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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
Paul Gortmaker 4b07dd3df3 drivers/tty: make hvc_console.c explicitly non-modular
The Kconfig currently controlling compilation of this code is:

drivers/tty/hvc/Kconfig:config HVC_DRIVER
drivers/tty/hvc/Kconfig:        bool

...meaning that it currently is not being built as a module by anyone.

Lets remove the modular code that is essentially orphaned, so that
when reading the driver there is no doubt it is builtin-only, even
though someone bothered to comment that the code was not used.

Unlike other changes, this driver binds in w/o using module_init,
so we dont have init ordering concerns with this commit.

Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.com>
Acked-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2015-10-04 17:27:56 +01:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman b8dccc1b2e tty: hvc_console.c: move assignment out of if () block
We should not be doing assignments within an if () block
so fix up the code to not do this.

change was created using Coccinelle.

CC: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
CC: Tomoki Sekiyama <tomoki.sekiyama@hds.com>
CC: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2015-05-10 19:04:17 +02:00
Linus Torvalds 49eb7b0750 TTY/Serial driver patches for 3.16-rc1
Here is the big tty / serial driver pull request for 3.16-rc1.
 
 A variety of different serial driver fixes and updates and additions,
 nothing huge, and no real major core tty changes at all.
 
 All have been in linux-next for a while.
 
 Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Merge tag 'tty-3.16-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty into next

Pull tty/serial driver updates from Greg KH:
 "Here is the big tty / serial driver pull request for 3.16-rc1.

  A variety of different serial driver fixes and updates and additions,
  nothing huge, and no real major core tty changes at all.

  All have been in linux-next for a while"

* tag 'tty-3.16-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty: (84 commits)
  Revert "serial: imx: remove the DMA wait queue"
  serial: kgdb_nmi: Improve console integration with KDB I/O
  serial: kgdb_nmi: Switch from tasklets to real timers
  serial: kgdb_nmi: Use container_of() to locate private data
  serial: cpm_uart: No LF conversion in put_poll_char()
  serial: sirf: Fix compilation failure
  console: Remove superfluous readonly check
  console: Use explicit pointer type for vc_uni_pagedir* fields
  vgacon: Fix & cleanup refcounting
  ARM: tty: Move HVC DCC assembly to arch/arm
  tty/hvc/hvc_console: Fix wakeup of HVC thread on hvc_kick()
  drivers/tty/n_hdlc.c: replace kmalloc/memset by kzalloc
  vt: emulate 8- and 24-bit colour codes.
  printk/of_serial: fix serial console cessation part way through boot.
  serial: 8250_dma: check the result of TX buffer mapping
  serial: uart: add hw flow control support configuration
  tty/serial: at91: add interrupts for modem control lines
  tty/serial: at91: use mctrl_gpio helpers
  tty/serial: Add GPIOLIB helpers for controlling modem lines
  ARM: at91: gpio: implement get_direction
  ...
2014-06-03 09:01:02 -07:00
Benjamin Herrenschmidt 15a2743193 tty/hvc/hvc_console: Fix wakeup of HVC thread on hvc_kick()
Some backends call hvc_kick() to wakeup the HVC thread from its
slumber upon incoming characters. This however doesn't work
properly because it uses msleep_interruptible() which is mostly
immune to wake_up_process(). It will basically go back to sleep
until the timeout is expired (only signals can really wake it).

Replace it with a simple shedule_timeout_interruptible() instead,
which may wakeup earlier every now and then but we really don't
care in this case.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2014-05-28 13:33:18 -07:00
Tomoki Sekiyama 501fed45b7 drivers/tty/hvc: don't free hvc_console_setup after init
When 'console=hvc0' is specified to the kernel parameter in x86 KVM guest,
hvc console is setup within a kthread. However, that will cause SEGV
and the boot will fail when the driver is builtin to the kernel,
because currently hvc_console_setup() is annotated with '__init'. This
patch removes '__init' to boot the guest successfully with 'console=hvc0'.

Signed-off-by: Tomoki Sekiyama <tomoki.sekiyama@hds.com>
Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2014-05-03 18:14:28 -04:00
Paul Gortmaker f76a1cbed1 hvc: ensure hvc_init is only ever called once in hvc_console.c
Commit 3e6c6f630a ("Delay creation of
khcvd thread") moved the call of hvc_init from being a device_initcall
into hvc_alloc, and used a non-null hvc_driver as indication of whether
hvc_init had already been called.

The problem with this is that hvc_driver is only assigned a value
at the bottom of hvc_init, and so there is a window where multiple
hvc_alloc calls can be in progress at the same time and hence try
and call hvc_init multiple times.  Previously the use of device_init
guaranteed that hvc_init was only called once.

This manifests itself as sporadic instances of two hvc_init calls
racing each other, and with the loser of the race getting -EBUSY
from tty_register_driver() and hence that virtual console fails:

    Couldn't register hvc console driver
    virtio-ports vport0p1: error -16 allocating hvc for port

Here we add an atomic_t to guarantee we'll never run hvc_init twice.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org  # v2.6.24+
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Fixes: 3e6c6f630a ("Delay creation of khcvd thread")
Reported-by: Jim Somerville <Jim.Somerville@windriver.com>
Tested-by: Jim Somerville <Jim.Somerville@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2014-02-13 10:41:47 -08:00
Rashika Kheria 5855b2104b drivers: tty: Mark the function hvc_poll_init() as static in hvc_console.c
Mark the function hvc_poll_init() as static in hvc/hvc_console.c because
it is not used outside this file.

This eliminates the following warning in hvc/hvc_console.c:
drivers/tty/hvc/hvc_console.c:791:5: warning: no previous prototype for ‘hvc_poll_init’ [-Wmissing-prototypes]

Signed-off-by: Rashika Kheria <rashika.kheria@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-12-17 09:37:44 -08:00
Hendrik Brueckner 33e745a192 tty/hvc_console: Add DTR/RTS callback to handle HUPCL control
Introduce a new callback to explicitly handle the HUPCL termios control flag.
This prepares for a follow-up commit for the hvc_iucv device driver to
improve handling when to drop an established network connection.

The callback naming is based on the recently added tty_port interface to
facilitate a potential refactoring of the hvc_console to use tty_port
functions.

Signed-off-by: Hendrik Brueckner <brueckner@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-07-24 15:21:13 -07:00
Jiri Slaby 2e124b4a39 TTY: switch tty_flip_buffer_push
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>
2013-01-15 22:30:15 -08:00
Jiri Slaby 92a19f9cec TTY: switch tty_insert_flip_char
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_char is the next one to proceed. This one is used all
over the code, so the patch is huge.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-01-15 22:21:36 -08:00
Jiri Slaby 227434f898 TTY: switch tty_buffer_request_room to tty_port
Now, we start converting tty buffer functions to actually use
tty_port. This will allow us to get rid of the need of tty pointer in
many call sites. Only tty_port will be needed and hence no more
tty_port_tty_get calls in those paths.

Here we start with tty_buffer_request_room.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-01-15 22:17:28 -08:00
Paul Mackerras c019bc119a TTY: hvc_console, fix port reference count going to zero prematurely
Commit bdb498c200 "TTY: hvc_console, add tty install" took the port
refcounting out of hvc_open()/hvc_close(), but failed to remove the
kref_put() and tty_kref_put() calls in hvc_hangup() that were there to
remove the extra references that hvc_open() had taken.

The result was that doing a vhangup() when the current terminal was
a hvc_console, then closing the current terminal, would end up calling
destroy_hvc_struct() and making the port disappear entirely.  This
meant that Fedora 17 systems would boot up but then not display the
login prompt on the console, and attempts to open /dev/hvc0 would
give a "No such device" error.

This fixes it by removing the extra kref_put() and tty_kref_put() calls.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Acked-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2012-11-14 12:27:29 -08:00
Linus Torvalds 5f3d2f2e1a Merge branch 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc
Pull powerpc updates from Benjamin Herrenschmidt:
 "Some highlights in addition to the usual batch of fixes:

   - 64TB address space support for 64-bit processes by Aneesh Kumar

   - Gavin Shan did a major cleanup & re-organization of our EEH support
     code (IBM fancy PCI error handling & recovery infrastructure) which
     paves the way for supporting different platform backends, along
     with some rework of the PCIe code for the PowerNV platform in order
     to remove home made resource allocations and instead use the
     generic code (which is possible after some small improvements to it
     done by Gavin).

