1. 15 9月, 2012 1 次提交
  2. 14 9月, 2012 1 次提交
  3. 11 8月, 2012 1 次提交
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      usb: usb_wwan: replace release and disconnect with a port_remove hook · a1028f0a
      Bjørn Mork 提交于
      Doing port specific cleanup in the .port_remove hook is a
      lot simpler and safer than doing it in the USB driver
      .release or .disconnect methods. The removal of the port
      from the usb-serial bus will happen before the USB driver
      cleanup, so we must be careful about accessing port specific
      driver data from any USB driver functions.
      
      This problem surfaced after the commit
      
       0998d063 device-core: Ensure drvdata = NULL when no driver is bound
      
      which turned the previous unsafe access into a reliable NULL
      pointer dereference.
      
      Fixes the following Oops:
      
      [  243.148471] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at           (null)
      [  243.148508] IP: [<ffffffffa0468527>] stop_read_write_urbs+0x37/0x80 [usb_wwan]
      [  243.148556] PGD 79d60067 PUD 79d61067 PMD 0
      [  243.148590] Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP
      [  243.148617] Modules linked in: sr_mod cdrom qmi_wwan usbnet option cdc_wdm usb_wwan usbserial usb_storage uas fuse af_packet ip6table_filter ip6_tables iptable_filter ip_tables x_tables tun edd
      cpufreq_conservative cpufreq_userspace cpufreq_powersave snd_pcm_oss snd_mixer_oss acpi_cpufreq snd_seq mperf snd_seq_device coretemp arc4 sg hp_wmi sparse_keymap uvcvideo videobuf2_core
      videodev videobuf2_vmalloc videobuf2_memops rtl8192ce rtl8192c_common rtlwifi joydev pcspkr microcode mac80211 i2c_i801 lpc_ich r8169 snd_hda_codec_idt cfg80211 snd_hda_intel snd_hda_codec rfkill
      snd_hwdep snd_pcm wmi snd_timer ac snd soundcore snd_page_alloc battery uhci_hcd i915 drm_kms_helper drm i2c_algo_bit ehci_hcd thermal usbcore video usb_common button processor thermal_sys
      [  243.149007] CPU 1
      [  243.149027] Pid: 135, comm: khubd Not tainted 3.5.0-rc7-next-20120720-1-vanilla #1 Hewlett-Packard HP Mini 110-3700                /1584
      [  243.149072] RIP: 0010:[<ffffffffa0468527>]  [<ffffffffa0468527>] stop_read_write_urbs+0x37/0x80 [usb_wwan]
      [  243.149118] RSP: 0018:ffff880037e75b30  EFLAGS: 00010286
      [  243.149133] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: ffff88005912aa28
      [  243.149150] RDX: ffff88005e95f028 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: ffff88005f7c1a10
      [  243.149166] RBP: ffff880037e75b60 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: ffffffff812cea90
      [  243.149182] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000001 R12: ffff88006539b440
      [  243.149198] R13: ffff88006539b440 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000
      [  243.149216] FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88007ee80000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
      [  243.149233] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b
      [  243.149248] CR2: 0000000000000000 CR3: 0000000079fe0000 CR4: 00000000000007e0
      [  243.149264] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
