1. 30 4月, 2008 1 次提交
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      tty: The big operations rework · f34d7a5b
      Alan Cox 提交于
      - Operations are now a shared const function block as with most other Linux
        objects
      
      - Introduce wrappers for some optional functions to get consistent behaviour
      
      - Wrap put_char which used to be patched by the tty layer
      
      - Document which functions are needed/optional
      
      - Make put_char report success/fail
      
      - Cache the driver->ops pointer in the tty as tty->ops
      
      - Remove various surplus lock calls we no longer need
      
      - Remove proc_write method as noted by Alexey Dobriyan
      
      - Introduce some missing sanity checks where certain driver/ldisc
        combinations would oops as they didn't check needed methods were present
      
      [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix fs/compat_ioctl.c build]
      [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix isicom]
      [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix arch/ia64/hp/sim/simserial.c build]
      [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix kgdb]
      Signed-off-by: NAlan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
      Acked-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
      Cc: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      f34d7a5b
  2. 13 2月, 2008 1 次提交
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      hci_ldisc: fix null pointer deref · 3611f4d2
      David Newall 提交于
      Arjan:
      
        With the help of kerneloops.org I've spotted a nice little interaction
        between the TTY layer and the bluetooth code, however the tty layer is not
        something I'm all too familiar with so I rather ask than brute-force fix the
        code incorrectly.
      
        The raw details are at:
        http://www.kerneloops.org/search.php?search=uart_flush_buffer
      
        What happens is that, on closing the bluetooth tty, the tty layer goes
        into the release_dev() function, which first does a bunch of stuff, then
        sets the file->private_data to NULL, does some more stuff and then calls the
        ldisc close function.  Which in this case, is hci_uart_tty_close().
      
        Now, hci_uart_tty_close() calls hci_uart_close() which clears some
        internal bit, and then calls hci_uart_flush()...  which calls back to the
        tty layers' uart_flush_buffer() function.  (in drivers/bluetooth/hci_tty.c
        around line 194) Which then WARN_ON()'s because that's not allowed/supposed
        to be called this late in the shutdown of the port....
      
        Should the bluetooth driver even call this flush function at all??
      
      David:
      
        This seems to be what happens: Hci_uart_close() flushes using
        hci_uart_flush().  Subsequently, in hci_dev_do_close(), (one step in
        hci_unregister_dev()), hci_uart_flush() is called again.  The comment in
        uart_flush_buffer(), relating to the WARN_ON(), indicates you can't flush
        after the port is closed; which sounds reasonable.  I think hci_uart_close()
        should set hdev->flush to NULL before returning.  Hci_dev_do_close() does
        check for this.  The code path is rather involved and I'm not entirely clear
        of all steps, but I think that's what should be done.
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      3611f4d2
  3. 22 10月, 2007 1 次提交
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  5. 15 2月, 2007 1 次提交
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      [PATCH] remove many unneeded #includes of sched.h · cd354f1a
      Tim Schmielau 提交于
      After Al Viro (finally) succeeded in removing the sched.h #include in module.h
      recently, it makes sense again to remove other superfluous sched.h includes.
      There are quite a lot of files which include it but don't actually need
      anything defined in there.  Presumably these includes were once needed for
      macros that used to live in sched.h, but moved to other header files in the
      course of cleaning it up.
      
      To ease the pain, this time I did not fiddle with any header files and only
      removed #includes from .c-files, which tend to cause less trouble.
      
      Compile tested against 2.6.20-rc2 and 2.6.20-rc2-mm2 (with offsets) on alpha,
      arm, i386, ia64, mips, powerpc, and x86_64 with allnoconfig, defconfig,
      allmodconfig, and allyesconfig as well as a few randconfigs on x86_64 and all
      configs in arch/arm/configs on arm.  I also checked that no new warnings were
      introduced by the patch (actually, some warnings are removed that were emitted
      by unnecessarily included header files).
      Signed-off-by: NTim Schmielau <tim@physik3.uni-rostock.de>
      Acked-by: NRussell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      cd354f1a
  6. 29 9月, 2006 1 次提交
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  9. 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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      Linux-2.6.12-rc2 · 1da177e4
      Linus Torvalds 提交于
      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!
      1da177e4