Although line discipline receiving is single-producer/single-consumer,
using tty->receive_room to manage flow control creates unnecessary
critical regions requiring additional lock use.
Instead, introduce the optional .receive_buf2() ldisc method which
returns the # of bytes actually received. Serialization is guaranteed
by the caller.
In turn, the line discipline should schedule the buffer work item
whenever space becomes available; ie., when there is room to receive
data and receive_room() previously returned 0 (the buffer work
item stops processing if receive_buf2() returns 0). Note the
'no room' state need not be atomic despite concurrent use by two
threads because only the buffer work thread can set the state and
only the read() thread can clear the state.
Add n_tty_receive_buf2() as the receive_buf2() method for N_TTY.
Provide a public helper function, tty_ldisc_receive_buf(), to use
when directly accessing the receive_buf() methods.
Line disciplines not using input flow control can continue to set
tty->receive_room to a fixed value and only provide the receive_buf()
method.
Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Although the driver-side input path must update the available
buffer space, it should not reschedule itself. If space is still
available and the flip buffers are not empty, flush_to_ldisc()
will loop again.
Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
receive_room is used to control the amount of data the flip
buffer work can push to the read buffer. This update is unsafe:
CPU 0 | CPU 1
|
| n_tty_read()
| n_tty_set_room()
| left = <calc of space>
n_tty_receive_buf() |
<push data to buffer> |
n_tty_set_room() |
left = <calc of space> |
tty->receive_room = left |
| tty->receive_room = left
receive_room is now updated with a stale calculation of the
available buffer space, and the subsequent work loop will likely
overwrite unread data in the input buffer.
Update receive_room atomically with the calculation of the
available buffer space.
Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
minimum_to_wake is unique to N_TTY processing, and belongs in
per-ldisc data.
Add the ldisc method, ldisc_ops::fasync(), to notify line disciplines
when signal-driven I/O is enabled or disabled. When enabled for N_TTY
(by fcntl(F_SETFL, O_ASYNC)), blocking reader/polls will be woken
for any readable input. When disabled, blocking reader/polls are not
woken until the read buffer is full.
Canonical mode (L_ICANON(tty), n_tty_data::icanon) is not affected by
the minimum_to_wake setting.
Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
I meet emacs hang in start if I do the operation below:
1: echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
2: emacs BigFile
3: Press CTRL-S follow 2 immediately
Then emacs hang on, CTRL-Q can't resume, the terminal
hang on, you can do nothing with this terminal except
close it.
The reason is before emacs takeover control the tty,
we use CTRL-S to XOFF it. Then when emacs takeover the
control, it may don't use the flow-control, so emacs hang.
This patch fix it.
This patch will fix a kind of strange tty relation hang problem,
I believe I meet it with vim in ssh, and also see below bug report:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=465823
Signed-off-by: Wang YanQing <udknight@gmail.com>
Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
The driver is no longer unthrottled on buffer reset, so remove
comments that claim it is.
Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Factor the packet mode status change from n_tty_flush_buffer
for use by follow-on patch.
Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Flip buffer work must not be scheduled by the line discipline
after the line discipline has been halted; issue warning.
Note: drivers can still schedule flip buffer work.
Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Concurrent access to tty->pgrp must be protected with tty->ctrl_lock.
Also, as noted in the comments, reading current->signal->tty is
safe because either,
1) current->signal->tty is assigned by current, or
2) current->signal->tty is set to NULL.
NB: for reference, tty_check_change() implements a similar POSIX
check for the ioctls corresponding to tcflush(), tcdrain(),
tcsetattr(), tcsetpgrp(), tcflow() and tcsendbreak().
Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
An ldisc reference is insufficient guarantee the foreground process
group is not in the process of being signalled from a hangup.
1) Reads of tty->pgrp must be locked with ctrl_lock
2) The group pid must be referenced for the duration of signalling.
Because the driver-side is not process-context, a pid reference
must be acquired.
Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
As noted in the following comment:
/* FIXME: there is a tiny race here if the receive room check runs
before the other work executes and empties the buffer (upping
the receiving room and unthrottling. We then throttle and get
stuck. This has been observed and traced down by Vincent Pillet/
We need to address this when we sort out out the rx path locking */
Use new safe throttle/unthrottle functions to re-evaluate conditions
if interrupted by the complement flow control function.
Reported-by: Vincent Pillet <vincentx.pillet@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2-line function check_unthrottle() is now only called from
n_tty_read(); merge into caller.
Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
The PPS (Pulse-Per-Second) line discipline has developed a number of
unhealthy attachments to core tty data and functions, ultimately leading
to its breakage.
The previous patches fixed the crashing. This one reduces coupling further
by eliminating the timestamp parameter from the dcd_change ldisc method.
This reduces header file linkage and makes the extension more generic,
and the timestamp read is delayed only slightly, from just before the
ldisc->ops->dcd_change method call to just after.
Fix attendant build breakage in
drivers/tty/n_tty.c
drivers/tty/tty_buffer.c
drivers/staging/speakup/selection.c
drivers/staging/dgrp/dgrp_*.c
Cc: William Hubbs <w.d.hubbs@gmail.com>
Cc: Chris Brannon <chris@the-brannons.com>
Cc: Kirk Reiser <kirk@braille.uwo.ca>
Cc: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>
Signed-off-by: George Spelvin <linux@horizon.com>
Acked-by: Rodolfo Giometti <giometti@enneenne.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
The "normal" spin lock that guards the N_TTY line discipline read section
is replaced by a raw spin lock.
On a PREEMP_RT system this prevents unwanted scheduling overhead when data is
read at the same time as data is being received: while RX IRQ threaded handling
is busy a TTY read call is performed from a RT priority > threaded IRQ priority.
The read call tries to take the read section spin lock (held by the threaded
IRQ) which blocks and causes a context switch to/from the threaded IRQ handler
until the spin lock is unlocked.
Signed-off-by: Ivo Sieben <meltedpianoman@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
When the tty input buffer is full and thereby throttled,
flushing/resetting the read buffer should unthrottle to allow more
data to be received.
Signed-off-by: Karthik Manamcheri <Karthik.Manamcheri@ni.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
WARN_RATELIMIT() expects the warning to end with a newline if one
is needed.
Not doing so results in odd looking warnings such as:
[ 1339.454272] tty is NULLPid: 7147, comm: kworker/4:0 Tainted: G W 3.7.0-rc2-next-20121025-sasha-00001-g673f98e-dirty #75
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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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| | \ / / | |
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~~~ ~~ `` ~~~ ~~
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>
In some funtions we need only n_tty_data, so pass it down directly in
case tty is not needed there.
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>
atomic_write_lock is not n_tty specific, so move it up in the
tty_struct.
And since these are the last ones to move, remove also the comment
saying there are some ldisc' members. There are none now.
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>
All the ring-buffers...
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>
Here we move bitmaps and use DECLARE_BITMAP to declare them in the new
structure. And instead of memset, we use bitmap_zero as it is more
appropriate.
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>
Here we start moving all the n_tty related bits from tty_struct to
the newly defined n_tty_data struct in n_tty proper.
In this patch primitive members and bits are moved. The rest will be
done per-partes in the next patches.
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>
All n_tty related members from tty_struct will be moved here.
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>
This is a private member of n_tty. Stop accessing it. Instead, take is
as an argument.
This is needed to allow clean switch of the private members to a
separate private structure of n_tty.
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>
* BUG_ON(!tty) in n_tty_set_termios -- it cannot be called with tty ==
NULL. It is called from two call sites. First, from n_tty_open where
we have a valid tty. Second, as ld->ops->set_termios from
tty_set_termios. But there we have a valid tty too.
* if (!tty) in n_tty_open -- why would the TTY layer call ldisc's
open with an invalid TTY? No it indeed does not. All call sites have
a tty and dereference that.
* BUG_ON(!tty->read_buf) in n_tty_read -- this used to be a valid
check. The ldisc handling was broken some time ago when I added the
check to ensure everything is OK. It still can catch the case, but
no later than we move the buffer to ldisc data. Then there will be
no read_buf in tty_struct, i.e. nothing to check for.
