The original author didn't realise the kernel lock was a drop while sleep lock so did clever (and wrong) things to work around the non need to avoid deadlocks. Remove the cleverness and the comment (as we don't hold the BKL now anyway in those paths) Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/char/nozomi.c | 34 ++++++++++++---------------------- 1 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/char/nozomi.c b/drivers/char/nozomi.c index cd405bc..fac9157 100644 --- a/drivers/char/nozomi.c +++ b/drivers/char/nozomi.c @@ -1693,15 +1693,7 @@ static int ntty_write(struct tty_struct *tty, const unsigned char *buffer, if (!dc || !port) return -ENODEV; - if (unlikely(!mutex_trylock(&port->tty_sem))) { - /* - * must test lock as tty layer wraps calls - * to this function with BKL - */ - dev_err(&dc->pdev->dev, "Would have deadlocked - " - "return EAGAIN\n"); - return -EAGAIN; - } + mutex_lock(&port->tty_sem); if (unlikely(!port->port.count)) { DBG1(" "); @@ -1741,25 +1733,23 @@ exit: * This method is called by the upper tty layer. * #according to sources N_TTY.c it expects a value >= 0 and * does not check for negative values. + * + * If the port is unplugged report lots of room and let the bits + * dribble away so we don't block anything. */ static int ntty_write_room(struct tty_struct *tty) { struct port *port = tty->driver_data; - int room = 0; + int room = 4096; const struct nozomi *dc = get_dc_by_tty(tty); - if (!dc || !port) - return 0; - if (!mutex_trylock(&port->tty_sem)) - return 0; - - if (!port->port.count) - goto exit; - - room = port->fifo_ul.size - kfifo_len(&port->fifo_ul); - -exit: - mutex_unlock(&port->tty_sem); + if (dc) { + mutex_lock(&port->tty_sem); + if (port->port.count) + room = port->fifo_ul.size - + kfifo_len(&port->fifo_ul); + mutex_unlock(&port->tty_sem); + } return room; } -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-serial" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html