Re: locks inside receive_buf

[Alan Cox]

On Wed, 30 Mar 2011 17:51:27 +0530
Pavan Savoy <pavan_savoy@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Does holding a lock make any sense inside the line discipline's
> ops->receive_buf?
> I see the locks being held and released - during some calls like
> flush_to_ldisc, which end up calling receive_buf....
> 
> 
> and yes, I would like to have a lock because, there are other
> functions in my ldisc driver executed in process context ...
> Is there some hints as to what should be the do's and don'ts inside
> the ldisc ops functions ? (say tty_wakeup ...)

It's not well documented no. Your ld->receive_buf is single threaded and
runs from a sleeping context (but please don't sleep too long)

The output path from user space will be in a sleeping context too, but
you can call the write method of the tty your driver is using from
interrupt context or holding a spinlock (eg from timers)



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