@console_may_schedule tracks whether console_sem was acquired through
lock or trylock. If the former, we're inside a sleepable context and
console_conditional_schedule() performs cond_resched(). This allows
console drivers which use console_lock for synchronization to yield
while performing time-consuming operations such as scrolling.
However, the actual console outputting is performed while holding
irq-safe logbuf_lock, so console_unlock() clears @console_may_schedule
before starting outputting lines. Also, only a few drivers call
console_conditional_schedule() to begin with. This means that when a
lot of lines need to be output by console_unlock(), for example on a
console registration, the task doing console_unlock() may not yield for
a long time on a non-preemptible kernel.
If this happens with a slow console devices, for example a serial
console, the outputting task may occupy the cpu for a very long time.
Long enough to trigger softlockup and/or RCU stall warnings, which in
turn pile more messages, sometimes enough to trigger the next cycle of
warnings incapacitating the system.
Fix it by making console_unlock() insert cond_resched() between lines if
@console_may_schedule.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reported-by: Calvin Owens <calvinowens@fb.com>
Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.com>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@kernel.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
printk log_buf keeps various metadata for each message including its
sequence number and timestamp. The metadata is currently available only
through /dev/kmsg and stripped out before passed onto console drivers. We
want this metadata to be available to console drivers too so that console
consumers can get full information including the metadata and dictionary,
which among other things can be used to detect whether messages got lost
in transit.
This patch implements support for extended console drivers. Consoles can
indicate that they want extended messages by setting the new CON_EXTENDED
flag and they'll be fed messages formatted the same way as /dev/kmsg.
"<level>,<sequnum>,<timestamp>,<contflag>;<message text>\n"
If extended consoles exist, in-kernel fragment assembly is disabled. This
ensures that all messages emitted to consoles have full metadata including
sequence number. The contflag carries enough information to reassemble
the fragments from the reader side trivially. Note that this only affects
/dev/kmsg. Regular console and /proc/kmsg outputs are not affected by
this change.
* Extended message formatting for console drivers is enabled iff there
are registered extended consoles.
* Comment describing /dev/kmsg message format updated to add missing
contflag field and help distinguishing variable from verbatim terms.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay@vrfy.org>
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.cz>
Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Add match() method to struct console which allows the console to
perform console command line matching instead of (or in addition to)
default console matching (ie., by fixed name and index).
The match() method returns 0 to indicate a successful match; normal
console matching occurs if no match() method is defined or the
match() method returns non-zero. The match() method is expected to set
the console index if required.
Re-implement earlycon-to-console-handoff with direct matching of
"console=uart|uart8250,..." to the 8250 ttyS console.
Acked-by: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Now there is no place use unregister_con_driver,
and we can achieve unregister_con_driver's function
with unregister_con_driver easily, so just delete it
to reduce code size and duplication.
Signed-off-by: Wang YanQing <udknight@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Now there is no place use register_con_driver|take_over_console,
and we can achieve their function with do_register_con_driver|
do_take_over_console easily, so just delete them to reduce code duplication.
Signed-off-by: Wang YanQing <udknight@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
The early console implementations are the same all over the place. Move
the print function to kernel/printk and get rid of the copies.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: arch/mips/kernel/early_printk.c needs kernel.h for va_list]
[paul.gortmaker@windriver.com: sh4: make the bios early console support depend on EARLY_PRINTK]
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Acked-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Cc: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Pull drm merge from Dave Airlie:
"Highlights:
- TI LCD controller KMS driver
- TI OMAP KMS driver merged from staging
- drop gma500 stub driver
- the fbcon locking fixes
- the vgacon dirty like zebra fix.
- open firmware videomode and hdmi common code helpers
- major locking rework for kms object handling - pageflip/cursor
won't block on polling anymore!
- fbcon helper and prime helper cleanups
- i915: all over the map, haswell power well enhancements, valleyview
macro horrors cleaned up, killing lots of legacy GTT code,
- radeon: CS ioctl unification, deprecated UMS support, gpu reset
rework, VM fixes
- nouveau: reworked thermal code, external dp/tmds encoder support
(anx9805), fences sleep instead of polling,
- exynos: all over the driver fixes."
Lovely conflict in radeon/evergreen_cs.c between commit de0babd60d
("drm/radeon: enforce use of radeon_get_ib_value when reading user cmd")
and the new changes that modified that evergreen_dma_cs_parse()
function.
* 'drm-next' of git://people.freedesktop.org/~airlied/linux: (508 commits)
drm/tilcdc: only build on arm
drm/i915: Revert hdmi HDP pin checks
drm/tegra: Add list of framebuffers to debugfs
drm/tegra: Fix color expansion
drm/tegra: Split DC_CMD_STATE_CONTROL register write
drm/tegra: Implement page-flipping support
drm/tegra: Implement VBLANK support
drm/tegra: Implement .mode_set_base()
drm/tegra: Add plane support
drm/tegra: Remove bogus tegra_framebuffer structure
drm: Add consistency check for page-flipping
drm/radeon: Use generic HDMI infoframe helpers
drm/tegra: Use generic HDMI infoframe helpers
drm: Add EDID helper documentation
drm: Add HDMI infoframe helpers
video: Add generic HDMI infoframe helpers
drm: Add some missing forward declarations
drm: Move mode tables to drm_edid.c
drm: Remove duplicate drm_mode_cea_vic()
gma500: Fix n, m1 and m2 clock limits for sdvo and lvds
...
I've still got lockdep warnings even after Alan's patch, and it seems that
yet more band aids are required to paper over similar paths for
unbind_con_driver() and unregister_con_driver(). After this hack, lockdep
warnings are finally gone.
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Florian Tobias Schandinat <FlorianSchandinat@gmx.de>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Tested-by: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
Adjust the console layer to allow a take over call where the caller
already holds the locks. Make the fb layer lock in order.
This is partly a band aid, the fb layer is terminally confused about the
locking rules it uses for its notifiers it seems.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: remove stray non-ascii char, tidy comment]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: export do_take_over_console()]
[airlied: cleanup another non-ascii char]
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Florian Tobias Schandinat <FlorianSchandinat@gmx.de>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Tested-by: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
The option allows you to remove TTY and compile without errors. This
saves space on systems that won't support TTY interfaces anyway.
bloat-o-meter output is below.
The bulk of this patch consists of Kconfig changes adding "depends on
TTY" to various serial devices and similar drivers that require the TTY
layer. Ideally, these dependencies would occur on a common intermediate
symbol such as SERIO, but most drivers "select SERIO" rather than
"depends on SERIO", and "select" does not respect dependencies.
bloat-o-meter output comparing our previous minimal to new minimal by
removing TTY. The list is filtered to not show removed entries with awk
'$3 != "-"' as the list was very long.
add/remove: 0/226 grow/shrink: 2/14 up/down: 6/-35356 (-35350)
function old new delta
chr_dev_init 166 170 +4
allow_signal 80 82 +2
static.__warned 143 142 -1
disallow_signal 63 62 -1
__set_special_pids 95 94 -1
unregister_console 126 121 -5
start_kernel 546 541 -5
register_console 593 588 -5
copy_from_user 45 40 -5
sys_setsid 128 120 -8
sys_vhangup 32 19 -13
do_exit 1543 1526 -17
bitmap_zero 60 40 -20
arch_local_irq_save 137 117 -20
release_task 674 652 -22
static.spin_unlock_irqrestore 308 260 -48
Signed-off-by: Joe Millenbach <jmillenbach@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Jamey Sharp <jamey@minilop.net>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
The con_debug_leave/con_debug_enter functions are stubbed out
by defining them to (0), which causes harmless build warnings.
Using proper inline functions is the normal way to deal with
this.
