On Monday, August 06, 2018 05:54:16 PM Hans de Goede wrote:
> Taking over the console involves allocating mem with GFP_KERNEL, talking
> to drm drivers, etc. So this should not be done from an atomic context.
>
> But the console-output trigger deferred console takeover may happen from an
> atomic context, which leads to "BUG: sleeping function called from invalid
> context" errors.
>
> This commit fixes these errors by doing the deferred takeover from a
> workqueue when the notifier runs from an atomic context.
>
> Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@xxxxxxxxxx>
checkpatch.pl complains about in_atomic use:
ERROR: do not use in_atomic in drivers
#51: FILE: drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbcon.c:3623:
+ if (in_atomic() || irqs_disabled()) {
please also see the comment in preempt.h:
/*
* Are we running in atomic context? WARNING: this macro cannot
* always detect atomic context; in particular, it cannot know about
* held spinlocks in non-preemptible kernels. Thus it should not be
* used in the general case to determine whether sleeping is possible.
* Do not use in_atomic() in driver code.
*/
#define in_atomic() (preempt_count() != 0)
Therefore please explain why it is fine to use in_atomic in fbcon's case.
> ---
> drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbcon.c | 21 +++++++++++++++++++--
> 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbcon.c b/drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbcon.c
> index ef8b2d0b7071..4e5997d53fc4 100644
> --- a/drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbcon.c
> +++ b/drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbcon.c
> @@ -3592,7 +3592,20 @@ static int fbcon_init_device(void)
> }
>
> #ifdef CONFIG_FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE_DEFERRED_TAKEOVER
> +static void fbcon_register_existing_fbs(struct work_struct *work)
> +{
> + int i;
> +
> + console_lock();
> +
> + for_each_registered_fb(i)
> + fbcon_fb_registered(registered_fb[i]);
> +
> + console_unlock();
> +}
> +
> static struct notifier_block fbcon_output_nb;
> +static DECLARE_WORK(fbcon_deferred_takeover_work, fbcon_register_existing_fbs);
>
> static int fbcon_output_notifier(struct notifier_block *nb,
> unsigned long action, void *data)
> @@ -3607,8 +3620,12 @@ static int fbcon_output_notifier(struct notifier_block *nb,
> deferred_takeover = false;
> logo_shown = FBCON_LOGO_DONTSHOW;
>
> - for_each_registered_fb(i)
> - fbcon_fb_registered(registered_fb[i]);
> + if (in_atomic() || irqs_disabled()) {
> + schedule_work(&fbcon_deferred_takeover_work);
> + } else {
> + for_each_registered_fb(i)
> + fbcon_fb_registered(registered_fb[i]);
> + }
>
> return NOTIFY_OK;
> }
Best regards,
--
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
Samsung R&D Institute Poland
Samsung Electronics
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