Also remove unneeded last_rx update from Synclink drivers.
Synclink part mostly by Stephen Hemminger.
Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Hałasa <khc@pm.waw.pl>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Again this is a lot of common code we can unify
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This helps set the basis for moving block_til_ready into common code. We also
introduce a tty_port_hangup helper as this will also be generally needed.
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This is the first step to generalising the various pieces of waiting logic
duplicated in all sorts of serial drivers.
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Some hardware needs to do break handling itself and may have partial
support only. Make break_ctl return an error code. Add a tty driver flag
so you can indicate driver hardware side break support.
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: (1232 commits)
iucv: Fix bad merging.
net_sched: Add size table for qdiscs
net_sched: Add accessor function for packet length for qdiscs
net_sched: Add qdisc_enqueue wrapper
highmem: Export totalhigh_pages.
ipv6 mcast: Omit redundant address family checks in ip6_mc_source().
net: Use standard structures for generic socket address structures.
ipv6 netns: Make several "global" sysctl variables namespace aware.
netns: Use net_eq() to compare net-namespaces for optimization.
ipv6: remove unused macros from net/ipv6.h
ipv6: remove unused parameter from ip6_ra_control
tcp: fix kernel panic with listening_get_next
tcp: Remove redundant checks when setting eff_sacks
tcp: options clean up
tcp: Fix MD5 signatures for non-linear skbs
sctp: Update sctp global memory limit allocations.
sctp: remove unnecessary byteshifting, calculate directly in big-endian
sctp: Allow only 1 listening socket with SO_REUSEADDR
sctp: Do not leak memory on multiple listen() calls
sctp: Support ipv6only AF_INET6 sockets.
...
Switch the synclink ports to use the new tty_port structure
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Move the line disciplines towards a conventional ->ops arrangement. For
the moment the actual 'tty_ldisc' struct in the tty is kept as part of
the tty struct but this can then be changed if it turns out that when it
all settles down we want to refcount ldiscs separately to the tty.
Pull the ldisc code out of /proc and put it with our ldisc code.
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
There is no point in using separate net_device_stats structs when
the one in struct net_device is present. Compiles.
Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Hałasa <khc@pm.waw.pl>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
Simple search/replace except for synclink.c where I noticed a real bug and
fixed it too. It was doing NULL + offset, then checking for NULL if the remap
failed.
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Fulghum <paulkf@microgate.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
- Stop drivers calling their own flush method indirectly, it obfuscates code
and it will change soon anyway
- A few more lock_kernel paths temporarily needed in some driver internal
waiting code
- Remove private put_char method that does a write call for one char - we
have that anyway
- Most but not yet all of the termios copy under lock fixing (some has other
dependencies to follow)
- Note a few locking bugs in drivers found in the process
- Kill remaining [ab]users of TIOCG/SSOFTCAR in the driver, these must go to
fix the termios locking
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
As these are quite complex I've simply pushed the BKL down into the ioctl
handler not tried to do anything neater.
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Fulghum <paulkf@microgate.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
All were forward declared with static.
Fixes sparse warnings:
drivers/char/synclinkmp.c:1476:5: warning: symbol 'read_proc' was not declared. Should it be static?
drivers/char/synclinkmp.c:2027:5: warning: symbol 'bh_action' was not declared. Should it be static?
drivers/char/synclinkmp.c:2058:6: warning: symbol 'bh_handler' was not declared. Should it be static?
drivers/char/synclinkmp.c:2103:6: warning: symbol 'bh_receive' was not declared. Should it be static?
drivers/char/synclinkmp.c:2112:6: warning: symbol 'bh_transmit' was not declared. Should it be static?
drivers/char/synclinkmp.c:2124:6: warning: symbol 'bh_status' was not declared. Should it be static?
drivers/char/synclinkmp.c:2136:6: warning: symbol 'isr_timer' was not declared. Should it be static?
drivers/char/synclinkmp.c:2162:6: warning: symbol 'isr_rxint' was not declared. Should it be static?
drivers/char/synclinkmp.c:2221:6: warning: symbol 'isr_rxrdy' was not declared. Should it be static?
drivers/char/synclinkmp.c:2351:6: warning: symbol 'isr_txint' was not declared. Should it be static?
drivers/char/synclinkmp.c:2379:6: warning: symbol 'isr_txrdy' was not declared. Should it be static?
