Commit 8b5dd400 authored by John Ogness's avatar John Ogness Committed by Petr Mladek

proc: consoles: document console_lock usage

The console_lock is held throughout the start/show/stop procedure
to print out device/driver information about all registered
consoles. Since the console_lock is being used for multiple reasons,
explicitly document these reasons. This will be useful when the
console_lock is split into fine-grained locking.
Signed-off-by: default avatarJohn Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: default avatarPetr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPetr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221116162152.193147-11-john.ogness@linutronix.de
parent d25a2e74
......@@ -63,6 +63,15 @@ static void *c_start(struct seq_file *m, loff_t *pos)
struct console *con;
loff_t off = 0;
/*
* Take console_lock to serialize device() callback with
* other console operations. For example, fg_console is
* modified under console_lock when switching vt.
*
* Hold the console_lock to guarantee safe traversal of the
* console list. SRCU cannot be used because there is no
* place to store the SRCU cookie.
*/
console_lock();
for_each_console(con)
if (off++ == *pos)
......
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