   - Uprobes support by Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli

   - A pile of embedded updates from Freescale folks, including new SoC
     and board supports, more KVM stuff including preparing for 64-bit
     BookE KVM support, ePAPR 1.1 updates, etc..."

Fixup trivial conflicts in drivers/scsi/ipr.c

* 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc: (146 commits)
  powerpc/iommu: Fix multiple issues with IOMMU pools code
  powerpc: Fix VMX fix for memcpy case
  driver/mtd:IFC NAND:Initialise internal SRAM before any write
  powerpc/fsl-pci: use 'Header Type' to identify PCIE mode
  powerpc/eeh: Don't release eeh_mutex in eeh_phb_pe_get
  powerpc: Remove tlb batching hack for nighthawk
  powerpc: Set paca->data_offset = 0 for boot cpu
  powerpc/perf: Sample only if SIAR-Valid bit is set in P7+
  powerpc/fsl-pci: fix warning when CONFIG_SWIOTLB is disabled
  powerpc/mpc85xx: Update interrupt handling for IFC controller
  powerpc/85xx: Enable USB support in p1023rds_defconfig
  powerpc/smp: Do not disable IPI interrupts during suspend
  powerpc/eeh: Fix crash on converting OF node to edev
  powerpc/eeh: Lock module while handling EEH event
  powerpc/kprobe: Don't emulate store when kprobe stwu r1
  powerpc/kprobe: Complete kprobe and migrate exception frame
  powerpc/kprobe: Introduce a new thread flag
  powerpc: Remove unused __get_user64() and __put_user64()
  powerpc/eeh: Global mutex to protect PE tree
  powerpc/eeh: Remove EEH PE for normal PCI hotplug
  ...
2012-10-06 03:16:12 +09:00
Alan Cox d83114e975 tty: Fix hvc return
HVC returns a size of -1 bytes for the write room in some cases.
This is bogus and not handled by the tty layer at all.

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2012-09-17 04:45:29 -07:00
Benjamin Herrenschmidt 92057a493a hvc_console: Better kernel console support
hvc_console has two methods to instanciate the consoles.

hvc_instanciate is meant to be called at early boot, while hvc_alloc is
called for more dynamically probed objects.

Currently, it only deals with adding kernel consoles in the former case,
which means for example that if a console only uses dynamic probing, it
will never be usable as a kernel console even when specifying
console=hvc0 explicitly, which could be considered annoying...

More specifically, on pseries, we only do the early instanciate for the
console currently used by the firmware, so if you have your firmware
configured to go to a video card, for example, you cannot get your
kernel console, oops messages, etc... on your serial port or hypervisor
console, which would be handy to deal with oopses.

This fixes it by checking if hvc_console.flags & CON_ENABLED is set when
registering a new dynamic console, and if not, redo the index check and
re-register the console if the index matches, allowing console=hvcN to
work.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2012-09-05 15:19:34 +10:00
Jiri Slaby bdb498c200 TTY: hvc_console, add tty install
This has two outcomes:
* we give the TTY layer a tty_port
* we do not find the info structure every time open is called on that
  tty