drivers/char/synclinkmp.c:2410:6: warning: symbol 'isr_rxdmaok' was not declared. Should it be static?
drivers/char/synclinkmp.c:2427:6: warning: symbol 'isr_rxdmaerror' was not declared. Should it be static?
drivers/char/synclinkmp.c:2445:6: warning: symbol 'isr_txdmaok' was not declared. Should it be static?
drivers/char/synclinkmp.c:2463:6: warning: symbol 'isr_txdmaerror' was not declared. Should it be static?
drivers/char/synclinkmp.c:2480:6: warning: symbol 'isr_io_pin' was not declared. Should it be static?
drivers/char/synclinkmp.c:3420:5: warning: symbol 'alloc_dma_bufs' was not declared. Should it be static?
drivers/char/synclinkmp.c:3494:5: warning: symbol 'alloc_buf_list' was not declared. Should it be static?
drivers/char/synclinkmp.c:3553:5: warning: symbol 'alloc_frame_bufs' was not declared. Should it be static?
drivers/char/synclinkmp.c:3570:6: warning: symbol 'free_dma_bufs' was not declared. Should it be static?
drivers/char/synclinkmp.c:3580:5: warning: symbol 'alloc_tmp_rx_buf' was not declared. Should it be static?
drivers/char/synclinkmp.c:3588:6: warning: symbol 'free_tmp_rx_buf' was not declared. Should it be static?
drivers/char/synclinkmp.c:3594:5: warning: symbol 'claim_resources' was not declared. Should it be static?
drivers/char/synclinkmp.c:3681:6: warning: symbol 'release_resources' was not declared. Should it be static?
drivers/char/synclinkmp.c:3737:6: warning: symbol 'add_device' was not declared. Should it be static?
drivers/char/synclinkmp.c:3860:6: warning: symbol 'device_init' was not declared. Should it be static?
drivers/char/synclinkmp.c:4054:6: warning: symbol 'enable_loopback' was not declared. Should it be static?
drivers/char/synclinkmp.c:4101:6: warning: symbol 'set_rate' was not declared. Should it be static?
drivers/char/synclinkmp.c:4147:6: warning: symbol 'rx_stop' was not declared. Should it be static?
drivers/char/synclinkmp.c:4168:6: warning: symbol 'rx_start' was not declared. Should it be static?
drivers/char/synclinkmp.c:4225:6: warning: symbol 'tx_start' was not declared. Should it be static?
drivers/char/synclinkmp.c:4295:6: warning: symbol 'tx_stop' was not declared. Should it be static?
drivers/char/synclinkmp.c:4322:6: warning: symbol 'tx_load_fifo' was not declared. Should it be static?
drivers/char/synclinkmp.c:4371:6: warning: symbol 'reset_port' was not declared. Should it be static?
drivers/char/synclinkmp.c:4395:6: warning: symbol 'reset_adapter' was not declared. Should it be static?
drivers/char/synclinkmp.c:4407:6: warning: symbol 'async_mode' was not declared. Should it be static?
drivers/char/synclinkmp.c:4546:6: warning: symbol 'hdlc_mode' was not declared. Should it be static?
drivers/char/synclinkmp.c:4748:6: warning: symbol 'tx_set_idle' was not declared. Should it be static?
drivers/char/synclinkmp.c:4768:6: warning: symbol 'get_signals' was not declared. Should it be static?
drivers/char/synclinkmp.c:4797:6: warning: symbol 'set_signals' was not declared. Should it be static?
drivers/char/synclinkmp.c:4826:6: warning: symbol 'rx_reset_buffers' was not declared. Should it be static?
drivers/char/synclinkmp.c:4837:6: warning: symbol 'rx_free_frame_buffers' was not declared. Should it be static?
drivers/char/synclinkmp.c:4865:5: warning: symbol 'rx_get_frame' was not declared. Should it be static?
drivers/char/synclinkmp.c:5040:6: warning: symbol 'tx_load_dma_buffer' was not declared. Should it be static?
drivers/char/synclinkmp.c:5080:5: warning: symbol 'register_test' was not declared. Should it be static?
drivers/char/synclinkmp.c:5119:5: warning: symbol 'irq_test' was not declared. Should it be static?
drivers/char/synclinkmp.c:5211:5: warning: symbol 'init_adapter' was not declared. Should it be static?
drivers/char/synclinkmp.c:5270:5: warning: symbol 'loopback_test' was not declared. Should it be static?
