vcs: hook sysfs devices into object lifetime instead of "binding"

During bootup performance tracing I noticed many occurrences of
vca* device creation and removal, leading to the usual userspace
uevent processing, which are, in this case, rather pointless.

A simple test showing the kernel timing (not including all the
work userspace has to do), gives us these numbers:
  $ time for i in `seq 1000`; do echo a > /dev/tty2; done
  real    0m1.142s
  user    0m0.015s
  sys     0m0.540s

If we move the hook for the vcs* driver core devices from the
tty "binding" to the vc allocation/deallocation, which is what
the vcs* devices represent, we get the following numbers:
  $ time for i in `seq 1000`; do echo a > /dev/tty2; done
  real    0m0.152s
  user    0m0.030s
  sys     0m0.072s

Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/console.h b/include/linux/console.h
index a67a90cf8268..dcca5339ceb3 100644
--- a/include/linux/console.h
+++ b/include/linux/console.h
@@ -137,8 +137,8 @@ extern void resume_console(void);
 int mda_console_init(void);
 void prom_con_init(void);
 
-void vcs_make_sysfs(struct tty_struct *tty);
-void vcs_remove_sysfs(struct tty_struct *tty);
+void vcs_make_sysfs(int index);
+void vcs_remove_sysfs(int index);
 
 /* Some debug stub to catch some of the obvious races in the VT code */
 #if 1