Whats missing in my new FB DRM driver in ARC... waiting for console_lock to return

Daniel Stone daniel at fooishbar.org
Fri Jan 22 00:32:13 PST 2016


Hi,

On 21 January 2016 at 18:30, Carlos Palminha
<CARLOS.PALMINHA at synopsys.com> wrote:
> i just found that its blocking waiting for console_lock...
> @vineet, alexey: i think that console_lock is architecture dependent right? Do you know any issue with console_lock for ARC?

Once console_lock is acquired, you will not see any further prints
whilst it is held. Likely your driver is hanging/crashing whilst
holding console_lock, which you don't see. See the patch just sent to
the list to document how to debug issues which happen under
console_lock.

Cheers,
Daniel



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