From: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>,
One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
linux-serial@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/26] tty/serial flow control fixes
Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2014 19:33:51 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <540E3CDF.8020607@hurleysoftware.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140908232445.GA28204@kroah.com>
On 09/08/2014 07:24 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 02, 2014 at 05:39:09PM -0400, Peter Hurley wrote:
>> Hi Greg,
>>
>> This patch series reworks the internals of tty and serial flow control to
>> fix multiple races in both START/STOP flow control and RTS/CTS flow control.
>>
>> The main changes in this series are:
>> Patch 1
>> Backs out the UPF_HARD_FLOW kludge for 8250. This revert should be
>> for mainline and -next
>>
>> Patches 3-7
>> Fixes to x_char handling (ie., sending START/STOP) both in the serial
>> core and to several UART drivers
>>
>> Patches 10-15
>> Rename and move ASYNC_CTS_FLOW and ASYNC_CHECK_CD statuses into
>> a private field for the serial core, and add helper functions to test
>> those statuses for UART drivers.
>>
>> This is a necessary step toward making tty port->flags SMP-safe, without
>> introducing a new lock.
>
> I stopped applying at patch 13, due to the objections to that patch.
> Please redo the rest of the series and resend.
I'm going to wait for the fallout from patch 21 to shake out first.
Regards,
Peter Hurley
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-09-08 23:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 68+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-09-02 21:39 [PATCH 00/26] tty/serial flow control fixes Peter Hurley
2014-09-02 21:39 ` [PATCH 01/26] Revert "serial: uart: add hw flow control support configuration" Peter Hurley
2014-09-02 21:50 ` Murali Karicheri
2014-09-02 21:58 ` Peter Hurley
2014-09-02 22:17 ` Murali Karicheri
2014-09-02 21:39 ` [PATCH 02/26] serial: Style fix Peter Hurley
2014-09-02 21:39 ` [PATCH 03/26] serial: imx: Fix x_char handling and tx flow control Peter Hurley
2014-09-02 21:39 ` [PATCH 04/26] serial: core: Fix x_char race Peter Hurley
2014-09-02 21:39 ` [PATCH 05/26] serial: core: Remove unsafe x_char optimization Peter Hurley
2014-09-02 21:39 ` [PATCH 06/26] serial: Fix send_xchar() handlers Peter Hurley
2014-09-02 21:39 ` [PATCH 07/26] serial: mpc52xx: Use default serial core x_char handler Peter Hurley
2014-09-02 21:39 ` [PATCH 08/26] serial: sunsab: Don't enable tx if tx stopped Peter Hurley
2014-09-02 21:39 ` [PATCH 09/26] serial: blackfin: Fix missing gpio.h Peter Hurley
2014-09-02 21:39 ` [PATCH 10/26] serial: core: Document lock requirement for UPF_* flags updates Peter Hurley
2014-09-02 21:39 ` [PATCH 11/26] serial: 8250: Document serial8250_modem_status() locking Peter Hurley
2014-09-02 21:39 ` [PATCH 12/26] serial: core: Unwrap tertiary assignment in uart_handle_dcd_change() Peter Hurley
2014-09-02 21:39 ` [PATCH 13/26] locking: Add non-fatal spin lock assert Peter Hurley
2014-09-03 9:27 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-09-03 11:20 ` Peter Hurley
2014-09-03 14:40 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-09-03 14:50 ` Peter Hurley
2014-09-03 15:07 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-09-04 5:14 ` Ingo Molnar
2014-09-10 11:02 ` Peter Hurley
