After commit "TTY: move tty buffers to tty_port", the tty buffers are
not freed in some drivers. This is because tty_port_destructor is not
called whenever a tty_port is freed. This was an assumption I counted
with but was unfortunately untrue. So fix the drivers to fulfil this
assumption.
To be sure, the TTY buffers (and later some stuff) are gone along with
the tty_port, we have to call tty_port_destroy at tear-down places.
This is mostly where the structure containing a tty_port is freed.
This patch does exactly that -- put tty_port_destroy at those places.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
The 3215 console always has the RAW3215_FIXED flag set, which causes
raw3215_shutdown() not to wait for outstanding I/O requests if an attached
tty gets closed.
The flag however can be simply removed, so we can guarantee that all requests
belonging to the tty have been processed when the tty is closed.
However the tasklet that belongs to the 3215 device may be scheduled even if
there is no tty attached anymore, since we have a race between console and tty
processing.
Thefore unconditional tty_wakekup() in raw3215_wakeup() can cause the following
NULL pointer dereference:
3.465368 Unable to handle kernel pointer dereference at virtual kernel address (null)
3.465448 Oops: 0004 #1 SMP
3.465454 Modules linked in:
3.465459 CPU: 1 Not tainted 3.6.0 #1
3.465462 Process swapper/1 (pid: 0, task: 000000003ffa4428, ksp: 000000003ffb7ce0)
3.465466 Krnl PSW : 0404100180000000 0000000000162f86 (__wake_up+0x46/0xb8)
3.465480 R:0 T:1 IO:0 EX:0 Key:0 M:1 W:0 P:0 AS:0 CC:1 PM:0 EA:3
Krnl GPRS: fffffffffffffffe 0000000000000000 0000000000000160 0000000000000001
3.465492 0000000000000001 0000000000000004 0000000000000004 000000000096b490
3.465499 0000000000000001 0000000000000100 0000000000000001 0000000000000001
3.465506 070000003fc87d60 0000000000000160 000000003fc87d68 000000003fc87d00
3.465526 Krnl Code: 0000000000162f76: e3c0f0a80004 lg %r12,168(%r15)
0000000000162f7c: 58000370 l %r0,880
#0000000000162f80: c007ffffffff00 xilf %r0,4294967295
>0000000000162f86: ba102000 cs %r1,%r0,0(%r2)
0000000000162f8a: 1211 ltr %r1,%r1
0000000000162f8c: a774002f brc 7,162fea
0000000000162f90: b904002d lgr %r2,%r13
0000000000162f94: b904003a lgr %r3,%r10
3.465597 Call Trace:
3.465599 (<0400000000000000> 0x400000000000000)
3.465602 <000000000048c77e> raw3215_wakeup+0x2e/0x40
3.465607 <0000000000134d66> tasklet_action+0x96/0x168
3.465612 <000000000013423c> __do_softirq+0xd8/0x21c
3.465615 <0000000000134678> irq_exit+0xa8/0xac
3.465617 <000000000046c232> do_IRQ+0x182/0x248
3.465621 <00000000005c8296> io_return+0x0/0x8
3.465625 <00000000005c7cac> vtime_stop_cpu+0x4c/0xb8
3.465629 (<0000000000194e06> tick_nohz_idle_enter+0x4e/0x74)
3.465633 <0000000000104760> cpu_idle+0x170/0x184
3.465636 <00000000005b5182> smp_start_secondary+0xd6/0xe0
3.465641 <00000000005c86be> restart_int_handler+0x56/0x6c
3.465643 <0000000000000000> 0x0
3.465645 Last Breaking-Event-Address:
3.465647 <0000000000403136> tty_wakeup+0x46/0x98
3.465652
3.465654 Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception in interrupt
01: HCPGIR450W CP entered; disabled wait PSW 00020001 80000000 00000000 0010F63C
The easiest solution is simply to check if tty is NULL in the tasklet.
If it is NULL nothing is to do (no tty attached), otherwise tty_wakeup()
can be called, since we hold a reference to the tty.
This is not nice... but it is a small patch and it works.
