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Julia Lawall
07fb6f26ba drivers/char/isicom.c: correct use of ! and &
In commit e6bafba5b4 ("wmi: (!x & y)
strikes again"), a bug was fixed that involved converting !x & y to !(x
& y).  The code below shows the same pattern, and thus should perhaps be
fixed in the same way.

This is not tested and clearly changes the semantics, so it is only
something to consider.

The semantic patch that makes this change is as follows:
(http://www.emn.fr/x-info/coccinelle/)

// <smpl>
@@ expression E1,E2; @@
(
  !E1 & !E2
|
- !E1 & E2
+ !(E1 & E2)
)
// </smpl>

Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-03-04 16:35:15 -08:00
Joe Perches
898eb71cb1 Add missing newlines to some uses of dev_<level> messages
Found these while looking at printk uses.

Add missing newlines to dev_<level> uses
Add missing KERN_<level> prefixes to multiline dev_<level>s
Fixed a wierd->weird spelling typo
Added a newline to a printk

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Cc: Mark M. Hoffman <mhoffman@lightlink.com>
Cc: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
Cc: Tilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it>
Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
Cc: James Smart <James.Smart@Emulex.Com>
Cc: Andrew Vasquez <andrew.vasquez@qlogic.com>
Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@pol.net>
Cc: Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@suse.cz>
Cc: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-18 14:37:28 -07:00
Jiri Slaby
4969b3a43d Char: isicom, proper variables types
irq is int, base is unsigned long

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-17 10:23:10 -07:00
Jiri Slaby
e327325f42 Char: isicom, del_timer at exit
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-17 10:23:10 -07:00
Jiri Slaby
5b21f9dddd Char: isicom, cleanup locking
Don't spin processor when not needed (use sleep instead of delay).  Don't
release the lock when needed in next iteration -- this actually fixes a bug --
missing braces

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-17 10:23:10 -07:00
Jiri Slaby
73b52572ab Char: isicom, use pr_debug
isicom, use pr_debug

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-08 11:15:24 -07:00
Jiri Slaby
b963a8441c [PATCH] Char: tty_wakeup cleanup
tty_wakeup cleanup

- remove wake_up_interruptible(&tty->write_wait) surrounding
  tty_wakup(tty);
- substitute tty->ldisc.write_wakeup(tty) + wake_up() by tty_wakeup(tty);

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Acked-by: Tilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-11 10:51:26 -08:00
Jiri Slaby
1ed0c0b730 [PATCH] Char: isicom, correct probing/removing
Don't forget to decrease card_count in fail paths and in remove function.
Also null board->base in such cases to point out, that this structure is
unused and thus can be reassigned.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-11 10:51:26 -08:00
Jiri Slaby
7edc136ab6 [PATCH] Char: isicom, support higher rates
Add support for higher baud rates (coming from original isi driver).

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-11 10:51:26 -08:00
Jiri Slaby
cb4a10ccb0 [PATCH] Char: isicom, check card state in isr
Check if the card really interrupted us by reading its IO space and eventualy
return IRQ_NONE.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-11 10:51:26 -08:00
Jiri Slaby
f0a0ba6d69 [PATCH] Char: isicom, augment card_reset
isicom, augment card_reset

- add 0xee to signatures
- change long delays to sleeps
- make one sleep shorter not to wait 3s
- portcount == 16 is also correct

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-11 10:51:25 -08:00
Jiri Slaby
174f130767 [PATCH] Char: isicom, fix locking in isr
2 spin_unlocks are omitted in the interrupt handler.  Put them there to fix up
deadlocking on UP.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-11 10:51:25 -08:00
Jiri Slaby
0aa5de8590 [PATCH] Char: isicom, remove tty_{hang,wake}up bottomhalves
- tty_hangup() itself schedules work, so there is no need to schedule hangup
  in the driver

- tty_wakeup(): it's safe to call it while in atomic, so that its
  schedule_work might be also wiped out

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-11 10:51:25 -08:00
Jiri Slaby
cfe7c09ac2 [PATCH] Char: isicom, eliminate spinlock recursion
Many spinlock recursion was in the isicom driver.  Eliminate it.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-30 10:55:55 -08:00
Jiri Slaby
17c4edf0c8 [PATCH] Char: isicom, fix tty index check
Since tty->index is signed and may be < 0, we should assign this to int not
uint.  There is already a check to ensure if it is not negative, but gcc
complains with -W flag enabled and it is perfectly correct:
drivers/char/isicom.c:953: warning: comparison of unsigned expression < 0
is always false

