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| author | Alan Cox <[email protected]> | 2008-04-30 00:53:29 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <[email protected]> | 2008-04-30 08:29:40 -0700 |
| commit | 04f378b198da233ca0aca341b113dc6579d46123 (patch) | |
| tree | 696e7bd401125cee71ecaa2047c4273f38732554 /scripts | |
| parent | e52384426064bca0669a954736206adca7595d48 (diff) | |
tty: BKL pushdown
- 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
[[email protected]: a couple of fixes]
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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