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
This has two outcomes:
* we give the TTY layer a tty_port
* we do not find the info structure every time open is called on that
tty
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: linux390@de.ibm.com
Cc: linux-s390@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
raw3215[line] is set in probe, but not unset in remove. This will lead
to random crashes if the device is removed and the corresponding tty
opened later. open would dereference freed memory.
So set raw3215[line] to NULL in remove to fix that.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: linux390@de.ibm.com
Cc: linux-s390@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Fix compile error caused by "TTY: con3215, use tty from tty_port":
CC drivers/s390/char/con3215.o
drivers/s390/char/con3215.c: In function 'raw3215_wakeup':
drivers/s390/char/con3215.c:339:16: error: 'struct raw3215_info' has no member named 'tty'
make[1]: *** [drivers/s390/char/con3215.o] Error 1
make: *** [drivers/s390/char/] Error 2
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Obtain tty_struct only once in ISR and pass it down to
raw3215_next_io. Other than that, we just use the tty with raised
reference. And set it properly in open and close.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: linux390@de.ibm.com
Cc: linux-s390@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
And use flags from that. But first we have to get rid of duplicated
flag names. From now on, for the standard ones that are stored in
tty_port->flags, we use ASYNC_* ones.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: linux390@de.ibm.com
Cc: linux-s390@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
There are two copies of allocations of device information. One of them
is totally broken. See:
raw->cdev = cdev;
raw->inbuf = (char *) raw + sizeof(struct raw3215_info);
memset(raw, 0, sizeof(struct raw3215_info));
It suggests that this path was never executed. The code uses both
raw->cdev and raw->inbuf all over. And it is NULL due to the memset
here, so it would panic immediately. I believe nobody used that driver
without being a system console.
Either way, let us fix it by moving the allocations (and
initializations) to a single place. This will save us some double
initializations later too.
And while at it, initialize the timer properly -- once, at the
allocation.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: linux390@de.ibm.com
Cc: linux-s390@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Here's the big serial and tty merge for the 3.4-rc1 tree.
There's loads of fixes and reworks in here from Jiri for the tty layer,
and a number of patches from Alan to help try to wrestle the vt layer
into a sane model.
Other than that, lots of driver updates and fixes, and other minor
stuff, all detailed in the shortlog.
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Merge tag 'tty-3.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty
Pull TTY/serial patches from Greg KH:
"tty and serial merge for 3.4-rc1
Here's the big serial and tty merge for the 3.4-rc1 tree.
There's loads of fixes and reworks in here from Jiri for the tty
layer, and a number of patches from Alan to help try to wrestle the vt
layer into a sane model.
Other than that, lots of driver updates and fixes, and other minor
stuff, all detailed in the shortlog."
* tag 'tty-3.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty: (132 commits)
serial: pxa: add clk_prepare/clk_unprepare calls
TTY: Wrong unicode value copied in con_set_unimap()
serial: PL011: clear pending interrupts
serial: bfin-uart: Don't access tty circular buffer in TX DMA interrupt after it is reset.
vt: NULL dereference in vt_do_kdsk_ioctl()
tty: serial: vt8500: fix annotations for probe/remove
serial: remove back and forth conversions in serial_out_sync
serial: use serial_port_in/out vs serial_in/out in 8250
serial: introduce generic port in/out helpers
serial: reduce number of indirections in 8250 code
serial: delete useless void casts in 8250.c
serial: make 8250's serial_in shareable to other drivers.
serial: delete last unused traces of pausing I/O in 8250
pch_uart: Add module parameter descriptions
pch_uart: Use existing default_baud in setup_console
pch_uart: Add user_uartclk parameter
pch_uart: Add Fish River Island II uart clock quirks
pch_uart: Use uartclk instead of base_baud
mpc5200b/uart: select more tolerant uart prescaler on low baudrates
tty: moxa: fix bit test in moxa_start()
...
Checking if tty->index is in bounds is not needed. The tty has the
index set in the initial open. This is done in get_tty_driver. And it
can be only in interval <0,driver->num).
So remove the tests which check exactly this interval. Some are
left untouched as they check against the current backing device count.
(Leaving apart that the check is racy in most of the cases.)
