[merged] vgacon-prevent-vgacon_deinit-from-touching-the-hardware-for-inactive-consoles.patch removed from -mm tree

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The patch titled
     vgacon: prevent vgacon_deinit from touching the hardware for inactive consoles.
has been removed from the -mm tree.  Its filename was
     vgacon-prevent-vgacon_deinit-from-touching-the-hardware-for-inactive-consoles.patch

This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree

The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/

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Subject: vgacon: prevent vgacon_deinit from touching the hardware for inactive consoles.
From: Francisco Jerez <currojerez@xxxxxxxxxx>

fbcon makes the (reasonable) assumption that it only needs to program the
hardware once, when fbcon_init() is called for the foreground console.

This doesn't always play well with vgacon because vgacon_deinit() is only
doing its job when the last console it owns is closed (when switching from
vgacon to fbcon, that's usually *after* fbcon_init() has set the new
mode).

Depending on the hardware this can cause the wrong framebuffer location to
be scanned out (e.g.  reproduced on nv05 with the nouveau framebuffer
driver).

Signed-off-by: Francisco Jerez <currojerez@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Krzysztof Helt <krzysztof.h1@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---

 drivers/video/console/vgacon.c |    8 +++++---
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff -puN drivers/video/console/vgacon.c~vgacon-prevent-vgacon_deinit-from-touching-the-hardware-for-inactive-consoles drivers/video/console/vgacon.c
--- a/drivers/video/console/vgacon.c~vgacon-prevent-vgacon_deinit-from-touching-the-hardware-for-inactive-consoles
+++ a/drivers/video/console/vgacon.c
@@ -589,12 +589,14 @@ static void vgacon_init(struct vc_data *
 
 static void vgacon_deinit(struct vc_data *c)
 {
-	/* When closing the last console, reset video origin */
-	if (!--vgacon_uni_pagedir[1]) {
+	/* When closing the active console, reset video origin */
+	if (CON_IS_VISIBLE(c)) {
 		c->vc_visible_origin = vga_vram_base;
 		vga_set_mem_top(c);
-		con_free_unimap(c);
 	}
+
+	if (!--vgacon_uni_pagedir[1])
+		con_free_unimap(c);
 	c->vc_uni_pagedir_loc = &c->vc_uni_pagedir;
 	con_set_default_unimap(c);
 }
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from currojerez@xxxxxxxxxx are

origin.patch

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