drivers/char/synclinkmp.c:5335:5: warning: symbol 'adapter_test' was not declared. Should it be static?
drivers/char/synclinkmp.c:5397:5: warning: symbol 'memory_test' was not declared. Should it be static?
drivers/char/synclinkmp.c:5449:6: warning: symbol 'load_pci_memory' was not declared. Should it be static?
drivers/char/synclinkmp.c:5468:6: warning: symbol 'trace_block' was not declared. Should it be static?
drivers/char/synclinkmp.c:5503:6: warning: symbol 'tx_timeout' was not declared. Should it be static?
drivers/char/synclinkmp.c:5530:6: warning: symbol 'status_timeout' was not declared. Should it be static?
drivers/char/synclinkmp.c:5581:15: warning: symbol 'read_reg' was not declared. Should it be static?
drivers/char/synclinkmp.c:5586:6: warning: symbol 'write_reg' was not declared. Should it be static?
drivers/char/synclinkmp.c:5592:5: warning: symbol 'read_reg16' was not declared. Should it be static?
drivers/char/synclinkmp.c:5598:6: warning: symbol 'write_reg16' was not declared. Should it be static?
drivers/char/synclinkmp.c:5604:15: warning: symbol 'read_status_reg' was not declared. Should it be static?
drivers/char/synclinkmp.c:5610:6: warning: symbol 'write_control_reg' was not declared. Should it be static?
Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Fulghum <paulkf@microgate.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Remove more TRUE/FALSE defines and uses
Remove == TRUE tests
Convert BOOLEAN to bool
Convert int to bool where appropriate
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Acked-by: Paul Fulghum <paulkf@microgate.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Use the recommended form of "<>" to include linux header files, and
move those includes up to join the rest of the linux includes.
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
Acked-by: Paul Fulghum <paulkf@microgate.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Transform some calls to kmalloc/memset to a single kzalloc (or kcalloc).
Here is a short excerpt of the semantic patch performing
this transformation:
@@
type T2;
expression x;
identifier f,fld;
expression E;
expression E1,E2;
expression e1,e2,e3,y;
statement S;
@@
x =
- kmalloc
+ kzalloc
(E1,E2)
... when != \(x->fld=E;\|y=f(...,x,...);\|f(...,x,...);\|x=E;\|while(...) S\|for(e1;e2;e3) S\)
- memset((T2)x,0,E1);
@@
expression E1,E2,E3;
@@
- kzalloc(E1 * E2,E3)
+ kcalloc(E1,E2,E3)
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: get kcalloc args the right way around]
Signed-off-by: Yoann Padioleau <padator@wanadoo.fr>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Acked-by: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Bryan Wu <bryan.wu@analog.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>
Acked-by: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Acked-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Pierre Ossman <drzeus-list@drzeus.cx>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Acked-by: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com>
Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@pol.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Again this check is wrong now, and un-needed
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Fulghum <paulkf@microgate.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
- Use timer macros to set function and data members and to modify
expiration time.
- Use DEFINE_TIMER for global timers and do not init them at run-time in
these cases.
- del_timer_sync is common in most cases -- we want to wait for timer
function if it's still running.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Cc: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it>
Cc: Paul Fulghum <paulkf@microgate.com>
Cc: Kylene Jo Hall <kjhall@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>
Acked-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru> (Input bits)
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Run this:
#!/bin/sh
for f in $(grep -Erl "\([^\)]*\) *k[cmz]alloc" *) ; do
echo "De-casting $f..."
perl -pi -e "s/ ?= ?\([^\)]*\) *(k[cmz]alloc) *\(/ = \1\(/" $f
done
And then go through and reinstate those cases where code is casting pointers
to non-pointers.
And then drop a few hunks which conflicted with outstanding work.
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>, Ian Molton <spyro@f2s.com>
Cc: Mikael Starvik <starvik@axis.com>
Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>
Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Cc: Paul Fulghum <paulkf@microgate.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Karsten Keil <kkeil@suse.de>
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com>
Cc: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
Cc: Steven French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
Cc: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@suse.cz>
Cc: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This is the grungy swap all the occurrences in the right places patch that
goes with the updates. At this point we have the same functionality as
before (except that sgttyb() returns speeds not zero) and are ready to
begin turning new stuff on providing nobody reports lots of bugs
If you are a tty driver author converting an out of tree driver the only
impact should be termios->ktermios name changes for the speed/property
setting functions from your upper layers.
