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From: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>
To: balbi@ti.com
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>,
	Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>,
	Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	Muralidharan Karicheri <m-karicheri2@ti.com>,
	linux-bluetooth@vger.kernel.org, linux-serial@vger.kernel.org,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Huang Shijie <b32955@freescale.com>
Subject: Re: hci_ldsic nested locking problem
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2014 13:34:57 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <532B26C1.8080806@hurleysoftware.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140320172920.GC2827@saruman.home>

[ +cc Huang Shijie ]

On 03/20/2014 01:29 PM, Felipe Balbi wrote:
> then we need updates to Documentation:
>
> Documentation/serial/tty.txt::
>
> |  Driver Side Interfaces:
> |
> |  receive_buf()	-	Hand buffers of bytes from the driver to the ldisc
> |  			for processing. Semantics currently rather
> |  			mysterious 8(
> |
> |  write_wakeup()	-	May be called at any point between open and close.
> |  			The TTY_DO_WRITE_WAKEUP flag indicates if a call
> |  			is needed but always races versus calls. Thus the
> |  			ldisc must be careful about setting order and to
> |  			handle unexpected calls. Must not sleep.
> |
> |  			The driver is forbidden from calling this directly
> |  			from the ->write call from the ldisc as the ldisc
> |  			is permitted to call the driver write method from
> |  			this function. In such a situation defer it.
>
> documentation says ldisc is allowed to call ->write() from
> ->write_wakeup(). huh ?

Patch submitted but never applied.

http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-serial/msg11144.html

Regards,
Peter Hurley

  reply	other threads:[~2014-03-20 17:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-03-20 16:34 hci_ldsic nested locking problem Felipe Balbi
2014-03-20 16:42 ` Alan Cox
2014-03-20 17:16   ` Felipe Balbi
2014-03-20 17:29     ` Felipe Balbi
2014-03-20 17:34       ` Peter Hurley [this message]
2014-03-20 17:35         ` Felipe Balbi
2014-03-20 18:45           ` Greg KH
2014-03-20 18:54             ` Peter Hurley
2014-03-20 17:31     ` Peter Hurley
2014-03-20 18:11       ` Felipe Balbi
2014-03-20 18:21         ` Peter Hurley
2014-03-20 18:25           ` Felipe Balbi
2014-03-20 19:01             ` Felipe Balbi
2014-03-20 19:03               ` Felipe Balbi
2014-03-20 19:16             ` Peter Hurley
2014-03-20 19:25               ` Felipe Balbi

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