Remove unneeded variables when "0" can be returned.
Generated by: scripts/coccinelle/misc/returnvar.cocci
Signed-off-by: Mathieu OTHACEHE <m.othacehe@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
Add missing newlines to dev_<level> messages.
Also make some messages less verbose where appropriate.
Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <jhovold@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg@kroah.com>
None of these files are actually using any __init type directives
and hence don't need to include <linux/init.h>. Most are just a
left over from __devinit and __cpuinit removal, or simply due to
code getting copied from one driver to the next.
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
"old_rdtodo" and "size" are short type. They are type promoted to int
and the condition is never true.
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Make sure the interrupt urb submitted in port_probe is killed in
port_remove.
The interrupt-urb completion handler references the port and may get
called after port_remove has returned and the port has been
unregistered (although this is currently prevented by usb-serial core as
we are using a non-private urb).
Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <jhovold@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Remove bogus (and unnecessary) test for serial->dev being NULL in close.
The device is never cleared, and close is never called after a completed
disconnect anyway.
Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <jhovold@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Now, we start converting tty buffer functions to actually use
tty_port. This will allow us to get rid of the need of tty in many
call sites. Only tty_port will needed and hence no more
tty_port_tty_get in those paths.
Now, the one where most of tty_port_tty_get gets removed:
tty_flip_buffer_push.
IOW we also closed all the races in drivers not using tty_port_tty_get
at all yet.
Also we move tty_flip_buffer_push declaration from include/linux/tty.h
to include/linux/tty_flip.h to all others while we are changing it
anyway.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Now, we start converting tty buffer functions to actually use
tty_port. This will allow us to get rid of the need of tty in many
call sites. Only tty_port will needed and hence no more
tty_port_tty_get in those paths.
tty_insert_flip_string this time.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Remove all MODULE_VERSION macros and driver-version information (except
for garmin_gps which uses it in a status reply).
It is the kernel version that matters and not some private version
scheme which rarely even gets updated.
Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <jhovold@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Fix port-data memory leak by replacing attach and release with
port_probe and port_remove.
Since commit 0998d06310 (device-core: Ensure drvdata = NULL when no
driver is bound) the port private data is no longer freed at release as
it is no longer accessible.
Note that the write waitqueue was initialised but never used.
Compile-only tested.
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <jhovold@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Now that all usb-serial modules are only using dev_dbg()
the debug module parameter does not do anything at all, so
remove it to reduce any confusion if someone were to try to
use it.
CC: Matthias Bruestle and Harald Welte <support@reiner-sct.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
We should use dev_dbg() for usb_serial_debug_data() like all of the rest
of the usb-serial drivers use, so remove the debug parameter as it's not
needed.
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
dbg() was a very old USB-serial-specific macro.
This patch removes it from being used in the
driver and uses dev_dbg() instead.
CC: Matthias Bruestle and Harald Welte <support@reiner-sct.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
dbg() was used a lot a long time ago to trace code flow. Now that we have
ftrace, this isn't needed at all, so remove these calls.
CC: Matthias Bruestle and Harald Welte <support@reiner-sct.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
This converts the cyberjack.c driver to use the module_usb_serial_driver() call
instead of having to have a module_init/module_exit function, saving a lot
of duplicated code.
CC: Matthias Bruestle and Harald Welte <support@reiner-sct.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
This patch (as1523) modifies the following usb-serial drivers to
utilize the new usb_serial_{de}register_drivers() routines:
aircable, ark3116, belkin_sa, ch341, cp210x, cyberjack,
and cypress_m8.
Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
module_param(bool) used to counter-intuitively take an int. In
fddd5201 (mid-2009) we allowed bool or int/unsigned int using a messy
trick.
It's time to remove the int/unsigned int option. For this version
it'll simply give a warning, but it'll break next kernel version.
Acked-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Remove unnecessary re-fills of bulk urbs whose fields have not changed
since port probe.
Compile-only tested.
Cc: Matthias Bruestle and Harald Welte <support@reiner-sct.com>
Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <jhovold@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Remove unnecessary reinitialisations of urb->dev before each submission,
which were based on the (no longer valid) assumption that serial->dev
will be set to NULL on close.
