[PATCH] console: Replace #if 1 with a bool to ignore WARN_CONSOLE_UNLOCKED()

From: Steven Rostedt
Date: Wed Jul 11 2018 - 15:18:00 EST



From: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>

There's been discussion on the fb list about the addition of
WARN_CONSOLE_UNLOCKED() inside the fb code. The complaint is that when
the fb module is loaded with lockless_register_fb the console lock is
not taken for debugging reasons. With the addition of
WARN_CONSOLE_UNLOCK() within the fb code, this causes the console to
fill up with warnings when trying to debug the fb driver.

There's also a #if 1 that enables the warning which was added before
git history, and we look down on constant #if's in the kernel nowadays
anyway.

Remove the #if 1 and add a ignore_console_lock_warning boolean that can
be set by drivers to ignore the warning in order to do debugging.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/717e6337-e7a6-7a92-1c1b-8929a25696b5@xxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
diff --git a/include/linux/console.h b/include/linux/console.h
index dfd6b0e97855..9d4a6b985154 100644
--- a/include/linux/console.h
+++ b/include/linux/console.h
@@ -200,11 +200,9 @@ void vcs_make_sysfs(int index);
void vcs_remove_sysfs(int index);

/* Some debug stub to catch some of the obvious races in the VT code */
-#if 1
-#define WARN_CONSOLE_UNLOCKED() WARN_ON(!is_console_locked() && !oops_in_progress)
-#else
-#define WARN_CONSOLE_UNLOCKED()
-#endif
+extern bool ignore_console_lock_warning;
+#define WARN_CONSOLE_UNLOCKED() \
+ WARN_ON(!ignore_console_lock_warning && !is_console_locked() && !oops_in_progress)

/* VESA Blanking Levels */
#define VESA_NO_BLANKING 0
diff --git a/kernel/printk/printk.c b/kernel/printk/printk.c
index 247808333ba4..d9056efc3739 100644
--- a/kernel/printk/printk.c
+++ b/kernel/printk/printk.c
@@ -66,6 +66,9 @@ int console_printk[4] = {
CONSOLE_LOGLEVEL_DEFAULT, /* default_console_loglevel */
};

+bool ignore_console_lock_warning __read_mostly;
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(ignore_console_lock_warning);
+
/*
* Low level drivers may need that to know if they can schedule in
* their unblank() callback or not. So let's export it.