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* [PATCH] printk: Ensure oops printing if console is locked
@ 2012-06-13  9:14 Aurelien Gerault
  2012-06-13 14:11 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: Aurelien Gerault @ 2012-06-13  9:14 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-kernel, Greg Kroah-Hartman; +Cc: Aurelien Gerault

From: Aurelien Gerault <aurelien.gerault-nonst@stericsson.com>

Ensuring that oops & panic messages/backtraces will be printed
in console, even when the console is locked.

If console is locked by someone else but an oops is ongoing, force
unlocking / re-locking to display the oops.

Signed-off-by: Aurelien Gerault <aurelien.gerault-nonst@stericsson.com>
ST-Ericsson Linux next: NA
ST-Ericsson ID: 436456
ST-Ericsson FOSS-OUT ID: Trivial

Change-Id: I9f571492fefc32291ecd0cc62f0ad7031cab7c6d
---
 kernel/printk.c |    5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/kernel/printk.c b/kernel/printk.c
index 6d24237..be2a625 100644
--- a/kernel/printk.c
+++ b/kernel/printk.c
@@ -1014,6 +1014,11 @@ asmlinkage int vprintk(const char *fmt, va_list args)
 	 */
 	if (console_trylock_for_printk(this_cpu))
 		console_unlock();
+	else if (oops_in_progress) {
+		/* force releasing / acquiring console lock to print oops */
+		console_unlock();
+		console_lock();
+	}
 
 	lockdep_on();
 out_restore_irqs:
-- 
1.7.10


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* [PATCH] printk: Ensure oops printing if console is locked
@ 2012-06-13 14:51 Aurelien Gerault
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Aurelien Gerault @ 2012-06-13 14:51 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-kernel, Greg Kroah-Hartman; +Cc: Aurelien Gerault

From: Aurelien Gerault <aurelien.gerault-nonst@stericsson.com>

Ensuring that oops & panic messages/backtraces will be printed
in console, even when the console is locked.

If console is locked by someone else but an oops is ongoing, force
unlocking / re-locking to display the oops.

Signed-off-by: Aurelien Gerault <aurelien.gerault-nonst@stericsson.com>
---
 kernel/printk.c |    5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/kernel/printk.c b/kernel/printk.c
index 6d24237..be2a625 100644
--- a/kernel/printk.c
+++ b/kernel/printk.c
@@ -1014,6 +1014,11 @@ asmlinkage int vprintk(const char *fmt, va_list args)
 	 */
 	if (console_trylock_for_printk(this_cpu))
 		console_unlock();
+	else if (oops_in_progress) {
+		/* force releasing / acquiring console lock to print oops */
+		console_unlock();
+		console_lock();
+	}
 
 	lockdep_on();
 out_restore_irqs:
-- 
1.7.10


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