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2011-06-04Revert "tty: make receive_buf() return the amout of bytes received"Linus Torvalds
This reverts commit b1c43f82c5aa265442f82dba31ce985ebb7aa71c. It was broken in so many ways, and results in random odd pty issues. It re-introduced the buggy schedule_work() in flush_to_ldisc() that can cause endless work-loops (see commit a5660b41af6a: "tty: fix endless work loop when the buffer fills up"). It also used an "unsigned int" return value fo the ->receive_buf() function, but then made multiple functions return a negative error code, and didn't actually check for the error in the caller. And it didn't actually work at all. BenH bisected down odd tty behavior to it: "It looks like the patch is causing some major malfunctions of the X server for me, possibly related to PTYs. For example, cat'ing a large file in a gnome terminal hangs the kernel for -minutes- in a loop of what looks like flush_to_ldisc/workqueue code, (some ftrace data in the quoted bits further down). ... Some more data: It -looks- like what happens is that the flush_to_ldisc work queue entry constantly re-queues itself (because the PTY is full ?) and the workqueue thread will basically loop forver calling it without ever scheduling, thus starving the consumer process that could have emptied the PTY." which is pretty much exactly the problem we fixed in a5660b41af6a. Milton Miller pointed out the 'unsigned int' issue. Reported-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Reported-by: Milton Miller <miltonm@bga.com> Cc: Stefan Bigler <stefan.bigler@keymile.com> Cc: Toby Gray <toby.gray@realvnc.com> Cc: Felipe Balbi <balbi@ti.com> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-04-22tty: make receive_buf() return the amout of bytes receivedFelipe Balbi
it makes it simpler to keep track of the amount of bytes received and simplifies how flush_to_ldisc counts the remaining bytes. It also fixes a bug of lost bytes on n_tty when flushing too many bytes via the USB serial gadget driver. Tested-by: Stefan Bigler <stefan.bigler@keymile.com> Tested-by: Toby Gray <toby.gray@realvnc.com> Signed-off-by: Felipe Balbi <balbi@ti.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-03-02drivers: remove extraneous includes of smp_lock.hArnd Bergmann
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>
2011-01-22n_hdlc: fix read and write lockingPaul Fulghum
Fix locking in read and write code of n_hdlc line discipline. 2.6.36 replaced lock_kernel() with tty_lock(). The tty mutex is not dropped automatically when the thread sleeps like the BKL. This results in a blocked read or write holding the tty mutex and stalling operations by other devices that use the tty mutex. A review of n_hdlc read and write code shows: 1. neither BKL or tty mutex are required for correct operation 2. read can block while read data is available if data is posted between availability check and call to interruptible_sleep_on() 3. write does not set process state to TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE on each pass through the processing loop which can cause unneeded scheduling of the thread The unnecessary tty mutex references have been removed. Read changed to use same code as n_tty read for completing reads and blocking. Write corrected to set process state to TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE on each pass through processing loop. Signed-off-by: Paul Fulghum <paulkf@microgate.com> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-11-05TTY: create drivers/tty and move the tty core files thereGreg Kroah-Hartman
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>