* 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6:
[IA64] Clean up linker script using standard macros.
[IA64] Use standard macros for page-aligned data.
[IA64] Use .ref.text, not .text.init for start_ap.
[IA64] sgi-xp: fix printk format warnings
[IA64] ioc4_serial: fix printk format warnings
[IA64] mbcs: fix printk format warnings
[IA64] pci_br, fix infinite loop in find_free_ate()
[IA64] kdump: Short path to freeze CPUs
[IA64] kdump: Try INIT regardless of
[IA64] kdump: Mask INIT first in panic-kdump path
[IA64] kdump: Don't return APs to SAL from kdump
[IA64] kexec: Unregister MCA handler before kexec
[IA64] kexec: Make INIT safe while transition to
[IA64] kdump: Mask MCA/INIT on frozen cpus
Fix up conflict in arch/ia64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S as per Tony's
suggestion.
Commit ac89a9174 ("pty: don't limit the writes to 'pty_space()' inside
'pty_write()'") removed the pty_space() checking, in order to let the
regular tty buffer code limit the buffering itself.
That was all good, but as a subtle side effect it meant that we'd be
doing a tty_wakeup() even in the case where the buffers were all filled
up, and didn't actually make any progress on the write.
Which sounds innocuous, but it interacts very badly with the ppp_async
code, which has an infinite loop in ppp_async_push() that tries to push
out data to the tty. When we call tty_wakeup(), that loop ends up
thinking that progress was made (see the subtle interactions between
XMIT_WAKEUP and 'tty_stuffed' for details). End result: one unhappy ppp
user.
Fixed by noticing when tty_insert_flip_string() didn't actually do
anything, and then not doing any more processing (including, very much
not calling tty_wakeup()).
Bisected-and-tested-by: Peter Volkov <pva@gentoo.org>
Cc: stable@kernel.org (2.6.31)
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core-2.6:
Driver Core: devtmpfs - kernel-maintained tmpfs-based /dev
debugfs: Modify default debugfs directory for debugging pktcdvd.
debugfs: Modified default dir of debugfs for debugging UHCI.
debugfs: Change debugfs directory of IWMC3200
debugfs: Change debuhgfs directory of trace-events-sample.h
debugfs: Fix mount directory of debugfs by default in events.txt
hpilo: add poll f_op
hpilo: add interrupt handler
hpilo: staging for interrupt handling
driver core: platform_device_add_data(): use kmemdup()
Driver core: Add support for compatibility classes
uio: add generic driver for PCI 2.3 devices
driver-core: move dma-coherent.c from kernel to driver/base
mem_class: fix bug
mem_class: use minor as index instead of searching the array
driver model: constify attribute groups
UIO: remove 'default n' from Kconfig
Driver core: Add accessor for device platform data
Driver core: move dev_get/set_drvdata to drivers/base/dd.c
Driver core: add new device to bus's list before probing
Many years ago when this driver was written, it had a use, but these
days it's nothing but trouble and distributions should not enable it
in any situation.
Pretty much every console device a sparc machine could see has a
bonafide real driver, making the PROM console hack unnecessary.
If any new device shows up, we should write a driver instead of
depending upon this crutch to save us. We've been able to take care
of this even when no chip documentation exists (sunxvr500, sunxvr2500)
so there are no excuses.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc: (134 commits)
powerpc/nvram: Enable use Generic NVRAM driver for different size chips
powerpc/iseries: Fix oops reading from /proc/iSeries/mf/*/cmdline
powerpc/ps3: Workaround for flash memory I/O error
powerpc/booke: Don't set DABR on 64-bit BookE, use DAC1 instead
powerpc/perf_counters: Reduce stack usage of power_check_constraints
powerpc: Fix bug where perf_counters breaks oprofile
powerpc/85xx: Fix SMP compile error and allow NULL for smp_ops
powerpc/irq: Improve nanodoc
powerpc: Fix some late PowerMac G5 with PCIe ATI graphics
powerpc/fsl-booke: Use HW PTE format if CONFIG_PTE_64BIT
powerpc/book3e: Add missing page sizes
powerpc/pseries: Fix to handle slb resize across migration
powerpc/powermac: Thermal control turns system off too eagerly
powerpc/pci: Merge ppc32 and ppc64 versions of phb_scan()
powerpc/405ex: support cuImage via included dtb
powerpc/405ex: provide necessary fixup function to support cuImage
powerpc/40x: Add support for the ESTeem 195E (PPC405EP) SBC
powerpc/44x: Add Eiger AMCC (AppliedMicro) PPC460SX evaluation board support.