2014-09-10 13:08 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-09-10 14:45 ` Peter Hurley
2014-09-10 18:34 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-09-02 21:39 ` [PATCH 14/26] serial: core: Document and assert lock requirements for irq helpers Peter Hurley
2014-09-02 21:39 ` [PATCH 15/26] serial: core: Privatize modem status enable flags Peter Hurley
2014-09-02 21:39 ` [PATCH 16/26] isdn: i4l: Remove ASYNC_CTS_FLOW Peter Hurley
2014-09-02 21:39 ` [PATCH 17/26] serial: core: Privatize tty->hw_stopped Peter Hurley
2014-09-09 0:29 ` Peter Hurley
2014-09-02 21:39 ` [PATCH 18/26] usb: serial: Remove unused tty->hw_stopped Peter Hurley
2014-09-02 21:39 ` [PATCH 19/26] serial: bfin-uart: Fix auto CTS Peter Hurley
2014-09-02 21:39 ` [PATCH 20/26] serial: core: Use spin_lock_irq() in uart_set_termios() Peter Hurley
2014-09-02 21:39 ` [PATCH 21/26] tty: Convert tty_struct bitfield to bools Peter Hurley
2014-09-03 10:58 ` One Thousand Gnomes
2014-09-03 12:14 ` Peter Hurley
2014-09-03 12:19 ` One Thousand Gnomes
2014-09-03 15:10 ` Peter Hurley
2014-09-03 17:56 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-09-04 16:08 ` Peter Hurley
2014-09-02 21:39 ` [PATCH 22/26] tty: Serialize tty flow control changes with flow_lock Peter Hurley
2014-09-02 21:39 ` [PATCH 23/26] tty: Move packet mode flow control notifications to pty driver Peter Hurley
2014-09-02 21:39 ` [PATCH 24/26] tty: Serialize tcflow() with other tty flow control changes Peter Hurley
2014-09-02 21:39 ` [PATCH 25/26] tty: Move and rename send_prio_char() as tty_send_xchar() Peter Hurley
2014-09-02 21:39 ` [PATCH 26/26] tty: Hold termios_rwsem for tcflow(TCIxxx) Peter Hurley
2014-09-08 23:24 ` [PATCH 00/26] tty/serial flow control fixes Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-09-08 23:33 ` Peter Hurley [this message]
2014-09-08 23:43 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-09-08 23:46 ` Peter Hurley
2014-09-09 0:01 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-09-10 19:06 ` [PATCH v2 00/14] " Peter Hurley
2014-09-10 19:06 ` [PATCH v2 01/14] serial: core: Document and assert lock requirements for irq helpers Peter Hurley
2014-09-10 19:06 ` [PATCH v2 02/14] serial: core: Privatize modem status enable flags Peter Hurley
2014-09-10 19:06 ` [PATCH v2 03/14] isdn: i4l: Remove ASYNC_CTS_FLOW Peter Hurley
2014-09-10 19:06 ` [PATCH v2 04/14] serial: core: Privatize tty->hw_stopped Peter Hurley
2014-09-10 19:06 ` [PATCH v2 05/14] usb: serial: Remove unused tty->hw_stopped Peter Hurley
2014-09-23 15:33 ` Johan Hovold
2014-09-10 19:06 ` [PATCH v2 06/14] serial: bfin-uart: Fix auto CTS Peter Hurley
2014-09-10 19:06 ` [PATCH v2 07/14] serial: core: Use spin_lock_irq() in uart_set_termios() Peter Hurley
2014-09-10 19:06 ` [PATCH v2 08/14] tty: Convert tty_struct bitfield to ints Peter Hurley
2014-09-10 19:06 ` [PATCH v2 09/14] tty: Serialize tty flow control changes with flow_lock Peter Hurley
2014-09-10 19:06 ` [PATCH v2 10/14] tty: Move packet mode flow control notifications to pty driver Peter Hurley
2014-09-10 19:06 ` [PATCH v2 11/14] tty: Serialize tcflow() with other tty flow control changes Peter Hurley
2014-09-10 19:06 ` [PATCH v2 12/14] tty: Move and rename send_prio_char() as tty_send_xchar() Peter Hurley
2014-09-10 19:06 ` [PATCH v2 13/14] tty: Hold termios_rwsem for tcflow(TCIxxx) Peter Hurley
2014-09-10 19:06 ` [PATCH v2 14/14] tty: Workaround Alpha non-atomic byte storage in tty_struct Peter Hurley
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