pty: avoid forcing 'low_latency' tty flag

We really don't want to mark the pty as a low-latency device, because as
Alan points out, the ->write method can be called from an IRQ (ppp?),
and that means we can't use ->low_latency=1 as we take mutexes in the
low_latency case.

So rather than using low_latency to force the written data to be pushed
to the ldisc handling at 'write()' time, just make the reader side (or
the poll function) do the flush when it checks whether there is data to
be had.

This also fixes the problem with lost data in an emacs compile buffer
(bugzilla 13815), and we can thus revert the low_latency pty hack
(commit 3a54297478e6578f96fd54bf4daa1751130aca86: "pty: quickfix for the
pty ENXIO timing problems").

Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Tested-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
[ Modified to do the tty_flush_to_ldisc() inside input_available_p() so
  that it triggers for both read and poll()  - Linus]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/char/tty_buffer.c b/drivers/char/tty_buffer.c
index 810ee25d66a4..3108991c5c8b 100644
--- a/drivers/char/tty_buffer.c
+++ b/drivers/char/tty_buffer.c
@@ -462,6 +462,19 @@ static void flush_to_ldisc(struct work_struct *work)
 }
 
 /**
+ *      tty_flush_to_ldisc
+ *      @tty: tty to push
+ *
+ *      Push the terminal flip buffers to the line discipline.
+ *
+ *      Must not be called from IRQ context.
+ */
+void tty_flush_to_ldisc(struct tty_struct *tty)
+{
+        flush_to_ldisc(&tty->buf.work.work);
+}
+
+/**
  *      tty_flip_buffer_push    -       terminal
  *      @tty: tty to push
  *