kernel_optimize_test/drivers/char
Linus Torvalds a11e1d432b Revert changes to convert to ->poll_mask() and aio IOCB_CMD_POLL
The poll() changes were not well thought out, and completely
unexplained.  They also caused a huge performance regression, because
"->poll()" was no longer a trivial file operation that just called down
to the underlying file operations, but instead did at least two indirect
calls.

Indirect calls are sadly slow now with the Spectre mitigation, but the
performance problem could at least be largely mitigated by changing the
"->get_poll_head()" operation to just have a per-file-descriptor pointer
to the poll head instead.  That gets rid of one of the new indirections.

But that doesn't fix the new complexity that is completely unwarranted
for the regular case.  The (undocumented) reason for the poll() changes
was some alleged AIO poll race fixing, but we don't make the common case
slower and more complex for some uncommon special case, so this all
really needs way more explanations and most likely a fundamental
redesign.

[ This revert is a revert of about 30 different commits, not reverted
  individually because that would just be unnecessarily messy  - Linus ]

Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2018-06-28 10:40:47 -07:00
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agp treewide: kzalloc() -> kcalloc() 2018-06-12 16:19:22 -07:00
hw_random hwrng: core - Always drop the RNG in hwrng_unregister() 2018-06-15 23:06:49 +08:00
ipmi treewide: kzalloc() -> kcalloc() 2018-06-12 16:19:22 -07:00
mwave char/mwave: make some arrays static const to make object code smaller 2017-07-17 17:23:16 +02:00
pcmcia tty: replace ->proc_fops with ->proc_show 2018-05-16 07:24:30 +02:00
tpm treewide: devm_kzalloc() -> devm_kcalloc() 2018-06-12 16:19:22 -07:00
xilinx_hwicap char: xilinx_hwicap: Fix warnings in the driver 2017-08-28 17:04:47 +02:00
xillybus PCI: Add Altera vendor ID 2018-03-14 19:13:47 +01:00
adi.c char: sparc64: Add privileged ADI driver 2018-06-05 11:24:55 -07:00
apm-emulation.c proc: introduce proc_create_single{,_data} 2018-05-16 07:23:35 +02:00
applicom.c applicom: constify pci_device_id. 2017-08-28 17:11:28 +02:00
applicom.h License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
bsr.c
ds1620.c proc: introduce proc_create_single{,_data} 2018-05-16 07:23:35 +02:00
dsp56k.c vfs: do bulk POLL* -> EPOLL* replacement 2018-02-11 14:34:03 -08:00
dtlk.c vfs: do bulk POLL* -> EPOLL* replacement 2018-02-11 14:34:03 -08:00
efirtc.c proc: introduce proc_create_single{,_data} 2018-05-16 07:23:35 +02:00
generic_nvram.c
hangcheck-timer.c treewide: Switch DEFINE_TIMER callbacks to struct timer_list * 2017-11-21 15:57:05 -08:00
hpet.c vfs: do bulk POLL* -> EPOLL* replacement 2018-02-11 14:34:03 -08:00
Kconfig docs: Fix some broken references 2018-06-15 18:10:01 -03:00
lp.c char: lp: use true or false for boolean values 2018-01-25 10:56:02 +01:00
Makefile char: sparc64: Add privileged ADI driver 2018-06-05 11:24:55 -07:00
mbcs.c
mbcs.h
mem.c /dev/mem: Avoid overwriting "err" in read_mem() 2018-03-28 13:23:54 +02:00
misc.c proc: introduce proc_create_seq{,_data} 2018-05-16 07:23:35 +02:00
mspec.c char: mspec: change return type to vm_fault_t 2018-04-23 13:51:53 +02:00
nsc_gpio.c
nvram.c proc: introduce proc_create_single{,_data} 2018-05-16 07:23:35 +02:00
nwbutton.c treewide: Switch DEFINE_TIMER callbacks to struct timer_list * 2017-11-21 15:57:05 -08:00
nwbutton.h treewide: Switch DEFINE_TIMER callbacks to struct timer_list * 2017-11-21 15:57:05 -08:00
nwflash.c
pc8736x_gpio.c
powernv-op-panel.c
ppdev.c vfs: do bulk POLL* -> EPOLL* replacement 2018-02-11 14:34:03 -08:00
ps3flash.c
random.c Revert changes to convert to ->poll_mask() and aio IOCB_CMD_POLL 2018-06-28 10:40:47 -07:00
raw.c treewide: Use array_size() in vzalloc() 2018-06-12 16:19:22 -07:00
rtc.c proc: introduce proc_create_single{,_data} 2018-05-16 07:23:35 +02:00
scx200_gpio.c
snsc_event.c
snsc.c vfs: do bulk POLL* -> EPOLL* replacement 2018-02-11 14:34:03 -08:00
snsc.h
sonypi.c vfs: do bulk POLL* -> EPOLL* replacement 2018-02-11 14:34:03 -08:00
tb0219.c
tlclk.c timer: Remove last user of TIMER_INITIALIZER 2017-10-05 15:01:18 +02:00
toshiba.c proc: introduce proc_create_single{,_data} 2018-05-16 07:23:35 +02:00
ttyprintk.c
uv_mmtimer.c
virtio_console.c treewide: kmalloc() -> kmalloc_array() 2018-06-12 16:19:22 -07:00