Re: strange delays on console logouts (tty != 1)

From: Russell King
Date: Sun May 02 2004 - 03:07:10 EST


On Sat, May 01, 2004 at 06:03:47PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Petr Vandrovec <vandrove@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > (2) tty hangup is scheduled for work_queue.
>
> This is the problem, isn't it?
>
> >From what context is tty_hangup() invoked? (stick a dump_stack() in there>?)

>From IRQ context. It's tty_vhangup() which is invoked from user context,
and calls do_tty_hangup() synchronously.

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Russell King
Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
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