On Tue, 03 Jul 2007 23:36:22 +0200
Morten Helgesen <[email protected]> wrote:
> /*
> > Problems to take into account are:
> > -1- Interrupts that empty part of the buffer.
> -> -2- page faults on the access to userspace.
> +> -2- Page faults on access to userspace.
#2 no longer applies (don't before the caller)
> > -3- Other processes that are also trying to do a "write".
#3 no longer applies (locked by tty layer)
> - /* get exclusive "write" access to this port (problem 3) */
> + /* Get exclusive "write" access to this port (problem 3) */
> /* This is not a spinlock because we can have a disk access (page
> - fault) in copy_from_user */
No copy_from_user any more. Actually that locking code wants review and
maybe removal so is another project altogether
Definitely an improvement
Acked-by: Alan Cox <[email protected]>
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