      [  243.149280] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
      [  243.149298] Process khubd (pid: 135, threadinfo ffff880037e74000, task ffff880037d40600)
      [  243.149313] Stack:
      [  243.149323]  ffff880037e75b40 ffff88006539b440 ffff8800799bc830 ffff88005f7c1800
      [  243.149348]  0000000000000001 ffff88006539b448 ffff880037e75b70 ffffffffa04685e9
      [  243.149371]  ffff880037e75bc0 ffffffffa0473765 ffff880037354988 ffff88007b594800
      [  243.149395] Call Trace:
      [  243.149419]  [<ffffffffa04685e9>] usb_wwan_disconnect+0x9/0x10 [usb_wwan]
      [  243.149447]  [<ffffffffa0473765>] usb_serial_disconnect+0xd5/0x120 [usbserial]
      [  243.149511]  [<ffffffffa0046b48>] usb_unbind_interface+0x58/0x1a0 [usbcore]
      [  243.149545]  [<ffffffff8139ebd7>] __device_release_driver+0x77/0xe0
      [  243.149567]  [<ffffffff8139ec67>] device_release_driver+0x27/0x40
      [  243.149587]  [<ffffffff8139e5cf>] bus_remove_device+0xdf/0x150
      [  243.149608]  [<ffffffff8139bc78>] device_del+0x118/0x1a0
      [  243.149661]  [<ffffffffa0044590>] usb_disable_device+0xb0/0x280 [usbcore]
      [  243.149718]  [<ffffffffa003c6fd>] usb_disconnect+0x9d/0x140 [usbcore]
      [  243.149770]  [<ffffffffa003da7d>] hub_port_connect_change+0xad/0x8a0 [usbcore]
      [  243.149825]  [<ffffffffa0043bf5>] ? usb_control_msg+0xe5/0x110 [usbcore]
      [  243.149878]  [<ffffffffa003e6e3>] hub_events+0x473/0x760 [usbcore]
      [  243.149931]  [<ffffffffa003ea05>] hub_thread+0x35/0x1d0 [usbcore]
      [  243.149955]  [<ffffffff81061960>] ? add_wait_queue+0x60/0x60
      [  243.150004]  [<ffffffffa003e9d0>] ? hub_events+0x760/0x760 [usbcore]
      [  243.150026]  [<ffffffff8106133e>] kthread+0x8e/0xa0
      [  243.150047]  [<ffffffff8157ec04>] kernel_thread_helper+0x4/0x10
      [  243.150068]  [<ffffffff810612b0>] ? flush_kthread_work+0x120/0x120
      [  243.150088]  [<ffffffff8157ec00>] ? gs_change+0xb/0xb
      [  243.150101] Code: fd 41 54 53 48 83 ec 08 80 7f 1a 00 74 57 49 89 fc 31 db 90 49 8b 7c 24 20 45 31 f6 48 81 c7 10 02 00 00 e8 bc 64 f3 e0 49 89 c7 <4b> 8b 3c 37 49 83 c6 08 e8 4c a5 bd ff 49 83 fe 20
      75 ed 45 30
      [  243.150257] RIP  [<ffffffffa0468527>] stop_read_write_urbs+0x37/0x80 [usb_wwan]
      [  243.150282]  RSP <ffff880037e75b30>
      [  243.150294] CR2: 0000000000000000
      [  243.177170] ---[ end trace fba433d9015ffb8c ]---
      Reported-by: NDan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
      Reported-by: NThomas Schäfer <tschaefer@t-online.de>
      Suggested-by: NAlan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
      Signed-off-by: NBjørn Mork <bjorn@mork.no>
      Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
      a1028f0a
  4. 09 5月, 2012 1 次提交
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      USB: serial: rework usb_serial_register/deregister_drivers() · 68e24113
      Greg Kroah-Hartman 提交于
      This reworks the usb_serial_register_drivers() and
      usb_serial_deregister_drivers() to not need a pointer to a struct
      usb_driver anymore.  The usb_driver structure is now created dynamically
      and registered and unregistered as needed.
      
