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Ivo Sieben c97399418a tty: Use raw spin lock to protect TTY ldisc administration
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>
2012-10-24 11:37:02 -07:00
Jiri Slaby ecbbfd44a0 TTY: move tty buffers to tty_port
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.

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           |  |             \  /     /       |  |
           |  '-,.__   =>    \/   ,-`    =>  |  '-,.__
           | 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>
2012-10-22 16:58:28 -07:00
Jiri Slaby 31e121284f TTY: ldisc, wait for idle ldisc in release
We reintroduced tty_ldisc_wait_idle in 100eeae2c5 (TTY: restore
tty_ldisc_wait_idle) and used in set_ldisc. Then we added it also to
the hangup path in 92f6fa09bd (TTY: ldisc, do not close until there
are readers). And we noted that there is one more path:
~   Before 65b770468e 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 65b770468e (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>
2012-10-22 16:50:53 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 033d9959ed Merge branch 'for-3.7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq
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()
  ...
2012-10-02 09:54:49 -07:00
Tejun Heo 43829731dd workqueue: deprecate flush[_delayed]_work_sync()
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>
2012-08-20 14:51:24 -07:00
Alan Cox 89c8d91e31 tty: localise the lock
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>
2012-08-10 12:55:47 -07:00
Alan Cox d155255a34 tty: Fix race in tty release
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>
2012-07-27 11:55:59 -07:00
Shachar Shemesh aa3c8af863 tty ldisc: Close/Reopen race prevention should check the proper flag
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>
2012-07-26 13:37:06 -07:00
Alan Cox adc8d746ca tty: move the termios object into the tty
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>
2012-07-16 13:00:41 -07:00
Alan Cox 6d31a88cb2 tty: revert incorrectly applied lock patch
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>
2012-07-16 12:58:12 -07:00
Shachar Shemesh 40c9f61eae tty ldisc: Close/Reopen race prevention should check the proper flag
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>
2012-07-12 14:54:14 -07:00
Alan Cox f5e3bcc504 tty: localise the lock
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>
2012-07-06 14:24:52 -07:00
Linus Torvalds f309532bf3 tty: Revert the tty locking series, it needs more work
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 d29f3ef39b ("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:

  fde86d3108 - tty: add lockdep annotations
  8f6576ad47 - tty: fix ldisc lock inversion trace
  d3ca8b64b9 - pty: Fix lock inversion
  b1d679afd7 - tty: drop the pty lock during hangup
  abcefe5fc3 - tty/amiserial: Add missing argument for tty_unlock()
  fd11b42e35 - cris: fix missing tty arg in wait_event_interruptible_tty call
  d29f3ef39b - 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>
2012-06-02 15:21:43 -07:00
Alan Cox 8f6576ad47 tty: fix ldisc lock inversion trace
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>
2012-05-29 10:42:13 -07:00
Ivo Sieben 1541f845d1 tty: move global ldisc idle waitqueue to the individual ldisc
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>
2012-05-10 11:24:03 -07:00
Alan Cox d29f3ef39b tty_lock: Localise the lock
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>
2012-05-04 16:58:47 -07:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman dd7c7c3f69 Merge 3.2-rc3 into tty-next to handle merge conflict in tty_ldisc.c
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-11-26 20:07:25 -08:00
Jiri Slaby 8b3ffa173f TTY: ldisc, remove some unneeded includes
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>
2011-11-17 11:44:13 -08:00
Jiri Slaby 0c73c08ec7 TTY: ldisc, wait for ldisc infinitely in hangup
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>
2011-11-17 11:36:12 -08:00
Jiri Slaby 300420722e TTY: ldisc, move wait idle to caller
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>
2011-11-17 11:36:12 -08:00
Jiri Slaby df92d0561d TTY: ldisc, allow waiting for ldisc arbitrarily long
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>
2011-11-17 11:36:11 -08:00
Dave Young 66ef27c3fd tty_ldisc: remove unnecessary negative return check for wait_event_timeout
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>
2011-11-15 15:50:30 -08:00
Jiri Slaby 906cbe1364 TTY: remove tty_locked
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>
2011-08-23 10:34:07 -07:00
Jiri Slaby 92f6fa09bd TTY: ldisc, do not close until there are readers
We restored tty_ldisc_wait_idle in 100eeae2c5 (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 65b770468e (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
(100eeae2c5), 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 65b770468e 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>
2011-06-07 10:16:54 -07:00
Jiri Slaby 6716671d8c TTY: introduce deinit helpers for proper ldisc shutdown
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>
2011-04-19 14:43:01 -07:00
Linus Torvalds f23eb2b2b2 tty: stop using "delayed_work" in the tty layer
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>
2011-03-22 16:17:32 -07:00
Linus Torvalds f74b944419 Merge branch 'config' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/bkl
* '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
2011-03-16 17:21:00 -07:00
Arnd Bergmann 5edc341313 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>
2011-03-02 00:02:40 +01:00
Tejun Heo 0a1f1a0b62 tty_ldisc: don't use flush_scheduled_work()
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>
2011-02-03 14:12:25 -08:00
Jiri Slaby 7f90cfc505 TTY: ldisc, fix open flag handling
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 c65c9bc3ef (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>
2010-11-29 14:51:54 -08:00
Philippe Rétornaz 1c95ba1e1d tty_ldisc: Fix BUG() on hangup
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>
2010-11-09 15:05:50 -08:00
Jiri Slaby 100eeae2c5 TTY: restore tty_ldisc_wait_idle
It was removed in 65b770468e (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>
2010-11-09 15:04:21 -08:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman 96fd7ce58f 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>
2010-11-05 08:10:33 -07:00