If a console was specified by ACPI SPCR table _and_ command line
parameters like "console=ttyAMA0" _and_ "earlycon" were specified,
then log messages appear twice.

The root cause is that the code traverses the list of specified
consoles (the `console_cmdline` array) and stops at the first match.
But it may happen that the same console is referred by the elements
of this array twice:

        pl011,mmio,0x87e024000000,115200 -- from SPCR
        ttyAMA0 -- from command line

but in this case `preferred_console` points to the second entry and
the flag CON_CONSDEV is not set, so bootconsole is not deregistered.

To fix that, introduce an invariant "The last non-braille console
is always the preferred one" on the entries of the console_cmdline
array.  Then traverse it in reverse order to be sure that if
the console is preferred then it will be the first matching entry.

Reported-by: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.ho...@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Aleksey Makarov <aleksey.maka...@linaro.org>
---

v7 -> v8:
- add an explanation to the comment how console_cmdline can contain entries
  referring to the same console
- move the body of the function introduced in the previous version to cycle
- don't panic() (Sergey Senozhatsky).  Don't check this condition because
  the loop condition guarantees that it holds.
- use swap() (Sergey Senozhatsky)

v6 -> v7:
- return back to v5 
- leave the check for already registered entries and add a function that
  maintains the invariant.

v5 -> v6:
- drop v5 and continue to work on v4:
- introduce _braille_is_braille_console(). It helps to split original loop
  into three parts: 1) search for braille console, 2) check for
  preferred_console, 3) match other entries so that these three parts do not
  intersect.
- introduce for_each_console_cmdline() macros to traverse console_cmdline
  (Petr Mladek)

 kernel/printk/printk.c | 49 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------
 1 file changed, 42 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/printk/printk.c b/kernel/printk/printk.c
index fd752f0c8ef1..462036e7a767 100644
--- a/kernel/printk/printk.c
+++ b/kernel/printk/printk.c
@@ -1909,8 +1909,28 @@ static int __add_preferred_console(char *name, int idx, 
char *options,
             i < MAX_CMDLINECONSOLES && c->name[0];
             i++, c++) {
                if (strcmp(c->name, name) == 0 && c->index == idx) {
-                       if (!brl_options)
-                               preferred_console = i;
+                       int last;
+
+                       if (brl_options)
+                               return 0;
+
+                       /*
+                        * Maintain an invariant that will help to find if
+                        * the matching console is preferred, see
+                        * register_console():
+                        *
+                        * The last non-braille console is always
+                        * the preferred one.
+                        */
+                       for (last = MAX_CMDLINECONSOLES - 1;
+                            last >= 0 && !console_cmdline[last].name[0];
+                            last--)
+                               ;
+
+                       if (i != last)
+                               swap(console_cmdline[i], console_cmdline[last]);
+
+                       preferred_console = last;
                        return 0;
                }
        }
@@ -2457,12 +2477,27 @@ void register_console(struct console *newcon)
        }
 
        /*
-        *      See if this console matches one we selected on
-        *      the command line.
+        * See if this console matches one we selected on the command line.
+        *
+        * There may be several entries in the console_cmdline array matching
+        * with the same console, one with newcon->match(), another by
+        * name/index:
+        *
+        *      pl011,mmio,0x87e024000000,115200 -- added from SPCR
+        *      ttyAMA0 -- added from command line
+        *
+        * Traverse the console_cmdline array in reverse order to be
+        * sure that if this console is preferred then it will be the first
+        * matching entry.  We use the invariant that is maintained in
+        * __add_preferred_console().
         */
-       for (i = 0, c = console_cmdline;
-            i < MAX_CMDLINECONSOLES && c->name[0];
-            i++, c++) {
+       for (i = MAX_CMDLINECONSOLES - 1; i >= 0; i--) {
+
+               if (!console_cmdline[i].name[0])
+                       continue;
+
+               c = console_cmdline + i;
+
                if (!newcon->match ||
                    newcon->match(newcon, c->name, c->index, c->options) != 0) {
                        /* default matching */
-- 
2.12.0

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