From: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
To: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org, borntraeger@de.ibm.com,
qemu-devel@nongnu.org, miltonm@bga.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org,
brueckner@linux.vnet.ibm.com, Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com>,
virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: Extending virtio_console to support multiple ports
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 2009 02:15:17 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090829011517.GG8036@shareable.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090827100809.5f0aa0a7@linux.intel.com>
Alan Cox wrote:
> > - Then, are we certain that there's no case where the tty layer will
> > call us with some lock held or in an atomic context ? To be honest,
> > I've totally lost track of the locking rules in tty land lately so it
> > might well be ok, but something to verify.
>
> Some of the less well behaved line disciplines do this and always have
> done.
I had a backtrace in my kernel log recently which looked like that,
while doing PPP over Bluetooth RFCOMM. Resulted in AppArmor
complaining that it's hook was being called in irq context.
-- Jamie
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-08-29 1:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-08-25 6:17 [Qemu-devel] Extending virtio_console to support multiple ports Amit Shah
2009-08-25 6:17 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] virtio_console: Add interface for guest and host communication Amit Shah
2009-08-25 6:17 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/3] char: Emit 'CLOSED' events on char device close Amit Shah
2009-08-25 6:17 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/3] virtio-console: rename dvq to ovq Amit Shah
2009-08-25 8:16 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/3] virtio-console: Add interface for generic guest-host communication Amit Shah
2009-08-26 11:27 ` [Qemu-devel] Re: Extending virtio_console to support multiple ports Amit Shah
2009-08-26 15:45 ` Amit Shah
2009-08-27 4:07 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-08-27 6:51 ` Amit Shah
2009-08-27 9:08 ` Alan Cox
2009-08-27 9:27 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-08-27 11:45 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] hvc_console: provide (un)locked version for hvc_resize() Hendrik Brueckner
2009-08-29 1:15 ` Jamie Lokier [this message]
2009-08-27 5:04 ` [Qemu-devel] Re: Extending virtio_console to support multiple ports Michael Ellerman
2009-08-27 6:52 ` Amit Shah
2009-08-27 14:13 ` Ryan Arnold
2009-08-28 17:00 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-08-30 10:10 ` Amit Shah
2009-08-30 12:48 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-08-30 13:17 ` Amit Shah
2009-08-31 13:17 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-08-31 13:51 ` Amit Shah
2009-08-31 14:21 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-08-31 14:31 ` Amit Shah
2009-08-31 15:56 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-08-31 16:19 ` Amit Shah
2009-08-31 16:37 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-09-21 5:20 ` Rusty Russell
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