From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>
Subject: Convert termios to RCU (was Re: [PATCH tty-next 0/4] tty: Fix ^C
 echo)
Date: Tue, 03 Dec 2013 12:23:24 -0500
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On 12/03/2013 09:20 AM, One Thousand Gnomes wrote:
> As a PS: I think the termios is probably an RCU problem. The semaphore
> seemed to make sense when I did it, but in hindsight I think I made the
> wrong call.

Alan,

Converting safe termios access to RCU is a really good idea.

Massive changeset though, if only because tty->termios would have to be
a struct termios __rcu *.

Regards,
Peter Hurley