioctl.c Reformatting, remove debugging code. 2005-10-29 19:30:57 +01:00
irixsig.c [MIPS] Move definition of IRIX compat constant into IRIX compat code. 2006-09-27 13:37:45 +01:00
irq_cpu.c [MIPS] Eleminate interrupt migration helper use. 2006-07-13 21:25:58 +01:00
irq-msc01.c [MIPS] Eleminate interrupt migration helper use. 2006-07-13 21:25:58 +01:00
irq-mv6434x.c [MIPS] Eleminate interrupt migration helper use. 2006-07-13 21:25:58 +01:00
irq-rm7000.c [MIPS] Eleminate interrupt migration helper use. 2006-07-13 21:25:58 +01:00
irq-rm9000.c [MIPS] Eleminate interrupt migration helper use. 2006-07-13 21:25:58 +01:00
irq.c IRQ: Maintain regs pointer globally rather than passing to IRQ handlers 2006-10-05 15:10:12 +01:00
kspd.c [MIPS] kpsd and other AP/SP improvements. 2006-04-19 04:14:27 +02:00
linux32.c [PATCH] VFS: Make filldir_t and struct kstat deal in 64-bit inode numbers 2006-10-03 08:03:40 -07:00
Makefile [MIPS] lockdep: Add STACKTRACE_SUPPORT and enable LOCKDEP_SUPPORT 2006-10-01 23:16:57 +01:00
mips_ksyms.c Remove obsolete #include <linux/config.h> 2006-06-30 19:25:36 +02:00
mips-mt.c [MIPS] MIPS MT: Fix build error. 2006-07-13 21:26:06 +01:00
module.c [MIPS] Ignore unresolved weak symbols in modules. 2006-06-06 00:15:10 +01:00
proc.c Remove obsolete #include <linux/config.h> 2006-06-30 19:25:36 +02:00
process.c [MIPS] Make unwind_stack() can dig into interrupted context 2006-10-01 23:16:59 +01:00
ptrace32.c [MIPS] Unify mips_fpu_soft_struct and mips_fpu_hard_structs. 2006-06-19 17:39:18 +01:00
ptrace.c Remove obsolete #include <linux/config.h> 2006-06-30 19:25:36 +02:00
r4k_fpu.S Remove obsolete #include <linux/config.h> 2006-06-30 19:25:36 +02:00
r4k_switch.S Remove obsolete #include <linux/config.h> 2006-06-30 19:25:36 +02:00
r2300_fpu.S kbuild: mips use generic asm-offsets.h support 2005-09-09 22:32:31 +02:00
r2300_switch.S Remove obsolete #include <linux/config.h> 2006-06-30 19:25:36 +02:00
r6000_fpu.S kbuild: mips use generic asm-offsets.h support 2005-09-09 22:32:31 +02:00
reset.c [MIPS] Rename _machine_power_off to pm_power_off so the kernel builds again. 2006-02-07 13:30:22 +00:00
rtlx.c [PATCH] irq-flags: MIPS: Use the new IRQF_ constants 2006-07-02 13:58:47 -07:00
scall32-o32.S [MIPS] lockdep: fix TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT 2006-10-01 23:16:57 +01:00
scall64-64.S [MIPS] lockdep: fix TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT 2006-10-01 23:16:57 +01:00
scall64-n32.S [MIPS] lockdep: fix TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT 2006-10-01 23:16:57 +01:00
scall64-o32.S [MIPS] lockdep: fix TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT 2006-10-01 23:16:57 +01:00
semaphore.c Always use ".set mips3" rather than select between "mips2" or "mips3" 2005-10-29 19:31:31 +01:00
setup.c [MIPS] setup.c: use early_param() for early command line parsing 2006-09-27 13:38:04 +01:00
signal32.c [MIPS] Avoid double signal restarting. 2006-09-27 13:37:33 +01:00
signal_n32.c [PATCH] BLOCK: Revert patch to hack around undeclared sigset_t in linux/compat.h 2006-10-02 08:03:31 -07:00
signal-common.h Remove obsolete #include <linux/config.h> 2006-06-30 19:25:36 +02:00
signal.c [MIPS] Avoid double signal restarting. 2006-09-27 13:37:33 +01:00
smp-mt.c [MIPS] MT: Initialise all writable bits in Cause register to zero. 2006-09-27 13:37:33 +01:00
smp.c [MIPS] Avoid interprocessor function calls. 2006-07-13 21:25:56 +01:00
smtc-asm.S [MIPS] SMTC Build fix. 2006-09-27 13:37:36 +01:00
smtc-proc.c [MIPS] MT: Improved multithreading support. 2006-04-19 04:14:28 +02:00
smtc.c [MIPS] Replace board_timer_setup function pointer by plat_timer_setup. 2006-07-13 21:26:17 +01:00
stacktrace.c [MIPS] Make unwind_stack() can dig into interrupted context 2006-10-01 23:16:59 +01:00
syscall.c [PATCH] provide kernel_execve on all architectures 2006-10-02 07:57:23 -07:00
sysirix.c [PATCH] VFS: Make filldir_t and struct kstat deal in 64-bit inode numbers 2006-10-03 08:03:40 -07:00
time.c IRQ: Maintain regs pointer globally rather than passing to IRQ handlers 2006-10-05 15:10:12 +01:00
traps.c [MIPS] Make unwind_stack() can dig into interrupted context 2006-10-01 23:16:59 +01:00
unaligned.c Remove obsolete #include <linux/config.h> 2006-06-30 19:25:36 +02:00
vmlinux.lds.S Remove obsolete #include <linux/config.h> 2006-06-30 19:25:36 +02:00
vpe.c [MIPS] MT: Fix setting of XTC. 2006-09-27 13:37:36 +01:00