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Christian Borntraeger 611e097d77 hvc_console: rework setup to replace irq functions with callbacks
This patch tries to change hvc_console to not use request_irq/free_irq if
the backend does not use irqs. This allows virtio_console to use hvc_console
without having a linker reference to request_irq/free_irq.

In addition, together with patch 2/3 it improves the performance for virtio
console input. (an earlier version of this patch was tested by Yajin on lguest)

The irq specific code is moved to hvc_irq.c and selected by the drivers that
use irqs (System p, System i, XEN).

I replaced "int irq" with the opaque "int data". The request_irq and
free_irq calls are replaced with notifier_add and notifier_del. I have also
changed the code a bit to call the notifier_add and notifier_del inside the
spinlock area as the callbacks are found via hp->ops.

Changes since last version:
o remove ifdef
o reintroduce "irq_requested" as "notified"
o cleanups, sparse..

I did not move the timer based polling into a separate polling scheme. I
played with several variants, but it seems we need to sleep/schedule in
a thread even for irq based consoles, as there are throttleing and buffer
size constraints.

I also kept hvc_struct defined in hvc_console.h so that hvc_irq.c can access
the irq_requested element.

Feedback is appreciated. virtio_console is currently the only available console
for kvm on s390. I plan to push this change as soon as all affected parties
agree on it. I would love to get test results from System p, Xen etc.

Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2008-07-25 12:06:06 +10:00
Stephen Rothwell 1ad528ebfd [POWERPC] init and exit markings for hvc_iseries
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2007-07-22 21:30:59 +10:00
Stephen Rothwell 55b61fec22 [POWERPC] Rename device_is_compatible to of_device_is_compatible
for consistency with other Open Firmware interfaces (and Sparc).

This is just a straight replacement.

This leaves the compatibility define in place.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2007-05-07 20:31:14 +10:00
Stephen Rothwell 01b2726dd1 [POWERPC] Rename get_property to of_get_property: partial drivers
This does drivers/machintosh and the hvc code.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2007-04-27 15:51:56 +10:00
Paul Mackerras a48141db68 Revert "[POWERPC] Rename get_property to of_get_property: drivers"
This reverts commit d05c7a80cf,
which included changes which should go via other subsystem
maintainers.
2007-04-26 22:24:31 +10:00
Stephen Rothwell d05c7a80cf [POWERPC] Rename get_property to of_get_property: drivers
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2007-04-13 03:55:19 +10:00
Paul Mackerras c730f5b621 Merge branch 'master' of git://oak/home/sfr/kernels/iseries/work 2006-10-04 15:02:27 +10:00
Stephen Rothwell d86d9b8cab [POWERPC] fix spin lock nesting in hvc_iseries
We had nested spinlocks using the same flags variable, but it turns out
that we don't need the nested locks at all (the lock protects a static
buffer that we aren't using here), so just remove the extra locks.

Spotted by Alexey Dobriyan.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-09-26 15:41:03 +10:00
Stephen Rothwell de0138da0f [POWERPC] The two vio HVC backends clash
Make sure only one of them actually registers as a driver.

Also, remove cast from get_property().

Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
2006-09-25 13:30:51 +10:00
Stephen Rothwell 4e9e95a355 [POWERPC] Make the hvc_console output buffer size settable
So the iSeries console will be faster since it can send up to 200 bytes at
a time to the Hypervisor.  This only affects the tty part of the console,
the console writes are still in 16 byte lots.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
2006-07-13 18:53:32 +10:00
Stephen Rothwell 8bff05b052 [POWERPC] iseries: A new iSeries console
This driver uses the hvc_console.c infrastructure that is used by the
pSeries virtual and RTAS consoles.  This will allow us to make viocons.c
obsolete and is another step along the way to a combined kernel (as
viocons could not coexist with CONFIG_VT).

Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
2006-07-13 18:51:22 +10:00