Fix this issue by converting `line' variable from uint to int.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-08 08:28:58 -08:00
Jiri Slaby
34b55b865e [PATCH] Char: isicom, simplify timer
Don't init timer in such complicated way. Use DEFINE_TIMER and then only
mod_timer to reset the expiration.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-08 08:28:58 -08:00
Jiri Slaby
906cdecbed [PATCH] Char: isicom, use completion
Use wait_for_completion+complete instead of variables+msleep hack.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-08 08:28:58 -08:00
Jiri Slaby
f067137842 [PATCH] Char: isicom, check kmalloc retval
Value returned from kamlloc may be NULL, we should check if ENOMEM occured.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-08 08:28:57 -08:00
Jiri Slaby
78028da91e [PATCH] Char: isicom, use pci_request_region
Use pci_request_region in pci probing function instead of request_region.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-08 08:28:57 -08:00
Jiri Slaby
938a7023bb [PATCH] Char: isicom, move to tty_register_device
Instead of registering all devices in register_tty_driver, register devices in
probe function and register only port_count devices.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-08 08:28:57 -08:00
Jiri Slaby
8acef8fcab [PATCH] Char: isicom, remove unneeded memset
Memsetting of global static variables is not needed in the init code.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-08 08:28:57 -08:00
Jiri Slaby
18234f88bc [PATCH] Char: isicom, remove isa code
ISA is not supported by this driver, remove parts, that take care of this.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-08 08:28:57 -08:00
Jiri Slaby
ca26200511 [PATCH] Char: isicom, rename init function
Rename init function from setup to init and mark it as __init, not __devinit.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-08 08:28:57 -08:00
Jiri Slaby
09a4a11255 [PATCH] Char: isicom, expand function
Simple functions (those, that calls reuest_irq, request_region et al) may be
expanded directly in code.  It makes probe function more readable and
transparent.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-08 08:28:57 -08:00
Alan Cox
606d099cdd [PATCH] tty: switch to ktermios
This is the grungy swap all the occurrences in the right places patch that
goes with the updates.  At this point we have the same functionality as
before (except that sgttyb() returns speeds not zero) and are ready to
begin turning new stuff on providing nobody reports lots of bugs

If you are a tty driver author converting an out of tree driver the only
impact should be termios->ktermios name changes for the speed/property
setting functions from your upper layers.

If you are implementing your own TCGETS function before then your driver
was broken already and its about to get a whole lot more painful for you so
please fix it 8)

Also fill in c_ispeed/ospeed on init for most devices, although the current
code will do this for you anyway but I'd like eventually to lose that extra
paranoia

[akpm@osdl.org: bluetooth fix]
[mp3@de.ibm.com: sclp fix]
[mp3@de.ibm.com: warning fix for tty3270]
[hugh@veritas.com: fix tty_ioctl powerpc build]
[jdike@addtoit.com: uml: fix ->set_termios declaration]
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Peschke <mp3@de.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Peter Oberparleiter <oberpar@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-08 08:28:57 -08:00
David Howells
c4028958b6 WorkStruct: make allyesconfig
Fix up for make allyesconfig.

Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
2006-11-22 14:57:56 +00:00
Jiri Slaby
c387fd85f8 [PATCH] Char: isicom, fix close bug
port is dereferenced even if it is NULL.  Dereference it _after_ the
check if (!port)...  Thanks Eric <ef87@yahoo.com> for reporting this.

This fixes

	http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7527

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-11-14 16:02:02 -08:00
David Howells
7d12e780e0 IRQ: Maintain regs pointer globally rather than passing to IRQ handlers
Maintain a per-CPU global "struct pt_regs *" variable which can be used instead
of passing regs around manually through all ~1800 interrupt handlers in the
Linux kernel.

The regs pointer is used in few places, but it potentially costs both stack
space and code to pass it around.  On the FRV arch, removing the regs parameter
from all the genirq function results in a 20% speed up of the IRQ exit path
(ie: from leaving timer_interrupt() to leaving do_IRQ()).

Where appropriate, an arch may override the generic storage facility and do
something different with the variable.  On FRV, for instance, the address is
maintained in GR28 at all times inside the kernel as part of general exception
handling.

Having looked over the code, it appears that the parameter may be handed down
through up to twenty or so layers of functions.  Consider a USB character
device attached to a USB hub, attached to a USB controller that posts its
interrupts through a cascaded auxiliary interrupt controller.  A character
device driver may want to pass regs to the sysrq handler through the input
layer which adds another few layers of parameter passing.

I've build this code with allyesconfig for x86_64 and i386.  I've runtested the
main part of the code on FRV and i386, though I can't test most of the drivers.
I've also done partial conversion for powerpc and MIPS - these at least compile
with minimal configurations.

This will affect all archs.  Mostly the changes should be relatively easy.
Take do_IRQ(), store the regs pointer at the beginning, saving the old one:

	struct pt_regs *old_regs = set_irq_regs(regs);

And put the old one back at the end:

	set_irq_regs(old_regs);

Don't pass regs through to generic_handle_irq() or __do_IRQ().