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
All num, magic and owner are set by alloc_tty_driver. No need to
re-set them on each allocation site.
pti driver sets something different to what it passes to
alloc_tty_driver. It is not a bug, since we don't use the lines
parameter in any way. Anyway this is fixed, and now we do the right
thing.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Tilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
The 3215 driver calls tty_wakeup from irq context while holding the
device spinlock. If printk is called by any function on the callchain
starting from tty_wakeup the system deadlocks on the device spinlock.
Using a tasklet to call tty_wakup solves the problem.
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Current IRQ statistics support does not show detail counts for I/O
interrupts which are processed internally only. The result is a
summation count which is way off such as this one:
CPU0 CPU1 CPU2
I/O: 1331 710 442
[...]
QAI: 15 16 16 [I/O] QDIO Adapter Interrupt
QDI: 1 0 0 [I/O] QDIO Interrupt
DAS: 706 645 381 [I/O] DASD
C15: 26 10 0 [I/O] 3215
C70: 0 0 0 [I/O] 3270
TAP: 0 0 0 [I/O] Tape
VMR: 0 0 0 [I/O] Unit Record Devices
LCS: 0 0 0 [I/O] LCS
CLW: 0 0 0 [I/O] CLAW
CTC: 0 0 0 [I/O] CTC
APB: 0 0 0 [I/O] AP Bus
Fix this by moving I/O interrupt accounting into the common I/O layer.
Signed-off-by: Peter Oberparleiter <peter.oberparleiter@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Remove the owner and name members of struct
ccw_driver and convert all drivers to store
this data in the embedded struct device_driver.
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Ott <sebott@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Add support for 3215 I/O interrupt statistics in /proc/interrupts.
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
...instead of adding a compat ioctl function which would do nothing
as well.
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
When converting these two drivers from bootmem to slab allocations I
forgot to remove two comments which state that this wouldn't be
possible.
So remove them now since this caused confusion already.
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Replace the remaining direct accesses to the driver_data pointer
with calls to the dev_get_drvdata() and dev_set_drvdata() functions.
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
The slab allocator is earlier available so convert the
bootmem allocations to slab/gfp allocations.
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core-2.6: (64 commits)
debugfs: use specified mode to possibly mark files read/write only
debugfs: Fix terminology inconsistency of dir name to mount debugfs filesystem.
xen: remove driver_data direct access of struct device from more drivers
usb: gadget: at91_udc: remove driver_data direct access of struct device
uml: remove driver_data direct access of struct device
block/ps3: remove driver_data direct access of struct device
s390: remove driver_data direct access of struct device
parport: remove driver_data direct access of struct device
parisc: remove driver_data direct access of struct device
of_serial: remove driver_data direct access of struct device
mips: remove driver_data direct access of struct device
ipmi: remove driver_data direct access of struct device
infiniband: ehca: remove driver_data direct access of struct device
ibmvscsi: gadget: at91_udc: remove driver_data direct access of struct device
hvcs: remove driver_data direct access of struct device
xen block: remove driver_data direct access of struct device
thermal: remove driver_data direct access of struct device
scsi: remove driver_data direct access of struct device
pcmcia: remove driver_data direct access of struct device
PCIE: remove driver_data direct access of struct device
...
Manually fix up trivial conflicts due to different direct driver_data
direct access fixups in drivers/block/{ps3disk.c,ps3vram.c}
Introduce the power management callbacks to the 3215 console. On suspend
the console buffer is flushed to the 3215 device to have an empty console
buffer. Printks done while the 3215 device is suspended are buffered in
the 64K buffer of the 3215 device. If the buffer is full new messages will
push out the oldest messages to make room for the most recent message.
On resume the buffered messages are printed. If the system panics before
the 3215 device is resumed ccw_device_force_console is used to get the
console working again.
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
In the near future, the driver core is going to not allow direct access
to the driver_data pointer in struct device. Instead, the functions
dev_get_drvdata() and dev_set_drvdata() should be used. These functions
have been around since the beginning, so are backwards compatible with
all older kernel versions.
Thanks to Sebastian Ott <sebott@linux.vnet.ibm.com> for fixing a few
typos in my original version of this patch.
