[PATCH] Console blanking locking fix
authorStephane Doyon <s.doyon@videotron.ca>
Tue, 6 Sep 2005 22:17:31 +0000 (15:17 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>
Wed, 7 Sep 2005 23:57:31 +0000 (16:57 -0700)
commit2d237c63659c098a662b1b09d43460f04c498436
tree08a16c34d381b4d3347e353b598ccdbcc5f46c2b
parentf62c6d0a2607b2d1fdf280d4d1467a7a6e24c67d
[PATCH] Console blanking locking fix

I've had WARN_CONSOLE_UNLOCKED warnings when calling TIOCLINUX
TIOCL_BLANKSCREEN and TIOCL_UNBLANKSCREEN.

(I'm blind and I use a braille display.  I use those functions to blank my
laptop's screen so people don't read it, and hopefully to conserve power.)

The warnings are from these places:
do_blank_screen at drivers/char/vt.c:2754 (Not tainted)
save_screen at drivers/char/vt.c:575 (Not tainted)
do_unblank_screen at drivers/char/vt.c:2822 (Not tainted)
set_palette at drivers/char/vt.c:2908 (Not tainted)

At a glance I would think the following patch ought to fix that.  Tested on
one machine.  Could you please tell me if this is correct and/or forward
the patch where appropriate...

Signed-off-by: Stephane Doyon <s.doyon@videotron.ca>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
drivers/char/vt.c