Re: strange delays on console logouts (tty != 1)

From: Russell King
Date: Sun May 02 2004 - 04:47:37 EST


On Sun, May 02, 2004 at 09:17:51AM +0100, Russell King wrote:
> > If so, how is tty_hangup() getting involved?
>
> The only way it could be invoked is via SAK, which obviously isn't
> happening here.
>
> However, login _does_ call sys_vhangup() which in turn calls tty_vhangup()
> so I suspect that the statement "tty hangup is scheduled for work_queue"
> is based on the _assumption_ that sys_vhangup() calls tty_hangup()
> rather than the function it actually does.

Ok, the VT_OPENQRY crap is a debian modification to agetty. As far as
I can see, there is no code in agetty which calls sys_vhangup().

So the question to Petr is: how did you determine that the tty was
being hung up?

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Russell King
Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
maintainer of: 2.6 PCMCIA - http://pcmcia.arm.linux.org.uk/
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