Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 13 Jan 2013 01:02:42 +0100 | From | Borislav Petkov <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] fb: Rework locking to fix lock ordering on takeover |
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On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 01:13:23PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > Florian has been taking a month or two's downtime (now expired, I > think) so I've been waiting for him to reappear to process this one for > 3.8. > > Meanwhile, I guess we could put it into mainline ;) It has been in > -next for a month. > > From: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com> > Subject: 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()] > Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com> > Cc: Florian Tobias Schandinat <FlorianSchandinat@gmx.de> > Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> > Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Yes, that's the one, modulo Andrew's fixes, which I've been running. Irregardless, I'll run this one tomorrow just in case, because it triggers here so easily.
Thanks.
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