On Friday 21 August 2015 12:17:41 Tomi Valkeinen wrote:

On 21/08/15 11:48, Pali Rohár wrote:

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On Friday 21 August 2015 11:42:14 Tomi Valkeinen wrote:

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On 24/07/15 19:03, Pali Rohár wrote:

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Hello,

when on N900 (real HW or qemu) I run this command

/ # echo 0 > /sys/devices/platform/omapdss/overlay0/enabled && echo 0 > /sys/class/graphics/fb0/size

then kernel crash with this error message

/ # [   29.904113] Division by zero in kernel.

Hi! Thanks for explaining.

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The problem is that fb console uses the kernel mmapped framebuffer, but
omapfb is not aware of the fb console. So the above commands free the
framebuffer, as omapfb thinks no one is using it, and then fb console
tries to touch the fb.

What about refusing those calls from fb console? So fb console will not
know about this problem and omapfb will just ignore drawn functions?

Hmm, I'm not sure I understand what you mean... omapfb is not drawing
anything, fbcon is doing the drawing independently to the fb. And the fb
suddenly disappears without fbcon realizing that.

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omapfb tracks mmaps from userspace, and refuses to free a fb it it's
mmapped.

I don't know how to fix it straight away. Maybe there's a way for omapfb
to check if the fbcon uses the fb in question, and if so, refuses to
release/resize the memory.

 Tomi

Maemo userspace (on Nokia N900) uses above commands to initialize
graphic and Xserver. So it would be nice if disabling framebuffer would
work even if fbcon.ko is loaded (or compiled directly into zImage).

Ok. And N900 has fbcon enabled? I wonder how it survives...

Depends on compiled kernel. Original stock Nokia kernel 2.6.28 has it
disabled, but when I recompiled it with fbcon (either static linked into
zImage or external fbcon.ko) it works and I do not see any problem.

So I think it survives...

fbcon can be unbound from userspace with something like:

echo 0 > /sys/class/vtconsole/vtcon1/bind

After that I think the memory can be freed.

But obviously the kernel should not crash here, no question about that.

 Tomi

Maybe just adding that test for zero to prevent division by zero?

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Pali Rohár
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