In timer_interrupt(), this sort of change will be necessary:

	-	update_process_times(user_mode(regs));
	-	profile_tick(CPU_PROFILING, regs);
	+	update_process_times(user_mode(get_irq_regs()));
	+	profile_tick(CPU_PROFILING);

I'd like to move update_process_times()'s use of get_irq_regs() into itself,
except that i386, alone of the archs, uses something other than user_mode().

Some notes on the interrupt handling in the drivers:

 (*) input_dev() is now gone entirely.  The regs pointer is no longer stored in
     the input_dev struct.

 (*) finish_unlinks() in drivers/usb/host/ohci-q.c needs checking.  It does
     something different depending on whether it's been supplied with a regs
     pointer or not.

 (*) Various IRQ handler function pointers have been moved to type
     irq_handler_t.

Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
(cherry picked from 1b16e7ac850969f38b375e511e3fa2f474a33867 commit)
2006-10-05 15:10:12 +01:00
Jeff Dike
b68e31d0eb [PATCH] const struct tty_operations
As part of an SMP cleanliness pass over UML, I consted a bunch of
structures in order to not have to document their locking.  One of these
structures was a struct tty_operations.  In order to const it in UML
without introducing compiler complaints, the declaration of
tty_set_operations needs to be changed, and then all of its callers need to
be fixed.

This patch declares all struct tty_operations in the tree as const.  In all
cases, they are static and used only as input to tty_set_operations.  As an
extra check, I ran an i386 allyesconfig build which produced no extra
warnings.

53 drivers are affected.  I checked the history of a bunch of them, and in
most cases, there have been only a handful of maintenance changes in the
last six months.  serial_core.c was the busiest one that I looked at.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-02 07:57:14 -07:00
Jiri Slaby
e4e040887b [PATCH] isicom: correct firmware loading
- loading of firmware didn't fail when something went wrong (returned 0).

- pointer to frame was incremented only by sizeof(frame) excluding its
  data contents -- bad idea.

- tell the card we're ready just after checking is complete, not before.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-01 00:39:22 -07:00
Thomas Gleixner
0f2ed4c6ba [PATCH] irq-flags: drivers/char: Use the new IRQF_ constants
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-07-02 13:58:49 -07:00
Adrian Bunk
0418726bb5 typo fixes: aquire -> acquire
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Acked-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
2006-06-30 18:23:04 +02:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
f4eaa37017 [PATCH] devfs: Remove the tty_driver devfs_name field as it's no longer needed
Also fixes all drivers that set this field.

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-06-26 12:25:09 -07:00
Eric Sesterhenn
326f28e9ec [PATCH] More !tty cleanups in drivers/char
Another bunch of checks in the char drivers .put_char() and .write()
routines, where tty can never be NULL.  This patch removes these checks to
save some code.  Coverity choked at those with the following bug ids:

isicom.c  767, 766
specialix.c 773, 774
synclink_cs.c 779, 781
synclink_gt.c 784, 785
synclinkmp.c 784, 785

Signed-off-by: Eric Sesterhenn <snakebyte@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Fulghum <paulkf@microgate.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-25 10:01:19 -07:00
Jiri Slaby
a547dfe956 [PATCH] char/isicom: More whitespaces and coding style
Wrap all the code to 80 chars on a line.
`}\nelse' changed to `} else'.
Clean whitespaces in header file.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <xslaby@fi.muni.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-10 08:02:01 -08:00
Jiri Slaby
e65c1db19f [PATCH] char/isicom: Firmware loading
Firmware loading via hotplug added.
Cleanup firmware old-way fields in header file.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <xslaby@fi.muni.cz>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-10 08:02:01 -08:00
Jiri Slaby
9ac0948b20 [PATCH] char/isicom: Pci probing added
Pci probing functions added, most of functions rewrited because of it (some
for loops were redundant).  Used PCI_DEVICE macro.  dev_* used for printing
wherever possible.  Renamed some functions to have isicom_ in the name.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <xslaby@fi.muni.cz>
Signed-off-by: Laurent Riffard <laurent.riffard@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-10 08:02:00 -08:00
Jiri Slaby
aaa246ea78 [PATCH] char/isicom: Other little changes
Move some code from one place to another.  Get rid of ugly ifdefs in code in
next p[patches, so here create functions and macros to enable it.  Rename some
functions and align some code to 80 chars.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <xslaby@fi.muni.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-10 08:02:00 -08:00
Jiri Slaby
8070e35c65 [PATCH] char/isicom: Type conversion and variables deletion
Type which is needed to have accurate size was converted to [us]{8,16}.
Removed void * cast.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <xslaby@fi.muni.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-10 08:02:00 -08:00
Jiri Slaby
d8d16e4744 [PATCH] char/isicom: Whitespace cleanup
Trailing spaces and tabs and space used for indentation deleted.  Indented
content of structures.  Switch/case indent.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <xslaby@fi.muni.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-10 08:02:00 -08:00
Alan Cox
33f0f88f1c [PATCH] TTY layer buffering revamp
The API and code have been through various bits of initial review by
serial driver people but they definitely need to live somewhere for a
while so the unconverted drivers can get knocked into shape, existing
drivers that have been updated can be better tuned and bugs whacked out.

