Re: Regression: patch " hvc_console: display printk messages on console." causing infinite loop with 3.2-rc0 + Xen.

[Rusty Russell <rusty@ozlabs.org>]

On Thu, 27 Oct 2011 01:30:08 -0400, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> wrote:
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> Hey Miche.
> 
> The git commit 361162459f62dc0826b82c9690a741a940f457f0:
> 
>     hvc_console: display printk messages on console.
> 
> is causing an infinite loop when booting Linux under Xen, as so:

lguest too.

This is not a concurrency problem: the issue seems to be that calling
register_console() twice on the same struct console is a bad idea.

Simple fix which works here (might be completely wrong):

diff --git a/drivers/tty/hvc/hvc_console.c b/drivers/tty/hvc/hvc_console.c
--- a/drivers/tty/hvc/hvc_console.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/hvc/hvc_console.c
@@ -197,6 +197,8 @@ static int __init hvc_console_setup(stru
 	return 0;
 }
 
+static bool console_registered = false;
+
 static struct console hvc_console = {
 	.name		= "hvc",
 	.write		= hvc_console_print,
@@ -224,6 +226,7 @@ static struct console hvc_console = {
 static int __init hvc_console_init(void)
 {
 	register_console(&hvc_console);
+	console_registered = true;
 	return 0;
 }
 console_initcall(hvc_console_init);
@@ -279,8 +282,10 @@ int hvc_instantiate(uint32_t vtermno, in
 	 * now (setup won't fail at this point).  It's ok to just
 	 * call register again if previously .setup failed.
 	 */
-	if (index == hvc_console.index)
+	if (index == hvc_console.index && !console_registered) {
 		register_console(&hvc_console);
+		console_registered = true;
+	}
 
 	return 0;
 }
@@ -868,7 +873,10 @@ struct hvc_struct *hvc_alloc(uint32_t vt
 
 	list_add_tail(&(hp->next), &hvc_structs);
 	spin_unlock(&hvc_structs_lock);
-	register_console(&hvc_console);
+	if (!console_registered) {
+		register_console(&hvc_console);
+		console_registered = true;
+	}
 
 	return hp;
 }
@@ -880,6 +888,7 @@ int hvc_remove(struct hvc_struct *hp)
 	struct tty_struct *tty;
 
 	unregister_console(&hvc_console);
+	console_registered = false;
 	spin_lock_irqsave(&hp->lock, flags);
 	tty = tty_kref_get(hp->tty);