lwn.git/drivers/char/pty.c, branch standardize-docs

TTY: create drivers/tty and move the tty core files there

2010-11-05T15:10:33+00:00

The tty code should be in its own subdirectory and not in the char driver with all of the cruft that is currently there. Based on work done by Arnd Bergmann Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann Cc: Jiri Slaby Cc: Alan Cox Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

tty: Remove __GFP_NOFAIL from tty_add_file()

2010-10-22T17:19:58+00:00

This patch removes __GFP_NOFAIL use from tty_add_file() and adds proper error handling to the call-sites of the function. Cc: Andrew Morton Cc: Alan Cox Cc: Arnd Bergmann Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg Acked-by: David Rientjes Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

tty: fix fu_list abuse

2010-08-18T12:35:47+00:00

tty: fix fu_list abuse tty code abuses fu_list, which causes a bug in remount,ro handling. If a tty device node is opened on a filesystem, then the last link to the inode removed, the filesystem will be allowed to be remounted readonly. This is because fs_may_remount_ro does not find the 0 link tty inode on the file sb list (because the tty code incorrectly removed it to use for its own purpose). This can result in a filesystem with errors after it is marked "clean". Taking idea from Christoph's initial patch, allocate a tty private struct at file->private_data and put our required list fields in there, linking file and tty. This makes tty nodes behave the same way as other device nodes and avoid meddling with the vfs, and avoids this bug. The error handling is not trivial in the tty code, so for this bugfix, I take the simple approach of using __GFP_NOFAIL and don't worry about memory errors. This is not a problem because our allocator doesn't fail small allocs as a rule anyway. So proper error handling is left as an exercise for tty hackers. [ Arguably filesystem's device inode would ideally be divorced from the driver's pseudo inode when it is opened, but in practice it's not clear whether that will ever be worth implementing. ] Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Alan Cox Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin Signed-off-by: Al Viro

fs: cleanup files_lock locking

2010-08-18T12:35:47+00:00

fs: cleanup files_lock locking Lock tty_files with a new spinlock, tty_files_lock; provide helpers to manipulate the per-sb files list; unexport the files_lock spinlock. Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Alan Cox Acked-by: Andi Kleen Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin Signed-off-by: Al Viro

tty: avoid recursive BTM in pty_close

2010-08-10T20:47:44+00:00

When the console has been redirected, a hangup of the tty will cause tty_release to be called under the big tty_mutex, which leads to a deadlock because hangup is also called under the BTM. This moves the BTM deeper into the tty_hangup function so we can close the redirected tty without holding the BTM. In case of pty, we now need to drop the BTM before calling tty_vhangup. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann Acked-by: Alan Cox Cc: Tony Luck Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Andrew Morton Cc: John Kacur Cc: Al Viro Cc: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

tty: remove tty_lock_nested

2010-08-10T20:47:44+00:00

This changes all remaining users of tty_lock_nested to be non-recursive, which lets us kill this function. As a consequence, we won't need to keep the lock count any more, which allows more simplifications later. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann Cc: Alan Cox Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

tty: never hold BTM while getting tty_mutex

2010-08-10T20:47:43+00:00

tty_mutex is never taken with the BTM held, except for two corner cases that are worked around here. We give up the BTM before calling tty_release() in the error path of tty_open(). Similarly, we reorder the locking in ptmx_open() to get tty_mutex before the BTM. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann Cc: Alan Cox Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

tty: replace BKL with a new tty_lock

2010-08-10T20:47:43+00:00

As a preparation for replacing the big kernel lock in the TTY layer, wrap all the callers in new macros tty_lock, tty_lock_nested and tty_unlock. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann Cc: Alan Cox Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

