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* tty: Use raw spin lock to protect TTY ldisc administrationIvo Sieben2012-10-241-16/+16
| | | | | | | | | | | | The global "normal" spin lock that guards the line discipline administration is replaced by a raw spin lock. On a PREEMPT_RT system this prevents unwanted scheduling overhead around the line discipline administration. On a 200 MHz AT91SAM9261 processor setup this fixes about 100us of scheduling overhead on a TTY read or write call. Signed-off-by: Ivo Sieben <meltedpianoman@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
* TTY: move tty buffers to tty_portJiri Slaby2012-10-231-5/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | So this is it. The big step why we did all the work over the past kernel releases. Now everything is prepared, so nothing protects us from doing that big step. | | \ \ nnnn/^l | | | | \ / / | | | '-,.__ => \/ ,-` => | '-,.__ | O __.´´) ( .` | O __.´´) ~~~ ~~ `` ~~~ ~~ The buffers are now in the tty_port structure and we can start teaching the buffer helpers (insert char/string, flip etc.) to use tty_port instead of tty_struct all around. Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
* TTY: ldisc, wait for idle ldisc in releaseJiri Slaby2012-10-231-0/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | We reintroduced tty_ldisc_wait_idle in 100eeae2c5c (TTY: restore tty_ldisc_wait_idle) and used in set_ldisc. Then we added it also to the hangup path in 92f6fa09bd453 (TTY: ldisc, do not close until there are readers). And we noted that there is one more path: ~ Before 65b770468e98 tty_ldisc_wait_idle was called also from ~ tty_ldisc_release. It is called from tty_release, so I don't think ~ we need to restore that one. Well, I was wrong. There might still be holders of an ldisc reference. Not from userspace, but drivers. If they take a reference and a user closes the device immediately after that, we have a problem. ldisc is halted and closed by TTY, but the driver still may call some ldisc's operation and cause a crash. So restore the tty_ldisc_wait_idle call also to the third location where it was before 65b770468e98 (tty-ldisc: turn ldisc user count into a proper refcount). Now we should be safe with respect to the ldisc reference counting as all* tty_ldisc_close paths are safely called with reference count of one. * Not the one in tty_ldisc_setup's fail path. But that is called before the first open finishes. So userspace does not see it yet. Even thought the driver is given the TTY already via ->install, it should not take a reference to the ldisc yet. If some driver is to do this, we should put one tty_ldisc_wait_idle also in the setup. Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
* Merge branch 'for-3.7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wqLinus Torvalds2012-10-021-3/+3
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Pull workqueue changes from Tejun Heo: "This is workqueue updates for v3.7-rc1. A lot of activities this round including considerable API and behavior cleanups. * delayed_work combines a timer and a work item. The handling of the timer part has always been a bit clunky leading to confusing cancelation API with weird corner-case behaviors. delayed_work is updated to use new IRQ safe timer and cancelation now works as expected. * Another deficiency of delayed_work was lack of the counterpart of mod_timer() which led to cancel+queue combinations or open-coded timer+work usages. mod_delayed_work[_on]() are added. These two delayed_work changes make delayed_work provide interface and behave like timer which is executed with process context. * A work item could be executed concurrently on multiple CPUs, which is rather unintuitive and made flush_work() behavior confusing and half-broken under certain circumstances. This problem doesn't exist for non-reentrant workqueues. While non-reentrancy check isn't free, the overhead is incurred only when a work item bounces across different CPUs and even in simulated pathological scenario the overhead isn't too high. All workqueues are made non-reentrant. This removes the distinction between flush_[delayed_]work() and flush_[delayed_]_work_sync(). The former is now as strong as the latter and the specified work item is guaranteed to have finished execution of any previous queueing on return. * In addition to the various bug fixes, Lai redid and simplified CPU hotplug handling significantly. * Joonsoo introduced system_highpri_wq and used it during CPU hotplug. There are two merge commits - one to pull in IRQ safe timer from tip/timers/core and the other to pull in CPU hotplug fixes from wq/for-3.6-fixes as Lai's hotplug restructuring depended on them." Fixed a number of trivial conflicts, but the more interesting conflicts were silent ones where the deprecated interfaces had been used by new code in the merge window, and thus didn't cause any real data conflicts. Tejun pointed out a few of them, I fixed a couple more. * 'for-3.7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq: (46 commits) workqueue: remove spurious WARN_ON_ONCE(in_irq()) from try_to_grab_pending() workqueue: use cwq_set_max_active() helper for workqueue_set_max_active() workqueue: introduce cwq_set_max_active() helper for thaw_workqueues() workqueue: remove @delayed from cwq_dec_nr_in_flight() workqueue: fix possible stall on try_to_grab_pending() of a delayed work item workqueue: use hotcpu_notifier() for workqueue_cpu_down_callback() workqueue: use __cpuinit instead of __devinit for cpu callbacks workqueue: rename manager_mutex to assoc_mutex workqueue: WORKER_REBIND is no longer necessary for idle rebinding workqueue: WORKER_REBIND is no longer necessary for busy rebinding workqueue: reimplement idle worker rebinding workqueue: deprecate __cancel_delayed_work() workqueue: reimplement cancel_delayed_work() using try_to_grab_pending() workqueue: use mod_delayed_work() instead of __cancel + queue workqueue: use irqsafe timer for delayed_work workqueue: clean up delayed_work initializers and add missing one workqueue: make deferrable delayed_work initializer names consistent workqueue: cosmetic whitespace updates for macro definitions workqueue: deprecate system_nrt[_freezable]_wq workqueue: deprecate flush[_delayed]_work_sync() ...
