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tty: BKL pushdown

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- Push the BKL down into the line disciplines
- Switch the tty layer to unlocked_ioctl
- Introduce a new ctrl_lock spin lock for the control bits
- Eliminate much of the lock_kernel use in n_tty
- Prepare to (but don't yet) call the drivers with the lock dropped
  on the paths that historically held the lock

BKL now primarily protects open/close/ldisc change in the tty layer

[jirislaby@gmail.com: a couple of fixes]
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
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>
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Alan Cox 2008-04-30 00:53:29 -07:00 • committed by Linus Torvalds
commit 04f378b198
9 changed files with 149 additions and 53 deletions
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include/linux/tty.h
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@ -183,6 +183,7 @@ struct tty_struct {
int index;
struct tty_ldisc ldisc;
struct mutex termios_mutex;
spinlock_t ctrl_lock;
struct ktermios *termios, *termios_locked;
char name[64];
struct pid *pgrp;
@ -323,8 +324,7 @@ extern void tty_ldisc_put(int);
extern void tty_wakeup(struct tty_struct *tty);
extern void tty_ldisc_flush(struct tty_struct *tty);
extern int tty_ioctl(struct inode *inode, struct file *file, unsigned int cmd,
unsigned long arg);
extern long tty_ioctl(struct file *file, unsigned int cmd, unsigned long arg);
extern int tty_mode_ioctl(struct tty_struct *tty, struct file *file,
unsigned int cmd, unsigned long arg);
extern int tty_perform_flush(struct tty_struct *tty, unsigned long arg);