linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 05/23] tty: Remove unnecessary re-test of ldisc ref count

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Date:	Thu, 07 Feb 2013 17:02:13 +0100
From:	Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz>
To:	Peter Hurley <peter@...leysoftware.com>
CC:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Alan Cox <alan@...ux.intel.com>,
	Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@...il.com>,
	Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@...utronix.de>,
	linux-serial@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Ilya Zykov <ilya@...x.ru>, Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 05/23] tty: Remove unnecessary re-test of ldisc ref
 count

On 02/07/2013 04:59 PM, Peter Hurley wrote:
> On Thu, 2013-02-07 at 16:16 +0100, Jiri Slaby wrote:
>> On 02/05/2013 09:20 PM, Peter Hurley wrote:
>>> +	char cur_n[TASK_COMM_LEN], tty_n[64];
>>> +	long timeout = 3 * HZ;
>>> +
>>> +	if (tty->ldisc) {	/* Not yet closed */
>>> +		tty_unlock(tty);
>>> +
>>> +		while (tty_ldisc_wait_idle(tty, timeout) == -EBUSY) {
>>> +			timeout = MAX_SCHEDULE_TIMEOUT;
>>> +			printk_ratelimited(KERN_WARNING
>>> +				"%s: waiting (%s) for %s took too long, but we keep waiting...\n",
>>> +				__func__, get_task_comm(cur_n, current),
>>> +				tty_name(tty, tty_n));
>>>  		}
>>> -		break;
>>> +		/* must reacquire both locks and preserve lock order */
>>> +		mutex_unlock(&tty->ldisc_mutex);
>>> +		tty_lock(tty);
>>> +		mutex_lock(&tty->ldisc_mutex);
>>>  	}
>>>  	return !!(tty->ldisc);
>                    ^^^^^^^^^^^^
>                still want me to fix this though?

It's not worth it. It's up to you.

-- 
js
suse labs
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