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From: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
To: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH printk v2 4/5] printk: Add per-console suspended state
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2023 17:53:09 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZLAd5cRNmOv-_1vW@alley> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230710134524.25232-5-john.ogness@linutronix.de>

On Mon 2023-07-10 15:51:23, John Ogness wrote:
> Currently the global @console_suspended is used to determine if
> consoles are in a suspended state. Its primary purpose is to allow
> usage of the console_lock when suspended without causing console
> printing. It is synchronized by the console_lock.
> 
> Rather than relying on the console_lock to determine suspended
> state, make it an official per-console state that is set within
> console->flags. This allows the state to be queried via SRCU.
> 
> Remove @console_suspended. Console printing will still be avoided
> when suspended because console_is_usable() returns false when
> the new suspended flag is set for that console.
> 
> Signed-off-by: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>

Looks good to me:

Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>

I have double checked the history. suspend_console() was added
into v2.6.18-rc1 by the commit ("Add support for suspending and
resuming the whole console subsystem").

The above commit added "secondary_console_sem". It was taken
by acquire_console_sem() instead of the normal "console_sem"
when "console_suspended" was set. It means that the normal
"console_sem" really was not taken.

The "secondary_console_sem" was removed in v2.6.29-rc6 by the commit
("PM: Fix suspend_console and resume_console to use only one
semaphore"). It solved races between code taking "console_sem"
and code "secondary_console_sem". This commit kept the handling of
"console_locked". It was not set when console_suspended was set
even though "console_sem" was actually taken.

IMHO, it was a bug in the commit removing "secondary_console_sem".
But it probably never caused any issues.

Anyway, this patch makes "console_locked" handling sane. And if some
tty code relies on the insane logic then it should get fixed.

Best Regards,
Petr

  parent reply	other threads:[~2023-07-13 15:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-07-10 13:45 [PATCH printk v2 0/5] various cleanups John Ogness
2023-07-10 13:45 ` [PATCH printk v2 1/5] kdb: do not assume write() callback available John Ogness
2023-07-11  0:25   ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2023-07-11  8:23   ` Daniel Thompson
2023-07-11  8:58     ` John Ogness
2023-07-11  9:01       ` Daniel Thompson
2023-07-10 13:45 ` [PATCH printk v2 2/5] printk: Add NMI safety to console_flush_on_panic() and console_unblank() John Ogness
2023-07-11 15:43   ` Petr Mladek
2023-07-11 16:07     ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2023-07-12 21:11     ` John Ogness
2023-07-13 14:43       ` Petr Mladek
2023-07-14  4:00         ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2023-07-14  9:41           ` Petr Mladek
2023-07-10 13:45 ` [PATCH printk v2 3/5] printk: Consolidate console deferred printing John Ogness
2023-07-11 15:17   ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2023-07-13 14:51   ` Petr Mladek
2023-07-10 13:45 ` [PATCH printk v2 4/5] printk: Add per-console suspended state John Ogness
2023-07-11 15:08   ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2023-07-11 15:23     ` John Ogness
2023-07-11 15:26       ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2023-07-11 15:30   ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2023-07-13 15:53   ` Petr Mladek [this message]
2023-07-10 13:45 ` [PATCH printk v2 5/5] printk: Rename abandon_console_lock_in_panic() to other_cpu_in_panic() John Ogness
2023-07-11  0:22   ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2023-07-13 15:55   ` Petr Mladek

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