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authorMichael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>2006-03-25 17:30:00 +1100
committerPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>2006-03-27 14:49:48 +1100
commit55aab8cd3a498201b769a19de861c77516bdfd45 (patch)
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[PATCH] powerpc: HVC init race
I've been hitting a crash on boot where tty_open is being called before the hvc console driver setup is complete. This fixes the problem. Thanks to benh for his help on this. Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org> Acked-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/char/hvc_console.c')
-rw-r--r--drivers/char/hvc_console.c32
1 files changed, 18 insertions, 14 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/char/hvc_console.c b/drivers/char/hvc_console.c
index f65b2e1..a94c5b0 100644
--- a/drivers/char/hvc_console.c
+++ b/drivers/char/hvc_console.c
@@ -823,34 +823,38 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(hvc_remove);
* interfaces start to become available. */
int __init hvc_init(void)
{
+ struct tty_driver *drv;
+
/* We need more than hvc_count adapters due to hotplug additions. */
- hvc_driver = alloc_tty_driver(HVC_ALLOC_TTY_ADAPTERS);
- if (!hvc_driver)
+ drv = alloc_tty_driver(HVC_ALLOC_TTY_ADAPTERS);
+ if (!drv)
return -ENOMEM;
- hvc_driver->owner = THIS_MODULE;
- hvc_driver->devfs_name = "hvc/";
- hvc_driver->driver_name = "hvc";
- hvc_driver->name = "hvc";
- hvc_driver->major = HVC_MAJOR;
- hvc_driver->minor_start = HVC_MINOR;
- hvc_driver->type = TTY_DRIVER_TYPE_SYSTEM;
- hvc_driver->init_termios = tty_std_termios;
- hvc_driver->flags = TTY_DRIVER_REAL_RAW;
- tty_set_operations(hvc_driver, &hvc_ops);
+ drv->owner = THIS_MODULE;
+ drv->devfs_name = "hvc/";
+ drv->driver_name = "hvc";
+ drv->name = "hvc";
+ drv->major = HVC_MAJOR;
+ drv->minor_start = HVC_MINOR;
+ drv->type = TTY_DRIVER_TYPE_SYSTEM;
+ drv->init_termios = tty_std_termios;
+ drv->flags = TTY_DRIVER_REAL_RAW;
+ tty_set_operations(drv, &hvc_ops);
/* Always start the kthread because there can be hotplug vty adapters
* added later. */
hvc_task = kthread_run(khvcd, NULL, "khvcd");
if (IS_ERR(hvc_task)) {
panic("Couldn't create kthread for console.\n");
- put_tty_driver(hvc_driver);
+ put_tty_driver(drv);
return -EIO;
}
- if (tty_register_driver(hvc_driver))
+ if (tty_register_driver(drv))
panic("Couldn't register hvc console driver\n");
+ mb();
+ hvc_driver = drv;
return 0;
}
module_init(hvc_init);