Re: PROBLEM: Race condition in tty buffer's function flush_to_ldisc().

[Ilya Zykov]

Alan Cox wrote:

>> Of course I know about tty_buffer_flush(), it only read TTY_FLUSHING,
>> it can't change TTY_FLUSHING, if flush_to_ldisc() single threaded,
>> we can change TTY_FLUSHING only in one place in one time(in
>> flush_to_ldisc()), therefor we can use only "set_bit(TTY_FLUSHING,
>> &tty->flags)" without test.
> 
> Yes.. if you can pin down why in your testing you see the other case
> sometimes being true.
> 
> Alan
>  
> 
> 

OK, I try.
Ilya.
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