      This saves lines of code in each usb-serial driver.  All in-kernel users
      of these functions were also fixed up at this time.  The pl2303 driver
      was tested that everything worked properly.
      
      Thanks for the idea to do this from Alan Stern.
      
      Cc: Adhir Ramjiawan <adhirramjiawan0@gmail.com>
      Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
      Cc: Al Borchers <alborchers@steinerpoint.com>
      Cc: Aleksey Babahin <tamerlan311@gmail.com>
      Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Cc: Andrew Worsley <amworsley@gmail.com>
      Cc: Bart Hartgers <bart.hartgers@gmail.com>
      Cc: Bill Pemberton <wfp5p@virginia.edu>
      Cc: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
      Cc: Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>
      Cc: Donald Lee <donald@asix.com.tw>
      Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
      Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
      Cc: Felipe Balbi <balbi@ti.com>
      Cc: Gary Brubaker <xavyer@ix.netcom.com>
      Cc: Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net>
      Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
      Cc: Johan Hovold <jhovold@gmail.com>
      Cc: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
      Cc: Kautuk Consul <consul.kautuk@gmail.com>
      Cc: Kuninori Morimoto <kuninori.morimoto.gx@renesas.com>
      Cc: Lonnie Mendez <dignome@gmail.com>
      Cc: Matthias Bruestle and Harald Welte <support@reiner-sct.com>
      Cc: Matthias Urlichs <smurf@smurf.noris.de>
      Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
      Cc: Michal Sroczynski <msroczyn@gmail.com>
      Cc: "Michał Wróbel" <michal.wrobel@flytronic.pl>
      Cc: Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.name>
      Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
      Cc: Peter Berger <pberger@brimson.com>
      Cc: Preston Fick <preston.fick@silabs.com>
      Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
      Cc: Rigbert Hamisch <rigbert@gmx.de>
      Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
      Cc: Simon Arlott <simon@fire.lp0.eu>
      Cc: Support Department <support@connecttech.com>
      Cc: Thomas Tuttle <ttuttle@chromium.org>
      Cc: Uwe Bonnes <bon@elektron.ikp.physik.tu-darmstadt.de>
      Cc: Wang YanQing <Udknight@gmail.com>
      Cc: William Greathouse <wgreathouse@smva.com>
      Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
      68e24113
  5. 08 5月, 2012 2 次提交
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      USB: serial: remove usb_serial_disconnect call in all drivers · 32078f91
      Greg Kroah-Hartman 提交于
      This is now set by the usb-serial core, no need for the driver to
      individually set it.
      
      Thanks to Alan Stern for the idea to get rid of it.
      
      Cc: William Greathouse <wgreathouse@smva.com>
      Cc: Matthias Bruestle and Harald Welte <support@reiner-sct.com>
      Cc: Lonnie Mendez <dignome@gmail.com>
      Cc: Peter Berger <pberger@brimson.com>
      Cc: Al Borchers <alborchers@steinerpoint.com>
      Cc: Gary Brubaker <xavyer@ix.netcom.com>
      Cc: Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.name>
      Cc: Matthias Urlichs <smurf@smurf.noris.de>
      Cc: Support Department <support@connecttech.com>
      Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
      Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
      Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
      Cc: Kautuk Consul <consul.kautuk@gmail.com>
      Cc: Bill Pemberton <wfp5p@virginia.edu>
      Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
      Cc: Bart Hartgers <bart.hartgers@gmail.com>
      Cc: Johan Hovold <jhovold@gmail.com>
      Cc: Preston Fick <preston.fick@silabs.com>
      Cc: Uwe Bonnes <bon@elektron.ikp.physik.tu-darmstadt.de>
      Cc: Simon Arlott <simon@fire.lp0.eu>
      Cc: Andrew Worsley <amworsley@gmail.com>
      Cc: "Michał Wróbel" <michal.wrobel@flytronic.pl>
      Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
      Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
      Cc: Felipe Balbi <balbi@ti.com>
      Cc: Aleksey Babahin <tamerlan311@gmail.com>
      Cc: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
      Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
      Cc: Donald Lee <donald@asix.com.tw>
      Cc: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
      Cc: Michal Sroczynski <msroczyn@gmail.com>
      Cc: Wang YanQing <Udknight@gmail.com>
      Cc: Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>
      Cc: Thomas Tuttle <ttuttle@chromium.org>
      Cc: Rigbert Hamisch <rigbert@gmx.de>
      Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
      Cc: Kuninori Morimoto <kuninori.morimoto.gx@renesas.com>
      Cc: Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net>
      Cc: Adhir Ramjiawan <adhirramjiawan0@gmail.com>
      Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
      32078f91
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      USB: serial: remove usb_serial_probe call in all drivers · 5026bb07
      Greg Kroah-Hartman 提交于
      This is now set by the usb-serial core, no need for the driver to
      individually set it.
      
      Thanks to Alan Stern for the idea to get rid of it.
      
