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* [Bluetooth] Always send HCI_Reset for Broadcom devicesMarcel Holtmann2007-05-241-8/+8
| | | | | | | | | In case of Broadcom based Bluetooth devices, it is safe to always send HCI_Reset as first command. This gives the advantage that all HID Proxy versions will automatically work and don't need any additional quirks anymore. Signed-off-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
* [Bluetooth] Fix unintentional fall-through in HCI line disciplineMarcel Holtmann2007-05-101-0/+1
| | | | | | | | A trivial fix to (what looks like) an unintentional fall-through in the HCI line discipline. Signed-off-by: Ohad Ben-Cohen <ohad@bencohen.org> Signed-off-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
* [Bluetooth] Fix NULL pointer dereference in HCI line disciplineMarcel Holtmann2007-05-101-1/+3
| | | | | | | | | Normally a serial Bluetooth device is opened, TIOSETD'ed to N_HCI line discipline, HCIUARTSETPROTO'ed and finally closed. In case the device fails to HCIUARTSETPROTO, closing it produces a NULL pointer dereference. Signed-off-by: Ohad Ben-Cohen <ohad@bencohen.org> Signed-off-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
* [Bluetooth] Add HCIUARTGETDEVICE support for HCI line disciplineMarcel Holtmann2007-05-102-2/+8
| | | | | | | | | Adding HCIUARTGETDEVICE makes it possible to get the HCI device number that is attached to a given serial device. This is required during the initialization process of some Bluetooth chips. Signed-off-by: Ohad Ben-Cohen <ohad@bencohen.org> Signed-off-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
* [Bluetooth] Correct SCO buffer for another Broadcom based dongleMarcel Holtmann2007-05-051-0/+3
| | | | | | | | The SCO buffer size values for Bluetooth chips from Broadcom are wrong and the USB Bluetooth driver has to set a quirk to correct these SCO buffer size values. Signed-off-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
* [Bluetooth] Add support for Targus ACB10US USB dongleMarcel Holtmann2007-05-051-0/+3
| | | | | | | This patch adds the vendor and product id of the Targus ACB10US dongle and sets a flag to send HCI_Reset as the first command. Signed-off-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org
* [SK_BUFF]: Introduce skb_copy_from_linear_data{_offset}Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo2007-04-253-4/+4
| | | | | | | To clearly state the intent of copying from linear sk_buffs, _offset being a overly long variant but interesting for the sake of saving some bytes. Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
* [BLUETOOTH]: Introduce skb->data accessor methods for hci_{acl,event,sco}_hdrArnaldo Carvalho de Melo2007-04-254-12/+12
| | | | | | | For consistency with other skb data accessors, reducing the number of direct accesses to skb->data. Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
* [Bluetooth] Make use of MODULE_FIRMWAREMarcel Holtmann2007-02-263-0/+4
| | | | | | | Some Bluetooth drivers need one or more binary firmware images. Export these image names via the MODULE_FIRMWARE tag. Signed-off-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
* [PATCH] remove many unneeded #includes of sched.hTim Schmielau2007-02-148-8/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | After Al Viro (finally) succeeded in removing the sched.h #include in module.h recently, it makes sense again to remove other superfluous sched.h includes. There are quite a lot of files which include it but don't actually need anything defined in there. Presumably these includes were once needed for macros that used to live in sched.h, but moved to other header files in the course of cleaning it up. To ease the pain, this time I did not fiddle with any header files and only removed #includes from .c-files, which tend to cause less trouble. Compile tested against 2.6.20-rc2 and 2.6.20-rc2-mm2 (with offsets) on alpha, arm, i386, ia64, mips, powerpc, and x86_64 with allnoconfig, defconfig, allmodconfig, and allyesconfig as well as a few randconfigs on x86_64 and all configs in arch/arm/configs on arm. I also checked that no new warnings were introduced by the patch (actually, some warnings are removed that were emitted by unnecessarily included header files). Signed-off-by: Tim Schmielau <tim@physik3.uni-rostock.de> Acked-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* [PATCH] mark struct file_operations const 3Arjan van de Ven2007-02-121-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | Many struct file_operations in the kernel can be "const". Marking them const moves these to the .rodata section, which avoids false sharing with potential dirty data. In addition it'll catch accidental writes at compile time to these shared resources. Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* [Bluetooth] Correct SCO buffer for Broadcom based Dell laptopsMarcel Holtmann2007-01-091-0/+3
