[PATCH v2] console: Replace #if 1 with a bool to ignore

Steven Rostedt
2018-07-12T13:29:43Z

From: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>

There's been discussion on the fb list about the addition of
WARN_CONSOLE_UNLOCKED() inside the fb code. The complaint is that when
the fb module is loaded with lockless_register_fb the console lock is
not taken for debugging reasons. With the addition of
WARN_CONSOLE_UNLOCK() within the fb code, this causes the console to
fill up with warnings when trying to debug the fb driver.

There's also a #if 1 that enables the warning which was added before
git history, and we look down on constant #if's in the kernel nowadays
anyway.

Remove the #if 1 and add a ignore_console_lock_warning boolean that can
be set by drivers to ignore the warning in order to do debugging.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/717e6337-e7a6-7a92-1c1b-8929a25696b5@suse.de
Reviewed-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
---
Changes since V1:
- Added comment to describe ignore_console_unlock_waring variable
- Abide by 80 character limit

Index: linux-trace.git/include/linux/console.h
===================================================================
--- linux-trace.git.orig/include/linux/console.h
+++ linux-trace.git/include/linux/console.h
@@ -200,11 +200,14 @@ void vcs_make_sysfs(int index);
void vcs_remove_sysfs(int index);

/* Some debug stub to catch some of the obvious races in the VT code */
-#if 1
-#define WARN_CONSOLE_UNLOCKED() WARN_ON(!is_console_locked() && !oops_in_progress)
-#else
-#define WARN_CONSOLE_UNLOCKED()
-#endif
+#define WARN_CONSOLE_UNLOCKED() \
+ WARN_ON(!ignore_console_lock_warning && \
+ !is_console_locked() && !oops_in_progress)
+/*
+ * Set ignore_console_lock_warning to true if you need to quiet
+ * WARN_CONSOLE_UNLOCKED() for debugging purposes.
+ */
+extern bool ignore_console_lock_warning;

/* VESA Blanking Levels */
#define VESA_NO_BLANKING 0
Index: linux-trace.git/kernel/printk/printk.c
===================================================================
--- linux-trace.git.orig/kernel/printk/printk.c
+++ linux-trace.git/kernel/printk/printk.c
@@ -66,6 +66,9 @@ int console_printk[4] = {
CONSOLE_LOGLEVEL_DEFAULT, /* default_console_loglevel */
};

+bool ignore_console_lock_warning __read_mostly;
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(ignore_console_lock_warning);
+
/*
* Low level drivers may need that to know if they can schedule in
* their unblank() callback or not. So let's export it.