linux/include
Peter Hurley bee6741ca0 tty, n_tty: Remove fasync() ldisc notification
Only the N_TTY line discipline implements the signal-driven i/o
notification enabled/disabled by fcntl(F_SETFL, O_ASYNC). The ldisc
fasync() notification is sent to the ldisc when the enable state has
changed (the tty core is notified via the fasync() VFS file operation).

The N_TTY line discipline used the enable state to change the wakeup
condition (minimum_to_wake = 1) for notifying the signal handler i/o is
available. However, just the presence of data is sufficient and necessary
to signal i/o is available, so changing minimum_to_wake is unnecessary
(and creates a race condition with read() and poll() which may be
concurrently updating minimum_to_wake).

Furthermore, since the kill_fasync() VFS helper performs no action if
the fasync list is empty, calling unconditionally is preferred; if
signal driven i/o just has been disabled, no signal will be sent by
kill_fasync() anyway so notification of the change via the ldisc
fasync() method is superfluous.

Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2016-01-28 11:58:02 -08:00
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acpi Merge branches 'acpica', 'acpi-video' and 'acpi-fan' 2016-01-21 00:41:59 +01:00
asm-generic Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2016-01-21 12:32:08 -08:00
clocksource
crypto Merge branch 'linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6 2016-01-22 11:58:43 -08:00
drm
dt-bindings ARM: SoC driver updates for v4.5 2016-01-20 18:42:30 -08:00
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linux tty, n_tty: Remove fasync() ldisc notification 2016-01-28 11:58:02 -08:00
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net net: drop tcp_memcontrol.c 2016-01-20 17:09:18 -08:00
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ras
rdma IB/mlx4: Enable send of RoCE QP1 packets with IP/UDP headers 2016-01-19 15:35:01 -05:00
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scsi Initial roundup of 4.5 merge window patches 2016-01-23 18:45:06 -08:00
soc ARM: SoC driver updates for v4.5 2016-01-20 18:42:30 -08:00
sound ALSA: timer: Introduce disconnect op to snd_timer_instance 2016-01-21 17:51:42 +01:00
target Merge branch 'for-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nab/target-pending 2016-01-20 17:20:53 -08:00
trace Initial roundup of 4.5 merge window patches 2016-01-23 18:45:06 -08:00
uapi Some locking and page fault bug fixes from Jan Kara, some ext4 2016-01-22 11:23:35 -08:00
video
xen Merge branch 'for-4.5/drivers' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block 2016-01-21 18:19:38 -08:00
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