| * workqueue: deprecate flush[_delayed]_work_sync()Tejun Heo2012-08-201-3/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | flush[_delayed]_work_sync() are now spurious. Mark them deprecated and convert all users to flush[_delayed]_work(). If you're cc'd and wondering what's going on: Now all workqueues are non-reentrant and the regular flushes guarantee that the work item is not pending or running on any CPU on return, so there's no reason to use the sync flushes at all and they're going away. This patch doesn't make any functional difference. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Cc: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: Mattia Dongili <malattia@linux.it> Cc: Kent Yoder <key@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: David Airlie <airlied@linux.ie> Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> Cc: Karsten Keil <isdn@linux-pingi.de> Cc: Bryan Wu <bryan.wu@canonical.com> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Alasdair Kergon <agk@redhat.com> Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org> Cc: Florian Tobias Schandinat <FlorianSchandinat@gmx.de> Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Cc: Anton Vorontsov <cbou@mail.ru> Cc: Sangbeom Kim <sbkim73@samsung.com> Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com> Cc: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com> Cc: Petr Vandrovec <petr@vandrovec.name> Cc: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
| * tty ldisc: Close/Reopen race prevention should check the proper flagShachar Shemesh2012-07-261-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Commit acfa747b introduced the TTY_HUPPING flag to distinguish closed TTY from currently closing ones. The test in tty_set_ldisc still remained pointing at the old flag. This causes pppd to sometimes lapse into uninterruptible sleep when killed and restarted. Signed-off-by: Shachar Shemesh <shachar@liveu.tv> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
* | tty: localise the lockAlan Cox2012-08-101-30/+39
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The termios and other changes mean the other protections needed on the driver tty arrays should be adequate. Turn it all back on. This contains pieces folded in from the fixes made to the original patches | From: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> (fix m68k) | From: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> (fix cris) | From: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suze.cz> (lockdep) | From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> (lockdep) Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
* | tty: Fix race in tty releaseAlan Cox2012-07-271-1/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Ian Abbott found that the tty layer would explode with the right set of parallel open and close operations. This is because we race in the handling of tty->drivers->termios[]. Correct this by Making tty_ldisc_release behave like nromal code (takes the lock, does stuff, drops the lock) Drop the tty lock earlier in tty_ldisc_release Taking the tty mutex around the driver->termios update in all cases Adding a WARN_ON to catch future screwups. I also forgot to clean up the pty resources properly. With a pty pair we need to pull both halves out of the tables. Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com> Tested-by: Ian Abbott <abbotti@mev.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
* | tty: move the termios object into the ttyAlan Cox2012-07-161-5/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This will let us sort out a whole pile of tty related races. The alternative would be to keep points and refcount the termios objects. However 1. They are tiny anyway 2. Many devices don't use the stored copies 3. We can remove a pty special case Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
* | tty: revert incorrectly applied lock patchAlan Cox2012-07-161-38/+29Star
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | I sent GregKH this after the pre-requisites. He dropped the pre-requesites for good reason and unfortunately then applied this patch. Without this reverted you get random kernel memory corruption which will make bisecting anything between it and the properly applied patches a complete sod. Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
* | tty ldisc: Close/Reopen race prevention should check the proper flagShachar Shemesh2012-07-121-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Commit acfa747b introduced the TTY_HUPPING flag to distinguish closed TTY from currently closing ones. The test in tty_set_ldisc still remained pointing at the old flag. This causes pppd to sometimes lapse into uninterruptible sleep when killed and restarted. Signed-off-by: Shachar Shemesh <shachar@liveu.tv> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
* | tty: localise the lockAlan Cox2012-07-061-29/+38