      Cc: William Greathouse <wgreathouse@smva.com>
      Cc: Matthias Bruestle and Harald Welte <support@reiner-sct.com>
      Cc: Lonnie Mendez <dignome@gmail.com>
      Cc: Peter Berger <pberger@brimson.com>
      Cc: Al Borchers <alborchers@steinerpoint.com>
      Cc: Gary Brubaker <xavyer@ix.netcom.com>
      Cc: Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.name>
      Cc: Matthias Urlichs <smurf@smurf.noris.de>
      Cc: Support Department <support@connecttech.com>
      Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
      Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
      Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
      Cc: Kautuk Consul <consul.kautuk@gmail.com>
      Cc: Bill Pemberton <wfp5p@virginia.edu>
      Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
      Cc: Bart Hartgers <bart.hartgers@gmail.com>
      Cc: Johan Hovold <jhovold@gmail.com>
      Cc: Preston Fick <preston.fick@silabs.com>
      Cc: Uwe Bonnes <bon@elektron.ikp.physik.tu-darmstadt.de>
      Cc: Simon Arlott <simon@fire.lp0.eu>
      Cc: Andrew Worsley <amworsley@gmail.com>
      Cc: "Michał Wróbel" <michal.wrobel@flytronic.pl>
      Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
      Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
      Cc: Felipe Balbi <balbi@ti.com>
      Cc: Aleksey Babahin <tamerlan311@gmail.com>
      Cc: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
      Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
      Cc: Donald Lee <donald@asix.com.tw>
      Cc: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
      Cc: Michal Sroczynski <msroczyn@gmail.com>
      Cc: Wang YanQing <Udknight@gmail.com>
      Cc: Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>
      Cc: Thomas Tuttle <ttuttle@chromium.org>
      Cc: Rigbert Hamisch <rigbert@gmx.de>
      Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
      Cc: Kuninori Morimoto <kuninori.morimoto.gx@renesas.com>
      Cc: Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net>
      Cc: Adhir Ramjiawan <adhirramjiawan0@gmail.com>
      Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
      5026bb07
  6. 04 5月, 2012 1 次提交
  7. 29 2月, 2012 1 次提交
  8. 25 2月, 2012 1 次提交
  9. 13 1月, 2012 1 次提交
  10. 23 8月, 2011 1 次提交
  11. 21 5月, 2010 3 次提交
  12. 03 3月, 2010 2 次提交
  13. 20 9月, 2009 1 次提交
  14. 11 6月, 2009 1 次提交
  15. 24 4月, 2009 1 次提交
  16. 08 1月, 2009 1 次提交
  17. 18 10月, 2008 1 次提交
  18. 14 10月, 2008 1 次提交
    • A
      tty: usb-serial krefs · 4a90f09b
      Alan Cox 提交于
      Use kref in the USB serial drivers so that we don't free tty structures
      from under the URB receive handlers as has historically been the case if
      you were unlucky. This also gives us a framework for general tty drivers to
      use tty_port objects and refcount.
      
      Contains two err->dev_err changes merged together to fix clashes in the
      -next tree.
      Signed-off-by: NAlan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      4a90f09b
  19. 23 7月, 2008 2 次提交
  20. 25 4月, 2008 2 次提交
  21. 19 10月, 2007 1 次提交
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      Add missing newlines to some uses of dev_<level> messages · 898eb71c
      Joe Perches 提交于
      Found these while looking at printk uses.
      
      Add missing newlines to dev_<level> uses
      Add missing KERN_<level> prefixes to multiline dev_<level>s
      Fixed a wierd->weird spelling typo
      Added a newline to a printk
      Signed-off-by: NJoe Perches <joe@perches.com>
      Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
      Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
      Cc: Mark M. Hoffman <mhoffman@lightlink.com>
      Cc: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
      Cc: Tilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc>
      Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
      Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
      Cc: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
      Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
      Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
      Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
      Cc: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it>
      Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
      Cc: James Smart <James.Smart@Emulex.Com>
      Cc: Andrew Vasquez <andrew.vasquez@qlogic.com>
      Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@pol.net>
      Cc: Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru>
      Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
      Cc: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@suse.cz>
      Cc: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      898eb71c
  22. 13 7月, 2007 1 次提交
  23. 08 2月, 2007 1 次提交
  24. 02 12月, 2006 1 次提交
  25. 05 10月, 2006 1 次提交
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      IRQ: Maintain regs pointer globally rather than passing to IRQ handlers · 7d12e780
      David Howells 提交于
      Maintain a per-CPU global "struct pt_regs *" variable which can be used instead
      of passing regs around manually through all ~1800 interrupt handlers in the
      Linux kernel.
      