This replaces the tty flip buffers with kmalloc objects in rings. In the
normal situation for an IRQ driven serial port at typical speeds the
behaviour is pretty much the same, two buffers end up allocated and the
kernel cycles between them as before.

When there are delays or at high speed we now behave far better as the
buffer pool can grow a bit rather than lose characters. This also means
that we can operate at higher speeds reliably.

For drivers that receive characters in blocks (DMA based, USB and
especially virtualisation) the layer allows a lot of driver specific
code that works around the tty layer with private secondary queues to be
removed. The IBM folks need this sort of layer, the smart serial port
people do, the virtualisers do (because a virtualised tty typically
operates at infinite speed rather than emulating 9600 baud).

Finally many drivers had invalid and unsafe attempts to avoid buffer
overflows by directly invoking tty methods extracted out of the innards
of work queue structs. These are no longer needed and all go away. That
fixes various random hangs with serial ports on overflow.

The other change in here is to optimise the receive_room path that is
used by some callers. It turns out that only one ldisc uses receive room
except asa constant and it updates it far far less than the value is
read. We thus make it a variable not a function call.

I expect the code to contain bugs due to the size alone but I'll be
watching and squashing them and feeding out new patches as it goes.

Because the buffers now dynamically expand you should only run out of
buffering when the kernel runs out of memory for real.  That means a lot of
the horrible hacks high performance drivers used to do just aren't needed any
more.

Description:

tty_insert_flip_char is an old API and continues to work as before, as does
tty_flip_buffer_push() [this is why many drivers dont need modification].  It
does now also return the number of chars inserted

There are also

tty_buffer_request_room(tty, len)

which asks for a buffer block of the length requested and returns the space
found.  This improves efficiency with hardware that knows how much to
transfer.

and tty_insert_flip_string_flags(tty, str, flags, len)

to insert a string of characters and flags

For a smart interface the usual code is

    len = tty_request_buffer_room(tty, amount_hardware_says);
    tty_insert_flip_string(tty, buffer_from_card, len);

More description!

At the moment tty buffers are attached directly to the tty.  This is causing a
lot of the problems related to tty layer locking, also problems at high speed
and also with bursty data (such as occurs in virtualised environments)

I'm working on ripping out the flip buffers and replacing them with a pool of
dynamically allocated buffers.  This allows both for old style "byte I/O"
devices and also helps virtualisation and smart devices where large blocks of
data suddenely materialise and need storing.

So far so good.  Lots of drivers reference tty->flip.*.  Several of them also
call directly and unsafely into function pointers it provides.  This will all
break.  Most drivers can use tty_insert_flip_char which can be kept as an API
but others need more.

At the moment I've added the following interfaces, if people think more will
be needed now is a good time to say

 int tty_buffer_request_room(tty, size)

Try and ensure at least size bytes are available, returns actual room (may be
zero).  At the moment it just uses the flipbuf space but that will change.
Repeated calls without characters being added are not cumulative.  (ie if you
call it with 1, 1, 1, and then 4 you'll have four characters of space.  The
other functions will also try and grow buffers in future but this will be a
more efficient way when you know block sizes.

 int tty_insert_flip_char(tty, ch, flag)

As before insert a character if there is room.  Now returns 1 for success, 0
for failure.

 int tty_insert_flip_string(tty, str, len)

Insert a block of non error characters.  Returns the number inserted.

 int tty_prepare_flip_string(tty, strptr, len)

Adjust the buffer to allow len characters to be added.  Returns a buffer
pointer in strptr and the length available.  This allows for hardware that
needs to use functions like insl or mencpy_fromio.

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Fulghum <paulkf@microgate.com>
Signed-off-by: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org>
Signed-off-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Signed-off-by: John Hawkes <hawkes@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-10 08:01:59 -08:00
Adrian Bunk
4b8497276a [PATCH] drivers/char/isicom.c: section fixes
This patch fixes the following bugs:
- __exit unregister_ioregion and unregister_drivers were called by
  __init isicom_init
- __init isicom_init was called by __devinit isicom_setup

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-25 16:25:00 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
1da177e4c3 Linux-2.6.12-rc2
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.

Let it rip!
2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00