|/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The termios and other changes mean the other protections needed on the driver tty arrays should be adequate. Turn it all back on. This contains pieces folded in from the fixes made to the original patches | From: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> (fix m68k) | From: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> (fix cris) | From: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suze.cz> (lockdep) | From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> (lockdep) Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
* tty: Revert the tty locking series, it needs more workLinus Torvalds2012-06-031-38/+29Star
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This reverts the tty layer change to use per-tty locking, because it's not correct yet, and fixing it will require some more deep surgery. The main revert is d29f3ef39be4 ("tty_lock: Localise the lock"), but there are several smaller commits that built upon it, they also get reverted here. The list of reverted commits is: fde86d310886 - tty: add lockdep annotations 8f6576ad476b - tty: fix ldisc lock inversion trace d3ca8b64b97e - pty: Fix lock inversion b1d679afd766 - tty: drop the pty lock during hangup abcefe5fc357 - tty/amiserial: Add missing argument for tty_unlock() fd11b42e3598 - cris: fix missing tty arg in wait_event_interruptible_tty call d29f3ef39be4 - tty_lock: Localise the lock The revert had a trivial conflict in the 68360serial.c staging driver that got removed in the meantime. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* tty: fix ldisc lock inversion traceAlan Cox2012-05-291-16/+25
| | | | | | | | | | | | | This is caused by tty_release using tty_lock_pair to lock both sides of the pty/tty pair, and then tty_ldisc_release dropping and relocking one side only. We can drop both fine, so drop both to avoid any lock ordering concerns. Rework the release path to fix the new locking model. Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* tty: move global ldisc idle waitqueue to the individual ldiscIvo Sieben2012-05-101-3/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | The global wait_queue that is used for line discipline idle handling is moved to a separate wait_queue for each line instance. This prevents unnecessary blocking on one line, because of idle handling on another line. Signed-off-by: Ivo Sieben <meltedpianoman@gmail.com> Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
* tty_lock: Localise the lockAlan Cox2012-05-051-15/+15
| | | | | | | | | | | | In each remaining case the tty_lock is associated with a specific tty. This means we can now lock on a per tty basis. We do need tty_lock_pair() for the pty case. Uglier but still a step in the right direction. [fixed up calls in 3 missing drivers - gregkh] Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
* Merge 3.2-rc3 into tty-next to handle merge conflict in tty_ldisc.cGreg Kroah-Hartman2011-11-271-7/+23
|\ | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
| * TTY: ldisc, wait for ldisc infinitely in hangupJiri Slaby2011-11-171-2/+17
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | For /dev/console case, we do not kill all ldisc users. It's due to redirected_tty_write test in __tty_hangup. In that case there still might be a process waiting e.g. in n_tty_read for input. We wait for such processes to disappear. The problem is that we use a timeout. After this timeout, we continue closing the ldisc and start freeing tty resources. It obviously leads to crashes when the other process is woken. So to fix this, we wait infinitely before reiniting the ldisc. (The tiocsetd remains untouched -- times out after 5s.) This is nicely reproducible with this run from shell: exec 0<>/dev/console 1<>/dev/console 2<>/dev/console and stopping a getty like: systemctl stop serial-getty@ttyS0.service The crash proper may be produced only under load or with constified timing the same as for 92f6fa09b. Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> Cc: Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com> Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Cc: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> Cc: Dmitriy Matrosov <sgf.dma@gmail.com> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
| * TTY: ldisc, move wait idle to callerJiri Slaby2011-11-171-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | It is the only place where reinit is called from. And we really need to wait for the old ldisc to go once. Actually this is the place where the waiting originally was (before removed and re-added later). This will make the fix in the following patch easier to implement. Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> Cc: Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com> Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Cc: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> Cc: Dmitriy Matrosov <sgf.dma@gmail.com> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
| * TTY: ldisc, allow waiting for ldisc arbitrarily longJiri Slaby2011-11-171-5/+6
