On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 02:55:23PM -0300, Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo wrote:

jsm uses a write queue that copies from uart_core circular buffer. This
copying however has some bugs, like not wrapping the head counter. Since
this write queue is also a circular buffer, the consumer function is
ready to use the uart_core circular buffer directly.

This buggy copying function was making some bytes be dropped when
transmitting to a raw tty, doing something like this.

[root@hostname ~]$ cat /dev/ttyn1 > cascardo/dump &
[1] 2658
[root@hostname ~]$ cat /proc/tty/drivers > /dev/ttyn0
[root@hostname ~]$ cat /proc/tty/drivers
/dev/tty             /dev/tty        5       0 system:/dev/tty
/dev/console         /dev/console    5       1 system:console
/dev/ptmx            /dev/ptmx       5       2 system
/dev/vc/0            /dev/vc/0       4       0 system:vtmaster
jsm                  /dev/ttyn     250 0-31 serial
serial               /dev/ttyS       4 64-95 serial
hvc                  /dev/hvc      229 0-7 system
pty_slave            /dev/pts      136 0-1048575 pty:slave
pty_master           /dev/ptm      128 0-1048575 pty:master
unknown              /dev/tty        4 1-63 console
[root@hostname ~]$ cat cascardo/dump
/dev/tty             /dev/tty        5       0 system:/dev/tty
/dev/console         /dev/console    5       1 system:console
/dev/ptmx            /dev/ptmx       5       2 system
/dev/vc/0            /dev/vc/0       4       0 system:vtmaste[root@hostname ~]$

This patch drops the driver write queue entirely, using the circular
buffer from uart_core only.

Signed-off-by: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <redacted>
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Hello, Greg.

This should probably go to 3.1 and stable releases, since it fixes a
bug.

I already have this in my tree queued up for 3.2, so please remind me of
this when it hits Linus's tree during the 3.2 merge window.

thanks,

greg k-h