powerpc/44x: Update Arches defconfig
powerpc/44x: Update Arches dts
...
Fix up conflicts in drivers/char/agp/uninorth-agp.c
When I build and boot -next on fedora 10, I can not login anymore.
When I input the user name and password, the system does not output
any message and requires user to input the user name and password
again and again.
I find the patch which caused this problem with "GIT BISECT" command.
And the patch is
commit 7c4b7daa1878972ed0137c95f23569124bd6e2b1
"mem_class: use minor as index instead of searching the array".
Though I don't know the real reason why user could not login, I
confirmed the patch I made as following could resolve the problem on
fedora 10.
Signed-off-by: Jin Dongming <jin.dongming@np.css.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Declare the device list with the minor numbers as the index, which saves us from
searching for a matching list entry. Remove old devfs permissions declaration.
Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* 'agp-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/airlied/agp-2.6:
agp/intel: remove restore in resume
agp: fix uninorth build
intel-agp: Set dma mask for i915
agp: kill phys_to_gart() and gart_to_phys()
intel-agp: fix sglist allocation to avoid vmalloc()
intel-agp: Move repeated sglist free into separate function
agp: Switch agp_{un,}map_page() to take struct page * argument
agp: tidy up handling of scratch pages w.r.t. DMA API
intel_agp: Use PCI DMA API correctly on chipsets new enough to have IOMMU
agp: Add generic support for graphics dma remapping
agp: Switch mask_memory() method to take address argument again, not page
drivers/char/mbcs.c:719: warning: format '%lx' expects type 'long unsigned int', but argument 3 has type 'uint64_t'
drivers/char/mbcs.c:719: warning: format '%lx' expects type 'long unsigned int', but argument 4 has type 'uint64_t'
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Bruce Losure <blosure@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
console_print() is an old legacy interface mostly unused in the entire
kernel tree. It's best to clean up its existing use and let developers
use their own implementation of it as they feel fit.
Signed-off-by: Anirban Sinha <asinha@zeugmasystems.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* 'osync_cleanup' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fs-2.6:
fsync: wait for data writeout completion before calling ->fsync
vfs: Remove generic_osync_inode() and sync_page_range{_nolock}()
fat: Opencode sync_page_range_nolock()
pohmelfs: Use new syncing helper
xfs: Convert sync_page_range() to simple filemap_write_and_wait_range()
ocfs2: Update syncing after splicing to match generic version
ntfs: Use new syncing helpers and update comments
ext4: Remove syncing logic from ext4_file_write
ext3: Remove syncing logic from ext3_file_write
ext2: Update comment about generic_osync_inode
vfs: Introduce new helpers for syncing after writing to O_SYNC file or IS_SYNC inode
vfs: Rename generic_file_aio_write_nolock
ocfs2: Use __generic_file_aio_write instead of generic_file_aio_write_nolock
pohmelfs: Use __generic_file_aio_write instead of generic_file_aio_write_nolock
vfs: Remove syncing from generic_file_direct_write() and generic_file_buffered_write()
vfs: Export __generic_file_aio_write() and add some comments
vfs: Introduce filemap_fdatawait_range
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next-2.6: (1623 commits)
netxen: update copyright
netxen: fix tx timeout recovery
netxen: fix file firmware leak
netxen: improve pci memory access
netxen: change firmware write size
tg3: Fix return ring size breakage
netxen: build fix for INET=n
cdc-phonet: autoconfigure Phonet address
Phonet: back-end for autoconfigured addresses
Phonet: fix netlink address dump error handling
ipv6: Add IFA_F_DADFAILED flag
net: Add DEVTYPE support for Ethernet based devices
mv643xx_eth.c: remove unused txq_set_wrr()
ucc_geth: Fix hangs after switching from full to half duplex
ucc_geth: Rearrange some code to avoid forward declarations
phy/marvell: Make non-aneg speed/duplex forcing work for 88E1111 PHYs
drivers/net/phy: introduce missing kfree
drivers/net/wan: introduce missing kfree
net: force bridge module(s) to be GPL
Subject: [PATCH] appletalk: Fix skb leak when ipddp interface is not loaded
...
