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2006-10-20[Bluetooth] Fix HID disconnect NULL pointer dereferenceMarcel Holtmann
The latest HID disconnect sequence change introduced a NULL pointer dereference. For the quirk to handle buggy remote HID implementations, it is enough to wait for a potential control channel disconnect from the remote side and it is also enough to wait only 500 msecs. Signed-off-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
2006-10-15[Bluetooth] Add locking for bt_proto array manipulationMarcel Holtmann
The bt_proto array needs to be protected by some kind of locking to prevent a race condition between bt_sock_create and bt_sock_register. And in addition all calls to sk_alloc need to be made GFP_ATOMIC now. Signed-off-by: Masatake YAMATO <jet@gyve.org> Signed-off-by: Frederik Deweerdt <frederik.deweerdt@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
2006-10-15[Bluetooth] Check if DLC is still attached to the TTYMarcel Holtmann
If the DLC device is no longer attached to the TTY device, then it makes no sense to go through with changing the termios settings. Signed-off-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
2006-10-15[Bluetooth] Fix reference count when connection lookup failsMarcel Holtmann
When the connection lookup for the device structure fails, the reference count for the HCI device needs to be decremented. Signed-off-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
2006-10-15[Bluetooth] Disconnect HID interrupt channel firstMarcel Holtmann
The Bluetooth HID specification demands that the interrupt channel shall be disconnected first. This is needed to pass the qualification tests. Signed-off-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
2006-10-15[Bluetooth] Support concurrent connect requestsMarcel Holtmann
Most Bluetooth chips don't support concurrent connect requests, because this would involve a multiple baseband page with only one radio. In the case an upper layer like L2CAP requests a concurrent connect these chips return the error "Command Disallowed" for the second request. If this happens it the responsibility of the Bluetooth core to queue the request and try again after the previous connect attempt has been completed. Signed-off-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
2006-10-15[Bluetooth] Make use of virtual devices treeMarcel Holtmann
The Bluetooth subsystem currently uses a platform device for devices with no parent. It is a better idea to use the new virtual devices tree for these. Signed-off-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
2006-10-15[Bluetooth] Handle return values from driver core functionsMarcel Holtmann
Some return values of the driver core register and create functions are not handled and so might cause unexpected problems. Signed-off-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
2006-10-15[Bluetooth] Fix compat ioctl for BNEP, CMTP and HIDPMarcel Holtmann
There exists no attempt do deal with the fact that a structure with a uint32_t followed by a pointer is going to be different for 32-bit and 64-bit userspace. Any 32-bit process trying to use it will be failing with -EFAULT if it's lucky; suffering from having data dumped at a random address if it's not. Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
2006-10-02[PATCH] const struct tty_operationsJeff Dike
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>
2006-09-28[Bluetooth]: Fix section mismatch of bt_sysfs_cleanup()Arnaud Patard
The bt_sysfs_cleanup() is marked with __exit attribute, but it will be called from an __init function in the error case. So the __exit attribute must be removed. Signed-off-by: Arnaud Patard <arnaud.patard@rtp-net.org> Signed-off-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-09-28[Bluetooth]: Don't update disconnect timer for incoming connectionsMarcel Holtmann
In the case of device pairing the only safe method is to establish a low-level ACL link. In this case, the remote side should not use the disconnect timer to give the other side the chance to enter the PIN code. If the disconnect timer is used, the connection will be dropped to soon, because it is impossible to identify an actual user of this link. Signed-off-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-09-28[Bluetooth] Support create connection cancel commandMarcel Holtmann
In case of non-blocking connects it is possible that the last user of an ACL link quits before the connection has been fully established. This will lead to a race condition where the internal state of a connection is closed, but the actual link has been established and is active. In case of Bluetooth 1.2 and later devices it is possible to call create connection cancel to abort the connect. For older devices the disconnect timer will be used to trigger the needed disconnect. Signed-off-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