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | To fix a nasty bug in ldisc hup vs. reinit we need to wait infinitely long for ldisc to be gone. So here we add a parameter to tty_ldisc_wait_idle to allow that. This is only a preparation for the real fix which is done in the following patches. Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> Cc: Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com> Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Cc: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> Cc: Dmitriy Matrosov <sgf.dma@gmail.com> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* | TTY: ldisc, remove some unneeded includesJiri Slaby2011-11-171-19/+1Star
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | They were cut&pasted from tty_io. Many of them are not needed in tty_ldisc. Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* | tty_ldisc: remove unnecessary negative return check for wait_event_timeoutDave Young2011-11-161-2/+0Star
|/ | | | | | | | | wait_event_timeout always return value >= 0 remove the unnecessary ret < 0 check Signed-off-by: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com> Acked-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* TTY: remove tty_lockedJiri Slaby2011-08-231-1/+0Star
| | | | | | | | | | | | We used it really only serial and ami_serial. The rest of the callsites were BUG/WARN_ONs to check if BTM is held. Now that we pruned tty_locked from both of the real users, we can get rid of tty_lock along with __big_tty_mutex_owner. Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* TTY: ldisc, do not close until there are readersJiri Slaby2011-06-071-1/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | We restored tty_ldisc_wait_idle in 100eeae2c5c (TTY: restore tty_ldisc_wait_idle). We used it in the ldisc changing path to fix the case where there are tasks in n_tty_read waiting for data and somebody tries to change ldisc. Similar to the case above, there may be also tasks waiting in n_tty_read while hangup is performed. As 65b770468e98 (tty-ldisc: turn ldisc user count into a proper refcount) removed the wait-until-idle from all paths, hangup path won't wait for them to disappear either now. So add it back even to the hangup path. There is a difference, we need uninterruptible sleep as there is obviously HUP signal pending. So tty_ldisc_wait_idle now sleeps without possibility to be interrupted. This is what original tty_ldisc_wait_idle did. After the wait idle reintroduction (100eeae2c5c), we have had interruptible sleeps for the ldisc changing path. But as there is a 5s timeout anyway, we don't allow it to be interrupted from now on. It's not worth the added complexity of deciding what kind of sleep we want. Before 65b770468e98 tty_ldisc_release was called also from tty_ldisc_release. It is called from tty_release, so I don't think we need to restore that one. This is nicely reproducible after constifying the timing when drivers/tty/n_tty.c is patched as follows ("TTY: ntty, add one more sanity check" patch is needed to actually see it explode): %% -1548,6 +1549,7 @@ static int n_tty_open(struct tty_struct *tty) /* These are ugly. Currently a malloc failure here can panic */ if (!tty->read_buf) { + msleep(100); tty->read_buf = kzalloc(N_TTY_BUF_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL); if (!tty->read_buf) return -ENOMEM; %% -1785,6 +1788,7 @@ do_it_again: break; } timeout = schedule_timeout(timeout); + msleep(20); continue; } __set_current_state(TASK_RUNNING); ===== With a process: ===== while (1) { int fd = open(argv[1], O_RDWR); read(fd, buf, sizeof(buf)); close(fd); } ===== and its child: ===== setsid(); while (1) { int fd = open(tty, O_RDWR|O_NOCTTY); ioctl(fd, TIOCSCTTY, 1); vhangup(); close(fd); usleep(100 * (10 + random() % 1000)); } ===== EOF ===== References: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=693374 References: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=694509 Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: stable <stable@kernel.org> [32, 33, 34, 39] Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* TTY: introduce deinit helpers for proper ldisc shutdownJiri Slaby2011-04-191-0/+13
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Introduce deinitialize_tty_struct which should be called after initialize_tty_struct and before successfull tty_ldisc_setup. It calls tty_ldisc_deinit which is opposite of tty_ldisc_init. It only puts a reference to ldisc and assigns NULL to tty->ldisc. It will be used to shut down ldisc when tty_release cannot be called yet. Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Cc: Julian Anastasov <ja@ssi.bg> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* tty: stop using "delayed_work" in the tty layerLinus Torvalds2011-03-231-7/+7
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Using delayed-work for tty flip buffers ends up causing us to wait for the next tick to complete some actions. That's usually not all that noticeable, but for certain latency-critical workloads it ends up being totally unacceptable. As an extreme case of this, passing a token back-and-forth over a pty will take two ticks per iteration, so even just a thousand iterations will take 8 seconds assuming a common 250Hz configuration. Avoiding the whole delayed work issue brings that ping-pong test-case down to 0.009s on my machine. In more practical terms, this latency has been a performance problem for things like dive computer simulators (simulating the serial interface using the ptys) and for other environments (Alan mentions a CP/M emulator). Reported-by: Jef Driesen <jefdriesen@telenet.be> Acked-by: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de> Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Merge branch 'config' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/bklLinus Torvalds2011-03-171-2/+0Star
