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[added,to,the,v4.1,stable,tree] tty: improve tty_insert_flip_char() slow path

Message ID 20171006111704.25872-99-alexander.levin@verizon.com
State New
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Series [added,to,the,v4.1,stable,tree] tty: improve tty_insert_flip_char() slow path | expand

Commit Message

Levin, Alexander (Sasha Levin) Oct. 6, 2017, 11:17 a.m. UTC 
From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>


This patch has been added to the v4.1 stable tree. If you have any
objections, please let us know.

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[ Upstream commit 065ea0a7afd64d6cf3464bdd1d8cd227527e2045 ]

While working on improving the fast path of tty_insert_flip_char(),
I noticed that by calling tty_buffer_request_room(), we needlessly
move to the separate flag buffer mode for the tty, even when all
characters use TTY_NORMAL as the flag.

This changes the code to call __tty_buffer_request_room() with the
correct flag, which will then allocate a regular buffer when it rounds
out of space but no special flags have been used. I'm guessing that
this is the behavior that Peter Hurley intended when he introduced
the compacted flip buffers.

Fixes: acc0f67f307f ("tty: Halve flip buffer GFP_ATOMIC memory consumption")
Cc: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@verizon.com>
---
 drivers/tty/tty_buffer.c | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/tty/tty_buffer.c b/drivers/tty/tty_buffer.c
index 2843c2d4936d..1e485adf008a 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/tty_buffer.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/tty_buffer.c
@@ -369,10 +369,11 @@  int __tty_insert_flip_char(struct tty_port *port, unsigned char ch, char flag)
 	struct tty_buffer *tb = port->buf.tail;
 	int flags = (flag == TTY_NORMAL) ? TTYB_NORMAL : 0;
 
-	if (!tty_buffer_request_room(port, 1))
+	if (!__tty_buffer_request_room(port, 1, flags))
 		return 0;
 
-	*flag_buf_ptr(tb, tb->used) = flag;
+	if (~tb->flags & TTYB_NORMAL)
+		*flag_buf_ptr(tb, tb->used) = flag;
 	*char_buf_ptr(tb, tb->used++) = ch;
 
 	return 1;