tty: Add EXTPROC support for LINEMODE

2010-08-10T20:47:39+00:00

This patch is against the 2.6.34 source. Paraphrased from the 1989 BSD patch by David Borman @ cray.com: These are the changes needed for the kernel to support LINEMODE in the server. There is a new bit in the termios local flag word, EXTPROC. When this bit is set, several aspects of the terminal driver are disabled. Input line editing, character echo, and mapping of signals are all disabled. This allows the telnetd to turn off these functions when in linemode, but still keep track of what state the user wants the terminal to be in. New ioctl: TIOCSIG Generate a signal to processes in the current process group of the pty. There is a new mode for packet driver, the TIOCPKT_IOCTL bit. When packet mode is turned on in the pty, and the EXTPROC bit is set, then whenever the state of the pty is changed, the next read on the master side of the pty will have the TIOCPKT_IOCTL bit set. This allows the process on the server side of the pty to know when the state of the terminal has changed; it can then issue the appropriate ioctl to retrieve the new state. Since the original BSD patches accompanied the source code for telnet I've left that reference here, but obviously the feature is useful for any remote terminal protocol, including ssh. The corresponding feature has existed in the BSD tty driver since 1989. For historical reference, a good copy of the relevant files can be found here: http://anonsvn.mit.edu/viewvc/krb5/trunk/src/appl/telnet/?pathrev=17741 Signed-off-by: Howard Chu Cc: Alan Cox Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h

2010-03-30T13:02:32+00:00

percpu.h is included by sched.h and module.h and thus ends up being included when building most .c files. percpu.h includes slab.h which in turn includes gfp.h making everything defined by the two files universally available and complicating inclusion dependencies. percpu.h -> slab.h dependency is about to be removed. Prepare for this change by updating users of gfp and slab facilities include those headers directly instead of assuming availability. As this conversion needs to touch large number of source files, the following script is used as the basis of conversion. http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/misc/slabh-sweep.py The script does the followings. * Scan files for gfp and slab usages and update includes such that only the necessary includes are there. ie. if only gfp is used, gfp.h, if slab is used, slab.h. * When the script inserts a new include, it looks at the include blocks and try to put the new include such that its order conforms to its surrounding. It's put in the include block which contains core kernel includes, in the same order that the rest are ordered - alphabetical, Christmas tree, rev-Xmas-tree or at the end if there doesn't seem to be any matching order. * If the script can't find a place to put a new include (mostly because the file doesn't have fitting include block), it prints out an error message indicating which .h file needs to be added to the file. The conversion was done in the following steps. 1. The initial automatic conversion of all .c files updated slightly over 4000 files, deleting around 700 includes and adding ~480 gfp.h and ~3000 slab.h inclusions. The script emitted errors for ~400 files. 2. Each error was manually checked. Some didn't need the inclusion, some needed manual addition while adding it to implementation .h or embedding .c file was more appropriate for others. This step added inclusions to around 150 files. 3. The script was run again and the output was compared to the edits from #2 to make sure no file was left behind. 4. Several build tests were done and a couple of problems were fixed. e.g. lib/decompress_*.c used malloc/free() wrappers around slab APIs requiring slab.h to be added manually. 5. The script was run on all .h files but without automatically editing them as sprinkling gfp.h and slab.h inclusions around .h files could easily lead to inclusion dependency hell. Most gfp.h inclusion directives were ignored as stuff from gfp.h was usually wildly available and often used in preprocessor macros. Each slab.h inclusion directive was examined and added manually as necessary. 6. percpu.h was updated not to include slab.h. 7. Build test were done on the following configurations and failures were fixed. CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL was turned off for all tests (as my distributed build env didn't work with gcov compiles) and a few more options had to be turned off depending on archs to make things build (like ipr on powerpc/64 which failed due to missing writeq). * x86 and x86_64 UP and SMP allmodconfig and a custom test config. * powerpc and powerpc64 SMP allmodconfig * sparc and sparc64 SMP allmodconfig * ia64 SMP allmodconfig * s390 SMP allmodconfig * alpha SMP allmodconfig * um on x86_64 SMP allmodconfig 8. percpu.h modifications were reverted so that it could be applied as a separate patch and serve as bisection point. Given the fact that I had only a couple of failures from tests on step 6, I'm fairly confident about the coverage of this conversion patch. If there is a breakage, it's likely to be something in one of the arch headers which should be easily discoverable easily on most builds of the specific arch. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo Guess-its-ok-by: Christoph Lameter Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Lee Schermerhorn