TTY locking
Paul Kranenburg <[email protected]> Mon, 17 Feb 2003 08:57:53 +0100 (MET)
| Newsgroups | gmane.os.netbsd.devel.smp |
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The TTY subsystem locking strategy has some issues left. One of them is that tputchar() can be called with or without the tty spin lock held: i.e. [tu]printf()->kprintf()->tputchar() vs. ttyinfo()->ttyprintf()->kprintf()->tputchar() I put a simple_lock_try() in tputchar() to circumvent to problem, but that's not correct, and LOCKDEBUG catches it. Looking at the places from where ttyinfo() is called it seems Ok to just release the tty spin lock while the load and session stuff is printed, and then re-acquire it again before returning. Comments? -pk