vt: bitlock fix
authorNick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Wed, 6 Feb 2008 09:37:04 +0000 (01:37 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>
Wed, 6 Feb 2008 18:41:04 +0000 (10:41 -0800)
vt is missing a memory barrier to close the critical section.  Use a real
spinlock for this.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@pol.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
drivers/char/vt.c

index 7a5badfb7d846e00d85dbbd2c082461264b7a660..367be917506117b08d2407b7f74beb55432701d4 100644 (file)
@@ -2400,13 +2400,15 @@ static void vt_console_print(struct console *co, const char *b, unsigned count)
 {
        struct vc_data *vc = vc_cons[fg_console].d;
        unsigned char c;
-       static unsigned long printing;
+       static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(printing_lock);
        const ushort *start;
        ushort cnt = 0;
        ushort myx;
 
        /* console busy or not yet initialized */
-       if (!printable || test_and_set_bit(0, &printing))
+       if (!printable)
+               return;
+       if (!spin_trylock(&printing_lock))
                return;
 
        if (kmsg_redirect && vc_cons_allocated(kmsg_redirect - 1))
@@ -2481,7 +2483,7 @@ static void vt_console_print(struct console *co, const char *b, unsigned count)
        notify_update(vc);
 
 quit:
-       clear_bit(0, &printing);
+       spin_unlock(&printing_lock);
 }
 
 static struct tty_driver *vt_console_device(struct console *c, int *index)