Facilities which expose console information to sysfs or procfs can use the
new list protection to keep the list stable. No need to hold console lock.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
---
 drivers/tty/tty_io.c   |    6 +++---
 fs/proc/consoles.c     |    6 +++---
 kernel/printk/printk.c |    8 ++++----
 3 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/tty/tty_io.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/tty_io.c
@@ -3535,8 +3535,8 @@ static ssize_t show_cons_active(struct d
 	struct console *c;
 	ssize_t count = 0;
 
-	console_lock();
-	for_each_console(c) {
+	console_list_lock();
+	for_each_registered_console(c) {
 		if (!c->device)
 			continue;
 		if (!c->write)
@@ -3560,7 +3560,7 @@ static ssize_t show_cons_active(struct d
 
 		count += sprintf(buf + count, "%c", i ? ' ':'\n');
 	}
-	console_unlock();
+	console_list_unlock();
 
 	return count;
 }
--- a/fs/proc/consoles.c
+++ b/fs/proc/consoles.c
@@ -63,8 +63,8 @@ static void *c_start(struct seq_file *m,
 	struct console *con;
 	loff_t off = 0;
 
-	console_lock();
-	for_each_console(con)
+	console_list_lock();
+	for_each_registered_console(con)
 		if (off++ == *pos)
 			break;
 
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ static void *c_next(struct seq_file *m,
 
 static void c_stop(struct seq_file *m, void *v)
 {
-	console_unlock();
+	console_list_unlock();
 }
 
 static const struct seq_operations consoles_op = {
--- a/kernel/printk/printk.c
+++ b/kernel/printk/printk.c
@@ -2985,18 +2985,18 @@ void console_flush_on_panic(enum con_flu
  */
 struct tty_driver *console_device(int *index)
 {
-	struct console *c;
 	struct tty_driver *driver = NULL;
+	struct console *c;
 
-	console_lock();
-	for_each_console(c) {
+	console_list_lock();
+	for_each_registered_console(c) {
 		if (!c->device)
 			continue;
 		driver = c->device(c, index);
 		if (driver)
 			break;
 	}
-	console_unlock();
+	console_list_unlock();
 	return driver;
 }

On (22/09/11 00:27), Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> Facilities which expose console information to sysfs or procfs can use the
> new list protection to keep the list stable. No need to hold console lock.

Yeah I guess it makes sense to take the list lock in console stop/start then.
(I wonder if it'll be better to do it in this patch.)

> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

Reviewed-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org>