Re: [PATCH] fbcon: Make fbcon a built-time depency for fbdev

[Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>]

On Wed, Jun 28, 2017 at 5:08 PM, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Jun 2017 12:36:35 +0200
> Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch> 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
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