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Input: i8042 - break load dependency between atkbd/psmouse and i8042
authorDmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
Mon, 25 Jul 2016 18:36:54 +0000 (11:36 -0700)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Wed, 7 Sep 2016 06:30:00 +0000 (08:30 +0200)
commit930100acbd2eb700e35daa01e2091947e1ecf7e3
tree598f8bb4f88bb7e19fb21a467fe7c89347797e48
parentfb21f6365c7bd0d6ba5d1889194be3b966f34aaf
Input: i8042 - break load dependency between atkbd/psmouse and i8042

commit 4097461897df91041382ff6fcd2bfa7ee6b2448c upstream.

As explained in 1407814240-4275-1-git-send-email-decui@microsoft.com we
have a hard load dependency between i8042 and atkbd which prevents
keyboard from working on Gen2 Hyper-V VMs.

> hyperv_keyboard invokes serio_interrupt(), which needs a valid serio
> driver like atkbd.c.  atkbd.c depends on libps2.c because it invokes
> ps2_command().  libps2.c depends on i8042.c because it invokes
> i8042_check_port_owner().  As a result, hyperv_keyboard actually
> depends on i8042.c.
>
> For a Generation 2 Hyper-V VM (meaning no i8042 device emulated), if a
> Linux VM (like Arch Linux) happens to configure CONFIG_SERIO_I8042=m
> rather than =y, atkbd.ko can't load because i8042.ko can't load(due to
> no i8042 device emulated) and finally hyperv_keyboard can't work and
> the user can't input: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/39820
> (Ubuntu/RHEL/SUSE aren't affected since they use CONFIG_SERIO_I8042=y)

To break the dependency we move away from using i8042_check_port_owner()
and instead allow serio port owner specify a mutex that clients should use
to serialize PS/2 command stream.

Reported-by: Mark Laws <mdl@60hz.org>
Tested-by: Mark Laws <mdl@60hz.org>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/input/serio/i8042.c
drivers/input/serio/libps2.c
include/linux/i8042.h
include/linux/serio.h