n-tty-bkl-drop

Fixes the loss of echoed (and other ldisc-generated characters) when
the tty is stopped or when the driver output buffer is full (happens
frequently for input during continuous program output, such as ^C)
and removes the Big Kernel Lock from the N_TTY line discipline.

Adds an "echo buffer" to the N_TTY line discipline that handles all
ldisc-generated output (including echoed characters).  Along with the
loss of characters, this also fixes the associated loss of sync between
tty output and the ldisc state when characters cannot be immediately
written to the tty driver.

The echo buffer stores (in addition to characters) state operations that need
to be done at the time of character output (like management of the column
position).  This allows echo to cooperate correctly with program output,
since the ldisc state remains consistent with actual characters written.

Since the echo buffer code now isolates the tty column state code
to the process_out* and process_echoes functions, we can remove the
Big Kernel Lock (BKL) and replace it with mutex locks.

Highlights are:

* Handles echo (and other ldisc output) when tty driver buffer is full
  - continuous program output can block echo
* Saves echo when tty is in stopped state (e.g. ^S)
  - (e.g.: ^Q will correctly cause held characters to be released for output)
* Control character pairs (e.g. "^C") are treated atomically and not
  split up by interleaved program output
* Line discipline state is kept consistent with characters sent to
  the tty driver
* Remove the big kernel lock (BKL) from N_TTY line discipline

Signed-off-by: Joe Peterson <joe@skyrush.com>
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/tty.h b/include/linux/tty.h
index cc82d5158808..474f5d976379 100644
--- a/include/linux/tty.h
+++ b/include/linux/tty.h
@@ -253,6 +253,7 @@ struct tty_struct {
 	unsigned int column;
 	unsigned char lnext:1, erasing:1, raw:1, real_raw:1, icanon:1;
 	unsigned char closing:1;
+	unsigned char echo_overrun:1;
 	unsigned short minimum_to_wake;
 	unsigned long overrun_time;
 	int num_overrun;
@@ -262,11 +263,16 @@ struct tty_struct {
 	int read_tail;
 	int read_cnt;
 	unsigned long read_flags[N_TTY_BUF_SIZE/(8*sizeof(unsigned long))];
+	unsigned char *echo_buf;
+	unsigned int echo_pos;
+	unsigned int echo_cnt;
 	int canon_data;
 	unsigned long canon_head;
 	unsigned int canon_column;
 	struct mutex atomic_read_lock;
 	struct mutex atomic_write_lock;
+	struct mutex output_lock;
+	struct mutex echo_lock;
 	unsigned char *write_buf;
 	int write_cnt;
 	spinlock_t read_lock;