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Author SHA1 Message Date
Peter Hurley
9114fe8ccf tty: Remove private constant from global namespace
TTY_BUFFER_PAGE is only used within drivers/tty/tty_buffer.c;
relocate to that file scope.

Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-07-23 16:47:10 -07:00
Peter Hurley
a7c8d58c79 tty: Fix unsafe vt paste_selection()
Convert the tty_buffer_flush() exclusion mechanism to a
public interface - tty_buffer_lock/unlock_exclusive() - and use
the interface to safely write the paste selection to the line
discipline.

Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-07-23 16:47:10 -07:00
Peter Hurley
47aa658a01 tty: Merge __tty_flush_buffer() into lone call site
__tty_flush_buffer() is now only called by tty_flush_buffer();
merge functions.

Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-07-23 16:47:09 -07:00
Peter Hurley
0f56bd2f6a tty: Use non-atomic state to signal flip buffer flush pending
Atomic bit ops are no longer required to indicate a flip buffer
flush is pending, as the flush_mutex is sufficient barrier.

Remove the unnecessary port .iflags field and localize flip buffer
state to struct tty_bufhead.

Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-07-23 16:47:09 -07:00
Peter Hurley
d7a68be4f2 tty: Only perform flip buffer flush from tty_buffer_flush()
Now that dropping the buffer lock is not necessary (as result of
converting the spin lock to a mutex), the flip buffer flush no
longer needs to be handled by the buffer work.

Simply signal a flush is required; the buffer work will exit the
i/o loop, which allows tty_buffer_flush() to proceed.

Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-07-23 16:47:09 -07:00
Peter Hurley
e9975fdec0 tty: Ensure single-threaded flip buffer consumer with mutex
The buffer work may race with parallel tty_buffer_flush. Use a
mutex to guarantee exclusive modify access to the head flip
buffer.

Remove the unneeded spin lock.

Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-07-23 16:47:09 -07:00
Peter Hurley
e8437d7ecb tty: Make driver-side flip buffers lockless
Driver-side flip buffer input is already single-threaded; 'publish'
the .next link as the last operation on the tail buffer so the
'consumer' sees the already-completed flip buffer.

The commit buffer index is already 'published' by driver-side functions.

Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-07-23 16:47:09 -07:00
Peter Hurley
7bfe0b7116 tty: Track flip buffer memory limit atomically
Lockless flip buffers require atomically updating the bytes-in-use
watermark.

The pty driver also peeks at the watermark value to limit
memory consumption to a much lower value than the default; query
the watermark with new fn, tty_buffer_space_avail().

Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-07-23 16:47:08 -07:00
Peter Hurley
7391ee1695 tty: Simplify flip buffer list with 0-sized sentinel
Use a 0-sized sentinel to avoid assigning the head ptr from
the driver side thread. This also eliminates testing head/tail
for NULL.

When the sentinel is first 'consumed' by the buffer work
(or by tty_buffer_flush()), it is detached from the list but not
freed nor added to the free list. Both buffer work and
tty_buffer_flush() continue to preserve at least 1 flip buffer
to which head & tail is pointed.

Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-07-23 16:47:08 -07:00
Peter Hurley
809850b7a5 tty: Use lockless flip buffer free list
In preparation for lockless flip buffers, make the flip buffer
free list lockless.

NB: using llist is not the optimal solution, as the driver and
buffer work may contend over the llist head unnecessarily. However,
test measurements indicate this contention is low.

Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-07-23 16:47:08 -07:00
Peter Hurley
2cf7b67e87 tty: Use generic names for flip buffer list cursors
Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-07-23 16:47:08 -07:00
Peter Hurley
11b9faa44d tty: Merge tty_buffer_find() into tty_buffer_alloc()
tty_buffer_find() implements a simple free list lookaside cache.
Merge this functionality into tty_buffer_alloc() to reflect the
more traditional alloc/free symmetry.

Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-07-23 16:47:08 -07:00
Peter Hurley
9dd5139f97 tty: Factor flip buffer initialization into helper function
Factor shared code; prepare for adding 0-sized sentinel flip buffer.

Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-07-23 16:47:07 -07:00
Peter Hurley
1cef50e317 tty: Fix flip buffer free list
Since flip buffers are size-aligned to 256 bytes and all flip
buffers 512-bytes or larger are not added to the free list, the
free list only contains 256-byte flip buffers.

Remove the list search when allocating a new flip buffer.

Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-07-23 16:47:07 -07:00
Peter Hurley
1fc359fc3e tty: Compute flip buffer ptrs
The char_buf_ptr and flag_buf_ptr values are trivially derived from
the .data field offset; compute values as needed.