Without this patch, building the ARM bcm2835_defconfig results in:
drivers/tty/serial/kgdboc.c: In function 'kgdboc_pre_exp_handler':
drivers/tty/serial/kgdboc.c:279:3: warning: statement with no effect [-Wunused-value]
drivers/tty/serial/kgdboc.c: In function 'kgdboc_post_exp_handler':
drivers/tty/serial/kgdboc.c:293:3: warning: statement with no effect [-Wunused-value]
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Anton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov@linaro.org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
module_param(bool) used to counter-intuitively take an int. In
fddd5201 (mid-2009) we allowed bool or int/unsigned int using a messy
trick.
It's time to remove the int/unsigned int option. For this version
it'll simply give a warning, but it'll break next kernel version.
Acked-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
The -rt patches change the console_semaphore to console_mutex. As a
result, a quite large chunk of the patches changes all
acquire/release_console_sem() to acquire/release_console_mutex()
This commit makes things use more neutral function names which dont make
implications about the underlying lock.
The only real change is the return value of console_trylock which is
inverted from try_acquire_console_sem()
This patch also paves the way to switching console_sem from a semaphore to
a mutex.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: make console_trylock return 1 on success, per Geert]
Signed-off-by: Torben Hohn <torbenh@gmx.de>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@tglx.de>
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
tty: add 'active' sysfs attribute to tty0 and console device
Userspace can query the actual virtual console, and the configured
console devices behind /dev/tt0 and /dev/console.
The last entry in the list of devices is the active device, analog
to the console= kernel command line option.
The attribute supports poll(), which is raised when the virtual
console is changed or /dev/console is reconfigured.
Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
index 0000000..b138b66
Move it out of printk.c so that we can use it all over the code. There
are some potential users which will be converted to that macro in next
patches.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
A regression of building without CONFIG_HW_CONSOLE was introduced with
commit b45cfba4e9 (vt,console,kdb:
implement atomic console enter/leave functions).
ERROR: "con_debug_enter" [drivers/serial/kgdboc.ko] undefined!
ERROR: "vc_cons" [drivers/serial/kgdboc.ko] undefined!
ERROR: "fg_console" [drivers/serial/kgdboc.ko] undefined!
ERROR: "con_debug_leave" [drivers/serial/kgdboc.ko] undefined!
When there is no HW console the con_debug_enter and con_debug_leave
functions should have no code.
Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
CC: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
Reported-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
These functions allow the kernel debugger to save and restore the
state of the system console.
Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
CC: David Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>
CC: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
During bootup performance tracing I noticed many occurrences of
vca* device creation and removal, leading to the usual userspace
uevent processing, which are, in this case, rather pointless.
A simple test showing the kernel timing (not including all the
work userspace has to do), gives us these numbers:
$ time for i in `seq 1000`; do echo a > /dev/tty2; done
real 0m1.142s
user 0m0.015s
sys 0m0.540s
If we move the hook for the vcs* driver core devices from the
tty "binding" to the vc allocation/deallocation, which is what
the vcs* devices represent, we get the following numbers:
$ time for i in `seq 1000`; do echo a > /dev/tty2; done
real 0m0.152s
user 0m0.030s
sys 0m0.072s
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Add mode setting support to the DRM layer.
This is a fairly big chunk of work that allows DRM drivers to provide
full output control and configuration capabilities to userspace. It was
motivated by several factors:
- the fb layer's APIs aren't suited for anything but simple
configurations
- coordination between the fb layer, DRM layer, and various userspace
drivers is poor to non-existent (radeonfb excepted)
- user level mode setting drivers makes displaying panic & oops
messages more difficult
- suspend/resume of graphics state is possible in many more
configurations with kernel level support
This commit just adds the core DRM part of the mode setting APIs.
Driver specific commits using these new structure and APIs will follow.