      The regs pointer is used in few places, but it potentially costs both stack
      space and code to pass it around.  On the FRV arch, removing the regs parameter
      from all the genirq function results in a 20% speed up of the IRQ exit path
      (ie: from leaving timer_interrupt() to leaving do_IRQ()).
      
      Where appropriate, an arch may override the generic storage facility and do
      something different with the variable.  On FRV, for instance, the address is
      maintained in GR28 at all times inside the kernel as part of general exception
      handling.
      
      Having looked over the code, it appears that the parameter may be handed down
      through up to twenty or so layers of functions.  Consider a USB character
      device attached to a USB hub, attached to a USB controller that posts its
      interrupts through a cascaded auxiliary interrupt controller.  A character
      device driver may want to pass regs to the sysrq handler through the input
      layer which adds another few layers of parameter passing.
      
      I've build this code with allyesconfig for x86_64 and i386.  I've runtested the
      main part of the code on FRV and i386, though I can't test most of the drivers.
      I've also done partial conversion for powerpc and MIPS - these at least compile
      with minimal configurations.
      
      This will affect all archs.  Mostly the changes should be relatively easy.
      Take do_IRQ(), store the regs pointer at the beginning, saving the old one:
      
      	struct pt_regs *old_regs = set_irq_regs(regs);
      
      And put the old one back at the end:
      
      	set_irq_regs(old_regs);
      
      Don't pass regs through to generic_handle_irq() or __do_IRQ().
      
      In timer_interrupt(), this sort of change will be necessary:
      
      	-	update_process_times(user_mode(regs));
      	-	profile_tick(CPU_PROFILING, regs);
      	+	update_process_times(user_mode(get_irq_regs()));
      	+	profile_tick(CPU_PROFILING);
      
      I'd like to move update_process_times()'s use of get_irq_regs() into itself,
      except that i386, alone of the archs, uses something other than user_mode().
      
      Some notes on the interrupt handling in the drivers:
      
       (*) input_dev() is now gone entirely.  The regs pointer is no longer stored in
           the input_dev struct.
      
       (*) finish_unlinks() in drivers/usb/host/ohci-q.c needs checking.  It does
           something different depending on whether it's been supplied with a regs
           pointer or not.
      
       (*) Various IRQ handler function pointers have been moved to type
           irq_handler_t.
      Signed-Off-By: NDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
      (cherry picked from 1b16e7ac850969f38b375e511e3fa2f474a33867 commit)
      7d12e780
  26. 29 9月, 2006 1 次提交
  27. 13 7月, 2006 2 次提交
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      [PATCH] USB: move usb-serial.h to include/linux/usb/ · a969888c
      Greg Kroah-Hartman 提交于
      USB serial outside of the kernel tree can not build properly due to
      usb-serial.h being buried down in the source tree.  This patch moves the
      location of the file to include/linux/usb and fixes up all of the usb
      serial drivers to handle the move properly.
      
      Cc: Sergei Organov <osv@javad.com>
      Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
      a969888c
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      [PATCH] USB: ipw.c driver fix · b2f1b0d4
      Bart Oldeman 提交于
      The below patch fixes the ipw module in kernel 2.6.17 for me; without
      this change it simply does not work at all (all but the first writes are
      refused because write_urb_busy is always 1).
      
      This problem was there in 2.6.15 as well, but at that point I used the
      (updated) ipw.c, version 0.4, from
      http://www.neology.co.za/products/opensource/ipwireless/ which no longer
      compiles with 2.6.17. It can be made to after a few changes but
      obviously it's easier if the built-in ipw driver works instead of having
      to download one from the neology site.
      
      From: Bart Oldeman <bartoldeman@users.sourceforge.net>
      Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
      b2f1b0d4
  28. 22 6月, 2006 1 次提交
  29. 11 1月, 2006 1 次提交
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      [PATCH] TTY layer buffering revamp · 33f0f88f
      Alan Cox 提交于
      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: NAlan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
      Cc: Paul Fulghum <paulkf@microgate.com>
      Signed-off-by: NHirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org>
      Signed-off-by: NSerge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: NJeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
      Signed-off-by: NJohn Hawkes <hawkes@sgi.com>
      Signed-off-by: NMartin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAdrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      33f0f88f
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