* if (!tty->read_buf) in n_tty_receive_buf -- this should never
happen. All callers of ldisc->ops->receive_ops should hold a
reference to an ldisc and close (which frees read_buf) cannot be
called until the reference is dropped.
* if (WARN_ON(!tty->read_buf)) in n_tty_read -- the same as in the
previous case.
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>
ldisc->open and close are called only once and cannot cross. So the
tests in open and close are superfluous. Remove them. (But leave sets
to NULL to ensure there is not a bug somewhere.)
And when the tests are gone, handle properly failures in open. We
leaked read_buf if allocation of echo_buf failed before. Now this is
not the case anymore.
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>
Change the BUG_ON to WARN_ON and return in case of tty->read_buf==NULL. We want to track a
couple of long standing reports of this but at the same time we can avoid killing the box.
Signed-off-by: Stanislav Kozina <skozina@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Horses <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
When PARMRK is set and large transfers of characters that will get
marked are being received, n_tty could drop data silently (i.e.
without reporting any error to the client). This is because
characters have the potential to take up to three bytes in the line
discipline (when they get marked with parity or framing errors), but
the amount of free space reported to tty_buffer flush_to_ldisc (via
tty->receive_room) is based on the pre-marked data size.
With this patch, the n_tty layer will no longer assume that each byte
will only take up one byte in the line discipline. Instead, it will
make an overly conservative estimate that each byte will take up
three bytes in the line discipline when PARMRK is set.
Signed-off-by: Jaeden Amero <jaeden.amero@ni.com>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Fix possible panic caused by unlocked access to tty->read_cnt in
while-loop condition in n_tty_read().
Signed-off-by: Stanislav Kozina <skozina@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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>
This was identified by Vincent Pillet with a high speed interface that uses
low latency mode. In the low latency case we have a tiny race but it can
be hit.
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
copy_from_read_buf currently copies data to a user buffer and then
checks if the data is single EOF. But it checks it by accessing the
user buffer. First, the buffer may be changed by other threads of the
user program already. Second, it accesses the buffer without any
checks. It might be write-only for example.
Fix this by inspecting contents of the tty (kernel) buffer instead.
Note that "n == 1" is necessary, but not sufficient. But we check
later that there is nothing left by "!tty->read_cnt" condition.
There is still an issue with the current code that EOF being wrapped
to the start of the circular buffer will result in an inappropriate
losing of the EOF character. But this is not intended to be fixed by
this patch.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Reported-by: Emil Goode <emilgoode@gmail.com>
Cc: Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Remove all #inclusions of asm/system.h preparatory to splitting and killing
it. Performed with the following command:
perl -p -i -e 's!^#\s*include\s*<asm/system[.]h>.*\n!!' `grep -Irl '^#\s*include\s*<asm/system[.]h>' *`
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
* 'tty-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty-2.6: (26 commits)
amba pl011: workaround for uart registers lockup
n_gsm: fix the wrong FCS handling
pch_uart: add missing comment about OKI ML7223
pch_uart: Add MSI support
tty: fix "IRQ45: nobody cared"
PTI feature to allow user to name and mark masterchannel request.
0 for o PTI Makefile bug.
tty: serial: samsung.c remove legacy PM code.
SERIAL: SC26xx: Fix link error.
serial: mrst_max3110: initialize waitqueue earlier
mrst_max3110: Change max missing message priority.
tty: s5pv210: Add delay loop on fifo reset function for UART
tty/serial: Fix XSCALE serial ports, e.g. ce4100
serial: bfin_5xx: fix off-by-one with resource size
drivers/tty: use printk_ratelimited() instead of printk_ratelimit()
tty: n_gsm: Added refcount usage to gsm_mux and gsm_dlci structs
tty: n_gsm: Add raw-ip support
tty: n_gsm: expose gsmtty device nodes at ldisc open time
pch_phub: Fix register miss-setting issue
serial: 8250, increase PASS_LIMIT
...
Unthrottling the TTY during close ends up enabling interrupts
on a device not on the active list, which will never have the
interrupts cleared. Doctor, it hurts when I do this.