Co-authors: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>, Jakob Bornecrantz <jakob@tungstengraphics.com>
Contributors: Alan Hourihane <alanh@tungstengraphics.com>, Maarten Maathuis <madman2003@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
Signed-off-by: Eric Anholt <eric@anholt.net>
Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
Without console= arguments on the kernel command line, the first
console to register becomes enabled and the preferred console (the one
behind /dev/console). This is normally tty (assuming
CONFIG_VT_CONSOLE is enabled, which it commonly is).
This is okay as long tty is a useful console. But unless we have the
PV framebuffer, and it is enabled for this domain, tty0 in domU is
merely a dummy. In that case, we want the preferred console to be the
Xen console hvc0, and we want it without having to fiddle with the
kernel command line. Commit b8c2d3dfbc
did that for us.
Since we now have the PV framebuffer, we want to enable and prefer tty
again, but only when PVFB is enabled. But even then we still want to
enable the Xen console as well.
Problem: when tty registers, we can't yet know whether the PVFB is
enabled. By the time we can know (xenstore is up), the console setup
game is over.
Solution: enable console tty by default, but keep hvc as the preferred
console. Change the preferred console to tty when PVFB probes
successfully, unless we've been given console kernel parameters.
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
This adds a minimalistic braille screen reader support. This is meant to
be used by blind people e.g. on boot failures or when / cannot be mounted
etc and thus the userland screen readers can not work.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix exports]
Signed-off-by: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jikos@jikos.cz>
Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Currently, there's a CONFIG_DISABLE_CONSOLE_SUSPEND that allows one to stop
the serial console from being suspended when the rest of the machine goes
to sleep. This is incredibly useful for debugging power management-related
things; however, having it as a compile-time option has proved to be
incredibly inconvenient for us (OLPC). There are plenty of times that we
want serial console to not suspend, but for the most part we'd like serial
console to be suspended.
This drops CONFIG_DISABLE_CONSOLE_SUSPEND, and replaces it with a kernel
boot parameter (no_console_suspend). By default, the serial console will
be suspended along with the rest of the system; by passing
'no_console_suspend' to the kernel during boot, serial console will remain
alive during suspend.
For now, this is pretty serial console specific; further fixes could be
applied to make this work for things like netconsole.
Signed-off-by: Andres Salomon <dilinger@debian.org>
Acked-by: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: Nigel Cunningham <nigel@suspend2.net>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Various console drivers are able to resize the screen via the con_resize()
hook. This hook is also visible in userspace via the TIOCWINSZ, VT_RESIZE and
VT_RESIZEX ioctl's. One particular utility, SVGATextMode, expects that
con_resize() of the VGA console will always return success even if the
resulting screen is not compatible with the hardware. However, this
particular behavior of the VGA console, as reported in Kernel Bugzilla Bug
7513, can cause undefined behavior if the user starts with a console size
larger than 80x25.
To work around this problem, add an extra parameter to con_resize(). This
parameter is ignored by drivers except for vgacon. If this parameter is
non-zero, then the resize request came from a VT_RESIZE or VT_RESIZEX ioctl
and vgacon will always return success. If this parameter is zero, vgacon will
return -EINVAL if the requested size is not compatible with the hardware. The
latter is the more correct behavior.
With this change, SVGATextMode should still work correctly while in-kernel and
stty resize calls can expect correct behavior from vgacon.
Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Remove the obviously unnecessary includes of <linux/spinlock.h> under the
include/linux/ directory, and fix the couple errors that are introduced as
a result of that.
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Beacuse SERIAL_PORT_DFNS is removed from include/asm-i386/serial.h and
include/asm-x86_64/serial.h. the serial8250_ports need to be probed late in
serial initializing stage. the console_init=>serial8250_console_init=>
register_console=>serial8250_console_setup will return -ENDEV, and console
ttyS0 can not be enabled at that time. need to wait till uart_add_one_port in
drivers/serial/serial_core.c to call register_console to get console ttyS0.
that is too late.
