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authorAlan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>2013-01-25 10:28:15 +1000
committerDave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>2013-02-08 12:02:40 +1000
commit50e244cc793d511b86adea24972f3a7264cae114 (patch)
treede59e5f228a256ad09521524639e1b5b6e49b8cc /include/linux/console.h
parent84b603abd23300df8ee5fb1c23c83634c2aaedea (diff)
fb: rework locking to fix lock ordering on takeover
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>
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diff --git a/include/linux/console.h b/include/linux/console.h
index dedb082fe50f..4ef4307dfb82 100644
--- a/include/linux/console.h
+++ b/include/linux/console.h
@@ -78,6 +78,7 @@ int con_is_bound(const struct consw *csw);
int register_con_driver(const struct consw *csw, int first, int last);
int unregister_con_driver(const struct consw *csw);
int take_over_console(const struct consw *sw, int first, int last, int deflt);
+int do_take_over_console(const struct consw *sw, int first, int last, int deflt);
void give_up_console(const struct consw *sw);
#ifdef CONFIG_HW_CONSOLE
int con_debug_enter(struct vc_data *vc);