[PATCH v3] fbcon: Do not takeover the console from atomic context

[Hans de Goede]

Hi,

On 10-08-18 17:22, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> On Friday, August 10, 2018 01:27:57 PM Hans de Goede wrote:
>> Taking over the console involves allocating mem with GFP_KERNEL, talking
>> to drm drivers, etc. So this should not be done from an atomic context.
>>
>> But the console-output trigger deferred console takeover may happen from an
>> atomic context, which leads to "BUG: sleeping function called from invalid
>> context" errors.
>>
>> This commit fixes these errors by doing the deferred takeover from a
>> workqueue.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede at redhat.com>
> 
> Patch queued for 4.19, thanks.
> 
>> @@ -3607,8 +3620,8 @@ static int fbcon_output_notifier(struct notifier_block *nb,
>>   	deferred_takeover = false;
>>   	logo_shown = FBCON_LOGO_DONTSHOW;
>>   
>> -	for_each_registered_fb(i)
>> -		fbcon_fb_registered(registered_fb[i]);
>> +	/* We may get called in atomic context */
>> +	schedule_work(&fbcon_deferred_takeover_work);
> 
> After above change gcc now complains about unused variable:
> 
> drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbcon.c: In function ‘fbcon_output_notifier’:
> drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbcon.c:3613:6: warning: unused variable ‘i’ [-Wunused-variable]
>    int i;
>        ^
> 
> I fixed this while applying the patch.

Ah yes, thank you for fixing this,

Regards,

Hans