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| author | Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com> | 2009-09-19 13:13:22 -0700 |
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| committer | Live-CD User <linux@linux.site> | 2009-09-19 13:13:22 -0700 |
| commit | b50989dc444599c8b21edc23536fc305f4e9b7d5 (patch) | |
| tree | 9a340199b17a680ea41ac65bf5b8ff0c5d84cb14 /drivers/char | |
| parent | e936ffd5cb2b4c7ee04925c9b92b616c01f1e022 (diff) | |
tty: make the kref destructor occur asynchronously
We want to be able to sleep in the destructor for USB at least. It isn't a
hot path so just pushing it to a work queue doesn't really cause any
difficulty.
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/char')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/char/tty_io.c | 19 |
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/char/tty_io.c b/drivers/char/tty_io.c index 93844806773..385cca7074d 100644 --- a/drivers/char/tty_io.c +++ b/drivers/char/tty_io.c @@ -1386,10 +1386,14 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(tty_shutdown); * tty_mutex - sometimes only * takes the file list lock internally when working on the list * of ttys that the driver keeps. + * + * This method gets called from a work queue so that the driver private + * shutdown ops can sleep (needed for USB at least) */ -static void release_one_tty(struct kref *kref) +static void release_one_tty(struct work_struct *work) { - struct tty_struct *tty = container_of(kref, struct tty_struct, kref); + struct tty_struct *tty = + container_of(work, struct tty_struct, hangup_work); struct tty_driver *driver = tty->driver; if (tty->ops->shutdown) @@ -1407,6 +1411,15 @@ static void release_one_tty(struct kref *kref) free_tty_struct(tty); } +static void queue_release_one_tty(struct kref *kref) +{ + struct tty_struct *tty = container_of(kref, struct tty_struct, kref); + /* The hangup queue is now free so we can reuse it rather than + waste a chunk of memory for each port */ + INIT_WORK(&tty->hangup_work, release_one_tty); + schedule_work(&tty->hangup_work); +} + /** * tty_kref_put - release a tty kref * @tty: tty device @@ -1418,7 +1431,7 @@ static void release_one_tty(struct kref *kref) void tty_kref_put(struct tty_struct *tty) { if (tty) - kref_put(&tty->kref, release_one_tty); + kref_put(&tty->kref, queue_release_one_tty); } EXPORT_SYMBOL(tty_kref_put); |