Fixes a long-standing type-mismatch with the char and flag ptrs.

Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-07-23 16:47:07 -07:00
Peter Hurley
24a89d1cb6 tty: Make ldisc input flow control concurrency-friendly
Although line discipline receiving is single-producer/single-consumer,
using tty->receive_room to manage flow control creates unnecessary
critical regions requiring additional lock use.

Instead, introduce the optional .receive_buf2() ldisc method which
returns the # of bytes actually received. Serialization is guaranteed
by the caller.

In turn, the line discipline should schedule the buffer work item
whenever space becomes available; ie., when there is room to receive
data and receive_room() previously returned 0 (the buffer work
item stops processing if receive_buf2() returns 0). Note the
'no room' state need not be atomic despite concurrent use by two
threads because only the buffer work thread can set the state and
only the read() thread can clear the state.

Add n_tty_receive_buf2() as the receive_buf2() method for N_TTY.
Provide a public helper function, tty_ldisc_receive_buf(), to use
when directly accessing the receive_buf() methods.

Line disciplines not using input flow control can continue to set
tty->receive_room to a fixed value and only provide the receive_buf()
method.

Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-07-23 16:42:59 -07:00
Peter Hurley
da261e7fe7 tty: Simplify tty buffer/ldisc interface with helper function
Ldisc interface functions must be called with interrupts enabled.
Separating the ldisc calls into a helper function simplies the
eventual removal of the spinlock.

Note that access to the buf->head ptr outside the spinlock is
safe here because;
* __tty_buffer_flush() is prevented from running while buffer work
  performs i/o,
* tty_buffer_find() only assigns buf->head if the flip buffer list
  is empty (which is never the case in flush_to_ldisc() since at
  least one buffer is always left in the list after use)
Access to the read index outside the spinlock is safe here for the
same reasons.

Update the buffer's read index _after_ the data has been received
by the ldisc.

Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-07-23 16:42:59 -07:00
Peter Hurley
36697529b5 tty: Replace ldisc locking with ldisc_sem
Line discipline locking was performed with a combination of
a mutex, a status bit, a count, and a waitqueue -- basically,
a rw semaphore.

Replace the existing combination with an ld_semaphore.

Fixes:
 1) the 'reference acquire after ldisc locked' bug
 2) the over-complicated halt mechanism
 3) lock order wrt. tty_lock()
 4) dropping locks while changing ldisc
 5) previously unidentified deadlock while locking ldisc from
    both linked ttys concurrently
 6) previously unidentified recursive deadlocks

Adds much-needed lockdep diagnostics.

Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-07-23 16:38:34 -07:00
Peter Hurley
39f610e40e tty: Fix race condition if flushing tty flip buffers
As Ilya Zykov identified in his patch 'PROBLEM: Race condition in
tty buffer's function flush_to_ldisc()', a race condition exists
which allows a parallel flush_to_ldisc() to flush and free the tty
flip buffers while those buffers are in-use. For example,

  CPU 0                         |  CPU 1                                  |  CPU 2
                                | flush_to_ldisc()                        |
                                |  grab spin lock                         |
tty_buffer_flush()              |                                         | flush_to_ldisc()
 wait for spin lock             |                                         |  wait for spin lock
                                |   if (!test_and_set_bit(TTYP_FLUSHING)) |
                                |    while (next flip buffer)             |
                                |     ...                                 |
                                |     drop spin lock                      |
  grab spin lock                |                                         |
   if (test_bit(TTYP_FLUSHING)) |                                         |
    set_bit(TTYP_FLUSHPENDING)  |      receive_buf()                      |
    drop spin lock              |                                         |
                                |                                         |   grab spin lock
                                |                                         |    if (!test_and_set_bit(TTYP_FLUSHING))
                                |                                         |    if (test_bit(TTYP_FLUSHPENDING))
                                |                                         |    __tty_buffer_flush()

CPU 2 has just flushed and freed all tty flip buffers while CPU 1 is
transferring data from the head flip buffer.

The original patch was rejected under the assumption that parallel
flush_to_ldisc() was not possible. Because of necessary changes to
the workqueue api, work items can execute in parallel on SMP.

This patch differs slightly from the original patch by testing for
a pending flush _after_ each receive_buf(), since TTYP_FLUSHPENDING
can only be set while the lock is dropped around receive_buf().

