pty: avoid forcing 'low_latency' tty flag

We really don't want to mark the pty as a low-latency device, because as
Alan points out, the ->write method can be called from an IRQ (ppp?),
and that means we can't use ->low_latency=1 as we take mutexes in the
low_latency case.

So rather than using low_latency to force the written data to be pushed
to the ldisc handling at 'write()' time, just make the reader side (or
the poll function) do the flush when it checks whether there is data to
be had.

This also fixes the problem with lost data in an emacs compile buffer
(bugzilla 13815), and we can thus revert the low_latency pty hack
(commit 3a542974: "pty: quickfix for the
pty ENXIO timing problems").
Signed-off-by: NOGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Tested-by: NAneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
[ Modified to do the tty_flush_to_ldisc() inside input_available_p() so
  that it triggers for both read and poll()  - Linus]
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

drivers/char/n_tty.c

@@ -1583,6 +1583,7 @@ static int n_tty_open(struct tty_struct *tty)
 
 static inline int input_available_p(struct tty_struct *tty, int amt)
 {
+	tty_flush_to_ldisc(tty);
 	if (tty->icanon) {
 		if (tty->canon_data)
 			return 1;

drivers/char/pty.c

@@ -52,7 +52,6 @@ static void pty_close(struct tty_struct *tty, struct file *filp)
 		return;
 	tty->link->packet = 0;
 	set_bit(TTY_OTHER_CLOSED, &tty->link->flags);
-	tty_flip_buffer_push(tty->link);
 	wake_up_interruptible(&tty->link->read_wait);
 	wake_up_interruptible(&tty->link->write_wait);
 	if (tty->driver->subtype == PTY_TYPE_MASTER) {
@@ -208,7 +207,6 @@ static int pty_open(struct tty_struct *tty, struct file *filp)
 	clear_bit(TTY_OTHER_CLOSED, &tty->link->flags);
 	set_bit(TTY_THROTTLED, &tty->flags);
 	retval = 0;
-	tty->low_latency = 1;
 out:
 	return retval;
 }

drivers/char/tty_buffer.c

@@ -461,6 +461,19 @@ static void flush_to_ldisc(struct work_struct *work)
 	tty_ldisc_deref(disc);
 }
 
+/**
+ *	tty_flush_to_ldisc
+ *	@tty: tty to push
+ *
+ *	Push the terminal flip buffers to the line discipline.
+ *
+ *	Must not be called from IRQ context.
+ */
+void tty_flush_to_ldisc(struct tty_struct *tty)
+{
+	flush_to_ldisc(&tty->buf.work.work);
+}
+
 /**
  *	tty_flip_buffer_push	-	terminal
  *	@tty: tty to push

include/linux/tty.h

@@ -394,6 +394,7 @@ extern void __do_SAK(struct tty_struct *tty);
 extern void disassociate_ctty(int priv);
 extern void no_tty(void);
 extern void tty_flip_buffer_push(struct tty_struct *tty);
+extern void tty_flush_to_ldisc(struct tty_struct *tty);
 extern void tty_buffer_free_all(struct tty_struct *tty);
 extern void tty_buffer_flush(struct tty_struct *tty);
 extern void tty_buffer_init(struct tty_struct *tty);