2006-09-28[Bluetooth] Read local version information on device initMarcel Holtmann
The local version information are needed to identify certain feature sets of devices. They must be read on device init and stored for later use. It is also possible to access them through the device model. Signed-off-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
2006-09-28[Bluetooth] Return EINPROGRESS for non-blocking socket callsMarcel Holtmann
In case of non-blocking socket calls we should return EINPROGRESS and not EAGAIN. Signed-off-by: Ulisses Furquim <ulissesf@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
2006-09-28[Bluetooth] Handle command complete event for exit periodic inquiryMarcel Holtmann
The command complete event of the exit periodic inquiry command must clear the HCI_INQUIRY flag and finish the HCI request. Signed-off-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
2006-09-28[Bluetooth] Add HCI device identifier for SDIO cardsMarcel Holtmann
This patch assigns the next free HCI device identifier to Bluetooth devices based on the SDIO interface. Signed-off-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
2006-09-28[Bluetooth] Integrate services into the driver modelMarcel Holtmann
This patch integrates the services of the Bluetooth protocols RFCOMM, BNEP and HIDP into the driver model. This makes it possible to assign the virtual TTY, network and input devices to a specific Bluetooth connection. Signed-off-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
2006-09-28[Bluetooth] Integrate low-level connections into the driver modelMarcel Holtmann
This patch integrates the low-level connections (ACL and SCO) into the driver model. Every connection is presented as device with the parent set to its host controller device. Signed-off-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
2006-09-28[Bluetooth] Remove unused host controller attributesMarcel Holtmann
This patch removes the unused device attribute entries for the Bluetooth host controllers. Signed-off-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
2006-07-24[Bluetooth] Correct RFCOMM channel MTU for broken implementationsMarcel Holtmann
Some Bluetooth RFCOMM implementations try to negotiate a bigger channel MTU than we can support for a particular session. The maximum MTU for a RFCOMM session is limited through the L2CAP layer. So if the other side proposes a channel MTU that is bigger than the underlying L2CAP MTU, we should reduce it to the L2CAP MTU of the session minus five bytes for the RFCOMM headers. Signed-off-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
2006-07-12[Bluetooth] Fix deadlock in the L2CAP layerMarcel Holtmann
The Bluetooth L2CAP layer has 2 locks that are used in softirq context, (one spinlock and one rwlock, where the softirq usage is readlock) but where not all usages of the lock were _bh safe. The patch below corrects this. Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
2006-07-12[Bluetooth] Let BT_HIDP depend on INPUTMarcel Holtmann
This patch lets BT_HIDP depend on instead of select INPUT. This fixes the following warning during an s390 build: net/bluetooth/hidp/Kconfig:4:warning: 'select' used by config symbol 'BT_HIDP' refer to undefined symbol 'INPUT' A dependency on INPUT also implies !S390 (and therefore makes the explicit dependency obsolete) since INPUT is not available on s390. The practical difference should be nearly zero, since INPUT is always set to y unless EMBEDDED=y (or S390=y). Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
2006-07-12[Bluetooth] Remaining transitions to use kzalloc()Marcel Holtmann
This patch makes the remaining transitions to use kzalloc(). Signed-off-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
2006-07-03[Bluetooth] Add RFCOMM role switch supportMarcel Holtmann
This patch adds the support for RFCOMM role switching before the connection is fully established. Signed-off-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
2006-07-03[Bluetooth] Allow disabling of credit based flow controlMarcel Holtmann
This patch adds the module parameter disable_cfc which can be used to disable the credit based flow control. The credit based flow control was introduced with the Bluetooth 1.1 specification and devices can negotiate its support, but for testing purpose it is helpful to allow disabling of it. Signed-off-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
2006-07-03[Bluetooth] Small cleanup of the L2CAP source codeMarcel Holtmann
