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The API and code have been through various bits of initial review by serial driver people but they definitely need to live somewhere for a while so the unconverted drivers can get knocked into shape, existing drivers that have been updated can be better tuned and bugs whacked out. This replaces the tty flip buffers with kmalloc objects in rings. In the normal situation for an IRQ driven serial port at typical speeds the behaviour is pretty much the same, two buffers end up allocated and the kernel cycles between them as before. When there are delays or at high speed we now behave far better as the buffer pool can grow a bit rather than lose characters. This also means that we can operate at higher speeds reliably. For drivers that receive characters in blocks (DMA based, USB and especially virtualisation) the layer allows a lot of driver specific code that works around the tty layer with private secondary queues to be removed. The IBM folks need this sort of layer, the smart serial port people do, the virtualisers do (because a virtualised tty typically operates at infinite speed rather than emulating 9600 baud). Finally many drivers had invalid and unsafe attempts to avoid buffer overflows by directly invoking tty methods extracted out of the innards of work queue structs. These are no longer needed and all go away. That fixes various random hangs with serial ports on overflow. The other change in here is to optimise the receive_room path that is used by some callers. It turns out that only one ldisc uses receive room except asa constant and it updates it far far less than the value is read. We thus make it a variable not a function call. I expect the code to contain bugs due to the size alone but I'll be watching and squashing them and feeding out new patches as it goes. Because the buffers now dynamically expand you should only run out of buffering when the kernel runs out of memory for real. That means a lot of the horrible hacks high performance drivers used to do just aren't needed any more. Description: tty_insert_flip_char is an old API and continues to work as before, as does tty_flip_buffer_push() [this is why many drivers dont need modification]. It does now also return the number of chars inserted There are also tty_buffer_request_room(tty, len) which asks for a buffer block of the length requested and returns the space found. This improves efficiency with hardware that knows how much to transfer. and tty_insert_flip_string_flags(tty, str, flags, len) to insert a string of characters and flags For a smart interface the usual code is len = tty_request_buffer_room(tty, amount_hardware_says); tty_insert_flip_string(tty, buffer_from_card, len); More description! At the moment tty buffers are attached directly to the tty. This is causing a lot of the problems related to tty layer locking, also problems at high speed and also with bursty data (such as occurs in virtualised environments) I'm working on ripping out the flip buffers and replacing them with a pool of dynamically allocated buffers. This allows both for old style "byte I/O" devices and also helps virtualisation and smart devices where large blocks of data suddenely materialise and need storing. So far so good. Lots of drivers reference tty->flip.*. Several of them also call directly and unsafely into function pointers it provides. This will all break. Most drivers can use tty_insert_flip_char which can be kept as an API but others need more. At the moment I've added the following interfaces, if people think more will be needed now is a good time to say int tty_buffer_request_room(tty, size) Try and ensure at least size bytes are available, returns actual room (may be zero). At the moment it just uses the flipbuf space but that will change. Repeated calls without characters being added are not cumulative. (ie if you call it with 1, 1, 1, and then 4 you'll have four characters of space. The other functions will also try and grow buffers in future but this will be a more efficient way when you know block sizes. int tty_insert_flip_char(tty, ch, flag) As before insert a character if there is room. Now returns 1 for success, 0 for failure. int tty_insert_flip_string(tty, str, len) Insert a block of non error characters. Returns the number inserted. int tty_prepare_flip_string(tty, strptr, len) Adjust the buffer to allow len characters to be added. Returns a buffer pointer in strptr and the length available. This allows for hardware that needs to use functions like insl or mencpy_fromio. Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Cc: Paul Fulghum <paulkf@microgate.com> Signed-off-by: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org> Signed-off-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Signed-off-by: John Hawkes <hawkes@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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48 lines
1.8 KiB
C
/* $Id: isdn_common.h,v 1.1.2.2 2004/01/12 22:37:19 keil Exp $
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* header for Linux ISDN subsystem
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* common used functions and debugging-switches (linklevel).
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* Copyright 1994-1999 by Fritz Elfert (fritz@isdn4linux.de)
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* Copyright 1995,96 by Thinking Objects Software GmbH Wuerzburg
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* Copyright 1995,96 by Michael Hipp (Michael.Hipp@student.uni-tuebingen.de)
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*
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* This software may be used and distributed according to the terms
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* of the GNU General Public License, incorporated herein by reference.
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*
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*/
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#undef ISDN_DEBUG_MODEM_OPEN
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#undef ISDN_DEBUG_MODEM_IOCTL
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#undef ISDN_DEBUG_MODEM_WAITSENT
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#undef ISDN_DEBUG_MODEM_HUP
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#undef ISDN_DEBUG_MODEM_ICALL
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#undef ISDN_DEBUG_MODEM_DUMP
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#undef ISDN_DEBUG_MODEM_VOICE
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#undef ISDN_DEBUG_AT
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#undef ISDN_DEBUG_NET_DUMP
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#undef ISDN_DEBUG_NET_DIAL
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#undef ISDN_DEBUG_NET_ICALL
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/* Prototypes */
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extern void isdn_lock_drivers(void);
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extern void isdn_unlock_drivers(void);
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extern void isdn_free_channel(int di, int ch, int usage);
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extern void isdn_all_eaz(int di, int ch);
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extern int isdn_command(isdn_ctrl *);
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extern int isdn_dc2minor(int di, int ch);
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extern void isdn_info_update(void);
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extern char *isdn_map_eaz2msn(char *msn, int di);
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extern void isdn_timer_ctrl(int tf, int onoff);
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extern void isdn_unexclusive_channel(int di, int ch);
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extern int isdn_getnum(char **);
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extern int isdn_readbchan(int, int, u_char *, u_char *, int, wait_queue_head_t *);
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extern int isdn_readbchan_tty(int, int, struct tty_struct *, int);
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extern int isdn_get_free_channel(int, int, int, int, int, char *);
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extern int isdn_writebuf_skb_stub(int, int, int, struct sk_buff *);
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extern int register_isdn(isdn_if * i);
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extern int isdn_msncmp( const char *, const char *);
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#if defined(ISDN_DEBUG_NET_DUMP) || defined(ISDN_DEBUG_MODEM_DUMP)
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extern void isdn_dumppkt(char *, u_char *, int, int);
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#endif
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