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From: "Bruno Prémont" <bonbons@linux-vserver.org>
To: Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch>
Cc: dri-devel <dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org>,
	kexec@lists.infradead.org, Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
	Markus Trippelsdorf <markus@trippelsdorf.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] kexec: get rid of late printk
Date: Sun, 8 Sep 2013 22:42:49 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130908224249.61a866ed@neptune.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKMK7uHa+uNAW-d=Tj5d27dkCqhZ0EJqyPThW3tK13bnVTbzjw@mail.gmail.com>

On Sun, 08 September 2013 Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch> wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 8, 2013 at 2:10 PM, Markus Trippelsdorf
> <markus@trippelsdorf.de> wrote:
> > kexec calls:
> >  printk(KERN_EMERG "Starting new kernel\n");
> > late before calling machine_shutdown().
> > However at this point the underlying fb device may have already been
> > shutdown. This causes the kernel to hang.
> > Fix by simply getting rid of the printk call.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Markus Trippelsdorf <markus@trippelsdorf.de>
> 
> Shouldn't this be taken care of with the suspend/resume_console calls?
> At least that's my understanding how it works in the suspend/hibernate
> code, maybe kexec needs similar treatment ...

Is it suspend/resume_console? Shouldn't the fbcon be short-circuited
or disabled once there is no more underlying fb?
Serial console, if present, as well as netconsole if network device
is still alive should continue working I would say.

Bruno

> -Daniel

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  reply	other threads:[~2013-09-08 20:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-09-08 12:09 [PATCH 0/3] drm/radeon kexec fixes Markus Trippelsdorf
2013-09-08 12:10 ` [PATCH 1/3] kexec: get rid of late printk Markus Trippelsdorf
2013-09-08 20:11   ` Daniel Vetter
2013-09-08 20:42     ` Bruno Prémont [this message]
2013-09-08 12:10 ` [PATCH 2/3] drm/radeon: Implement radeon_pci_shutdown Markus Trippelsdorf
2013-09-09 13:32   ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2013-09-08 12:11 ` [PATCH 3/3] drm/radeon: get rid of r100_restore_sanity hack Markus Trippelsdorf
2013-09-09  0:32 ` [PATCH 0/3] drm/radeon kexec fixes Eric W. Biederman
2013-09-09  9:21   ` Markus Trippelsdorf
2013-09-09  9:38     ` Christian König
2013-09-11  9:01       ` Markus Trippelsdorf
2013-09-11  9:10         ` Christian König
2013-09-11 13:30         ` Alex Deucher
2013-09-09 13:04     ` Alex Deucher
2013-09-10 18:27       ` Eric W. Biederman
2013-09-10 20:40         ` Alex Deucher
2013-09-11  8:53           ` Markus Trippelsdorf
2013-09-11  9:21             ` Christian König
2013-09-11 13:40             ` Alex Deucher

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