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Mikulas Patocka 68a958a915 udlfb: handle unplug properly
The udlfb driver maintained an open count and cleaned up itself when the
count reached zero. But the console is also counted in the reference count
- so, if the user unplugged the device, the open count would not drop to
zero and the driver stayed loaded with console attached. If the user
re-plugged the adapter, it would create a device /dev/fb1, show green
screen and the access to the console would be lost.

The framebuffer subsystem has reference counting on its own - in order to
fix the unplug bug, we rely the framebuffer reference counting. When the
user unplugs the adapter, we call unregister_framebuffer unconditionally.
unregister_framebuffer will unbind the console, wait until all users stop
using the framebuffer and then call the fb_destroy method. The fb_destroy
cleans up the USB driver.

This patch makes the following changes:
* Drop dlfb->kref and rely on implicit framebuffer reference counting
  instead.
* dlfb_usb_disconnect calls unregister_framebuffer, the rest of driver
  cleanup is done in the function dlfb_ops_destroy. dlfb_ops_destroy will
  be called by the framebuffer subsystem when no processes have the
  framebuffer open or mapped.
* We don't use workqueue during initialization, but initialize directly
  from dlfb_usb_probe. The workqueue could race with dlfb_usb_disconnect
  and this racing would produce various kinds of memory corruption.
* We use usb_get_dev and usb_put_dev to make sure that the USB subsystem
  doesn't free the device under us.

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
Cc: Bernie Thompson <bernie@plugable.com>,
Cc: Ladislav Michl <ladis@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@samsung.com>
2018-10-08 12:57:34 +02:00
arch powerpc fixes for 4.19 #4 2018-10-07 07:05:43 +02:00
block blk-mq: I/O and timer unplugs are inverted in blktrace 2018-09-27 13:12:44 -06:00
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Documentation Char/Misc fixes for 4.19-rc7 2018-10-07 08:15:57 +02:00
drivers udlfb: handle unplug properly 2018-10-08 12:57:34 +02:00
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fs ocfs2: fix locking for res->tracking and dlm->tracking_list 2018-10-05 16:32:05 -07:00
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ipc ipc/shm.c: use ERR_CAST() for shm_lock() error return 2018-10-05 16:32:04 -07:00
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Makefile Linux 4.19-rc7 2018-10-07 17:26:02 +02:00
README

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
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    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.