This patch is a small cleanup of the L2CAP source code. It makes some coding style changes and moves some functions around to avoid forward declarations. Signed-off-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
2006-07-03[Bluetooth] Use real devices for host controllersMarcel Holtmann
This patch converts the Bluetooth class devices into real devices. The Bluetooth class is kept and the driver core provides the appropriate symlinks for backward compatibility. Signed-off-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
2006-07-03[Bluetooth] Add platform device for virtual and serial devicesMarcel Holtmann
This patch adds a generic Bluetooth platform device that can be used as parent device by virtual and serial devices. Signed-off-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
2006-07-03[Bluetooth] Add automatic sniff mode supportMarcel Holtmann
This patch introduces the automatic sniff mode feature. This allows the host to switch idle connections into sniff mode to safe power. Signed-off-by: Ulisses Furquim <ulissesf@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
2006-07-03[Bluetooth] Correct SCO buffer size on requestMarcel Holtmann
This patch introduces a quirk that allows the drivers to tell the host to correct the SCO buffer size values. Signed-off-by: Olivier Galibert <galibert@pobox.com> Signed-off-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
2006-06-30Remove obsolete #include <linux/config.h>Jörn Engel
Signed-off-by: Jörn Engel <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-06-29Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/devfs-2.6Linus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/devfs-2.6: (22 commits) [PATCH] devfs: Remove it from the feature_removal.txt file [PATCH] devfs: Last little devfs cleanups throughout the kernel tree. [PATCH] devfs: Rename TTY_DRIVER_NO_DEVFS to TTY_DRIVER_DYNAMIC_DEV [PATCH] devfs: Remove the tty_driver devfs_name field as it's no longer needed [PATCH] devfs: Remove the line_driver devfs_name field as it's no longer needed [PATCH] devfs: Remove the videodevice devfs_name field as it's no longer needed [PATCH] devfs: Remove the gendisk devfs_name field as it's no longer needed [PATCH] devfs: Remove the miscdevice devfs_name field as it's no longer needed [PATCH] devfs: Remove the devfs_fs_kernel.h file from the tree [PATCH] devfs: Remove devfs_remove() function from the kernel tree [PATCH] devfs: Remove devfs_mk_cdev() function from the kernel tree [PATCH] devfs: Remove devfs_mk_bdev() function from the kernel tree [PATCH] devfs: Remove devfs_mk_symlink() function from the kernel tree [PATCH] devfs: Remove devfs_mk_dir() function from the kernel tree [PATCH] devfs: Remove devfs_*_tape() functions from the kernel tree [PATCH] devfs: Remove devfs support from the sound subsystem [PATCH] devfs: Remove devfs support from the ide subsystem. [PATCH] devfs: Remove devfs support from the serial subsystem [PATCH] devfs: Remove devfs from the init code [PATCH] devfs: Remove devfs from the partition code ...
2006-06-28[PATCH] remove TTY_DONT_FLIPPaul Fulghum
Remove TTY_DONT_FLIP tty flag. This flag was introduced in 2.1.X kernels to prevent the N_TTY line discipline functions read_chan() and n_tty_receive_buf() from running at the same time. 2.2.15 introduced tty->read_lock to protect access to the N_TTY read buffer, which is the only state requiring protection between these two functions. The current TTY_DONT_FLIP implementation is broken for SMP, and is not universally honored by drivers that send data directly to the line discipline receive_buf function. Because TTY_DONT_FLIP is not necessary, is broken in implementation, and is not universally honored, it is removed. Signed-off-by: Paul Fulghum <paulkf@microgate.com> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-26[PATCH] devfs: Rename TTY_DRIVER_NO_DEVFS to TTY_DRIVER_DYNAMIC_DEVGreg Kroah-Hartman
I've always found this flag confusing. Now that devfs is no longer around, it has been renamed, and the documentation for when this flag should be used has been updated. Also fixes all drivers that use this flag. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-06-26[PATCH] devfs: Remove the tty_driver devfs_name field as it's no longer neededGreg Kroah-Hartman
Also fixes all drivers that set this field. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-04-09[BLUETOOTH] sco: Possible double free.Eric Sesterhenn
this fixes coverity bug id #1068. hci_send_sco() frees skb if (skb->len > hdev->sco_mtu). Since it returns a negative error value only in this case, we can directly return here. Signed-off-by: Eric Sesterhenn <snakebyte@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-03-27[PATCH] Notifier chain update: API changesAlan Stern
