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tty: Fix PPP hang under load

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Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Alan Cox 2009-01-02 13:44:56 +00:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent d0eafc7db8
commit c9b3976e3f
2 changed files with 22 additions and 9 deletions
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drivers/char/tty_ldisc.c
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@ -316,8 +316,7 @@ struct tty_ldisc *tty_ldisc_ref_wait(struct tty_struct *tty)
{
/* wait_event is a macro */
wait_event(tty_ldisc_wait, tty_ldisc_try(tty));
if (tty->ldisc.refcount == 0)
printk(KERN_ERR "tty_ldisc_ref_wait\n");
WARN_ON(tty->ldisc.refcount == 0);
return &tty->ldisc;
}
@ -376,15 +375,17 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(tty_ldisc_deref);
* @tty: terminal to activate ldisc on
*
* Set the TTY_LDISC flag when the line discipline can be called
* again. Do necessary wakeups for existing sleepers.
* again. Do necessary wakeups for existing sleepers. Clear the LDISC
* changing flag to indicate any ldisc change is now over.
*
* Note: nobody should set this bit except via this function. Clearing
* directly is allowed.
* Note: nobody should set the TTY_LDISC bit except via this function.
* Clearing directly is allowed.
*/
void tty_ldisc_enable(struct tty_struct *tty)
{
set_bit(TTY_LDISC, &tty->flags);
clear_bit(TTY_LDISC_CHANGING, &tty->flags);
wake_up(&tty_ldisc_wait);
}
@ -496,7 +497,14 @@ restart:
* reference to the line discipline. The TTY_LDISC bit
* prevents anyone taking a reference once it is clear.
* We need the lock to avoid racing reference takers.
*
* We must clear the TTY_LDISC bit here to avoid a livelock
* with a userspace app continually trying to use the tty in
* parallel to the change and re-referencing the tty.
*/
clear_bit(TTY_LDISC, &tty->flags);
if (o_tty)
clear_bit(TTY_LDISC, &o_tty->flags);
spin_lock_irqsave(&tty_ldisc_lock, flags);
if (tty->ldisc.refcount || (o_tty && o_tty->ldisc.refcount)) {
@ -528,7 +536,7 @@ restart:
* If the TTY_LDISC bit is set, then we are racing against
* another ldisc change
*/
if (!test_bit(TTY_LDISC, &tty->flags)) {
if (test_bit(TTY_LDISC_CHANGING, &tty->flags)) {
struct tty_ldisc *ld;
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&tty_ldisc_lock, flags);
tty_ldisc_put(new_ldisc.ops);
@ -536,10 +544,14 @@ restart:
tty_ldisc_deref(ld);
goto restart;
}
clear_bit(TTY_LDISC, &tty->flags);
/*
* This flag is used to avoid two parallel ldisc changes. Once
* open and close are fine grained locked this may work better
* as a mutex shared with the open/close/hup paths
*/
set_bit(TTY_LDISC_CHANGING, &tty->flags);
if (o_tty)
clear_bit(TTY_LDISC, &o_tty->flags);
set_bit(TTY_LDISC_CHANGING, &o_tty->flags);
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&tty_ldisc_lock, flags);
/*

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include/linux/tty.h
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@ -301,6 +301,7 @@ struct tty_struct {
#define TTY_PUSH 6 /* n_tty private */
#define TTY_CLOSING 7 /* ->close() in progress */
#define TTY_LDISC 9 /* Line discipline attached */
#define TTY_LDISC_CHANGING 10 /* Line discipline changing */
#define TTY_HW_COOK_OUT 14 /* Hardware can do output cooking */
#define TTY_HW_COOK_IN 15 /* Hardware can do input cooking */
#define TTY_PTY_LOCK 16 /* pty private */