Fixed up trivial conflicts:
- arch/x86/include/asm/socket.h
converted to <asm-generic/socket.h> in the x86 tree. The generic
header has the same new #define's, so that works out fine.
- drivers/net/tun.c
fix conflict between 89f56d1e9 ("tun: reuse struct sock fields") that
switched over to using 'tun->socket.sk' instead of the redundantly
available (and thus removed) 'tun->sk', and 2b980dbd ("lsm: Add hooks
to the TUN driver") which added a new 'tun->sk' use.
Noted in 'next' by Stephen Rothwell.
generic_file_aio_write_nolock() is now used only by block devices and raw
character device. Filesystems should use __generic_file_aio_write() in case
generic_file_aio_write() doesn't suit them. So rename the function to
blkdev_aio_write() and move it to fs/blockdev.c.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
As early pci resume has already restored config for host
bridge and graphics device, don't need to restore it again,
This removes an original order hack for graphics device restore.
This fixed the resume hang issue found by Alan Stern on 845G,
caused by extra config restore on graphics device.
Cc: Stable Team <stable@kernel.org>
Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Zhenyu Wang <zhenyuw@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6: (102 commits)
crypto: sha-s390 - Fix warnings in import function
crypto: vmac - New hash algorithm for intel_txt support
crypto: api - Do not displace newly registered algorithms
crypto: ansi_cprng - Fix module initialization
crypto: xcbc - Fix alignment calculation of xcbc_tfm_ctx
crypto: fips - Depend on ansi_cprng
crypto: blkcipher - Do not use eseqiv on stream ciphers
crypto: ctr - Use chainiv on raw counter mode
Revert crypto: fips - Select CPRNG
crypto: rng - Fix typo
crypto: talitos - add support for 36 bit addressing
crypto: talitos - align locks on cache lines
crypto: talitos - simplify hmac data size calculation
crypto: mv_cesa - Add support for Orion5X crypto engine
crypto: cryptd - Add support to access underlaying shash
crypto: gcm - Use GHASH digest algorithm
crypto: ghash - Add GHASH digest algorithm for GCM
crypto: authenc - Convert to ahash
crypto: api - Fix aligned ctx helper
crypto: hmac - Prehash ipad/opad
...
* 'writeback' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block:
writeback: check for registered bdi in flusher add and inode dirty
writeback: add name to backing_dev_info
writeback: add some debug inode list counters to bdi stats
writeback: get rid of pdflush completely
writeback: switch to per-bdi threads for flushing data
writeback: move dirty inodes from super_block to backing_dev_info
writeback: get rid of generic_sync_sb_inodes() export
* 'for-linus' of git://git390.marist.edu/pub/scm/linux-2.6: (54 commits)
[S390] tape: Use pr_xxx instead of dev_xxx in shared driver code
[S390] Wire up page fault events for software perf counters.
[S390] Remove smp_cpu_not_running.
[S390] Get rid of cpuid.h header file.
[S390] Limit cpu detection to 256 physical cpus.
[S390] tape: Fix device online messages
[S390] Enable guest page hinting by default.
