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From: Paul Fulghum <paulkf@microgate.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 2.6.16.18 kernel freezes while pppd is exiting
Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2006 11:11:27 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <448D922F.80801@microgate.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1150127588.25462.7.camel@localhost.localdomain>

Alan Cox wrote:
>> 	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&tty->buf.lock, flags);
>>+	clear_bit(TTY_FLUSHING, &tty->flags);
> 
> 
> Shouldn't those two be reversed if you want to go with this path.

I don't see that is necessary.

 > How is this occuring anyway the flush_to_ldisc path should never re-enter.

If a driver has low_latency set, flush_to_ldisc
can be called from both scheduled work (due to
hitting TTY_DONT_FLIP) and directly from an ISR.
On an SMP system, they can run in parallel.

I don't know for sure that is the path being hit,
it could be some other odd combination.
But there is no inherent serialization
of flush_to_ldisc.

-- 
Paul Fulghum
Microgate Systems, Ltd.

  reply	other threads:[~2006-06-12 16:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-06-08 23:07 2.6.16.18 kernel freezes while pppd is exiting Chuck Ebbert
2006-06-09 13:35 ` Paul Fulghum
2006-06-12 15:07 ` Paul Fulghum
2006-06-12 15:53   ` Alan Cox
2006-06-12 16:11     ` Paul Fulghum [this message]
2006-06-12 16:36       ` Alan Cox
2006-06-12 16:25         ` Paul Fulghum
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-06-12 16:36 Chuck Ebbert
2006-06-12 18:06 ` Paul Fulghum
2006-06-12 18:11 ` Paul Fulghum
2006-06-08 18:09 Chuck Ebbert
2006-06-08 20:08 ` Paul Fulghum
2006-06-08 21:17 ` Paul Fulghum

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