[PATCHv2] vgacon: Prevent vgacon_deinit from touching the hardware for inactive consoles.

From: Francisco Jerez
Date: Fri Sep 18 2009 - 10:30:28 EST


fbcon makes the (reasonable) assumption that it only needs to program
the hardware once, when fbcon_init() is called for the foreground
console. This doesn't always play well with vgacon because
vgacon_deinit() is only doing its job when the last console it owns is
closed (when switching from vgacon to fbcon, that's usually *after*
fbcon_init() has set the new mode). Depending on the hardware this can
cause the wrong framebuffer location to be scanned out
(e.g. reproduced on nv05 with the nouveau framebuffer driver).

Signed-off-by: Francisco Jerez <currojerez@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
Some minor stylistic changes WRT v1.

drivers/video/console/vgacon.c | 8 +++++---
1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/video/console/vgacon.c b/drivers/video/console/vgacon.c
index 59d7d5e..6bd75a9 100644
--- a/drivers/video/console/vgacon.c
+++ b/drivers/video/console/vgacon.c
@@ -590,12 +590,14 @@ static void vgacon_init(struct vc_data *c, int init)

static void vgacon_deinit(struct vc_data *c)
{
- /* When closing the last console, reset video origin */
- if (!--vgacon_uni_pagedir[1]) {
+ /* When closing the active console, reset video origin */
+ if (CON_IS_VISIBLE(c)) {
c->vc_visible_origin = vga_vram_base;
vga_set_mem_top(c);
- con_free_unimap(c);
}
+
+ if (!--vgacon_uni_pagedir[1])
+ con_free_unimap(c);
c->vc_uni_pagedir_loc = &c->vc_uni_pagedir;
con_set_default_unimap(c);
}
--
1.6.3.3

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