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There's a callchain of: fbcon_fb_blanked -> do_(un)blank_screen -> consw->con_blank -> fbcon_blank -> fb_blank Things don't go horribly wrong because the BKL console_lock safes the day, but that's about it. And the seeming recursion is broken in 2 ways: - Starting from the fbdev ioctl we set FBINFO_MISC_USEREVENT, which tells the fbcon_blank code to not call fb_blank. This was required to not deadlock when recursing on the fb_notifier_chain mutex. - Starting from the con_blank hook we're getting saved by the console_blanked checks in do_blank/unblank_screen. Or at least that's my theory. Anyway, recursion isn't awesome, so let's stop it. Breaking the recursion avoids the need to be in the FBINFO_MISC_USEREVENT critical section, so lets move it out of that too. The astute reader will notice that fb_blank seems to require lock_fb_info(), which the fbcon code seems to ignore. I have no idea how to fix that problem, so let's keep ignoring it. v2: I forgot the sysfs blanking code. v3: Fix typo in callchain in the commmit message (Sam). Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Reviewed-by: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@linux.intel.com> Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch> Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@samsung.com> Cc: "Michał Mirosław" <mirq-linux@rere.qmqm.pl> Cc: Peter Rosin <peda@axentia.se> Cc: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com> Cc: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com> Cc: Rob Clark <robdclark@gmail.com> Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20190528090304.9388-26-daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.