The kernel's implementation of notifier chains is unsafe. There is no protection against entries being added to or removed from a chain while the chain is in use. The issues were discussed in this thread: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=113018709002036&w=2 We noticed that notifier chains in the kernel fall into two basic usage classes: "Blocking" chains are always called from a process context and the callout routines are allowed to sleep; "Atomic" chains can be called from an atomic context and the callout routines are not allowed to sleep. We decided to codify this distinction and make it part of the API. Therefore this set of patches introduces three new, parallel APIs: one for blocking notifiers, one for atomic notifiers, and one for "raw" notifiers (which is really just the old API under a new name). New kinds of data structures are used for the heads of the chains, and new routines are defined for registration, unregistration, and calling a chain. The three APIs are explained in include/linux/notifier.h and their implementation is in kernel/sys.c. With atomic and blocking chains, the implementation guarantees that the chain links will not be corrupted and that chain callers will not get messed up by entries being added or removed. For raw chains the implementation provides no guarantees at all; users of this API must provide their own protections. (The idea was that situations may come up where the assumptions of the atomic and blocking APIs are not appropriate, so it should be possible for users to handle these things in their own way.) There are some limitations, which should not be too hard to live with. For atomic/blocking chains, registration and unregistration must always be done in a process context since the chain is protected by a mutex/rwsem. Also, a callout routine for a non-raw chain must not try to register or unregister entries on its own chain. (This did happen in a couple of places and the code had to be changed to avoid it.) Since atomic chains may be called from within an NMI handler, they cannot use spinlocks for synchronization. Instead we use RCU. The overhead falls almost entirely in the unregister routine, which is okay since unregistration is much less frequent that calling a chain. Here is the list of chains that we adjusted and their classifications. None of them use the raw API, so for the moment it is only a placeholder. ATOMIC CHAINS ------------- arch/i386/kernel/traps.c: i386die_chain arch/ia64/kernel/traps.c: ia64die_chain arch/powerpc/kernel/traps.c: powerpc_die_chain arch/sparc64/kernel/traps.c: sparc64die_chain arch/x86_64/kernel/traps.c: die_chain drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c: xaction_notifier_list kernel/panic.c: panic_notifier_list kernel/profile.c: task_free_notifier net/bluetooth/hci_core.c: hci_notifier net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_conntrack_core.c: ip_conntrack_chain net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_conntrack_core.c: ip_conntrack_expect_chain net/ipv6/addrconf.c: inet6addr_chain net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c: nf_conntrack_chain net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c: nf_conntrack_expect_chain net/netlink/af_netlink.c: netlink_chain BLOCKING CHAINS --------------- arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/reconfig.c: pSeries_reconfig_chain arch/s390/kernel/process.c: idle_chain arch/x86_64/kernel/process.c idle_notifier drivers/base/memory.c: memory_chain drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c cpufreq_policy_notifier_list drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c cpufreq_transition_notifier_list drivers/macintosh/adb.c: adb_client_list drivers/macintosh/via-pmu.c sleep_notifier_list drivers/macintosh/via-pmu68k.c sleep_notifier_list drivers/macintosh/windfarm_core.c wf_client_list drivers/usb/core/notify.c usb_notifier_list drivers/video/fbmem.c fb_notifier_list kernel/cpu.c cpu_chain kernel/module.c module_notify_list kernel/profile.c munmap_notifier kernel/profile.c task_exit_notifier kernel/sys.c reboot_notifier_list net/core/dev.c netdev_chain net/decnet/dn_dev.c: dnaddr_chain net/ipv4/devinet.c: inetaddr_chain It's possible that some of these classifications are wrong. If they are, please let us know or submit a patch to fix them. Note that any chain that gets called very frequently should be atomic, because the rwsem read-locking used for blocking chains is very likely to incur cache misses on SMP systems. (However, if the chain's callout routines may sleep then the chain cannot be atomic.) The patch set was written by Alan Stern and Chandra Seetharaman, incorporating material written by Keith Owens and suggestions from Paul McKenney and Andrew Morton. [jes@sgi.com: restructure the notifier chain initialization macros] Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Signed-off-by: Chandra Seetharaman <sekharan@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-25[PATCH] POLLRDHUP/EPOLLRDHUP handling for half-closed devices notificationsDavide Libenzi
