History log of /drivers/tty/n_hdlc.c
Revision Date Author Comments
9ffc93f203c18a70623f21950f1dd473c9ec48cd 28-Mar-2012 David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Remove all #inclusions of asm/system.h

Remove all #inclusions of asm/system.h preparatory to splitting and killing
it. Performed with the following command:

perl -p -i -e 's!^#\s*include\s*<asm/system[.]h>.*\n!!' `grep -Irl '^#\s*include\s*<asm/system[.]h>' *`

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
7962fce9a052f34390b6dab9f11df1d2e48c138d 07-Nov-2011 Ilya Zykov <ilya@ilyx.ru> tty: n_hdlc not atomic use tty->flags.

N_HDLC can spoil tty->flags because use not atomic operations on tty->flags.
I use n_hdlc line discipline and it happens.

Signed-off-by: Ilya Zykov <ilya@ilyx.ru>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
55db4c64eddf37e31279ec15fe90314713bc9cfa 03-Jun-2011 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Revert "tty: make receive_buf() return the amout of bytes received"

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>
b1c43f82c5aa265442f82dba31ce985ebb7aa71c 20-Mar-2011 Felipe Balbi <balbi@ti.com> tty: make receive_buf() return the amout of bytes received

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>
5edc341313a188d94cde7ef87ac31647cea8601a 25-Jan-2011 Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> drivers: remove extraneous includes of smp_lock.h

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>
1035b63d3c6fc34a9b8c4a181366eec6d6158b31 18-Jan-2011 Paul Fulghum <paulkf@microgate.com> n_hdlc: fix read and write locking

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>
96fd7ce58ffb5c7bf376796b5525ba3ea1c9d69f 04-Nov-2010 Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> TTY: create drivers/tty and move the tty core files there

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>