tty: serial: kgdboc: document console_lock usage

kgdboc_earlycon_init() uses the console_lock to ensure that no consoles
are unregistered until the kgdboc_earlycon is setup. This is necessary
because the trapping of the exit() callback assumes that the exit()
callback is not called before the trap is setup.

Explicitly document this non-typical console_lock usage.

Signed-off-by: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221116162152.193147-9-john.ogness@linutronix.de
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John Ogness 2022-11-16 17:27:20 +01:06 committed by Petr Mladek
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@ -530,6 +530,14 @@ static int __init kgdboc_earlycon_init(char *opt)
* Look for a matching console, or if the name was left blank just
* pick the first one we find.
*/
/*
* Hold the console_lock to guarantee that no consoles are
* unregistered until the kgdboc_earlycon setup is complete.
* Trapping the exit() callback relies on exit() not being
* called until the trap is setup. This also allows safe
* traversal of the console list and race-free reading of @flags.
*/
console_lock();
for_each_console(con) {
if (con->write && con->read &&