This patch abolish:
[PATCH] tty: hold lock across tty buffer finding and buffer filling.
commit f8f72f047b96c6c8b13f6e3ba53fa6feb4266813
The commit f8f72f047 very dirty, has many degradation on SMP systems, because
take
spinlock at long time, and it doesn't resolve problem with
tty_prepare_string*().
We lose all advantage from the use of flip buffer. Can't write/read to/from
buffer
without lock.
The root of problem it use carelessly buffer flushing, then another thread can
write to it.
This patch resolves this problem and doesn't let lose advantage from flip
buffer use.
Signed-off-by: Ilya Zykov <i...@ilyx.ru>
---
diff --git a/drivers/tty/tty_buffer.c b/drivers/tty/tty_buffer.c
index 6c9b7cd..4f02f9c 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/tty_buffer.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/tty_buffer.c
@@ -114,11 +114,14 @@ static void __tty_buffer_flush(struct tty_struct *tty)
{
struct tty_buffer *thead;
- while ((thead = tty->buf.head) != NULL) {
- tty->buf.head = thead->next;
- tty_buffer_free(tty, thead);
+ if (tty->buf.head == NULL)
+ return;
+ while ((thead = tty->buf.head->next) != NULL) {
+ tty_buffer_free(tty, tty->buf.head);
+ tty->buf.head = thead;
}
- tty->buf.tail = NULL;
+ WARN_ON(tty->buf.head != tty->buf.tail);
+ tty->buf.head->read = tty->buf.head->commit;
}
/**
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