Make early_uart to use early_param, so uart console can be used earlier. Make
it to be bootconsole with CON_BOOT flag, so can use console handover feature.
and it will switch to corresponding normal serial console automatically.
new command line will be:
console=uart8250,io,0x3f8,9600n8
console=uart8250,mmio,0xff5e0000,115200n8
or
earlycon=uart8250,io,0x3f8,9600n8
earlycon=uart8250,mmio,0xff5e0000,115200n8
it will print in very early stage:
Early serial console at I/O port 0x3f8 (options '9600n8')
console [uart0] enabled
later for console it will print:
console handover: boot [uart0] -> real [ttyS0]
Signed-off-by: <yinghai.lu@sun.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Add color support to the "underline" and "italic" attributes as in
OpenBSD/NetBSD-style (vt220) and xterm.
Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@gmx.de>
Acked-by: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@pol.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
console.name[] is eight chars, but so is "earlyvga". So when we try to print
console->name when using earlyvga it runs off the end of the string.
Make it bigger.
Diagnosed-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Add proper prototypes for two functions in drivers/char/vc_screen.c
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This patch adds proper prototypes to header files for three console init
functions used on drivers/char/vt.c
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Change suspend_console() so that it waits for all consoles to flush the
remaining messages and make it possible to switch the console suspending off
with the help of a Kconfig option.
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: Stefan Seyfried <seife@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
The framebuffer console is now able to dynamically bind and unbind from the VT
console layer. Due to the way the VT console layer works, the drivers
themselves decide when to bind or unbind. However, it was decided that
binding must be controlled, not by the drivers themselves, but by the VT
console layer. With this, dynamic binding is possible for all VT console
drivers, not just fbcon.
Thus, the VT console layer will impose the following to all VT console
drivers:
- all registered VT console drivers will be entered in a private list
- drivers can register themselves to the VT console layer, but they cannot
decide when to bind or unbind. (Exception: To maintain backwards
compatibility, take_over_console() will automatically bind the driver after
registration.)
- drivers can remove themselves from the list by unregistering from the VT
console layer. A prerequisite for unregistration is that the driver must not
be bound.
The following functions are new in the vt.c:
register_con_driver() - public function, this function adds the VT console
driver to an internal list maintained by the VT console
bind_con_driver() - private function, it binds the driver to the console
take_over_console() is changed to call register_con_driver() followed by a
bind_con_driver(). This is the only time drivers can decide when to bind to
the VT layer. This is to maintain backwards compatibility.
unbind_con_driver() - private function, it unbinds the driver from its
console. The vacated consoles will be taken over by the default boot console
driver.
unregister_con_driver() - public function, removes the driver from the
internal list maintained by the VT console. It will only succeed if the
driver is currently unbound.
con_is_bound() checks if the driver is currently bound or not
give_up_console() is just a wrapper to unregister_con_driver().
There are also 3 additional functions meant to be called only by the tty layer
for sysfs control:
vt_bind() - calls bind_con_driver()
vt_unbind() - calls unbind_con_driver()
vt_show_drivers() - shows the list of registered drivers
Most VT console drivers will continue to work as is, but might have problems
when unbinding or binding which should be fixable with minimal changes.
Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Currently printk is no use for early debugging because it refuses to
actually print anything to the console unless
cpu_online(smp_processor_id()) is true.
The stated explanation is that console drivers may require per-cpu
resources, or otherwise barf, because the system is not yet setup
correctly. Fair enough.
However some console drivers might be quite happy running early during
boot, in fact we have one, and so it'd be nice if printk understood that.
So I added a flag (which I would have called CON_BOOT, but that's taken)
called CON_ANYTIME, which indicates that a console is happy to be called
anytime, even if the cpu is not yet online.
Tested on a Power 5 machine, with both a CON_ANYTIME driver and a bogus
console driver that BUG()s if called while offline. No problems AFAICT.
Built for i386 UP & SMP.
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Trying to suspend/resume with console messages flying all around is
doomed to failure, when the devices that the messages are trying to
go to are being shut down.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.
Let it rip!
