[RFC PATCH] drm/fb: drop panic handling

[Daniel Vetter]

On Thu, Jul 09, 2015 at 11:14:43PM +0200, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 09, 2015 at 01:15:34PM +1000, Dave Airlie wrote:
> > From: Dave Airlie <airlied at redhat.com>
> > 
> > This really doesn't seem to have much chance of working anymore,
> > 
> > esp for irq context, qxl at least tries to talk to the hw,
> > and waits for irqs, and fails.
> > 
> > with runtime pm and other stuff I think we should just
> > bail on this for now.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied at redhat.com>
> 
> Yeah concurred that this has become hopeless. Also this would allow us to
> drop an pretension in i915 to still support this which means we can stop
> checking drm_can_sleep in our wait_for macros. Which has papered over some
> pretty serious bugs.
> 
> Reviewed-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter at ffwll.ch>

Well I applied this to drm-misc.

> There's one more though, we can get into the fbdev callbacks through a
> pretty impressive chain:
> 
> panic() -> bust_spinlock() -> console_unblank() -> pass the trylock ->
> 	c->unblank() -> unblank_screen() (now in vt/vt.c) ->
> 		vc_sw->con_blank() -> fbcon_blank()
> 
> To make this really complete I think we also need to sprinkle
> 
> 	if (oops_in_progress)
> 		return;
> 
> over all the fbdev entry points we have in drm_fbdev_helper.c plus all the
> ones in drivers which have their own (qxl, udl, i915 are the ones I know
> of).

I'll do a patch for this. Just realized that we have some cargo-culted
checks already, but they don't work everywhere so mostly about unifying
everything.
-Daniel

> 
> Cheers, Daniel
> 
> > ---
> >  drivers/gpu/drm/drm_fb_helper.c | 26 --------------------------
> >  1 file changed, 26 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_fb_helper.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_fb_helper.c
> > index cac4229..eaf652b 100644
> > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_fb_helper.c
> > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_fb_helper.c
> > @@ -429,24 +429,6 @@ static bool drm_fb_helper_force_kernel_mode(void)
> >  	return error;
> >  }
> >  
> > -static int drm_fb_helper_panic(struct notifier_block *n, unsigned long ununsed,
> > -			void *panic_str)
> > -{
> > -	/*
> > -	 * It's a waste of time and effort to switch back to text console
> > -	 * if the kernel should reboot before panic messages can be seen.
> > -	 */
> > -	if (panic_timeout < 0)
> > -		return 0;
> > -
> > -	pr_err("panic occurred, switching back to text console\n");
> > -	return drm_fb_helper_force_kernel_mode();
> > -}
> > -
> > -static struct notifier_block paniced = {
> > -	.notifier_call = drm_fb_helper_panic,
> > -};
> > -
> >  static bool drm_fb_helper_is_bound(struct drm_fb_helper *fb_helper)
> >  {
> >  	struct drm_device *dev = fb_helper->dev;
> > @@ -672,9 +654,6 @@ void drm_fb_helper_fini(struct drm_fb_helper *fb_helper)
> >  	if (!list_empty(&fb_helper->kernel_fb_list)) {
> >  		list_del(&fb_helper->kernel_fb_list);
> >  		if (list_empty(&kernel_fb_helper_list)) {
> > -			pr_info("drm: unregistered panic notifier\n");
> > -			atomic_notifier_chain_unregister(&panic_notifier_list,
> > -							 &paniced);
> >  			unregister_sysrq_key('v', &sysrq_drm_fb_helper_restore_op);
> >  		}
> >  	}
> > @@ -1109,12 +1088,7 @@ static int drm_fb_helper_single_fb_probe(struct drm_fb_helper *fb_helper,
> >  	dev_info(fb_helper->dev->dev, "fb%d: %s frame buffer device\n",
> >  			info->node, info->fix.id);
> >  
> > -	/* Switch back to kernel console on panic */
> > -	/* multi card linked list maybe */
> >  	if (list_empty(&kernel_fb_helper_list)) {
> > -		dev_info(fb_helper->dev->dev, "registered panic notifier\n");
> > -		atomic_notifier_chain_register(&panic_notifier_list,
> > -					       &paniced);
> >  		register_sysrq_key('v', &sysrq_drm_fb_helper_restore_op);
> >  	}
> >  
> > -- 
> > 2.4.3
> > 
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> -- 
> Daniel Vetter
> Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
> http://blog.ffwll.ch

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Daniel Vetter
Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
http://blog.ffwll.ch