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * 'config' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/bkl: BKL: That's all, folks fs/locks.c: Remove stale FIXME left over from BKL conversion ipx: remove the BKL appletalk: remove the BKL x25: remove the BKL ufs: remove the BKL hpfs: remove the BKL drivers: remove extraneous includes of smp_lock.h tracing: don't trace the BKL adfs: remove the big kernel lock
| * drivers: remove extraneous includes of smp_lock.hArnd Bergmann2011-03-021-2/+0Star
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | These were missed the last time I cleaned this up globally, because of code moving around or new code getting merged. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
* | tty_ldisc: don't use flush_scheduled_work()Tejun Heo2011-02-031-2/+15
|/ | | | | | | | | | flush_scheduled_work() is scheduled to be deprecated. Explicitly sync flush the used work items instead. Note that before this change, flush_scheduled_work() wouldn't have properly flushed tty->buf.work if it were on timer. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* TTY: ldisc, fix open flag handlingJiri Slaby2010-11-291-0/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When a concrete ldisc open fails in tty_ldisc_open, we forget to clear TTY_LDISC_OPEN. This causes a false warning on the next ldisc open: WARNING: at drivers/char/tty_ldisc.c:445 tty_ldisc_open+0x26/0x38() Hardware name: System Product Name Modules linked in: ... Pid: 5251, comm: a.out Tainted: G W 2.6.32-5-686 #1 Call Trace: [<c1030321>] ? warn_slowpath_common+0x5e/0x8a [<c1030357>] ? warn_slowpath_null+0xa/0xc [<c119311c>] ? tty_ldisc_open+0x26/0x38 [<c11936c5>] ? tty_set_ldisc+0x218/0x304 ... So clear the bit when failing... Introduced in c65c9bc3efa (tty: rewrite the ldisc locking) back in 2.6.31-rc1. Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com> Reported-by: Sergey Lapin <slapin@ossfans.org> Tested-by: Sergey Lapin <slapin@ossfans.org> Cc: stable <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* tty_ldisc: Fix BUG() on hangupPhilippe Rétornaz2010-11-101-7/+13
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | A kernel BUG when bluetooth rfcomm connection drop while the associated serial port is open is sometime triggered. It seems that the line discipline can disappear between the tty_ldisc_put and tty_ldisc_get. This patch fall back to the N_TTY line discipline if the previous discipline is not available anymore. Signed-off-by: Philippe Retornaz <philippe.retornaz@epfl.ch> Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com> Cc: stable <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* TTY: restore tty_ldisc_wait_idleJiri Slaby2010-11-101-0/+29
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | It was removed in 65b770468e98 (tty-ldisc: turn ldisc user count into a proper refcount), but we need to wait for last user to quit the ldisc before we close it in tty_set_ldisc. Otherwise weird things start to happen. There might be processes waiting in tty_read->n_tty_read on tty->read_wait for input to appear and at that moment, a change of ldisc is fatal. n_tty_close is called, it frees read_buf and the waiting process is still in the middle of reading and goes nuts after it is woken. Previously we prevented close to happen when others are in ldisc ops by tty_ldisc_wait_idle in tty_set_ldisc. But the commit above removed that. So revoke the change and test whether there is 1 user (=we), and allow the close then. We can do that without ldisc/tty locks, because nobody else can open the device due to TTY_LDISC_CHANGING bit set, so we in fact wait for everybody to leave. I don't understand why tty_ldisc_lock would be needed either when the counter is an atomic variable, so this is a lockless tty_ldisc_wait_idle. On the other hand, if we fail to wait (timeout or signal), we have to reenable the halted ldiscs, so we take ldisc lock and reuse the setup path at the end of tty_set_ldisc. Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Tested-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@breakpoint.cc> LKML-Reference: <20101031104136.GA511@Chamillionaire.breakpoint.cc> LKML-Reference: <1287669539-22644-1-git-send-email-jslaby@suse.cz> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com> Cc: stable@kernel.org [32, 33, 36] Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* TTY: create drivers/tty and move the tty core files thereGreg Kroah-Hartman2010-11-051-0/+915
The tty code should be in its own subdirectory and not in the char driver with all of the cruft that is currently there. Based on work done by Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>