[PATCH] remove active field from tty buffer structure

Remove 'active' field from tty buffer structure. This was added in 2.6.16
as part of a patch to make the new tty buffering SMP safe. This field is
unnecessary with the more intelligently written flush_to_ldisc that adds
receive_room handling.

Removing this field reverts to simpler logic where the tail buffer is
always the 'active' buffer, which should not be freed by flush_to_ldisc.
(active == buffer being filled with new data)

The result is simpler, smaller, and faster tty buffer code.

Signed-off-by: Paul Fulghum <[e-mail]>
Cc: Alan Cox <[e-mail]>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <[e-mail]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[e-mail]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[e-mail]>

drivers/char/tty_io.c

···
 	p->used = 0;
 	p->size = size;
 	p->next = NULL;
-	p->active = 0;
 	p->commit = 0;
 	p->read = 0;
 	p->char_buf_ptr = (char *)(p->data);
···
 	/* OPTIMISATION: We could keep a per tty "zero" sized buffer to
 	   remove this conditional if its worth it. This would be invisible
 	   to the callers */
-	if ((b = tty->buf.tail) != NULL) {
+	if ((b = tty->buf.tail) != NULL)
 		left = b->size - b->used;
-		b->active = 1;
-	} else
+	else
 		left = 0;
 
 	if (left < size) {
···
 		if ((n = tty_buffer_find(tty, size)) != NULL) {
 			if (b != NULL) {
 				b->next = n;
-				b->active = 0;
 				b->commit = b->used;
 			} else
 				tty->buf.head = n;
 			tty->buf.tail = n;
-			n->active = 1;
 		} else
 			size = left;
 	}
···
 {
 	unsigned long flags;
 	spin_lock_irqsave(&tty->buf.lock, flags);
-	if (tty->buf.tail != NULL) {
-		tty->buf.tail->active = 0;
+	if (tty->buf.tail != NULL)
 		tty->buf.tail->commit = tty->buf.tail->used;
-	}
 	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&tty->buf.lock, flags);
 	schedule_delayed_work(&tty->buf.work, 1);
 }
···
 {
 	unsigned long flags;
 	spin_lock_irqsave(&tty->buf.lock, flags);
-	if (tty->buf.tail != NULL) {
-		tty->buf.tail->active = 0;
+	if (tty->buf.tail != NULL)
 		tty->buf.tail->commit = tty->buf.tail->used;
-	}
 	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&tty->buf.lock, flags);
 
 	if (tty->low_latency)

include/linux/kbd_kern.h

···
 {
 	unsigned long flags;
 	spin_lock_irqsave(&t->buf.lock, flags);
-	if (t->buf.tail != NULL) {
-		t->buf.tail->active = 0;
+	if (t->buf.tail != NULL)
 		t->buf.tail->commit = t->buf.tail->used;
-	}
 	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&t->buf.lock, flags);
 	schedule_work(&t->buf.work);
 }

include/linux/tty.h

···
 	unsigned char *flag_buf_ptr;
 	int used;
 	int size;
-	int active;
 	int commit;
 	int read;
 	/* Data points here */

include/linux/tty_flip.h

···
 					unsigned char ch, char flag)
 {
 	struct tty_buffer *tb = tty->buf.tail;
-	if (tb && tb->active && tb->used < tb->size) {
+	if (tb && tb->used < tb->size) {
 		tb->flag_buf_ptr[tb->used] = flag;
 		tb->char_buf_ptr[tb->used++] = ch;
 		return 1;