Reported-by: Ilya Zykov <linux@izyk.ru>
Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>
Acked-by: Ilya Zykov <linux@izyk.ru>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-04-09 17:05:02 -07:00
Jiri Slaby
34dcfb8479 TTY: disable debugging warning
We added a warning to flush_to_ldisc to report cases when it is called
with a NULL tty. It was for debugging purposes and it lead to a
patchset from Peter Hurley. The patchset however did not make it to
3.9, so disable the warning now to not disturb people.

We can re-add it when the series is in and we are hunting for another
bugs.

Reported-by: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>   # 3.8
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-03-04 16:52:09 +08:00
George Spelvin
593fb1ae45 pps: Move timestamp read into PPS code proper
The PPS (Pulse-Per-Second) line discipline has developed a number of
unhealthy attachments to core tty data and functions, ultimately leading
to its breakage.

The previous patches fixed the crashing.  This one reduces coupling further
by eliminating the timestamp parameter from the dcd_change ldisc method.
This reduces header file linkage and makes the extension more generic,
and the timestamp read is delayed only slightly, from just before the
ldisc->ops->dcd_change method call to just after.

Fix attendant build breakage in
    drivers/tty/n_tty.c
    drivers/tty/tty_buffer.c
    drivers/staging/speakup/selection.c
    drivers/staging/dgrp/dgrp_*.c

Cc: William Hubbs <w.d.hubbs@gmail.com>
Cc: Chris Brannon <chris@the-brannons.com>
Cc: Kirk Reiser <kirk@braille.uwo.ca>
Cc: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>
Signed-off-by: George Spelvin <linux@horizon.com>
Acked-by: Rodolfo Giometti <giometti@enneenne.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-02-13 10:13:58 -08:00
Ilya Zykov
64325a3be0 tty: Correct tty buffer flush.
The root of problem is carelessly zeroing pointer(in function __tty_buffer_flush()),
when another thread can use it. It can be cause of "NULL pointer dereference".
  Main idea of the patch, this is never free last (struct tty_buffer) in the active buffer.
Only flush the data for ldisc(buf->head->read = buf->head->commit).
At that moment driver can collect(write) data in buffer without conflict.
It is repeat behavior of flush_to_ldisc(), only without feeding data to ldisc.

Also revert:
  commit c56a00a165
  tty: hold lock across tty buffer finding and buffer filling
In order to delete the unneeded locks any more.

Signed-off-by: Ilya Zykov <ilya@ilyx.ru>
CC: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-01-20 15:50:36 -08:00
Jiri Slaby
6732c8bb86 TTY: switch tty_schedule_flip
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.

This is the last one: tty_schedule_flip

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-01-15 22:43:15 -08:00
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
d6c53c0e9b TTY: move low_latency to tty_port
One point is to have less places where we actually need tty pointer.
The other is that low_latency is bound to buffer processing and
buffers are now in tty_port. So it makes sense to move low_latency to
tty_port too.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-01-15 22:23:16 -08:00
Jiri Slaby
2f69335710 TTY: convert more flipping functions
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.

Now 4 string flipping ones are on turn:
* tty_insert_flip_string_flags
* tty_insert_flip_string_fixed_flag
* tty_prepare_flip_string
* tty_prepare_flip_string_flags

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-01-15 22:17:29 -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
Sasha Levin
cadf748690 tty: add missing newlines to WARN_RATELIMIT
WARN_RATELIMIT() expects the warning to end with a newline if one
is needed.

Not doing so results in odd looking warnings such as:

[ 1339.454272] tty is NULLPid: 7147, comm: kworker/4:0 Tainted: G        W    3.7.0-rc2-next-20121025-sasha-00001-g673f98e-dirty #75

Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2012-10-25 11:30:27 -07:00
Ivo Sieben
b8b345bae8 TTY: Report warning when low_latency flag is wrongly used
When a driver has the low_latency flag set and uses the schedule_flip()
function to initiate copying data to the line discipline, a workqueue is
scheduled in but never actually flushed. This is incorrect use of the
low_latency flag (driver should not support the low_latency flag, or use
the tty_flip_buffer_push() function instead). Make sure a warning is
reported to catch incorrect use of the low_latency flag.

This patch goes with: cee4ad1ed9

Signed-off-by: Ivo Sieben <meltedpianoman@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2012-10-24 11:21:32 -07:00
Jiri Slaby
ecbbfd44a0 TTY: move tty buffers to tty_port
So this is it. The big step why we did all the work over the past
kernel releases. Now everything is prepared, so nothing protects us
from doing that big step.

