linux-kernel - Re: [git pull] fbcon locking fixes.

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Date:	Mon, 28 Jan 2013 13:45:52 +0100
From:	Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@...onical.com>
To:	Dave Airlie <airlied@...il.com>
CC:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	m.b.lankhorst@...il.com,
	"linux-fbdev@...r.kernel.org" <linux-fbdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	DRI mailing list <dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [git pull] fbcon locking fixes.

Hey,

Op 25-01-13 02:45, Dave Airlie schreef:
> On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 11:06 AM, Dave Airlie <airlied@...il.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 10:53 AM, Linus Torvalds
>> <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
>>> On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 4:42 PM, Dave Airlie <airlied@...ux.ie> wrote:
>>>> These patches have been sailing around long enough, waiting for a maintainer
>>>> to reappear, so I've decided enough is enough, lockdep is kinda useful to have.
>>> Last this was tried, these patches failed miserably.
>>>
>>> They caused instant lockdep splat and then a total lockup with efifb.
>>> It may be that Takashi's patch helps fix that problem, but it's in no
>>> way clear that it does, so the patch series isn't at all obviously
>>> stable.
>>>
>>> Yes, lockdep is indeed "kinda useful", and there clearly are locking
>>> problems in fbdev. But I'm not seeing myself pulling these for 3.8.
>>> They've been too problematic to pull in at this late stage.
>>>
>> Okay I'll fix the efifb problem and then maybe queue them for -next.
> Okay I've just sent out another fbcon patch to fix the locking harder.
>
> There was a path going into set_con2fb_path if an fb driver was
> already registered, I just pushed the locking out further on anyone
> going in there.
>
> it boots on my EFI macbook here.
>
I cherry picked those patches to my tree, and the full series no longer triggers a lockdep warning.
It also no longer locks up during modprobing or vga-switcheroo either.

Tested-by: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@...onical.com>

~Maarten
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