Question about TTY_DO_WRITE_WAKEUP

From: Thomas Pfaff
Date: Thu Nov 20 2008 - 05:17:07 EST


I have written a program that reads and writes data to the serial uart using
async io.
Unfortunately it does not work properly because a SIGIO is never gerated when
output becomes possible, the reason is that TTY_DO_WRITE_WAKEUP is not set for
most of the tty drivers. After i set the bit in serial_core.c the program works
as expected.
Now i wonder why TTY_DO_WRITE_WAKEUP is almost always disabled ?

Below is a test case.

Thank you in advance,

Thomas

#include <stdlib.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <signal.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <sys/fcntl.h>
#include <termios.h>
#include <errno.h>

static const char outbuf [] = "01234567890abcdef\n";

static void sigio_handler (int sig __attribute__((unused)))
{
}

static int sigact (int sig, void (*handler)(int))
{
struct sigaction sa;

memset (&sa, 0, sizeof (sa));

sa.sa_flags = SA_NOCLDWAIT | SA_NOCLDSTOP;
sigfillset (&sa.sa_mask);
sa.sa_handler = handler;

return sigaction (sig, &sa, NULL);
}

static int uart_set_termio (int fd)
{
struct termios term;

if (tcgetattr (fd, &term) == -1)
return -1;

term.c_cflag = B19200 | CS8 | CREAD | CLOCAL;
term.c_iflag = IGNPAR;
term.c_oflag = 0;
term.c_lflag = 0;

term.c_cc [VTIME] = 0;
term.c_cc [VMIN] = 0;

return tcsetattr (fd, TCSAFLUSH, &term);
}

static int uart_fd_init (int fd)
{
if (fcntl (fd, F_SETSIG, 0) == -1 ||
fcntl (fd, F_SETOWN, getpid ()) == -1)
return -1;

return fcntl (fd, F_SETFL, fcntl (fd, F_GETFL) | O_ASYNC | O_NONBLOCK);
}

static int uart_sig_init (void)
{
sigset_t sigset;

if (sigact (SIGIO, sigio_handler) == -1)
return -1;

if (sigemptyset (&sigset) == -1 ||
sigaddset (&sigset, SIGIO) == -1)
return -1;

return sigprocmask (SIG_BLOCK, &sigset, NULL);
}

int main (int argc, char *argv [])
{
int uart_fd;
sigset_t sigmask;
const int outbuflen = strlen (outbuf);
const char *dev = "/dev/ttyS0";

if (argc > 1)
dev = argv [1];

if (uart_sig_init () == -1)
return EXIT_FAILURE;

uart_fd = open (dev, O_RDWR | O_NOCTTY | O_NONBLOCK);
if (uart_fd == -1)
return EXIT_FAILURE;

if (uart_set_termio (uart_fd) == -1 ||
uart_fd_init (uart_fd) == -1)
return EXIT_FAILURE;

if (sigprocmask (SIG_SETMASK, NULL, &sigmask) == -1 ||
sigdelset (&sigmask, SIGIO) == -1)
return EXIT_FAILURE;

while (1)
{
int written;
int towrite = outbuflen;
const char *buf = outbuf;

while (towrite)
{
written = write (uart_fd, buf, towrite);
if (written == -1)
{
if (errno == EAGAIN)
{
sigsuspend (&sigmask);
continue;
}
else
return EXIT_FAILURE;
}

buf += written;
towrite -= written;
}
}

return EXIT_SUCCESS;
}
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