| | | | | | | | The SCO buffer size values on Dell laptops with a Bluetooth chip from Broadcom are wrong. The USB Bluetooth driver has to set a quirk to correct the SCO buffer size values. Signed-off-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
* [Bluetooth] Correct SCO buffer for Broadcom based HP laptopsMarcel Holtmann2007-01-091-0/+3
| | | | | | | | The SCO buffer size values on HP laptops with a Bluetooth chip from Broadcom are wrong. The USB Bluetooth driver has to set a quirk to correct the SCO buffer size values. Signed-off-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
* [Bluetooth] Correct SCO buffer size for another ThinkPad laptopMarcel Holtmann2007-01-091-0/+1
| | | | | | | The ThinkPad R60E uses a Broadcom based Bluetooth chip and even this version needs the quirk to correct the SCO buffer size values. Signed-off-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
* [PATCH] bluetooth: add support for another Kensington dongleOlivier Galibert2006-12-201-0/+1
| | | | | | | | Add the stupid sco fixup quirk to yet another Broadcom/Kensington device. Cc: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* [PATCH] lockdep: annotate bcsp driverPeter Zijlstra2006-12-071-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | ============================================= [ INFO: possible recursive locking detected ] 2.6.18-1.2699.fc6 #1 --------------------------------------------- swapper/0 is trying to acquire lock: (&list->lock#3){+...}, at: [<c05ad307>] skb_dequeue+0x12/0x43 but task is already holding lock: (&list->lock#3){+...}, at: [<df98cd79>] bcsp_dequeue+0x6a/0x11e [hci_uart] Two different list locks nest, annotate so. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Acked-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* Merge branch 'master' of ↵David Howells2006-12-064-94/+4
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6 Conflicts: drivers/pcmcia/ds.c Fix up merge failures with Linus's head and fix new compile failures. Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
| * [PATCH] pcmcia: conf.ConfigBase and conf.Present consolidationDominik Brodowski2006-12-044-94/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | struct pcmcia_device *p_dev->conf.ConfigBase and .Present are set in almost all PCMICA driver right at the beginning, using the same calls but slightly different implementations. Unfiy this in the PCMCIA core. Includes a small bugfix ("drivers/net/pcmcia/xirc2ps_cs.c: remove unused label") from and Signed-off-by Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
* | WorkStruct: make allyesconfigDavid Howells2006-11-221-3/+4
|/ | | | | | Fix up for make allyesconfig. Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
* [PATCH] lockdep: annotate DECLARE_WAIT_QUEUE_HEADPeter Zijlstra2006-10-301-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | kernel: INFO: trying to register non-static key. kernel: the code is fine but needs lockdep annotation. kernel: turning off the locking correctness validator. kernel: [<c04051ed>] show_trace_log_lvl+0x58/0x16a kernel: [<c04057fa>] show_trace+0xd/0x10 kernel: [<c0405913>] dump_stack+0x19/0x1b kernel: [<c043b1e2>] __lock_acquire+0xf0/0x90d kernel: [<c043bf70>] lock_acquire+0x4b/0x6b kernel: [<c061472f>] _spin_lock_irqsave+0x22/0x32 kernel: [<c04363d3>] prepare_to_wait+0x17/0x4b kernel: [<f89a24b6>] lpfc_do_work+0xdd/0xcc2 [lpfc] kernel: [<c04361b9>] kthread+0xc3/0xf2 kernel: [<c0402005>] kernel_thread_helper+0x5/0xb Another case of non-static lockdep keys; duplicate the paradigm set by DECLARE_COMPLETION_ONSTACK and introduce DECLARE_WAIT_QUEUE_HEAD_ONSTACK. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de> Cc: Markus Lidel <markus.lidel@shadowconnect.com> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com> Cc: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [Bluetooth] Add missing entry for Nokia DTL-4 PCMCIA cardMarcel Holtmann2006-10-201-0/+1
| | | | | | | The device id for the Nokia DTL-4 PCMCIA card was missing. This patch adds it back to the list of supported devices. Signed-off-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
* [Bluetooth] Add support for newer ANYCOM USB donglesMarcel Holtmann2006-10-201-0/+3
| | | | | | | | This patch adds the vendor and product id of the ANYCOM Bluetooth USB-200 and USB-250 dongles and sets a flag to send HCI_Reset as the first command. Signed-off-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org
