Commit 3abf87cd authored by Peter Hurley's avatar Peter Hurley Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman

tty: Make lock subclasses available for other tty locks

Besides nested legacy_mutex locking which is required on pty pair
teardown, other nested pty operations require lock subclassing.

Move lock subclass definition to tty interface header, include/linux/tty.h,
and document its use.
Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
parent fb5ef9e7
......@@ -4,18 +4,8 @@
#include <linux/semaphore.h>
#include <linux/sched.h>
/*
* Nested tty locks are necessary for releasing pty pairs.
* The stable lock order is master pty first, then slave pty.
*/
/* Legacy tty mutex glue */
enum {
TTY_MUTEX_NORMAL,
TTY_MUTEX_SLAVE,
};
/*
* Getting the big tty mutex.
*/
......@@ -58,5 +48,5 @@ void __lockfunc tty_unlock_slave(struct tty_struct *tty)
void tty_set_lock_subclass(struct tty_struct *tty)
{
lockdep_set_subclass(&tty->legacy_mutex, TTY_MUTEX_SLAVE);
lockdep_set_subclass(&tty->legacy_mutex, TTY_LOCK_SLAVE);
}
......@@ -14,6 +14,23 @@
#include <linux/llist.h>
/*
* Lock subclasses for tty locks
*
* TTY_LOCK_NORMAL is for normal ttys and master ptys.
* TTY_LOCK_SLAVE is for slave ptys only.
*
* Lock subclasses are necessary for handling nested locking with pty pairs.
* tty locks which use nested locking:
*
* legacy_mutex - Nested tty locks are necessary for releasing pty pairs.
* The stable lock order is master pty first, then slave pty.
*/
enum {
TTY_LOCK_NORMAL = 0,
TTY_LOCK_SLAVE,
};
/*
* (Note: the *_driver.minor_start values 1, 64, 128, 192 are
......
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