Since we take a reference to a port in ->install, we need also
->cleanup to drop that reference.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2012-08-13 16:53:14 -07:00
Jiri Slaby a2f892060f TTY: hvc, fix TTY refcounting
A -next commit "TTY: HVC, use tty from tty_port" switched the driver
to use tty_port helper for tty refcounting. But it omitted to remove
manual tty refcounting from open, close and hangup. So now we are
getting random crashes caused by use-after-free:
Unable to handle kernel paging request for data at address 0xc0000003f9d550
Faulting instruction address: 0xc0000000001b7f40
Oops: Kernel access of bad area, sig: 11 [#1]
...
NIP: c0000000001b7f40 LR: c0000000001b7f14 CTR: c0000000000e04f0
...
NIP [c0000000001b7f40] .__kmalloc+0x70/0x230
LR [c0000000001b7f14] .__kmalloc+0x44/0x230
Call Trace:
[c0000003f68bf930] [c0000003f68bf9b0] 0xc0000003f68bf9b0 (unreliable)
[c0000003f68bf9e0] [c0000000001e5424] .alloc_fdmem+0x24/0x70
[c0000003f68bfa60] [c0000000001e54f8] .alloc_fdtable+0x88/0x130
[c0000003f68bfaf0] [c0000000001e5924] .dup_fd+0x384/0x450
[c0000003f68bfbd0] [c00000000009a310] .copy_process+0x880/0x11d0
[c0000003f68bfcd0] [c00000000009aee0] .do_fork+0x70/0x400
[c0000003f68bfdc0] [c0000000000141c4] .sys_clone+0x54/0x70
[c0000003f68bfe30] [c000000000009aa0] .ppc_clone+0x8/0xc

Fix that by complete removal of tty_kref_get/put in open/close/hangup
paths.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Reported-and-tested-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Cc: ppc-dev <linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2012-04-13 10:54:43 -07:00
Jiri Slaby 0146b69390 TTY: HVC, use count from tty_port
Now, count is used from tty_port and protected by tty_port->lock.

n_outbuf is left unprotected in hvc_hangup now, because there is no
point to hold any lock, since other uses are unprotected too.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2012-04-09 11:28:18 -07:00
Jiri Slaby 85bbc003b2 TTY: HVC, use tty from tty_port
The driver already used refcounting. So we just switch it to tty_port
helpers. And switch to tty_port->lock for tty.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2012-04-09 11:28:18 -07:00
Jiri Slaby f3d9f25097 TTY: HVC, add tty_port
And use kref from that. This means we need tty_port->ops->destruct to
properly free the structure. This is what destroy_hvc_struct used to
do so we leverage that.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2012-04-09 11:28:18 -07:00
Jiri Slaby 2f16669d32 TTY: remove re-assignments to tty_driver members
All num, magic and owner are set by alloc_tty_driver. No need to
re-set them on each allocation site.

pti driver sets something different to what it passes to
alloc_tty_driver. It is not a bug, since we don't use the lines
parameter in any way. Anyway this is fixed, and now we do the right
thing.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Tilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2012-03-08 11:37:58 -08:00
Linus Torvalds 31555213f0 Revert "hvc_console: display printk messages on console."
This reverts commit 361162459f.

It causes an infinite loop when booting Linux under Xen, as so:

  [    2.382984] console [hvc0] enabled
  [    2.382984] console [hvc0] enabled
  [    2.382984] console [hvc0] enabled
  ...

as reported by Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk.  And Rusty reports the same for
lguest.  He goes on to say:

   "This is not a concurrency problem: the issue seems to be that
    calling register_console() twice on the same struct console is a bad
    idea."

and Greg says he'll fix it up properly at some point later. Revert for now.

Reported-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Reported-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@ozlabs.org>
Requested-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Cc: Miche Baker-Harvey <miche@google.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-11-06 22:22:16 -08:00
Miche Baker-Harvey 361162459f hvc_console: display printk messages on console.
printk only works for "registered consoles."  Currently, the hvc_console
code calls register_console() from hvc_instantiate(), but that's only
used in the early console case.  In hvc_alloc(), register_console() was
not called.

Add a call to register_console() in hvc_alloc(), set up the index in
the hvc_console, and set up the necessary vtermnos[] and cons_op[]
entries so that printk functions work.

Signed-off-by: Miche Baker-Harvey <miche@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-10-18 14:17:10 -07:00
Jiri Slaby 0b058353ab TTY: use tty_wait_until_sent_from_close in other drivers
Let's use the newly added helper to avoid stalls in drivers which are
not yet ported to tty_port helpers.

