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Console drivers typically must deal with access to the hardware via user input/output (such as an interactive login shell) and output of kernel messages via printk() calls. To provide the necessary synchronization, usually some driver-specific locking mechanism is used (for example, the port spinlock for uart serial consoles). Until now, usage of this driver-specific locking has been hidden from the printk-subsystem and implemented within the various console callbacks. However, nbcon consoles would need to use it even in the generic code. Add device_lock() and device_unlock() callback which will need to get implemented by nbcon consoles. The callbacks will use whatever synchronization mechanism the driver is using for itself. The minimum requirement is to prevent CPU migration. It would allow a context friendly acquiring of nbcon console ownership in non-emergency and non-panic context. Signed-off-by: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240820063001.36405-9-john.ogness@linutronix.de Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Linux kernel
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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
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.
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.