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author | Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com> | 2012-03-02 16:00:02 +0100 |
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committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2012-03-08 20:11:39 +0100 |
commit | 5289475d1375017ab4288b276383e9684280876d (patch) | |
tree | 9efb9bfccfb9b008bc1c9f2e5c89af8b26d57fc8 /drivers/tty/vt/selection.c | |
parent | vt: waitevent is self locked so drop the tty_lock (diff) | |
download | linux-5289475d1375017ab4288b276383e9684280876d.tar.xz linux-5289475d1375017ab4288b276383e9684280876d.zip |
vt: tackle the main part of the selection logic
We leave the existing paste mess alone and just fix up the vt side of
things.
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/tty/vt/selection.c')
-rw-r--r-- | drivers/tty/vt/selection.c | 39 |
1 files changed, 31 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/tty/vt/selection.c b/drivers/tty/vt/selection.c index 2a5091670927..8e9b4be97a2d 100644 --- a/drivers/tty/vt/selection.c +++ b/drivers/tty/vt/selection.c @@ -62,10 +62,14 @@ sel_pos(int n) use_unicode); } -/* remove the current selection highlight, if any, - from the console holding the selection. */ -void -clear_selection(void) { +/** + * clear_selection - remove current selection + * + * Remove the current selection highlight, if any from the console + * holding the selection. The caller must hold the console lock. + */ +void clear_selection(void) +{ highlight_pointer(-1); /* hide the pointer */ if (sel_start != -1) { highlight(sel_start, sel_end); @@ -75,7 +79,7 @@ clear_selection(void) { /* * User settable table: what characters are to be considered alphabetic? - * 256 bits. FIXME: Needs a locking model. + * 256 bits. Locked by the console lock. */ static u32 inwordLut[8]={ 0x00000000, /* control chars */ @@ -92,10 +96,20 @@ static inline int inword(const u16 c) { return c > 0xff || (( inwordLut[c>>5] >> (c & 0x1F) ) & 1); } -/* set inwordLut contents. Invoked by ioctl(). */ +/** + * set loadlut - load the LUT table + * @p: user table + * + * Load the LUT table from user space. The caller must hold the console + * lock. Make a temporary copy so a partial update doesn't make a mess. + */ int sel_loadlut(char __user *p) { - return copy_from_user(inwordLut, (u32 __user *)(p+4), 32) ? -EFAULT : 0; + u32 tmplut[8]; + if (copy_from_user(tmplut, (u32 __user *)(p+4), 32)) + return -EFAULT; + memcpy(inwordLut, tmplut, 32); + return 0; } /* does screen address p correspond to character at LH/RH edge of screen? */ @@ -131,7 +145,16 @@ static int store_utf8(u16 c, char *p) } } -/* set the current selection. Invoked by ioctl() or by kernel code. */ +/** + * set_selection - set the current selection. + * @sel: user selection info + * @tty: the console tty + * + * Invoked by the ioctl handle for the vt layer. + * + * The entire selection process is managed under the console_lock. It's + * a lot under the lock but its hardly a performance path + */ int set_selection(const struct tiocl_selection __user *sel, struct tty_struct *tty) { struct vc_data *vc = vc_cons[fg_console].d; |