Currently tty_wait_until_sent may take up to twice as long as the requested timeout while waiting for driver and hardware buffers to drain. Fix this by taking the remaining number of jiffies after waiting for driver buffers to drain into account so that the timeout actually becomes a maximum timeout as it is documented to be. Note that this specifically implies tighter timings when closing a port as a consequence of actually honouring the port closing-wait setting for drivers relying on tty_wait_until_sent_from_close (e.g. via tty_port_close_start). Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/tty/tty_ioctl.c | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/tty/tty_ioctl.c b/drivers/tty/tty_ioctl.c index 89ae23ac9ae6..632fc8152061 100644 --- a/drivers/tty/tty_ioctl.c +++ b/drivers/tty/tty_ioctl.c @@ -218,10 +218,10 @@ void tty_wait_until_sent(struct tty_struct *tty, long timeout) if (!timeout) timeout = MAX_SCHEDULE_TIMEOUT; - if (wait_event_interruptible_timeout(tty->write_wait, - !tty_chars_in_buffer(tty), timeout) < 0) { + timeout = wait_event_interruptible_timeout(tty->write_wait, + !tty_chars_in_buffer(tty), timeout); + if (timeout <= 0) return; - } if (timeout == MAX_SCHEDULE_TIMEOUT) timeout = 0; -- 2.0.5 -- 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