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            ~~~   ~~          ``              ~~~   ~~
The buffers are now in the tty_port structure and we can start
teaching the buffer helpers (insert char/string, flip etc.) to use
tty_port instead of tty_struct all around.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2012-10-22 16:58:28 -07:00
Jiri Slaby
5cff39c69b TTY: tty_buffer, cache pointer to tty->buf
During the move of tty buffers from tty_struct to tty_port, we will
need to switch all users of buf to tty->port->buf. There are many
functions where this is accessed directly in their code many times.
Cache the tty->buf pointer in such functions now and change only
single lines in each function in the next patch.

Not that it is convenient for the next patch, but the code is now also
more readable.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2012-10-22 16:53:21 -07:00
Jiri Slaby
2fc20661e3 TTY: move TTY_FLUSH* flags to tty_port
They are only TTY buffers specific. And the buffers will go to
tty_port in the next patches. So to remove the need to have both
tty_port and tty_struct at some places, let us move the flags to
tty_port.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2012-10-22 16:53:21 -07:00
Ivo Sieben
cee4ad1ed9 tty: prevent unnecessary work queue lock checking on flip buffer copy
When low_latency flag is set the TTY receive flip buffer is copied to the
line discipline directly instead of using a work queue in the background.
Therefor only in case a workqueue is actually used for copying data to the
line discipline we'll have to flush the workqueue.

This prevents unnecessary spin lock/unlock on the workqueue spin lock that
can cause additional scheduling overhead on a PREEMPT_RT system. On a 200
MHz AT91SAM9261 processor setup this fixes about 100us of scheduling
overhead on the TTY read call.

Signed-off-by: Ivo Sieben <meltedpianoman@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2012-10-22 16:47:51 -07:00
Xiaobing Tu
c56a00a165 tty: hold lock across tty buffer finding and buffer filling
tty_buffer_request_room is well protected, but while after it returns,
 it releases the port->lock. tty->buf.tail might be modified
by either irq handler or other threads. The patch adds more protection
by holding the lock across tty buffer finding and buffer filling.

Signed-off-by: Alek Du <alek.du@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Xiaobing Tu <xiaobing.tu@intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2012-04-09 12:12:45 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
81de916f19 tty_buffer: get rid of 'seen_tail' logic in flush_to_ldisc
The flush_to_ldisc() work entry has special logic to notice when it has
seen the original tail of the data queue, and it avoids continuing the
flush if it sees that _original_ tail rather than the current tail.

This logic can trigger in case somebody is constantly adding new data to
the tty while the flushing is active - and the intent is to avoid
excessive CPU usage while flushing the tty, especially as we used to do
this from a softirq context which made it non-preemptible.

However, since we no longer re-arm the work-queue from within itself
(because that causes other trouble: see commit a5660b41af "tty: fix
endless work loop when the buffer fills up"), this just leads to
possible hung tty's (most easily seen in SMP and with a test-program
that floods a pty with data - nobody seems to have reported this for any
real-life situation yet).

And since the workqueue isn't done from timers and softirq's any more,
it's doubtful whether the CPU useage issue is really relevant any more.
So just remove the logic entirely, and see if anybody ever notices.

Alternatively, we might want to re-introduce the "re-arm the work" for
just this case, but then we'd have to re-introduce the delayed work
model or some explicit timer, which really doesn't seem worth it for
this.

Reported-and-tested-by: Guillaume Chazarain <guichaz@gmail.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Felipe Balbi <balbi@ti.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-06-08 07:46:30 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
55db4c64ed Revert "tty: make receive_buf() return the amout of bytes received"
This reverts commit b1c43f82c5.

It was broken in so many ways, and results in random odd pty issues.

It re-introduced the buggy schedule_work() in flush_to_ldisc() that can
cause endless work-loops (see commit a5660b41af: "tty: fix endless
work loop when the buffer fills up").

It also used an "unsigned int" return value fo the ->receive_buf()
function, but then made multiple functions return a negative error code,
and didn't actually check for the error in the caller.

And it didn't actually work at all.  BenH bisected down odd tty behavior
to it:
  "It looks like the patch is causing some major malfunctions of the X
   server for me, possibly related to PTYs.  For example, cat'ing a
   large file in a gnome terminal hangs the kernel for -minutes- in a
   loop of what looks like flush_to_ldisc/workqueue code, (some ftrace
   data in the quoted bits further down).

   ...

   Some more data: It -looks- like what happens is that the
   flush_to_ldisc work queue entry constantly re-queues itself (because
   the PTY is full ?) and the workqueue thread will basically loop
   forver calling it without ever scheduling, thus starving the consumer
   process that could have emptied the PTY."

which is pretty much exactly the problem we fixed in a5660b41af.

