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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Petr Vandrovec <vandrove@vc.cvut.cz>
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Subject: Re: strange delays on console logouts (tty != 1)
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Petr Vandrovec <vandrove@vc.cvut.cz> wrote:
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> (2) tty hangup is scheduled for work_queue.

This is the problem, isn't it?

>>From what context is tty_hangup() invoked?  (stick a dump_stack() in there>?)

If possible, we should simply call do_tty_hangup() synchronously and only
do the schedule_work() thing when the hangup is initiated from the hardware
side.