From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754522Ab3KGUCU (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Nov 2013 15:02:20 -0500 Received: from mailout32.mail01.mtsvc.net ([216.70.64.70]:51685 "EHLO n23.mail01.mtsvc.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752711Ab3KGUCL (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Nov 2013 15:02:11 -0500 Message-ID: <527BF1B5.20803@hurleysoftware.com> Date: Thu, 07 Nov 2013 15:01:57 -0500 From: Peter Hurley User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Peter Hurley , Greg Kroah-Hartman CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Linus Torvalds , Mikael Pettersson , Andrew Morton , linux-serial@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] n_tty: Ensure reader restarts worker for next reader References: <20131017211236.GA6155@kroah.com> <1383850796-24300-1-git-send-email-peter@hurleysoftware.com> In-Reply-To: <1383850796-24300-1-git-send-email-peter@hurleysoftware.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Authenticated-User: 990527 peter@hurleysoftware.com Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 11/07/2013 01:59 PM, Peter Hurley wrote: > A departing reader must restart a flush_to_ldisc() worker _before_ > the next reader enters the read loop; this is to avoid the new reader > concluding no more i/o is available and prematurely exiting, when the > old reader simply hasn't re-started the worker yet. > > Cc: stable@kernel.org # 3.12 > Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley Greg, I fluffed the stable cc: Please pick this up for 3.12.1. Regards, Peter Hurley