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2011-06-07TTY: ldisc, do not close until there are readersJiri Slaby
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>
2011-04-19TTY: introduce deinit helpers for proper ldisc shutdownJiri Slaby
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>
2011-03-22tty: stop using "delayed_work" in the tty layerLinus Torvalds
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>
2011-03-16Merge branch 'config' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/bklLinus Torvalds
* '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
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>
2011-02-03tty_ldisc: don't use flush_scheduled_work()Tejun Heo
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>
2010-11-29TTY: ldisc, fix open flag handlingJiri Slaby
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>
2010-11-09tty_ldisc: Fix BUG() on hangupPhilippe Rétornaz
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>
2010-11-09TTY: restore tty_ldisc_wait_idleJiri Slaby
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>
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>