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authorJiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>2012-03-05 14:51:56 +0100
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2012-03-08 11:38:51 -0800
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TTY: tty_driver, document tty->ops->shutdown limitation
Note that tty->ops->shutdown is called from whatever context the user drops the last tty reference from. E.g. if one takes a reference in an ISR, tty close happens on other CPU and the final tty put is from the ISR, tty->ops->shutdown will be called from that hard irq context. We would have a problem in vt if we start using tty refcounting from other contexts than user there. It is because vt's shutdown uses mutexes. This is yet to be fixed. Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> Reported-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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