Compile-only tested.
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: Support Department <support@connecttech.com>
Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <jhovold@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Use port write_urbs_free mask rather than write_urb_busy field in struct
serial_port.
Compile-only tested.
Cc: Matthias Bruestle and Harald Welte <support@reiner-sct.com>
Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <jhovold@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
We have lots of callers that do not need to do this in the first place.
Remove the calls as they both cost CPU and for big buffers can mess up the
multi-page allocation avoidance.
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
The id_table field of the struct usb_device_id is constant in <linux/usb.h>
so it is worth to make the initialization data also constant.
The semantic match that finds this kind of pattern is as follows:
(http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)
// <smpl>
@r@
disable decl_init,const_decl_init;
identifier I1, I2, x;
@@
struct I1 {
...
const struct I2 *x;
...
};
@s@
identifier r.I1, y;
identifier r.x, E;
@@
struct I1 y = {
.x = E,
};
@c@
identifier r.I2;
identifier s.E;
@@
const struct I2 E[] = ... ;
@depends on !c@
identifier r.I2;
identifier s.E;
@@
+ const
struct I2 E[] = ...;
// </smpl>
Signed-off-by: Németh Márton <nm127@freemail.hu>
Cc: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
Cc: cocci@diku.dk
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
And indeed none of them use it. Clean this up as it will make moving to a
standard open method rather easier.
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
This patch (as1254) splits up the shutdown method of usb_serial_driver
into a disconnect and a release method.
The problem is that the usb-serial core was calling shutdown during
disconnect handling, but drivers didn't expect it to be called until
after all the open file references had been closed. The result was an
oops when the close method tried to use memory that had been
deallocated by shutdown.
Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
This allows us to clean stuff up, but is probably also going to cause
some app breakage with buggy apps as we now implement proper POSIX behaviour
for USB ports matching all the other ports. This does also mean other apps
that break on USB will now work properly.
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This removes tty->low_latency from all USB serial drivers that push
data into the tty layer at hard interrupt context. It's no longer needed
and actually harmful.
Signed-off-by: Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.org>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
USB should not be having it's own printk macros, so remove info() and
use the system-wide standard of dev_info() wherever possible.
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
USB serial likes to use port->tty back pointers for the real work it does and
to do so without any actual locking. Unfortunately when you consider hangup
events, hangup/parallel reopen or even worse hangup followed by parallel close
events the tty->port and port->tty pointers are not guaranteed to be the same
as port->tty is the active tty while tty->port is the port the tty may or
may not still be attached to.
So rework the entire API to pass the tty struct. For console cases we need
to pass both for now. This shows up multiple drivers that immediately crash
with USB console some of which have been fixed in the process.
Longer term we need a proper tty as console abstraction
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
- If a termios change fails due to lack of memory we should copy the
old settings back over as the device has not changed
- Note various locking problems
- kl5kusb105 had various remaining tty flag handling problems
- Make safe_serial use tty_insert_flip_string not open coded loops
- set termios speed properly in usb_serial
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
__FUNCTION__ is gcc-specific, use __func__
Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
The usb-serial core no longer checks these fields so remove them from
all of the individual drivers. They will be removed from the usb-serial
core in a patch later in the series.
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
This also fixes a sparse warning that symbol 'result' shadows an earlier one.
Signed-off-by: Andre Haupt <andre@bitwigglers.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
This done in anticipation of removal of urb->status, which will make
that patch easier to review and apply in the future.
Cc: <linux-usb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
Cc: <support@reiner-sct.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Every usb serial driver should have a pointer to the corresponding usb driver.
So the usb serial core can add a new id not only to the usb serial driver, but
also to the usb driver.
Also the usb drivers of ark3116, mos7720 and mos7840 missed the flag
no_dynamic_id=1. This is added now.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Hölzl <johannes.hoelzl@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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)
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: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
I'm going to throw schedule_work away, it's retarded. But for starters,
let's have it encapsulated.
Also, generic and whiteheat were both calling usb_serial_port_softint
and scheduled work. Only one was necessary.
Signed-off-by: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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>
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