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author | David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@googlemail.com> | 2012-06-10 09:16:15 -0400 |
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committer | Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> | 2012-06-18 07:42:00 -0400 |
commit | 1f9dec1e0164b48da9b268a02197f38caa69b118 (patch) | |
tree | 3352f158c7173094f84deb1cbad25a9a40122d32 /block/compat_ioctl.c | |
parent | ace3d8614ab0e6544f5f85921085b55b915fe9aa (diff) |
HID: uhid: allow poll()'ing on uhid devices
As long as the internal buffer is not empty, we return POLLIN to
user-space.
uhid->head and uhid->tail are no atomics so the comparison may return
inexact results. However, this doesn't matter here as user-space would
need to poll() in two threads simultaneously to trigger this. And in this
case it doesn't matter if a cached result is returned or the exact new
result as user-space does not know which thread returns first from poll()
and the following read(). So it is safe to compare the values without
locking.
Signed-off-by: David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
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