From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt The new PowerMac sleep code provides an arch hook that can be used by video drivers on laptops to bring back the screen very early, pretty much before anything else. This basically turns reports of the style "my laptop doesn't wakeup" to "I get this or this oops/error/panic on wakeup", making fixing the PM related bugs possible on a whole range of them. However, the fbdev wakeup code triggers WARN_ON's in the VT subsystem if called without the console semaphore when redrawing the screen (I added those warnings a couple of kernel versions ago), and we can't call acquire_console_sem() since we are so early in the wakeup process that we are considered as in_atomic() (we hold irqs off too). This patch addds a try_acquire_console_sem() function that can be used by those video drivers that implement this early wakeup hook. If the acquire fails (which should never happen in practice), wakeup is delayed to the normal PCI callback which does a blocking acquire_console_sem(). Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- 25-akpm/include/linux/console.h | 1 + 25-akpm/kernel/printk.c | 10 ++++++++++ 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+) diff -puN include/linux/console.h~add-try_acquire_console_sem include/linux/console.h --- 25/include/linux/console.h~add-try_acquire_console_sem Tue Jan 18 15:22:22 2005 +++ 25-akpm/include/linux/console.h Tue Jan 18 15:22:22 2005 @@ -105,6 +105,7 @@ extern void register_console(struct cons extern int unregister_console(struct console *); extern struct console *console_drivers; extern void acquire_console_sem(void); +extern int try_acquire_console_sem(void); extern void release_console_sem(void); extern void console_conditional_schedule(void); extern void console_unblank(void); diff -puN kernel/printk.c~add-try_acquire_console_sem kernel/printk.c --- 25/kernel/printk.c~add-try_acquire_console_sem Tue Jan 18 15:22:22 2005 +++ 25-akpm/kernel/printk.c Tue Jan 18 15:22:22 2005 @@ -611,6 +611,16 @@ void acquire_console_sem(void) } EXPORT_SYMBOL(acquire_console_sem); +int try_acquire_console_sem(void) +{ + if (down_trylock(&console_sem)) + return -1; + console_locked = 1; + console_may_schedule = 0; + return 0; +} +EXPORT_SYMBOL(try_acquire_console_sem); + int is_console_locked(void) { return console_locked; _