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Jiri Slaby 6e94dbc7a4 tty: cumulate and document tty_struct::flow* members 
Group the flow flags under a single struct called flow. The new struct
contains 'stopped' and 'tco_stopped' bools which used to be bits in a
bitfield. The struct also contains the lock protecting them to
potentially share the same cache line.

Note that commit c545b66c69 (tty: Serialize tcflow() with other tty
flow control changes) added a padding to the original bitfield. It was
for the bitfield to occupy a whole 64b word to avoid interferring stores
on Alpha (cannot we evaporate this arch with weird implications to C
code yet?). But it doesn't work as expected as the padding
(tty_struct::unused) is aligned to a 8B boundary too and occupies some
bytes from the next word.

So make it reliable by:
1) setting __aligned of the struct -- that aligns the start, and
2) making 'unsigned long unused[0]' as the last member of the struct --
   pads the end.

This is also the perfect time to start the documentation of tty_struct
where all this lives. So we start by documenting what these bools
actually serve for. And why we do all the alignment dances. Only the few
up-to-date information from the Theodore's comment made it into this new
Kerneldoc comment.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@linaro.org>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Shawn Guo <shawnguo@kernel.org>
Cc: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
Cc: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
Cc: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@orcam.me.uk>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210505091928.22010-13-jslaby@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2021-05-13 16:57:16 +02:00
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cm4000_cs.c cm4000_cs.c cmm_ioctl(): get rid of pointless access_ok() 2020-05-29 11:04:56 -04:00
cm4040_cs.c pcmcia: remove KERN_INFO level from debug message 2018-10-01 12:15:16 +02:00
cm4040_cs.h License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
Kconfig treewide: Add SPDX license identifier - Makefile/Kconfig 2019-05-21 10:50:46 +02:00
Makefile treewide: Add SPDX license identifier - Makefile/Kconfig 2019-05-21 10:50:46 +02:00
scr24x_cs.c treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 18 2019-05-21 11:28:46 +02:00
synclink_cs.c tty: cumulate and document tty_struct::flow* members 2021-05-13 16:57:16 +02:00