[S390] use generic scatterlist.h
[S390] s390dbf: Add description for usage of "%s" in sprintf events
[S390] Initialize __LC_THREAD_INFO early.
[S390] fix recursive locking on page_table_lock
[S390] kvm: use console_initcall() to initialize s390 virtio console
[S390] tape: reversed order of labels
[S390] hypfs: Use "%u" instead of "%d" for unsigned ints in snprintf
[S390] kernel: Print an error message if kernel NSS cannot be defined
[S390] zcrypt: Free ap_device if dev_set_name fails.
[S390] zcrypt: Use spin_lock_bh in suspend callback
[S390] xpram: Remove checksum validation for suspend/resume
[S390] vmur: Invalid allocation sequence for vmur class
[S390] hypfs: remove useless variable qname
...
Don't use kfree directly after device registration started.
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Ott <sebott@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
This enables us to track who does what and print info. Its main use
is catching dirty inodes on the default_backing_dev_info, so we can
fix that up.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Remove the reliance on a staticly defined NVRAM size, allowing
platforms to support NVRAMs with sizes differing from the standard.
A fall back value is provided for platforms not supporting this extension.
Signed-off-by: Martyn Welch <martyn.welch@gefanuc.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
When probing the device in tpm_tis_init the call request_locality
uses timeout_a, which wasn't being initalized until after
request_locality. This results in request_locality falsely timing
out if the chip is still starting. Move the initialization to before
request_locality.
This probably only matters for embedded cases (ie mine), a BIOS likely
gets the TPM into a state where this code path isn't necessary.
Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgunthorpe@obsidianresearch.com>
Acked-by: Rajiv Andrade <srajiv@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/anholt/drm-intel:
agp/intel: support for new chip variant of IGDNG mobile
drm/i915: Unref old_obj on get_fence_reg() error path
drm/i915: increase default latency constant (v2 w/comment)
The whole write-room thing is something that is up to the _caller_ to
worry about, not the pty layer itself. The total buffer space will
still be limited by the buffering routines themselves, so there is no
advantage or need in having pty_write() artificially limit the size
somehow.
And what happened was that the caller (the n_tty line discipline, in
this case) may have verified that there is room for 2 bytes to be
written (for NL -> CRNL expansion), and it used to then do those writes
as two single-byte writes. And if the first byte written (CR) then
caused a new tty buffer to be allocated, pty_space() may have returned
zero when trying to write the second byte (LF), and then incorrectly
failed the write - leading to a lost newline character.
This should finally fix
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14015
Reported-by: Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@it.uu.se>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
When translating CR to CRNL in the n_tty line discipline, we did it as
two tty_put_char() calls. Which works, but is stupid, and has caused
problems before too with bad interactions with the write_room() logic.
The generic USB serial driver had that problem, for example.
Now the pty layer had similar issues after being moved to the generic
tty buffering code (in commit d945cb9cce:
"pty: Rework the pty layer to use the normal buffering logic").
So stop doing the silly separate two writes, and do it as a single write
instead. That's what the n_tty layer already does for the space
expansion of tabs (XTABS), and it means that we'll now always have just
a single write for the CRNL to match the single 'tty_write_room()' test,
which hopefully means that the next time somebody screws up buffering,
it won't cause weeks of debugging.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
New variant of IGDNG mobile chip has new host bridge id.
[anholt: Note that this new PCI ID doesn't impact the DRM, which doesn't
care about the PCI ID of the bridge]
Signed-off-by: Zhenyu Wang <zhenyuw@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Anholt <eric@anholt.net>
Trivial patch which adds the __init/__exit macros to the module_init/
module_exit functions of char/hvc_vio.c
Please have a look at the small patch and either pull it through
your tree, or please ack' it so Jiri can pull it through the trivial tree.
linux version 2.6.31-rc6 - linus git tree, Do 20. Aug 22:26:06 CEST 2009
Signed-off-by: Peter Huewe <peterhuewe@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Completed a major update for the acpi_get_object_info external interface.
Changes include:
- Support for variable, unlimited length HID, UID, and CID strings
- Support Processor objects the same as Devices (HID,UID,CID,ADR,STA, etc.)
- Call the _SxW power methods on behalf of a device object
- Determine if a device is a PCI root bridge
- Change the ACPI_BUFFER parameter to ACPI_DEVICE_INFO.
These changes will require an update to all callers of this interface.
See the ACPICA Programmer Reference for details.
Also, update all invocations of acpi_get_object_info interface
Signed-off-by: Bob Moore <robert.moore@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
When I rewrote tty ldisc code to use proper reference counts (commits
65b770468e and cbe9352fa0) in order to avoid a race with hangup, the
test-program that Eric Biederman used to trigger the original problem
seems to have exposed another long-standing bug: the hangup code did the
'tty_ldisc_halt()' to stop any buffer flushing activity, but unlike the
other call sites it never actually flushed any pending work.
As a result, if you get just the right timing, the pending work may be
just about to execute (ie the timer has already triggered and thus
cancel_delayed_work() was a no-op), when we then re-initialize the ldisc
from under it.
That, in turn, results in various random problems, usually seen as a
NULL pointer dereference in run_timer_softirq() or a BUG() in
worker_thread (but it can be almost anything).
Fix it by adding the required 'flush_scheduled_work()' after doing the
tty_ldisc_halt() (this also requires us to move the ldisc halt to before
taking the ldisc mutex in order to avoid a deadlock with the workqueue
executing do_tty_hangup, which requires the mutex).
The locking should be cleaned up one day (the requirement to do this
outside the ldisc_mutex is very annoying, and weakens the lock), but
that's a larger and separate undertaking.
Reported-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Tested-by: Xiaotian Feng <xtfeng@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Yanmin Zhang <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com>
Tested-by: Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.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>
Check whether index is within bounds prior to calculating a
possibly-invalid address.
Signed-off-by: Roel Kluin <roel.kluin@gmail.com>
Cc: Bernd Petrovitsch <bernd@firmix.at>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Map the GART table uncached, so we don't always need to flush the CPU caches
explicitly after updates.
Signed-off-by: Michel Dänzer <daenzer@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Using the radeon KMS test functionality, I verified that the AGP bridge of the
Intrepid2 chipset in my PowerBook supports aperture sizes up to 256M. So allow
aperture sizes up to 256M on pre-U3 bridges as well, and bump the default size
to 256M. It's possible that older revisions only support smaller sizes, but
it'll be easy to verify that with the raden KMS test functionality. Also,
there's only a problem on an actual attempt to access the aperture beyond the
maximum size supported by the hardware, and non-KMS X still defaults to using
only 32M.
Also use ARRAY_SIZE for the aperture size arrays.
Signed-off-by: Michel Dänzer <daenzer@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
The result of container_of should not be NULL. In particular, in this case
the argument to the enclosing function has passed though INIT_WORK, which
dereferences it, implying that its container cannot be NULL.
A simplified version of the semantic patch that makes this change is as
follows:
(http://www.emn.fr/x-info/coccinelle/)
// <smpl>
@@
identifier fn,work,x,fld;
type T;
expression E1,E2;
statement S;
@@
static fn(struct work_struct *work) {
... when != work = E1
x = container_of(work,T,fld)
... when != x = E2
- if (x == NULL) S
...
}
// </smpl>
Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Commit d945cb9cc ("pty: Rework the pty layer to use the normal buffering
logic") dropped the test for 'tty->stopped' in pty_write_room(), which
then causes the n_tty line discipline thing to not throttle the data
properly when the tty is stopped.
So instead of pausing the write due to the tty being stopped, the ldisc
layer would go ahead and push it down to the pty. The pty write()
routine would then refuse to take the data (because it _did_ check
'stopped'), and the data wouldn't actually be written.
