linux/drivers/isdn
Peter Hurley 79c1faa451 tty: Remove tty_wait_until_sent_from_close()
tty_wait_until_sent_from_close() drops the tty lock while waiting
for the tty driver to finish sending previously accepted data (ie.,
data remaining in its write buffer and transmit fifo).

tty_wait_until_sent_from_close() was added by commit a57a7bf3fc
("TTY: define tty_wait_until_sent_from_close") to prevent the entire
tty subsystem from being unable to open new ttys while waiting for
one tty to close while output drained.

However, since commit 0911261d4c ("tty: Don't take tty_mutex for tty
count changes"), holding a tty lock while closing does not prevent other
ttys from being opened/closed/hung up, but only prevents lifetime event
changes for the tty under lock.

Holding the tty lock while waiting for output to drain does prevent
parallel non-blocking opens (O_NONBLOCK) from advancing or returning
while the tty lock is held. However, all parallel opens _already_
block even if the tty lock is dropped while closing and the parallel
open advances. Blocking in open has been in mainline since at least 2.6.29
(see tty_port_block_til_ready(); note the test for O_NONBLOCK is _after_
the wait while ASYNC_CLOSING).

IOW, before this patch a non-blocking open will sleep anyway for the
_entire_ duration of a parallel hardware shutdown, and when it wakes, the
error return will cause a release of its tty, and it will restart with
a fresh attempt to open. Similarly with a blocking open that is already
waiting; when it's woken, the hardware shutdown has already completed
to ASYNC_INITIALIZED is not set, which forces a release and restart as
well.

So, holding the tty lock across the _entire_ close (which is what this
patch does), even while waiting for output to drain, is equivalent to
the current outcome wrt parallel opens.

Cc: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: David Laight <David.Laight@aculab.com>
CC: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
CC: Karsten Keil <isdn@linux-pingi.de>
CC: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2015-10-17 21:11:29 -07:00
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act2000 isdn: replace del_timer by del_timer_sync 2014-03-27 15:28:06 -04:00
capi isdn/capi: Use setup_timer 2015-05-31 21:36:37 -07:00
divert isdn: divert, hysdn: fix interruptible_sleep_on race 2014-02-26 16:06:13 -05:00
gigaset isdn/gigaset: drop unused ldisc methods 2015-07-15 17:24:45 -07:00
hardware Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial 2015-04-14 09:50:27 -07:00
hisax Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2015-06-24 02:58:51 -07:00
hysdn isdn: fix misspelling of current function in string 2014-12-09 16:18:46 -05:00
i4l tty: Remove tty_wait_until_sent_from_close() 2015-10-17 21:11:29 -07:00
icn arch, drivers: don't include <asm/io.h> directly, use <linux/io.h> instead 2015-08-10 23:07:05 -04:00
isdnloop drivers: isdn: isdnloop: isdnloop.c: Remove parenthesis around return values, as specified in CodingStyle. 2015-02-05 15:40:23 -08:00
mISDN Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next 2015-09-03 08:08:17 -07:00
pcbit isdn: fix misspelling of current function in string 2014-12-09 16:18:46 -05:00
sc Drivers: Isdn: sc: Fixed coding style & spelling mistakes. 2015-01-18 00:27:53 -05:00
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