tree 02af221f8f5207680caaca17748c90cd2b0bba24
parent ae8dbd3eb97aad3929a981d3ab8c3cd2caee4ab1
author Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> 1310646910 +0200
committer Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> 1314120845 -0700

TTY: serial, remove BTM from wait_until_sent

During the BKL removal process, the BKL was switched to tty_lock
(BTM). Now we should start pruning the BTM further. Let's start with
wait_until_sent of the serial layer. This will allow us to switch to
the tty port helpers and thus clean it up much.

In wait_until_sent there are some uport members accessed, but neither
of them is protected by BTM at the location they are set ('=>' means
function call):
* uport->fifosize (set in tty_ioctl => uart_ioctl => uart_set_info)
* uport->type (set in add_one_port prior to tty_register_device)
* uport->timeout (set usually in tty_ioctl => tty_mode_ioctl =>
  tty_set_termios => uart_set_termios => uart_change_speed =>
  uport->ops->set_termios => uart_update_timeout)
* call to uport->ops->tx_empty()

If the tx_empty hook needs some lock to protect accesses to registers,
it should take &uport->lock spinlock like 8250 does. Otherwise there
still might be races e.g. with ISRs.

This should also fix the issue Andreas is seeing (BTM in comparison to
BKL doesn't have any hidden functionality like unlocking during
sleeping).

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
References: https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/5/25/562
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Andreas Bombe <aeb@debian.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>