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authorAlan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>2006-01-09 20:54:13 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2006-01-10 08:01:59 -0800
commit33f0f88f1c51ae5c2d593d26960c760ea154c2e2 (patch)
treef53a38cf49406863f079d74d0e8f91b276f7c1a9 /include/linux
parent6ed80991a2dce4afc113be35089c564d62fa1f11 (diff)
[PATCH] TTY layer buffering revamp
The API and code have been through various bits of initial review by serial driver people but they definitely need to live somewhere for a while so the unconverted drivers can get knocked into shape, existing drivers that have been updated can be better tuned and bugs whacked out. This replaces the tty flip buffers with kmalloc objects in rings. In the normal situation for an IRQ driven serial port at typical speeds the behaviour is pretty much the same, two buffers end up allocated and the kernel cycles between them as before. When there are delays or at high speed we now behave far better as the buffer pool can grow a bit rather than lose characters. This also means that we can operate at higher speeds reliably. For drivers that receive characters in blocks (DMA based, USB and especially virtualisation) the layer allows a lot of driver specific code that works around the tty layer with private secondary queues to be removed. The IBM folks need this sort of layer, the smart serial port people do, the virtualisers do (because a virtualised tty typically operates at infinite speed rather than emulating 9600 baud). Finally many drivers had invalid and unsafe attempts to avoid buffer overflows by directly invoking tty methods extracted out of the innards of work queue structs. These are no longer needed and all go away. That fixes various random hangs with serial ports on overflow. The other change in here is to optimise the receive_room path that is used by some callers. It turns out that only one ldisc uses receive room except asa constant and it updates it far far less than the value is read. We thus make it a variable not a function call. I expect the code to contain bugs due to the size alone but I'll be watching and squashing them and feeding out new patches as it goes. Because the buffers now dynamically expand you should only run out of buffering when the kernel runs out of memory for real. That means a lot of the horrible hacks high performance drivers used to do just aren't needed any more. Description: tty_insert_flip_char is an old API and continues to work as before, as does tty_flip_buffer_push() [this is why many drivers dont need modification]. It does now also return the number of chars inserted There are also tty_buffer_request_room(tty, len) which asks for a buffer block of the length requested and returns the space found. This improves efficiency with hardware that knows how much to transfer. and tty_insert_flip_string_flags(tty, str, flags, len) to insert a string of characters and flags For a smart interface the usual code is len = tty_request_buffer_room(tty, amount_hardware_says); tty_insert_flip_string(tty, buffer_from_card, len); More description! At the moment tty buffers are attached directly to the tty. This is causing a lot of the problems related to tty layer locking, also problems at high speed and also with bursty data (such as occurs in virtualised environments) I'm working on ripping out the flip buffers and replacing them with a pool of dynamically allocated buffers. This allows both for old style "byte I/O" devices and also helps virtualisation and smart devices where large blocks of data suddenely materialise and need storing. So far so good. Lots of drivers reference tty->flip.*. Several of them also call directly and unsafely into function pointers it provides. This will all break. Most drivers can use tty_insert_flip_char which can be kept as an API but others need more. At the moment I've added the following interfaces, if people think more will be needed now is a good time to say int tty_buffer_request_room(tty, size) Try and ensure at least size bytes are available, returns actual room (may be zero). At the moment it just uses the flipbuf space but that will change. Repeated calls without characters being added are not cumulative. (ie if you call it with 1, 1, 1, and then 4 you'll have four characters of space. The other functions will also try and grow buffers in future but this will be a more efficient way when you know block sizes. int tty_insert_flip_char(tty, ch, flag) As before insert a character if there is room. Now returns 1 for success, 0 for failure. int tty_insert_flip_string(tty, str, len) Insert a block of non error characters. Returns the number inserted. int tty_prepare_flip_string(tty, strptr, len) Adjust the buffer to allow len characters to be added. Returns a buffer pointer in strptr and the length available. This allows for hardware that needs to use functions like insl or mencpy_fromio. Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Cc: Paul Fulghum <paulkf@microgate.com> Signed-off-by: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org> Signed-off-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Signed-off-by: John Hawkes <hawkes@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/kbd_kern.h2
