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Revert "hvc_console: display printk messages on console."

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This reverts commit 361162459f62dc0826b82c9690a741a940f457f0.

It causes an infinite loop when booting Linux under Xen, as so:

  [    2.382984] console [hvc0] enabled
  [    2.382984] console [hvc0] enabled
  [    2.382984] console [hvc0] enabled
  ...

as reported by Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk.  And Rusty reports the same for
lguest.  He goes on to say:

   "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."

and Greg says he'll fix it up properly at some point later. Revert for now.

Reported-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Reported-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@ozlabs.org>
Requested-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Cc: Miche Baker-Harvey <miche@google.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Linus Torvalds 2011-11-06 22:22:16 -08:00
parent 0084e4751e
commit 31555213f0
1 changed files with 1 additions and 6 deletions
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drivers/tty/hvc/hvc_console.c
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@ -852,7 +852,7 @@ struct hvc_struct *hvc_alloc(uint32_t vtermno, int data,
* find index to use:
* see if this vterm id matches one registered for console.
*/
for (i = 0; i < MAX_NR_HVC_CONSOLES; i++)
for (i=0; i < MAX_NR_HVC_CONSOLES; i++)
if (vtermnos[i] == hp->vtermno &&
cons_ops[i] == hp->ops)
break;
@ -862,13 +862,9 @@ struct hvc_struct *hvc_alloc(uint32_t vtermno, int data,
i = ++last_hvc;
hp->index = i;
hvc_console.index = i;
vtermnos[i] = vtermno;
cons_ops[i] = ops;
list_add_tail(&(hp->next), &hvc_structs);
spin_unlock(&hvc_structs_lock);
register_console(&hvc_console);
return hp;
}
@ -879,7 +875,6 @@ int hvc_remove(struct hvc_struct *hp)
unsigned long flags;
struct tty_struct *tty;
unregister_console(&hvc_console);
spin_lock_irqsave(&hp->lock, flags);
tty = tty_kref_get(hp->tty);