If you are implementing your own TCGETS function before then your driver
was broken already and its about to get a whole lot more painful for you so
please fix it 8)
Also fill in c_ispeed/ospeed on init for most devices, although the current
code will do this for you anyway but I'd like eventually to lose that extra
paranoia
[akpm@osdl.org: bluetooth fix]
[mp3@de.ibm.com: sclp fix]
[mp3@de.ibm.com: warning fix for tty3270]
[hugh@veritas.com: fix tty_ioctl powerpc build]
[jdike@addtoit.com: uml: fix ->set_termios declaration]
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Peschke <mp3@de.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Peter Oberparleiter <oberpar@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Fix compile errors on mismatch between generic HDLC and synclink drivers.
Notes:
generic HDLC support for synclink drivers is *optional* so you can't just
use depend on in Kconfig
This solution is deemed the best after 7 months of review and criticism by
many developers including AKPM. Read the threads on LKML before posting
about this solution.
Signed-off-by: Paul Fulghum <paulkf@microgate.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
(cherry picked from 1b16e7ac850969f38b375e511e3fa2f474a33867 commit)
As part of an SMP cleanliness pass over UML, I consted a bunch of
structures in order to not have to document their locking. One of these
structures was a struct tty_operations. In order to const it in UML
without introducing compiler complaints, the declaration of
tty_set_operations needs to be changed, and then all of its callers need to
be fixed.
This patch declares all struct tty_operations in the tree as const. In all
cases, they are static and used only as input to tty_set_operations. As an
extra check, I ran an i386 allyesconfig build which produced no extra
warnings.
53 drivers are affected. I checked the history of a bunch of them, and in
most cases, there have been only a handful of maintenance changes in the
last six months. serial_core.c was the busiest one that I looked at.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
WAN: Converted synclink drivers to use netif_carrier_*() instead
of hdlc_set_carrier().
Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Halasa <khc@pm.waw.pl>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Another bunch of checks in the char drivers .put_char() and .write()
routines, where tty can never be NULL. This patch removes these checks to
save some code. Coverity choked at those with the following bug ids:
isicom.c 767, 766
specialix.c 773, 774
synclink_cs.c 779, 781
synclink_gt.c 784, 785
synclinkmp.c 784, 785
Signed-off-by: Eric Sesterhenn <snakebyte@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Fulghum <paulkf@microgate.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Fulghum <paulkf@microgate.com>
Signed-off-by: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org>
Signed-off-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Signed-off-by: John Hawkes <hawkes@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Use ARRAY_SIZE macro instead of sizeof(x)/sizeof(x[0]) and remove
duplicates of ARRAY_SIZE.
Signed-off-by: Tobias Klauser <tklauser@nuerscht.ch>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This is the drivers/char/ part of the big kfree cleanup patch.
Remove pointless checks for NULL prior to calling kfree() in drivers/char/.
Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This updates .owner field of struct pci_driver.
This allows SYSFS to create the symlink from the driver to the module which
provides it.
Signed-off-by: Laurent Riffard <laurent.riffard@free.fr>
Cc: Paul Fulghum <paulkf@microgate.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Fix async internal loopback by not using enable_loopback function which
reprograms clocking and should only be used for hdlc mode.
Signed-off-by: Paul Fulghum <paulkf@microgate.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Disable burst transfers on adapter local bus. Hardware feature does not work
on latest version of adapter.
Signed-off-by: Paul Fulghum <paulkf@microgate.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Serial signals were incorrectly mapped twice to events.
Signed-off-by: Paul Fulghum <paulkf@microgate.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Removed gratuitous includes of asm/serial.h in synklinkmp and ip2main.
Allows to remove the rest of "broken on sparc32" in drivers/char - this
stuff doesn't break the build anymore. Since it got zero testing, it almost
certainly won't work there, though...
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Acked-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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!
Alexey Dobriyan
Krzysztof Hałasa
Alan Cox
Jeff Garzik
Linus Torvalds
Alan Cox
Harvey Harrison
Joe Perches
Robert P. J. Day
Yoann Padioleau
Jiri Slaby
Robert P. J. Day
Paul Fulghum
David Howells
Jeff Dike
Thomas Gleixner
Jörn Engel
Eric Sesterhenn
Tobias Klauser
Greg Kroah-Hartman
Jesper Juhl
Laurent Riffard
viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk
Linus Torvalds