Those which are broken (call tty_wait_until_sent with irqs disabled)
are left untouched. They are in a deeper trouble than we are trying to
solve here. This includes amiserial, 68328serial, 68360serial and
crisv10.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-08-25 09:00:42 -07:00
Anton Blanchard 762e77ae7d hvc_console: Add kdb support
Add poll_get_char and poll_put_char for kdb. Enable kdb at boot with:

kgdboc=hvc0

or at runtime with:

echo hvc0 > /sys/module/kgdboc/parameters/kgdboc

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2011-07-19 15:13:07 +10:00
Hendrik Brueckner 8c2381af0d hvc_console: Improve tty/console put_chars handling
Currently, the hvc_console_print() function drops console output if the
hvc backend's put_chars() returns 0.  This patch changes this behavior
to allow a retry through returning -EAGAIN.

This change also affects the hvc_push() function.  Both functions are
changed to handle -EAGAIN and to retry the put_chars() operation.

If a hvc backend returns -EAGAIN, the retry handling differs:

  - hvc_console_print() spins to write the complete console output.
  - hvc_push() behaves the same way as for returning 0.

Now hvc backends can indirectly control the way how console output is
handled through the hvc console layer.

Signed-off-by: Hendrik Brueckner <brueckner@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2011-07-19 15:13:05 +10:00
Benjamin Herrenschmidt 4d2bb3f500 powerpc/pseries: Re-implement HVSI as part of hvc_vio
On pseries machines, consoles are provided by the hypervisor using
a low level get_chars/put_chars type interface. However, this is
really just a transport to the service processor which implements
them either as "raw" console (networked consoles, HMC, ...) or as
"hvsi" serial ports.

The later is a simple packet protocol on top of the raw character
interface that is supposed to convey additional "serial port" style
semantics. In practice however, all it does is provide a way to
read the CD line and set/clear our DTR line, that's it.

We currently implement the "raw" protocol as an hvc console backend
(/dev/hvcN) and the "hvsi" protocol using a separate tty driver
(/dev/hvsi0).

However this is quite impractical. The arbitrary difference between
the two type of devices has been a major source of user (and distro)
confusion. Additionally, there's an additional mini -hvsi implementation
in the pseries platform code for our low level debug console and early
boot kernel messages, which means code duplication, though that low
level variant is impractical as it's incapable of doing the initial
protocol negociation to establish the link to the FSP.

This essentially replaces the dedicated hvsi driver and the platform
udbg code completely by extending the existing hvc_vio backend used
in "raw" mode so that:

 - It now supports HVSI as well
 - We add support for hvc backend providing tiocm{get,set}
 - It also provides a udbg interface for early debug and boot console

This is overall less code, though this will only be obvious once we
remove the old "hvsi" driver, which is still available for now. When
the old driver is enabled, the new code still kicks in for the low
level udbg console, replacing the old mini implementation in the platform
code, it just doesn't provide the higher level "hvc" interface.

In addition to producing generally simler code, this has several benefits
over our current situation:

 - The user/distro only has to deal with /dev/hvcN for the hypervisor
console, avoiding all sort of confusion that has plagued us in the past

 - The tty, kernel and low level debug console all use the same code
base which supports the full protocol establishment process, thus the
console is now available much earlier than it used to be with the
old HVSI driver. The kernel console works much earlier and udbg is
available much earlier too. Hackers can enable a hard coded very-early
debug console as well that works with HVSI (previously that was only
supported for the "raw" mode).

I've tried to keep the same semantics as hvsi relative to how I react
to things like CD changes, with some subtle differences though:

 - I clear DTR on close if HUPCL is set

 - Current hvsi triggers a hangup if it detects a up->down transition
   on CD (you can still open a console with CD down). My new implementation
   triggers a hangup if the link to the FSP is severed, and severs it upon
   detecting a up->down transition on CD.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2011-06-29 17:48:35 +10:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman 728674a7e4 tty: move hvc drivers to drivers/tty/hvc/
As requested by Arnd Bergmann, the hvc drivers are now
moved to the drivers/tty/hvc/ directory.  The virtio_console.c driver
was also moved, as it required the hvc_console.h file to be able to be
built, and it really is a hvc driver.

Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-01-13 12:03:00 -08:00