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Commit e043e42b authored by OGAWA Hirofumi's avatar OGAWA Hirofumi Committed by Linus Torvalds
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pty: avoid forcing 'low_latency' tty flag

We really don't want to mark the pty as a low-latency device, because as
Alan points out, the ->write method can be called from an IRQ (ppp?),
and that means we can't use ->low_latency=1 as we take mutexes in the
low_latency case.

So rather than using low_latency to force the written data to be pushed
to the ldisc handling at 'write()' time, just make the reader side (or
the poll function) do the flush when it checks whether there is data to
be had.

This also fixes the problem with lost data in an emacs compile buffer
(bugzilla 13815), and we can thus revert the low_latency pty hack
(commit 3a542974

: "pty: quickfix for the
pty ENXIO timing problems").

Signed-off-by: default avatarOGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Tested-by: default avatarAneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
[ Modified to do the tty_flush_to_ldisc() inside input_available_p() so
  that it triggers for both read and poll()  - Linus]
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 7d3e91b8
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