Re: [PATCH 3/7] Char: nozomi, remove useless tty_sem

From: Jack Stone
Date: Wed Apr 20 2011 - 05:55:37 EST


On 20/04/2011 09:43, Jiri Slaby wrote:
> tty_sem used to protect tty open count. This was removed in 33dd474a
> but the lock remained in place.
>
> So remove it completely as it protects nothing now.
>
> Also this solves Mac's problem with inatomic operation called from
> atomic context (ppp):
> BUG: scheduling while atomic: firefox-bin/1992/0x10000800
> Modules linked in: ...
> Pid: 1992, comm: firefox-bin Not tainted 2.6.38 #1
> Call Trace:
> ...
> [] ? mutex_lock+0xe/0x21
> [] ? ntty_write+0x5d/0x192 [nozomi]
> [] ? __mod_timer.clone.30+0xbe/0xcc
> [] ? check_preempt_curr+0x60/0x6d
> [] ? __nf_ct_refresh_acct+0x75/0xbe
> [] ? ppp_async_push+0xa9/0x3bd [ppp_async]
> [] ? ppp_async_send+0x34/0x40 [ppp_async]
> [] ? ppp_push+0x6c/0x4f9 [ppp_generic]
> ...
>
> Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@xxxxxxx>
> Reported-by: Mac <kmac@xxxxxxxxx>
> Tested-by: Gerald Pfeifer <gerald@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Jack Stone <jwjstone@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Jack Stone <jwjstone@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxx>

Thanks for sorting this Jiri.

Jack
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