* [Bluetooth] Use work queue to trigger URB submissionMarcel Holtmann2006-10-151-10/+7
| | | | | | | The bcm203x firmware loading driver uses a timer to trigger the URB submission. It is better to use a work queue instead. Signed-off-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
* IRQ: Maintain regs pointer globally rather than passing to IRQ handlersDavid Howells2006-10-058-14/+14
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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)
* [Bluetooth] Code cleanup for the HCI UART driverMarcel Holtmann2006-09-281-8/+5
| | | | | | | This patch cleans up the Bluetooth HCI UART driver a bit. Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
* [Bluetooth] Add support for Canyon CN-BTU1 dongleMarcel Holtmann2006-09-281-0/+3
| | | | | | | This patch adds the vendor and product id of the Canycon CN-BTU1 dongle and sets a flag to send HCI_Reset as the first command. Signed-off-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
* [Bluetooth] Add HCI device identifier for SDIO cardsMarcel Holtmann2006-09-281-1/+1
| | | | | | | 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>
* [Bluetooth] Code cleanup of the drivers source codeMarcel Holtmann2006-09-282-205/+208
| | | | | | | This patch is an attempt to cleanup the drivers source code to make all Bluetooth drivers look more unique. Signed-off-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
* [Bluetooth] Enable SCO support for Broadcom HID proxy dongleMarcel Holtmann2006-07-241-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | The Broadcom dongles with HID proxy support actually support SCO over HCI if the SCO buffer size values are corrected. So instead of disabling the SCO support, mark this dongle with the quirk for the Bluetooth core to correct the wrong buffer size values. Signed-off-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
* [Bluetooth] Add quirk for another broken RTX Telecom based dongleMarcel Holtmann2006-07-241-1/+2
| | | | | | | | This patch disables the ISOC transfers for another broken RTX Telecom based USB dongle. Starting the USB ISOC transfers only ends in a burst of error messages for invalid SCO packets on connection handle 0. Signed-off-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
* [Bluetooth] Correct SCO buffer size for Belkin devicesMarcel Holtmann2006-07-241-1/+2
| | | | | | | | The Belkin F8T012 and F8T013 devices are both based on a Bluetooth chip from Broadcom and their SCO buffer size values are wrong. The Bluetooth core should correct these values. Signed-off-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
* [Bluetooth] Correct SCO buffer size for another Broadcom chipMarcel Holtmann2006-07-241-2/+15
| | | | | | | | The SCO buffer size values on IBM/Lenovo ThinkPad laptops with a Bluetooth chip from Broadcom are wrong. The USB Bluetooth driver has to set a quirk to correct the SCO buffer size values. Signed-off-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
* [Bluetooth] Avoid NULL pointer dereference with tty->driverMarcel Holtmann2006-07-121-2/+2
| | | | | | This patch checks for tty->driver before trying to call flush_buffer(). Signed-off-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
* [PATCH] release_firmware() fixesMagnus Damm2006-07-101-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Use release_firmware() to free requested resources. According to Documentation/firmware_class/README the request_firmware() call should be followed by a release_firmware(). Some drivers do not however free the firmware previously allocated with request_firmware(). This patch tries to fix this by making sure that release_firmware() is used as expected. Signed-off-by: Magnus Damm <magnus@valinux.co.jp> Acked-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org> Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org> Cc: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [Bluetooth] Add platform device for virtual and serial devicesMarcel Holtmann2006-07-035-1/+4
| | | | | | | 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>
* [Bluetooth] Correct SCO buffer size on requestMarcel Holtmann2006-07-032-0/+7
| | | | | | | | 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>
* [Bluetooth] Add suspend/resume support to the HCI USB driverMarcel Holtmann2006-07-031-0/+71
| | | | | | | | | This patch implements the suspend/resume methods for the HCI USB driver by killing all outstanding URBs on suspend, and re-issuing them on resume. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