-rw-r--r--include/linux/tty.h25
-rw-r--r--include/linux/tty_flip.h20
-rw-r--r--include/linux/tty_ldisc.h9
4 files changed, 31 insertions, 25 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/kbd_kern.h b/include/linux/kbd_kern.h
index 7428198111eb..45f625d7d0b2 100644
--- a/include/linux/kbd_kern.h
+++ b/include/linux/kbd_kern.h
@@ -151,7 +151,7 @@ extern unsigned int keymap_count;
static inline void con_schedule_flip(struct tty_struct *t)
{
- schedule_work(&t->flip.work);
+ schedule_work(&t->buf.work);
}
#endif
diff --git a/include/linux/tty.h b/include/linux/tty.h
index 57449704a47b..3787102e4b12 100644
--- a/include/linux/tty.h
+++ b/include/linux/tty.h
@@ -51,16 +51,22 @@
*/
#define TTY_FLIPBUF_SIZE 512
-struct tty_flip_buffer {
+struct tty_buffer {
+ struct tty_buffer *next;
+ char *char_buf_ptr;
+ unsigned char *flag_buf_ptr;
+ int used;
+ int size;
+ /* Data points here */
+ unsigned long data[0];
+};
+
+struct tty_bufhead {
struct work_struct work;
struct semaphore pty_sem;
- char *char_buf_ptr;
- unsigned char *flag_buf_ptr;
- int count;
- int buf_num;
- unsigned char char_buf[2*TTY_FLIPBUF_SIZE];
- char flag_buf[2*TTY_FLIPBUF_SIZE];
- unsigned char slop[4]; /* N.B. bug overwrites buffer by 1 */
+ struct tty_buffer *head; /* Queue head */
+ struct tty_buffer *tail; /* Active buffer */
+ struct tty_buffer *free; /* Free queue head */
};
/*
* The pty uses char_buf and flag_buf as a contiguous buffer
@@ -186,10 +192,11 @@ struct tty_struct {
unsigned char stopped:1, hw_stopped:1, flow_stopped:1, packet:1;
unsigned char low_latency:1, warned:1;
unsigned char ctrl_status;
+ unsigned int receive_room; /* Bytes free for queue */
struct tty_struct *link;
struct fasync_struct *fasync;
- struct tty_flip_buffer flip;
+ struct tty_bufhead buf;
int max_flip_cnt;
int alt_speed; /* For magic substitution of 38400 bps */
wait_queue_head_t write_wait;
diff --git a/include/linux/tty_flip.h b/include/linux/tty_flip.h
index abe9bfcf226c..be1400e82482 100644
--- a/include/linux/tty_flip.h
+++ b/include/linux/tty_flip.h
@@ -1,25 +1,33 @@
#ifndef _LINUX_TTY_FLIP_H
#define _LINUX_TTY_FLIP_H
+extern int tty_buffer_request_room(struct tty_struct *tty, size_t size);
+extern int tty_insert_flip_string(struct tty_struct *tty, unsigned char *chars, size_t size);
+extern int tty_insert_flip_string_flags(struct tty_struct *tty, unsigned char *chars, char *flags, size_t size);
+extern int tty_prepare_flip_string(struct tty_struct *tty, unsigned char **chars, size_t size);
+extern int tty_prepare_flip_string_flags(struct tty_struct *tty, unsigned char **chars, char **flags, size_t size);
+
#ifdef INCLUDE_INLINE_FUNCS
#define _INLINE_ extern
#else
#define _INLINE_ static __inline__
#endif
-_INLINE_ void tty_insert_flip_char(struct tty_struct *tty,
+_INLINE_ int tty_insert_flip_char(struct tty_struct *tty,
unsigned char ch, char flag)
{
- if (tty->flip.count < TTY_FLIPBUF_SIZE) {
- tty->flip.count++;
- *tty->flip.flag_buf_ptr++ = flag;
- *tty->flip.char_buf_ptr++ = ch;
+ struct tty_buffer *tb = tty->buf.tail;
+ if (tb && tb->used < tb->size) {
+ tb->flag_buf_ptr[tb->used] = flag;
+ tb->char_buf_ptr[tb->used++] = ch;
+ return 1;
}
+ return tty_insert_flip_string_flags(tty, &ch, &flag, 1);
}
_INLINE_ void tty_schedule_flip(struct tty_struct *tty)
{
- schedule_delayed_work(&tty->flip.work, 1);
+ schedule_delayed_work(&tty->buf.work, 1);
}
#undef _INLINE_
diff --git a/include/linux/tty_ldisc.h b/include/linux/tty_ldisc.h
index 6066afde5ce4..83c6e6c10ebb 100644
--- a/include/linux/tty_ldisc.h
+++ b/include/linux/tty_ldisc.h
@@ -81,14 +81,6 @@
* pointer of flag bytes which indicate whether a character was
* received with a parity error, etc.
*
- * int (*receive_room)(struct tty_struct *);
- *
- * This function is called by the low-level tty driver to
- * determine how many characters the line discpline can accept.
- * The low-level driver must not send more characters than was
- * indicated by receive_room, or the line discpline may drop
- * those characters.
- *
* void (*write_wakeup)(struct tty_struct *);
*
* This function is called by the low-level tty driver to signal
@@ -136,7 +128,6 @@ struct tty_ldisc {
*/
void (*receive_buf)(struct tty_struct *, const unsigned char *cp,
char *fp, int count);
- int (*receive_room)(struct tty_struct *);
void (*write_wakeup)(struct tty_struct *);
struct module *owner;