>>> On 6/2/2011 at 01:56 AM, in message <20110601145608.3e586e16@bob.linux.org.uk>, Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 01 Jun 2011 10:34:07 +1200
> "andrew mcgregor" <andrew.mcgregor@alliedtelesis.co.nz> wrote:
> > The LKML message
> > http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/linux-kernel/2010/2/25/4541847 from
> > February doesn't seem to have been resolved since. We struck the
> > issue, and the patch below (against 2.6.32) fixes it. Should I
> > supply a patch against 3.0.0rc?
>
> I think that would be sensible. I don't actually see how you hit it as
> the IRQ ought to be masked by then but it's certainly wrong for n_tty
> to be calling into check_unthrottle at that point.
>
> So yes please send a patch with a suitable Signed-off-by: line to
> linux-serial and cc GregKH <greg@kroah.com> as well.
>
> Alan
Signed-off-by: Andrew McGregor <andrew.mcgregor@alliedtelesis.co.nz>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
With the previous patch, we fixed another bug where read_buf was freed
while we still was in n_tty_read. We currently check whether read_buf
is NULL at the start of the function. Add one more check after we wake
up from waiting for input.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
This reverts commit b1c43f82c5.
It was broken in so many ways, and results in random odd pty issues.
It re-introduced the buggy schedule_work() in flush_to_ldisc() that can
cause endless work-loops (see commit a5660b41af6a: "tty: fix endless
work loop when the buffer fills up").
It also used an "unsigned int" return value fo the ->receive_buf()
function, but then made multiple functions return a negative error code,
and didn't actually check for the error in the caller.
And it didn't actually work at all. BenH bisected down odd tty behavior
to it:
"It looks like the patch is causing some major malfunctions of the X
server for me, possibly related to PTYs. For example, cat'ing a
large file in a gnome terminal hangs the kernel for -minutes- in a
loop of what looks like flush_to_ldisc/workqueue code, (some ftrace
data in the quoted bits further down).
...
Some more data: It -looks- like what happens is that the
flush_to_ldisc work queue entry constantly re-queues itself (because
the PTY is full ?) and the workqueue thread will basically loop
forver calling it without ever scheduling, thus starving the consumer
process that could have emptied the PTY."
which is pretty much exactly the problem we fixed in a5660b41af.
Milton Miller pointed out the 'unsigned int' issue.
Reported-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Reported-by: Milton Miller <miltonm@bga.com>
Cc: Stefan Bigler <stefan.bigler@keymile.com>
Cc: Toby Gray <toby.gray@realvnc.com>
Cc: Felipe Balbi <balbi@ti.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
it makes it simpler to keep track of the amount of
bytes received and simplifies how flush_to_ldisc counts
the remaining bytes. It also fixes a bug of lost bytes
on n_tty when flushing too many bytes via the USB
serial gadget driver.
Tested-by: Stefan Bigler <stefan.bigler@keymile.com>
Tested-by: Toby Gray <toby.gray@realvnc.com>
Signed-off-by: Felipe Balbi <balbi@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Commit f23eb2b2b2 ('tty: stop using "delayed_work" in the tty layer')
ended up causing hung machines on UP with no preemption, because the
work routine to flip the buffer data to the ldisc would endlessly re-arm
itself if the destination buffer had filled up.
With the delayed work, that only caused a timer-driving polling of the
tty state every timer tick, but without the delay we just ended up with
basically a busy loop instead.
Stop the insane polling, and instead make the code that opens up the
receive room re-schedule the buffer flip work. That's what we should
have been doing anyway.
This same "poll for tty room" issue is almost certainly also the cause
of excessive kworker activity when idle reported by Dave Jones, who also
reported "flush_to_ldisc executing 2500 times a second" back in Nov 2010:
http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/11/30/592
which is that silly flushing done every timer tick. Wasting both power
and CPU for no good reason.
Reported-and-tested-by: Alexander Beregalov <a.beregalov@gmail.com>
Reported-and-tested-by: Sitsofe Wheeler <sitsofe@yahoo.com>
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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>
Peter Hurley