From 81af8d67d4fc35b1ee6e0feb1f1b34b3a33eeb44 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Eric W. Biederman" Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2006 02:17:13 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] vt: rework the console spawning variables This is such a rare path it took me a while to figure out how to test this after soring out the locking. This patch does several things. - The variables used are moved into a structure and declared in vt_kern.h - A spinlock is added so we don't have SMP races updating the values. - Instead of raw pid_t value a struct_pid is used to guard against pid wrap around issues, if the daemon to spawn a new console dies. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman Cc: Oleg Nesterov Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- include/linux/vt_kern.h | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) (limited to 'include/linux/vt_kern.h') diff --git a/include/linux/vt_kern.h b/include/linux/vt_kern.h index 1009d3fe1fc2..37a1a41f5b65 100644 --- a/include/linux/vt_kern.h +++ b/include/linux/vt_kern.h @@ -84,4 +84,11 @@ void reset_vc(struct vc_data *vc); extern char con_buf[CON_BUF_SIZE]; extern struct semaphore con_buf_sem; +struct vt_spawn_console { + spinlock_t lock; + struct pid *pid; + int sig; +}; +extern struct vt_spawn_console vt_spawn_con; + #endif /* _VT_KERN_H */ -- cgit v1.2.1