This whole stopped test should eventually be moved into the tty ldisc
layer rather than have low-level tty drivers care about these things,
but right now the fix is to just re-instate the missing pty 'stopped'
handling.
Reported-and-tested-by: Artur Skawina <art.08.09@gmail.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
If DMAR is configured in but absent, we really do want to make sure that
the dma mask is set appropriately. Otherwise we get mapping failures on
highmem. Spotted by Zhenyu Wang.
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty-2.6:
tty-ldisc: be more careful in 'put_ldisc' locking
tty-ldisc: turn ldisc user count into a proper refcount
tty-ldisc: make refcount be atomic_t 'users' count
Use 'atomic_dec_and_lock()' to make sure that we always hold the
tty_ldisc_lock when the ldisc count goes to zero. That way we can never
race against 'tty_ldisc_try()' increasing the count again.
Reported-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Tested-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@mail.by>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
By using the user count for the actual lifetime rules, we can get rid of
the silly "wait_for_idle" logic, because any busy ldisc will
automatically stay around until the last user releases it. This avoids
a host of odd issues, and simplifies the code.
So now, when the last ldisc reference is dropped, we just release the
ldisc operations struct reference, and free the ldisc.
It looks obvious enough, and it does work for me, but the counting
_could_ be off. It probably isn't (bad counting in the new version would
generally imply that the old code did something really bad, like free an
ldisc with a non-zero count), but it does need some testing, and
preferably somebody looking at it.
With this change, both 'tty_ldisc_put()' and 'tty_ldisc_deref()' are
just aliases for the new ref-counting 'put_ldisc()'. Both of them
decrement the ldisc user count and free it if it goes down to zero.
They're identical functions, in other words.
But the reason they still exist as sepate functions is that one of them
was exported (tty_ldisc_deref) and had a stupid name (so I don't want to
use it as the main name), and the other one was used in multiple places
(and I didn't want to make the patch larger just to rename the users).
In addition to the refcounting, I did do some minimal cleanup. For
example, now "tty_ldisc_try()" actually returns the ldisc it got under
the lock, rather than returning true/false and then the caller would
look up the ldisc again (now without the protection of the lock).
That said, there's tons of dubious use of 'tty->ldisc' without obviously
proper locking or refcounting left. I expressly did _not_ want to try to
fix it all, keeping the patch minimal. There may or may not be bugs in
that kind of code, but they wouldn't be _new_ bugs.
That said, even if the bugs aren't new, the timing and lifetime will
change. For example, some silly code may depend on the 'tty->ldisc'
pointer not changing because they hold a refcount on the 'ldisc'. And
that's no longer true - if you hold a ref on the ldisc, the 'ldisc'
itself is safe, but tty->ldisc may change.
So the proper locking (remains) to hold tty->ldisc_mutex if you expect
tty->ldisc to be stable. That's not really a _new_ rule, but it's an
example of something that the old code might have unintentionally
depended on and hidden bugs.
Whatever. The patch _looks_ sensible to me. The only users of
ldisc->users are:
- get_ldisc() - atomically increment the count
- put_ldisc() - atomically decrements the count and releases if zero
- tty_ldisc_try_get() - creates the ldisc, and sets the count to 1.
The ldisc should then either be released, or be attached to a tty.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Tested-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Tested-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@mail.by>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
This is pure preparation of changing the ldisc reference counting to be
a true refcount that defines the lifetime of the ldisc. But this is a
purely syntactic change for now to make the next steps easier.
This patch should make no semantic changes at all. But I wanted to make
the ldisc refcount be an atomic (I will be touching it without locks
soon enough), and I wanted to rename it so that there isn't quite as
much confusion between 'ldo->refcount' (ldisk operations refcount) and
'ld->refcount' (ldisc refcount itself) in the same file.
So it's now an atomic 'ld->users' count. It still starts at zero,
despite having a reference from 'tty->ldisc', but that will change once
we turn it into a _real_ refcount.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Tested-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Tested-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@mail.by>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