Milton Miller pointed out the 'unsigned int' issue.

Reported-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Reported-by: Milton Miller <miltonm@bga.com>
Cc: Stefan Bigler <stefan.bigler@keymile.com>
Cc: Toby Gray <toby.gray@realvnc.com>
Cc: Felipe Balbi <balbi@ti.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-06-04 06:33:24 +09:00
Felipe Balbi
b1c43f82c5 tty: make receive_buf() return the amout of bytes received
it makes it simpler to keep track of the amount of
bytes received and simplifies how flush_to_ldisc counts
the remaining bytes. It also fixes a bug of lost bytes
on n_tty when flushing too many bytes via the USB
serial gadget driver.

Tested-by: Stefan Bigler <stefan.bigler@keymile.com>
Tested-by: Toby Gray <toby.gray@realvnc.com>
Signed-off-by: Felipe Balbi <balbi@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-04-22 17:31:53 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
a5660b41af tty: fix endless work loop when the buffer fills up
Commit f23eb2b2b2 ('tty: stop using "delayed_work" in the tty layer')
ended up causing hung machines on UP with no preemption, because the
work routine to flip the buffer data to the ldisc would endlessly re-arm
itself if the destination buffer had filled up.

With the delayed work, that only caused a timer-driving polling of the
tty state every timer tick, but without the delay we just ended up with
basically a busy loop instead.

Stop the insane polling, and instead make the code that opens up the
receive room re-schedule the buffer flip work.  That's what we should
have been doing anyway.

This same "poll for tty room" issue is almost certainly also the cause
of excessive kworker activity when idle reported by Dave Jones, who also
reported "flush_to_ldisc executing 2500 times a second" back in Nov 2010:

  http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/11/30/592

which is that silly flushing done every timer tick.  Wasting both power
and CPU for no good reason.

Reported-and-tested-by: Alexander Beregalov <a.beregalov@gmail.com>
Reported-and-tested-by: Sitsofe Wheeler <sitsofe@yahoo.com>
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-04-04 14:26:54 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
f23eb2b2b2 tty: stop using "delayed_work" in the tty layer
Using delayed-work for tty flip buffers ends up causing us to wait for
the next tick to complete some actions.  That's usually not all that
noticeable, but for certain latency-critical workloads it ends up being
totally unacceptable.

As an extreme case of this, passing a token back-and-forth over a pty
will take two ticks per iteration, so even just a thousand iterations
will take 8 seconds assuming a common 250Hz configuration.

Avoiding the whole delayed work issue brings that ping-pong test-case
down to 0.009s on my machine.

In more practical terms, this latency has been a performance problem for
things like dive computer simulators (simulating the serial interface
using the ptys) and for other environments (Alan mentions a CP/M emulator).

Reported-by: Jef Driesen <jefdriesen@telenet.be>
Acked-by: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-03-22 16:17:32 -07:00
Jiri Olsa
e045fec489 tty: prevent DOS in the flush_to_ldisc
There's a small window inside the flush_to_ldisc function,
where the tty is unlocked and calling ldisc's receive_buf
function. If in this window new buffer is added to the tty,
the processing might never leave the flush_to_ldisc function.

This scenario will hog the cpu, causing other tty processing
starving, and making it impossible to interface the computer
via tty.

I was able to exploit this via pty interface by sending only
control characters to the master input, causing the flush_to_ldisc
to be scheduled, but never actually generate any output.

To reproduce, please run multiple instances of following code.

- SNIP
#define _XOPEN_SOURCE
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/stat.h>
#include <fcntl.h>

int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
        int i, slave, master = getpt();
        char buf[8192];

        sprintf(buf, "%s", ptsname(master));
        grantpt(master);
        unlockpt(master);

        slave = open(buf, O_RDWR);
        if (slave < 0) {
                perror("open slave failed");
                return 1;
        }

        for(i = 0; i < sizeof(buf); i++)
                buf[i] = rand() % 32;

        while(1) {
                write(master, buf, sizeof(buf));
        }

        return 0;
}
- SNIP

The attached patch (based on -next tree) fixes this by checking on the
tty buffer tail. Once it's reached, the current work is rescheduled
and another could run.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: stable <stable@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-11-09 15:02:02 -08:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
96fd7ce58f TTY: create drivers/tty and move the tty core files there
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 <arnd@arndb.de>

Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-11-05 08:10:33 -07:00