linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH printk v2 12/38] tty: serial: kgdboc: use console_is

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Date:   Mon, 24 Oct 2022 15:46:12 -0700
From:   Doug Anderson <dianders@...omium.org>
To:     John Ogness <john.ogness@...utronix.de>
Cc:     Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>,
        Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@...omium.org>,
        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@...driver.com>,
        Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@...aro.org>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...nel.org>,
        kgdb-bugreport@...ts.sourceforge.net, linux-serial@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH printk v2 12/38] tty: serial: kgdboc: use console_is_enabled()

Hi,

On Wed, Oct 19, 2022 at 7:56 AM John Ogness <john.ogness@...utronix.de> wrote:
>
> Replace (console->flags & CON_ENABLED) usage with console_is_enabled().
>
> Signed-off-by: John Ogness <john.ogness@...utronix.de>
> ---
>  drivers/tty/serial/kgdboc.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/kgdboc.c b/drivers/tty/serial/kgdboc.c
> index e76f0186c335..b17aa7e49894 100644
> --- a/drivers/tty/serial/kgdboc.c
> +++ b/drivers/tty/serial/kgdboc.c
> @@ -533,7 +533,7 @@ static int __init kgdboc_earlycon_init(char *opt)
>         console_lock();
>         for_each_console(con) {
>                 if (con->write && con->read &&
> -                   (con->flags & (CON_BOOT | CON_ENABLED)) &&
> +                   (console_is_enabled(con) || (con->flags & CON_BOOT)) &&

<shrug>. I guess this is OK, but it feels a little pointless. If we're
still directly looking at the CON_BOOT bit in con->flags it seems
weird to be accessing CON_ENABLED through a special wrapper that's
marked as a `data_race`. In our case it's _not_ a data race, right,
since this function continues to hold the console_lock() even at the
end of the series? I personally would drop this patch but if you
really want it I won't object.

-Doug