Re: Deadlock in fb and tty

2013-09-17 Thread Peter Hurley
On 09/12/2013 09:22 AM, johnflux wrote: The following seems to be better: From d93c1e9761ff66365d658da7d8d0d33823aa946f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: John Tapsell Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2013 09:16:12 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Fix deadlock between fb_info and console. Do not lock fb_info when callin

Re: Deadlock in fb and tty

2013-09-12 Thread johnflux
The following seems to be better: >From d93c1e9761ff66365d658da7d8d0d33823aa946f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: John Tapsell Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2013 09:16:12 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Fix deadlock between fb_info and console. Do not lock fb_info when calling sending the FB_EVENT_CONBLANK In fbmem.

Re: Deadlock in fb and tty

2013-09-11 Thread Peter Hurley
On 09/11/2013 05:25 AM, John Tapsell wrote: Hi, I'm consistently and constantly hitting a deadlock. console_callback in drivers/tty/vt/vt.c does: console_lock() and then calls: do_blank_screen, which calls: vc->vc_sw->con_blank(..) which can be a pointer to the function: fbc