On Wed, Jun 28, 2017 at 5:08 PM, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, 28 Jun 2017 12:36:35 +0200 > Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> There's a bunch of folks who're trying to make printk less >> contended and faster, but there's a problem: printk uses the >> console_lock, and the console lock has become the BKL for all things >> fbdev/fbcon, which in turn pulled in half the drm subsystem under that >> lock. That's awkward. >> > > I applied your patch and compiled it, and got this error while > installing modules: > > DEPMOD 4.12.0-rc5-test+ > depmod: ERROR: Found 11 modules in dependency cycles! > depmod: ERROR: Cycle detected: fbcon -> bitblit -> softcursor -> fb -> fbcon > depmod: ERROR: Cycle detected: softcursor -> fb -> fbcon_rotate -> fbcon_ccw -> softcursor > depmod: ERROR: Cycle detected: fb -> fbcon_rotate -> fbcon_ccw -> fb > depmod: ERROR: Cycle detected: softcursor -> fb -> fbcon_rotate -> fbcon_ccw -> fbcon_ud -> softcursor > depmod: ERROR: Cycle detected: fb -> fbcon_rotate -> fbcon_ccw -> fbcon_ud -> fb > depmod: ERROR: Cycle detected: softcursor -> fb -> fbcon_rotate -> fbcon_ccw -> fbcon_ud -> fbcon_cw -> softcursor > depmod: ERROR: Cycle detected: fb -> fbcon_rotate -> fbcon_ccw -> fbcon_ud -> fbcon_cw -> fb > depmod: ERROR: Cycle detected: fb -> fbcon_rotate -> fbcon_ccw -> fbcon_ud -> fbcon_cw -> fb > depmod: ERROR: Cycle detected: fb -> fbcon_rotate -> fbcon_ccw -> fbcon_ud -> fbcon_cw -> tileblit -> fb > depmod: ERROR: Cycle detected: fbcon -> bitblit -> softcursor -> fb -> fbcon_rotate -> fbcon_ccw -> fbcon_ud -> fbcon_cw -> tileblit -> fbdev > depmod: ERROR: Cycle detected: fb -> fbcon_rotate -> fbcon_ccw -> fbcon_ud -> fbcon_cw -> tileblit -> fb > /work/git/linux-trace.git/Makefile:1251: recipe for target '_modinst_post' failed > > > Config attached. > > Oh, and I changed CONFIG_FB to be a module, which is probably where the > error happened. Yeah I only compile tested all the combos and didn't realize that depmod is only run at install time. I indeed created a depency loop here. I think the simplest solution would be to stuff all the fbcon code into the fb.ko module, I'm trying to figure out whether that can be done without massive code movement. -Daniel -- Daniel Vetter Software Engineer, Intel Corporation +41 (0) 79 365 57 48 - http://blog.ffwll.ch _______________________________________________ dri-devel mailing list dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel
