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[PATCH] remove TTY_DONT_FLIP

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Remove TTY_DONT_FLIP tty flag.  This flag was introduced in 2.1.X kernels
to prevent the N_TTY line discipline functions read_chan() and
n_tty_receive_buf() from running at the same time.  2.2.15 introduced
tty->read_lock to protect access to the N_TTY read buffer, which is the
only state requiring protection between these two functions.

The current TTY_DONT_FLIP implementation is broken for SMP, and is not
universally honored by drivers that send data directly to the line
discipline receive_buf function.

Because TTY_DONT_FLIP is not necessary, is broken in implementation, and is
not universally honored, it is removed.

Signed-off-by: Paul Fulghum <paulkf@microgate.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Paul Fulghum
2006-06-28 04:26:47 -07:00
committed by Linus Torvalds
parent e0ac4761fa
commit 817d6d3bce
9 changed files with 7 additions and 42 deletions
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drivers/char/n_tty.c
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@@ -1132,7 +1132,7 @@ static inline int input_available_p(struct tty_struct *tty, int amt)
* buffer, and once to drain the space from the (physical) beginning of
* the buffer to head pointer.
*
* Called under the tty->atomic_read_lock sem and with TTY_DONT_FLIP set
* Called under the tty->atomic_read_lock sem
*
*/
@@ -1271,7 +1271,6 @@ do_it_again:
}
add_wait_queue(&tty->read_wait, &wait);
set_bit(TTY_DONT_FLIP, &tty->flags);
while (nr) {
/* First test for status change. */
if (tty->packet && tty->link->ctrl_status) {
@@ -1315,9 +1314,7 @@ do_it_again:
break;
}
n_tty_set_room(tty);
clear_bit(TTY_DONT_FLIP, &tty->flags);
timeout = schedule_timeout(timeout);
set_bit(TTY_DONT_FLIP, &tty->flags);
continue;
}
__set_current_state(TASK_RUNNING);
@@ -1394,7 +1391,6 @@ do_it_again:
if (time)
timeout = time;
}
clear_bit(TTY_DONT_FLIP, &tty->flags);
mutex_unlock(&tty->atomic_read_lock);
remove_wait_queue(&tty->read_wait, &wait);