Re: [PATCH] cdc-acm: some enhancement on acm delayed write

From: Oliver Neukum
Date: Tue Apr 08 2014 - 06:33:44 EST


On Tue, 2014-04-08 at 09:33 +0200, Johan Hovold wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 08, 2014 at 11:05:20AM +0800, Xiao Jin wrote:

> > (2) acm tty port ASYNCB_INITIALIZED flag will be cleared when
> > close. If acm resume callback run after ASYNCB_INITIALIZED flag
> > cleared, there will have no chance for delayed write to start.
> > That lead to acm_wb.use can't be cleared. If user space open
> > acm tty again and try to setd, tty will be blocked in
> > tty_wait_until_sent for ever.
> >
> > This patch have two modification.
> > (1) use list_head to save the write acm_wb during acm suspend.
> > It can ensure no acm write abandoned.
> > (2) enable flush buffer callback when acm tty close. acm delayed
> > wb will start before acm port shutdown callback, it make sure
> > the delayed acm_wb.use to be cleared. The patch also clear
> > acm_wb.use and acm.transmitting when port shutdown.
>
> This is not the right way to do this. See below.

If I see this correctly, then ASYNCB_INITIALIZED is cleared in
tty_port_close() we is called from acm_tty_close(). Thus it should
be enough to make sure that the device is resumed at the beginning
of acm_tty_close() and acm_resume() will do the job automatically.
What do you think?

Regards
Oliver


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