drm/fb-helper: don't sleep for screen unblank when an oops is in progress
authorDaniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Fri, 13 Sep 2013 21:49:57 +0000 (14:49 -0700)
committerDave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
Thu, 19 Sep 2013 01:54:34 +0000 (11:54 +1000)
Otherwise the system will burn even brighter and worse, leave the user
wondering what's going on exactly.

Since we already have a panic handler which will (try) to restore the
entire fbdev console mode, we can just bail out.  Inspired by a patch from
Konstantin Khlebnikov.  The callchain leading to this, cut&pasted from
Konstantin's original patch:

callstack:
panic()
bust_spinlocks(1)
unblank_screen()
vc->vc_sw->con_blank()
fbcon_blank()
fb_blank()
info->fbops->fb_blank()
drm_fb_helper_blank()
drm_fb_helper_dpms()
drm_modeset_lock_all()
mutex_lock(&dev->mode_config.mutex)

Note that the entire locking in the fb helper around panic/sysrq and kdbg
is ...  non-existant.  So we have a decent change of blowing up
everything.  But since reworking this ties in with funny concepts like the
fbdev notifier chain or the impressive things which happen around
console_lock while oopsing, I'll leave that as an exercise for braver
souls than me.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@openvz.org>
Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Rob Clark <robdclark@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
drivers/gpu/drm/drm_fb_helper.c

index 3d13ca6e257f0f2c6bd366a49f8b7f3622e592dd..f6f6cc7fc133292e9fe3375502466b0abd1b0fa9 100644 (file)
@@ -407,6 +407,14 @@ static void drm_fb_helper_dpms(struct fb_info *info, int dpms_mode)
        struct drm_connector *connector;
        int i, j;
 
+       /*
+        * fbdev->blank can be called from irq context in case of a panic.
+        * Since we already have our own special panic handler which will
+        * restore the fbdev console mode completely, just bail out early.
+        */
+       if (oops_in_progress)
+               return;
+
        /*
         * fbdev->blank can be called from irq context in case of a panic.
         * Since we already have our own special panic handler which will