From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Scot Doyle <lkml14@scotdoyle.com>
Cc: Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@ti.com>,
Jean-Christophe Plagniol-Villard <plagnioj@jcrosoft.com>,
David Daney <david.daney@cavium.com>,
Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>,
Dann Frazier <dann.frazier@canonical.com>,
Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>,
Jonathan Liu <net147@gmail.com>,
Alistair Popple <alistair@popple.id.au>,
Jean-Philippe Brucker <jean-philippe.brucker@arm.com>,
"Chintakuntla, Radha" <Radha.Chintakuntla@caviumnetworks.com>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.com>, David Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>,
ddaney.cavm@gmail.com, dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org,
linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fbcon: use default if cursor blink interval is not valid
Date: Thu, 19 May 2016 11:01:39 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160519090139.GA1539@amd> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.10.1605182252230.12118@laptop>
Hi!
> Two current [1] and three previous [2] systems locked during boot
> because the cursor flash timer was set using an ops->cur_blink_jiffies
> value of 0. Previous patches attempted to solve the problem by moving
> variable initialization earlier in the setup sequence [2].
>
> Use the normal cursor blink default interval of 200 ms if
> ops->cur_blink_jiffies is not in the range specified in commit
> bd63364caa8d. Since invalid values are not used, specific system
> initialization timings should not cause lockups.
>
> [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1574814
> [2] see commits: 2a17d7e80f1d, f235f664a8af, a1e533ec07d5
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
> static void cursor_timer_handler(unsigned long dev_addr)
> {
> struct fb_info *info = (struct fb_info *) dev_addr;
> struct fbcon_ops *ops = info->fbcon_par;
>
> queue_work(system_power_efficient_wq, &info->queue);
> - mod_timer(&ops->cursor_timer, jiffies + ops->cur_blink_jiffies);
> + mod_timer(&ops->cursor_timer, jiffies +
> + cursor_blink_jiffies(ops->cur_blink_jiffies));
> }
>
> static void fbcon_add_cursor_timer(struct fb_info *info)
And actually... perhaps mod_timer should have some check for too low
timeouts..?
WARN_ON?
Pavel
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-05-19 9:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-05-17 18:41 [PATCH] tty: vt: Fix soft lockup in fbcon cursor blink timer David Daney
2016-05-17 20:49 ` Pavel Machek
2016-05-18 0:42 ` Ming Lei
2016-05-18 20:24 ` Scot Doyle
2016-05-18 20:38 ` David Daney
2016-05-19 4:21 ` [PATCH] fbcon: use default if cursor blink interval is not valid Scot Doyle
2016-05-19 7:25 ` Jeremy Kerr
2016-05-19 8:29 ` Ming Lei
2016-05-19 9:01 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2016-05-19 14:22 ` Scot Doyle
2016-05-19 15:31 ` Ming Lei
2016-05-19 15:59 ` David Daney
2016-05-19 22:25 ` Scot Doyle
2016-05-19 22:31 ` [PATCH] fbcon: warn on invalid cursor blink intervals Scot Doyle
2016-05-19 22:50 ` David Daney
2016-05-20 1:21 ` Jeremy Kerr
2016-05-20 2:17 ` Ming Lei
2016-05-20 2:26 ` Jeremy Kerr
2016-05-20 2:48 ` Ming Lei
2016-05-20 5:04 ` Jeremy Kerr
2016-05-20 16:27 ` Scot Doyle
2016-05-24 1:19 ` Scot Doyle
2016-05-28 11:48 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2016-06-12 5:05 ` Chintakuntla, Radha
2016-05-28 11:45 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2016-05-19 0:27 ` [PATCH] tty: vt: Fix soft lockup in fbcon cursor blink timer Ming Lei
2016-05-19 7:08 ` Pavel Machek
2016-05-19 22:35 ` Scot Doyle
2016-05-28 11:44 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2016-06-14 16:22 ` Ping: " David Daney
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