Anton Blanchard wrote:
The patch below changes things to call tty_kref_put once for every
hvc_close call, and with that my machine boots fine.
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <an...@samba.org>
---
Works for me. Thanks Anton.
Regards
-Sachin
diff --git a/drivers/char/hvc_console.c b/drivers/char/hvc_console.c
index d3890e8..35cca4c 100644
--- a/drivers/char/hvc_console.c
+++ b/drivers/char/hvc_console.c
@@ -368,16 +368,12 @@ static void hvc_close(struct tty_struct *tty, struct file
* filp)
hp = tty->driver_data;
spin_lock_irqsave(&hp->lock, flags);
- tty_kref_get(tty);
if (--hp->count == 0) {
/* We are done with the tty pointer now. */
hp->tty = NULL;
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&hp->lock, flags);
- /* Put the ref obtained in hvc_open() */
- tty_kref_put(tty);
-
if (hp->ops->notifier_del)
hp->ops->notifier_del(hp, hp->data);
--
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Sachin Sant
IBM Linux Technology Center
India Systems and Technology Labs
Bangalore, India
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