Re: Deadlock between fbcon and fb_defio?
From: Jaya Kumar <hidden>
Date: 2010-05-10 00:00:54
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From: Jaya Kumar <hidden>
Date: 2010-05-10 00:00:54
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On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 12:49 AM, Bruno Prémont [off-list ref] wrote:
Fix crash if we are the first framebuffer loaded as in that case fbcon wants to flush framebuffer at the end of fb registration, before we have setup fb_defio.
Bruno, Please help me understand, how does this scenario occur? I'm interpreting what you've written above to mean that fbcon is accessing the framebuffer before you've called defio_init()? Is that correct? The typical defio use sequence is: defio_init(), register_framebuffer() and the typical remove sequence is in the reverse order unregister_framebuffer(), defio_cleanup(). So, I don't see how fbcon is accessing the framebuffer either before register_framebuffer() completes (at which point defio init is already done) or after unregister_framebuffer() completes. Thanks, jaya