Re: TTY loosing bytes ?

From: Felipe Balbi
Date: Tue Oct 06 2009 - 09:32:35 EST


On Tue, Oct 06, 2009 at 03:11:15PM +0200, ext Alan Cox wrote:
> > With the patch above I still get this messages but it still goes through
> > since not receive_buf is returning the amount of bytes actually
> > received. Then flush_to_ldisc() will retry those bytes on the next
> > iteration. Maybe this is not the desired patch though ?
> >
> > Thanks a lot for the comments Alan.
>
> First guess try the following
>
> n_tty: For some I/O patterns n_tty will lose bytes
>
> From: Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Fix the obvious disagreement between the receive path and the receive room
> logic.
>
> Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>
> drivers/char/n_tty.c | 3 +++
> 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
>
> diff --git a/drivers/char/n_tty.c b/drivers/char/n_tty.c
> index 2e50f4d..27b28ca 100644
> --- a/drivers/char/n_tty.c
> +++ b/drivers/char/n_tty.c
> @@ -95,6 +95,9 @@ static void n_tty_set_room(struct tty_struct *tty)
> /* tty->read_cnt is not read locked ? */
> int left = N_TTY_BUF_SIZE - tty->read_cnt - 1;
>
> + if (tty->real_raw)
> + left = min(left, N_TTY_BUF_SIZE - tty->read_head - 1);
> +
> /*
> * If we are doing input canonicalization, and there are no
> * pending newlines, let characters through without limit, so

unfortunately it didn't work. Although now I don't the debugging prints
complaining we've lost bytes, the transfer does get stuck in lot earlier
stage.

Maybe this is one fix but there's still other problem with that code ?

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balbi
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