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[PATCH] tty locking on resize

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The current kernel serializes console resizes but does not serialize the
resize against the tty structure updates.  This means that while two
parallel resizes cannot mess up the console you can get incorrect results
reported.

Secondly while doing this I added vc_lock_resize() to lock and resize the
console.  This leaves all knowledge of the console_sem in the vt/console
driver and kicks it out of the tty layer, which is good

Thirdly while doing this I decided I couldn't stand "disallocate" any
longer so I switched it to "deallocate".

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Fulghum <paulkf@microgate.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Alan Cox
2006-09-29 02:00:03 -07:00
committed by Linus Torvalds
parent ae78bf9c4f
commit ca9bda00b4
5 changed files with 36 additions and 27 deletions
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drivers/char/selection.c
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@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ extern void poke_blanked_console(void);
/* Variables for selection control. */
/* Use a dynamic buffer, instead of static (Dec 1994) */
struct vc_data *sel_cons; /* must not be disallocated */
struct vc_data *sel_cons; /* must not be deallocated */
static volatile int sel_start = -1; /* cleared by clear_selection */
static int sel_end;
static int sel_buffer_lth;