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Sebastian Ott <sebott@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: linux-s390@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux390@de.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
The 3215 console irq handler used to schedule a tasklet. However the
console irq handler also gets called from the infamous cio_tpi()
function. Which in turn does something like
local_bh_disable()
[call console irq handler]
_local_bh_enable()
_local_bh_enable() prevents execution of softirqs, which is intended
within cio_tpi(). However there might be a new softirq pending because
irq handler scheduled a tasklet.
In order to prevent this behaviour we just get rid of the tasklet.
It's not doing much anyway.
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
The s390 console drivers use the unblank callback of the console
structure to flush the console buffer. In case of a panic or a
reboot the CPU doing the callback can block on the console i/o.
The other CPUs in the system continue to work. For panic this is
not a good idea.
Replace the unblank callback with proper panic/reboot notifier.
These get called after all but one CPU have been stopped.
Signed-off-by: Holger Smolinski <Holger.Smolinski@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Most likely it is broken anyway because of the changes in memory
detection. Since we can't test it and there are probably better ways
that using a P390 card, remove support for it.
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Extend the scsw data structure to the format required by fcx. Also
provide helper functions for easier access to fields which are present
in both the traditional as well as the modified format.
Signed-off-by: Peter Oberparleiter <peter.oberparleiter@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Put the changes into the drivers first. This will still compile/work but
produce a warning if bisected so can still be debugged
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Oberparleiter <peter.oberparleiter@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The early console device is special as it already has all needed data
set and raw3215[0] allocated from con3215_init(). Therefore, it needs
special treatment in the probe function so it can be matched with the
3215 driver which is already owning it.
Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
We get this:
Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:con3270_consetup from .data
between 'con3270' (at offset 0x45c8) and 'con3270_fn'
Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:con3215_consetup from .data
between 'con3215' (at offset 0x4678) and
'raw3215_ccw_driver'
Since there is no difference between a non present console setup
function and one that returns only 0 remove them.
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Run this:
#!/bin/sh
for f in $(grep -Erl "\([^\)]*\) *k[cmz]alloc" *) ; do
echo "De-casting $f..."
perl -pi -e "s/ ?= ?\([^\)]*\) *(k[cmz]alloc) *\(/ = \1\(/" $f
done
And then go through and reinstate those cases where code is casting pointers
to non-pointers.
And then drop a few hunks which conflicted with outstanding work.
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>, Ian Molton <spyro@f2s.com>
Cc: Mikael Starvik <starvik@axis.com>
Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>
Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Cc: Paul Fulghum <paulkf@microgate.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Karsten Keil <kkeil@suse.de>
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com>
Cc: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
Cc: Steven French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
Cc: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@suse.cz>
Cc: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Remove lock pointer from 3215 device structure. Use get_ccwdev_lock
for each use of the lock in the ccw-device structure.
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
As part of an SMP cleanliness pass over UML, I consted a bunch of
structures in order to not have to document their locking. One of these
structures was a struct tty_operations. In order to const it in UML
without introducing compiler complaints, the declaration of
tty_set_operations needs to be changed, and then all of its callers need to
be fixed.
This patch declares all struct tty_operations in the tree as const. In all
cases, they are static and used only as input to tty_set_operations. As an
extra check, I ran an i386 allyesconfig build which produced no extra
warnings.
53 drivers are affected. I checked the history of a bunch of them, and in
most cases, there have been only a handful of maintenance changes in the
last six months. serial_core.c was the busiest one that I looked at.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
The return code of ccw_device_probe_console() is not properly handled. It
should only return a valid ccw device pointer or a error value converted by
ERR_PTR. Fix the console driver code to check with IS_ERR instead against
NULL.
Signed-off-by: Peter Oberparleiter <peter.oberparleiter@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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>
This is the drivers/s390/ part of the big kfree cleanup patch.
Remove pointless checks for NULL prior to calling kfree() in drivers/s390/.
Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Cornelia Huck <cohuck@de.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Stefan Bader <Stefan.Bader@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Add interface to issue VM control program commands.
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.
Let it rip!
Greg Kroah-Hartman