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    [PATCH] kbd_pt_regs · 4a7e8594
    David S. Miller authored
    Hey guys, I really want to kill this thing.
    
    The only way to do that is to actually pass the pt_regs
    all the way down from the interrupt source.  It would be
    a three step process:
    
    1) Add pt_regs arg to serio_interrupt and serio->dev->interrupt()
       Update all serio->dev drivers and serio_interrupt() invokers.
    
       I've done this in the patch below.  We must handle pt_regs being
       NULL, f.e. when the event is via a tty ldisc or a timer for which
       there is no "pt_regs" context to obtain.
    
    2) At the input layer, push 'regs' down via input_event() into the
       handlers.
    
       Patch below does this as well.
    
    3) Final step to complete this, convert USB to pass the pt_regs that
       the host controller interrupt receives down to the URB callbacks.
    
       This itself was also a multistep process:
    
    	a) pass regs down from generic host controller
    	   layer to hcd driver
    
    	b) pass regs from hcd driver into urb handler
    
    	   EHCI is problematic here, as it does the URB
    	   work in a tasklet :(  we need to decide whether
    	   we can move the normal URB completion back into
    	   the hw interrupt handler or not
    
    	   I think it should be done, I'd basically have my
    	   thumbs up my butt if I didn't have Alt-SYSRQ-p
    	   register dumps available and that is what EHCI+usbkbd
    	   is currently.
    
    	   UHCI and OHCI both complete urbs in hw IRQ context
    	   so they are just fine.
    
    	c) update urb handlers to take the regs arg, make hcd
    	   drivers pass it on in
    
       I was really bored, so this was also done in the patch below :)
    
       We get a USB cleanup for free because of this, a lot of people
       were defining their own ugly typedefs for what should be
       usb_complete_t so I fixed that up :-)
    
       I also caught a lot of usb_fill_*() call sites casting the
       completion function pointer to usb_complete_t so the compiler
       wouldn't help us find necessary fixup if we changed the
       args again :-(  I think I got them all, someone bored should
       grep the tree for usb_complete_t and fixup any remaining spots
       where it is used in a cast.
    
       I tried to enable as many drivers as possible in a test build
       but it is possible I did miss a few obscure USB configs.
    
    So why do I want to kill kbd_pt_regs so badly?  Well, first of all I
    have to walk through all kinds of hoops on sparc64 to update
    kbd_pt_regs properly on the USB controller interrupt and I've had
    a few cases where I had trouble tracking down some kernel bug
    because kbd_pt_regs could easily be inaccurate if another interrupt
    came in right after the keyboard USB one.
    
    Right now, kbd_pt_regs is not updated at all for USB keyboards on x86
    rendering SYSRQ register dumps non-existent in such configurations.
    This forces it to happen, and because the regs are passed in the
    context in which the URB completes, it will always be accurate (it
    will even work properly if I have 5 USB keyboards :-)
    
    While doing this, I also noticed a bunch of ancient keyboard drivers
    in 2.5.x under drivers/char that need to be converted or deleted.
    They were still calling handle_scancode() !!! :-)  drivers/tc
    has few as well.  There is also a stray handle_scancode() reference
    in a include/asm-parisc/keyboard.h comment
    
    I tested this on sparc64 with an OHCI attached USB keyboard,
    and register dumping works fine etc.
    
    Here is just the USB bits.
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