* [Bluetooth] Use raw mode for the Frontline sniffer deviceMarcel Holtmann2006-07-031-0/+3
| | | | | | | The Frontline sniffer device looks like a normal H:2 Bluetooth device, but it is not and so mark it as raw mode device. Signed-off-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
* Remove obsolete #include <linux/config.h>Jörn Engel2006-06-3012-12/+0
| | | | | Signed-off-by: Jörn Engel <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
* [PATCH] Bluetooth: fix potential NULL ptr deref in ↵Jesper Juhl2006-06-261-0/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | dtl1_cs.c::dtl1_hci_send_frame() There's a problem in drivers/bluetooth/dtl1_cs.c::dtl1_hci_send_frame() If bt_skb_alloc() returns NULL, then skb_reserve(s, NSHL); will cause a NULL pointer deref - ouch. If we can't allocate the resources we require we need to tell the caller by returning -ENOMEM. Found by the coverity checker as bug #409 Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com> Acked-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] pcmcia: use bitfield instead of p_state and stateDominik Brodowski2006-03-314-43/+12
| | | | | | | | | | Instead of the two status values struct pcmcia_device->p_state and state, use descriptive bitfields. Most value-checking in drivers was invalid, as the core now only calls the ->remove() (a.k.a. detach) function in case the attachement _and_ configuration was successful. Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
* [PATCH] pcmcia: add return value to _config() functionsDominik Brodowski2006-03-314-32/+28
| | | | | | | | Most of the driver initialization isn't done in the .probe function, but in the internal _config() functions. Make them return a value, so that .probe can properly report whether the probing of the device succeeded or not. Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
* [PATCH] pcmcia: remove dev_link_t and client_handle_t indirectionDominik Brodowski2006-03-314-98/+86
| | | | | | | dev_link_t * and client_handle_t both mean struct pcmcai_device * by now. Therefore, remove all such indirections. Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
* [PATCH] pcmcia: embed dev_link_t into struct pcmcia_deviceDominik Brodowski2006-03-314-61/+46
| | | | | | | | | Embed dev_link_t into struct pcmcia_device(), as they basically address the same entity. The actual contents of dev_link_t will be cleaned up step by step. This patch includes a bugfix from and signed-off-by Andrew Morton. Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
* [PATCH] pcmcia: remove unneeded Vcc pseudo settingDominik Brodowski2006-03-314-18/+2
| | | | | | | | | As we do not allow setting Vcc in the pcmcia core, and Vpp1 and Vpp2 can only be set to the same value, a lot of code can be streamlined. Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
* [PATCH] pcmcia: default suspend and resume handlingDominik Brodowski2006-03-314-97/+0
| | | | | | | | | | In all but one case, the suspend and resume functions of PCMCIA drivers contain mostly of calls to pcmcia_release_configuration() and pcmcia_request_configuration(). Therefore, move this code out of the drivers and into the core. Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
* [PATCH] pcmcia: add pcmcia_disable_deviceDominik Brodowski2006-03-314-28/+4
| | | | | | | | | | pcmcia_disable_device(struct pcmcia_device *p_dev) performs the necessary cleanups upon device or driver removal: it calls the appropriate pcmcia_release_* functions, and can replace (most) of the current drivers' _release() functions. Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
* [Bluetooth] Fix firmware loading problem of BT3C driverMarcel Holtmann2006-02-131-13/+4
| | | | | | | | | | Before the PCMCIA subsystem was fully integrated into the device and driver model, the BT3C driver had to workaround this when loading the firmware. This workaround is broken and makes the driver oops when loading the firmware. This patch removes this workaround and uses now the provided device structure from the PCMCIA subsystem. Signed-off-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
* [PATCH] Unlinline a bunch of other functionsArjan van de Ven2006-01-141-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | Remove the "inline" keyword from a bunch of big functions in the kernel with the goal of shrinking it by 30kb to 40kb Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Acked-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] TTY layer buffering revampAlan Cox2006-01-101-15/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
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