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)
This patch includes a big cleanup of the existing unused LED code,
and adds support for controlling the LED.
The link LED will blink if the device is not associated. The LED
switches between 2 seconds on and 1 second off. If the device is
associated the LED is switched on.
The link LED also indicates packet TX. I do a little bit more led
resetting than the vendor driver, but the device works now as
expected for single LED and double LED devices.
Signed-off-by: Ulrich Kunitz <kune@deine-taler.de>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
For housekeeping and watchdog tasks a workqueue is created. The
central workqueue is not used to prevent crashes creates by bugs.
It might be changed, when the housekeeping is stabilized.
Signed-off-by: Ulrich Kunitz <kune@deine-taler.de>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Checking whether a mutex is not locked directly before
mutex_lock() is called, doesn't make sense. The whole point of
mutex_lock() is to block, if the mutex is locked.
Signed-off-by: Ulrich Kunitz <kune@deine-taler.de>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Caused by the fact that physical control registers appear to have
only a width of 16 bit, 32-bit writes are not required.
Signed-off-by: Ulrich Kunitz <kune@deine-taler.de>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Inspired by an e-mail by Stephen Hemminger I decided to remove all
unneeded packed attributes from the code where the member variables are
already aligned. This avoids horrible code being generated on some
architectures.
Signed-off-by: Ulrich Kunitz <kune@deine-taler.de>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Tested by Vincent TOUCHARD
zd1211 chip 0b05:170c v4802 high 00-11-d8 AL2230_RF pa0 g---
Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Tested by Martin Dummer.
zd1211 chip 0b3b:5630 v4330 high 00-01-e3 RF2959_RF pa0 ---
Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Caused by a documentation issue I mixed up fields of the zd_status
structure. This patch fixes it and improves also the average
computation, which is now using only measurements of packets sent
by the access point.
Signed-off-by: Ulrich Kunitz <kune@deine-taler.de>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Add static to 2 internal functions. Thanks goes to Adrian Bunk, who found that.
Also made some modifications to the clear functions:
After a discussion on the mailing list, I implemented this code to
have on the one hand sufficient test in debug mode, but on the
other hand reduce the overhead for structure clearing to a
minimum.
A new macro ZD_MEMCLEAR is introduced, which produces code if
DEBUG is set. Locks are not set anymore for structure clearing,
but in debug mode, there is a verification, that the locks have
not been set.
Finally, removed a misleading comment regarding locking in the disconnect
path.
Signed-off-by: Ulrich Kunitz <kune@deine-taler.de>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The Longshine device is a ZD1211B and has a AL2230 RF. I tested it
successfully with no encryption and WEP.
Signed-off-by: Ulrich Kunitz <kune@deine-taler.de>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Some devices identify themselves as a virtual USB CDROM drive. The virtual CD
includes the windows driver. We aren't interested in this, so we eject the
virtual CDROM and then the real wireless device appears.
Patch fixed over the earlier version to not leak cmd, thanks to Michael Buesch
for spotting that.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
zd1211 chip 0586:3402 v4916 high 00-13-49 AL2230_RF pa0 ----
This device pops up after the virtual driver CD has been ejected.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This is needed for my G220F, otherwise it fails to initialize after the
existing firmware upload routine.
The vendor driver actually does more than what I have done here: it
downloads the firmware + boot code, modifies it, and uploads it again
(really messy). I have not copied that part over, as my device can get
on its feet without it.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Tested by Wonka on IRC.
zd1211 chip 157e:3204 v4810 high 00-11-e0 AL7230B_RF pa0 g---
Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Tested by lyakh on IRC
zd1211 chip 1740:2000 v4721 high 00-02-6f AL7230B_RF pa0 g---
Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch adds support for another Airoha RF which is present in some
ZD1211 adapters. This RF supports 802.11a as well as 802.11b/g, but 802.11a
connectivity is not yet supported by this driver.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch synchronizes our code to some recent vendor driver modifications.
A new PHY layout is supported, some values are tweaked, and the AL2230 is now
programmed over a new interface which is many times faster.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The vendor driver resets the IFS value every time the channel changes,
to this one.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The vendor driver chooses this value based on an ifndef ASIC,
and ASIC is never defined.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
I had problems with my AVM Fritz!Box access point. It appeared
that the AP deauthorized me and the softmac didn't reconnect me.
This patch handles the problem.
Signed-off-by: Ulrich Kunitz <kune@deine-taler.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Discovered a problem while accessing www.python.org on my PPC32.
The problem was pretty consistent for all sticks. The reason was
that while testing for the length info tag, I ignored the
endianess of the host system.
Please recognize that converting the constant to little endian, we
create faster code.
Signed-off-by: Ulrich Kunitz <kune@deine-taler.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This function is never called in interrupt context, and it doesn't
matter if it is called in IRQ context or not.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Ulrich Kunitz <kune@deine-taler.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Apparently the ZD1211 doesn't mind, but the ZD1211B absolutely must be
told that encryption is happening in software.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Ulrich Kunitz <kune@deine-taler.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
We'll be needing these at some point...
Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Ulrich Kunitz <kune@deine-taler.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
There has been a problem in the radiotap header. Monitor mode
works now with tcpdump 3.94 + libpcap 0.9.4. ethereal 0.99.0 +
libpcap 0.9.4 is broken, because it doesn't find the right offset
for the IEEE 802.11 header.
Signed-off-by: Ulrich Kunitz <kune@deine-taler.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
wireless.h discourages using SIOCGIWNAME to publish the driver name
which the interface belongs to. Use SIOCGIWNICKN instead.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Based on a patch by Matthieu CASTET.
zd1211 chip 079b:004a v4330 high 00-60-b3 AL2230_RF pa0 g--
zd1211b chip 079b:0062 v4810 high 00-60-b3 AL2230_RF pa0 g--
Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
We will reimplement halt-clearing later, when we have periodic
housekeeping routines in place. This will do as a temporary fix, the
EPIPE case has not yet been seen.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
There are 60+ USB wifi adapters available on the market based on the ZyDAS
ZD1211 chip.
Unlike the predecessor (ZD1201), ZD1211 does not have a hardware MAC, so most
data operations are coordinated by the device driver. The ZD1211 chip sits
alongside an RF transceiver which is also controlled by the driver. Our driver
currently supports 2 RF types, we know of one other available in a few marketed
products which we will be supporting soon.
Our driver also supports the newer revision of ZD1211, called ZD1211B. The
initialization and RF operations are slightly different for the new revision,
but the main difference is 802.11e support. Our driver does not support the
QoS features yet, but we think we know how to use them.
This driver is based on ZyDAS's own GPL driver available from www.zydas.com.tw.
ZyDAS engineers have been responsive and supportive of our efforts, so thumbs
up to them. Additionally, the firmware is redistributable and they have
provided device specs.
This driver has been written primarily by Ulrich Kunitz and myself. Graham
Gower, Greg KH, Remco and Bryan Rittmeyer have also contributed. The
developers of ieee80211 and softmac have made our lives so much easier- thanks!
We maintain a small info-page: http://zd1211.ath.cx/wiki/DriverRewrite
If there is enough time for review, we would like to aim for inclusion in
2.6.18. The driver works nicely as a STA, and can connect to both open and
encrypted networks (we are using software-based encryption for now). We will
work towards supporting more advanced features in the future (ad-hoc, master
mode, 802.11a, ...).
Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