Implement the half-closed devices notifiation, by adding a new POLLRDHUP (and its alias EPOLLRDHUP) bit to the existing poll/select sets. Since the existing POLLHUP handling, that does not report correctly half-closed devices, was feared to be changed, this implementation leaves the current POLLHUP reporting unchanged and simply add a new bit that is set in the few places where it makes sense. The same thing was discussed and conceptually agreed quite some time ago: http://lkml.org/lkml/2003/7/12/116 Since this new event bit is added to the existing Linux poll infrastruture, even the existing poll/select system calls will be able to use it. As far as the existing POLLHUP handling, the patch leaves it as is. The pollrdhup-2.6.16.rc5-0.10.diff defines the POLLRDHUP for all the existing archs and sets the bit in the six relevant files. The other attached diff is the simple change required to sys/epoll.h to add the EPOLLRDHUP definition. There is "a stupid program" to test POLLRDHUP delivery here: http://www.xmailserver.org/pollrdhup-test.c It tests poll(2), but since the delivery is same epoll(2) will work equally. Signed-off-by: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk-manpages@gmx.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-21[BLUETOOTH]: Return negative error constantTobias Klauser
Return negative error constant. Signed-off-by: Tobias Klauser <tklauser@nuerscht.ch> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-03-20[NET] sem2mutex: net/Arjan van de Ven
Semaphore to mutex conversion. The conversion was generated via scripts, and the result was validated automatically via a script as well. Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-02-13[Bluetooth] Fix NULL pointer dereferences of the HCI socketMarcel Holtmann
This patch fixes the two NULL pointer dereferences found by the sfuzz tool from Ilja van Sprundel. The first one was a call of getsockname() for an unbound socket and the second was calling accept() while this operation isn't implemented for the HCI socket interface. Signed-off-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
2006-02-13[Bluetooth] Reduce L2CAP MTU for RFCOMM connectionsMarcel Holtmann
This patch reduces the default L2CAP MTU for all RFCOMM connections from 1024 to 1013 to improve the interoperability with some broken RFCOMM implementations. To make this more flexible the L2CAP MTU becomes also a module parameter and so it can changed at runtime. Signed-off-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
2006-01-11[PATCH] capable/capability.h (net/)Randy Dunlap
net: Use <linux/capability.h> where capable() is used. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-10[NET]: Remove unneeded kmalloc() return value castsJesper Juhl
Get rid of needless casting of kmalloc() return value in net/ Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-01-10[NET]: Change memcmp(,,ETH_ALEN) to compare_ether_addr()Kris Katterjohn
This changes some memcmp(one,two,ETH_ALEN) to compare_ether_addr(one,two). Signed-off-by: Kris Katterjohn <kjak@users.sourceforge.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-01-10[PATCH] TTY layer buffering revampAlan Cox
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>
2006-01-04Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-2.6Linus Torvalds
Trivial manual merge fixup for usb_find_interface clashes.
2006-01-04[PATCH] driver core: replace "hotplug" by "uevent"Kay Sievers
Leave the overloaded "hotplug" word to susbsystems which are handling real devices. The driver core does not "plug" anything, it just exports the state to userspace and generates events. Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-01-03[NET]: move struct proto_ops to constEric Dumazet
I noticed that some of 'struct proto_ops' used in the kernel may share a cache line used by locks or other heavily modified data. (default linker alignement is 32 bytes, and L1_CACHE_LINE is 64 or 128 at least) This patch makes sure a 'struct proto_ops' can be declared as const, so that all cpus can share all parts of it without false sharing. This is not mandatory : a driver can still use a read/write structure if it needs to (and eventually a __read_mostly) I made a global stubstitute to change all existing occurences to make them const. This should reduce the possibility of false sharing on SMP, and speedup some socket system calls. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>