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Re: [PATCH] fbcon: warn on invalid cursor blink intervals

From Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH] fbcon: warn on invalid cursor blink intervals
Date 2016-05-20 04:20 +0200
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On Fri, May 20, 2016 at 6:31 AM, Scot Doyle <lkml14@scotdoyle.com> wrote:
> Two systems are locking on boot [1] because ops->cur_blink_jiffies
> is set to zero from vc->vc_cur_blink_ms.
>
> Ignore such invalid intervals and log a warning.
>
> [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1574814
>
> Suggested-by: David Daney <david.daney@cavium.com>
> Signed-off-by: Scot Doyle <lkml14@scotdoyle.com>
> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [v4.2]

Not sure this one is needed for stable because it justs dumps
a warning, and not set a valid period to ops->cur_blink_jiffies.

So I guess other fix patch is still required for the soft lockup issue, right?

Thanks,

> ---
>  drivers/video/console/fbcon.c | 14 ++++++++++++--
>  1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/video/console/fbcon.c b/drivers/video/console/fbcon.c
> index 6e92917..fad5b89 100644
> --- a/drivers/video/console/fbcon.c
> +++ b/drivers/video/console/fbcon.c
> @@ -1095,7 +1095,13 @@ static void fbcon_init(struct vc_data *vc, int init)
>                 con_copy_unimap(vc, svc);
>
>         ops = info->fbcon_par;
> -       ops->cur_blink_jiffies = msecs_to_jiffies(vc->vc_cur_blink_ms);
> +
> +       if (vc->vc_cur_blink_ms >= 50)
> +               ops->cur_blink_jiffies =
> +                   msecs_to_jiffies(vc->vc_cur_blink_ms);
> +       else
> +               WARN_ONCE(1, "blink interval < 50 ms");
> +
>         p->con_rotate = initial_rotation;
>         set_blitting_type(vc, info);
>
> @@ -1309,7 +1315,11 @@ static void fbcon_cursor(struct vc_data *vc, int mode)
>         int y;
>         int c = scr_readw((u16 *) vc->vc_pos);
>
> -       ops->cur_blink_jiffies = msecs_to_jiffies(vc->vc_cur_blink_ms);
> +       if (vc->vc_cur_blink_ms >= 50)
> +               ops->cur_blink_jiffies =
> +                   msecs_to_jiffies(vc->vc_cur_blink_ms);
> +       else
> +               WARN_ONCE(1, "blink interval < 50 ms");
>
>         if (fbcon_is_inactive(vc, info) || vc->vc_deccm != 1)
>                 return;
> --
> 2.1.4
>

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[PATCH] tty: vt: Fix soft lockup in fbcon cursor blink timer. David Daney <ddaney.cavm@gmail.com> - 2016-05-17 20:50 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] tty: vt: Fix soft lockup in fbcon cursor blink timer. Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> - 2016-05-17 22:50 +0200
    Re: [PATCH] tty: vt: Fix soft lockup in fbcon cursor blink timer. Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com> - 2016-05-18 02:50 +0200
      Re: [PATCH] tty: vt: Fix soft lockup in fbcon cursor blink timer. Scot Doyle <lkml14@scotdoyle.com> - 2016-05-18 22:40 +0200
        Re: [PATCH] tty: vt: Fix soft lockup in fbcon cursor blink timer. Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com> - 2016-05-19 02:30 +0200
          Re: [PATCH] tty: vt: Fix soft lockup in fbcon cursor blink timer. Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> - 2016-05-19 09:10 +0200
        [PATCH] fbcon: use default if cursor blink interval is not valid Scot Doyle <lkml14@scotdoyle.com> - 2016-05-19 06:30 +0200
          Re: [PATCH] fbcon: use default if cursor blink interval is not valid Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org> - 2016-05-19 09:30 +0200
          Re: [PATCH] fbcon: use default if cursor blink interval is not valid Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com> - 2016-05-19 10:40 +0200
          Re: [PATCH] fbcon: use default if cursor blink interval is not valid Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> - 2016-05-19 11:10 +0200
            Re: [PATCH] fbcon: use default if cursor blink interval is not  valid Scot Doyle <lkml14@scotdoyle.com> - 2016-05-19 16:30 +0200
              Re: [PATCH] fbcon: use default if cursor blink interval is not valid Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com> - 2016-05-19 17:40 +0200
          Re: [PATCH] fbcon: use default if cursor blink interval is not  valid Scot Doyle <lkml14@scotdoyle.com> - 2016-05-20 00:30 +0200
            [PATCH] fbcon: warn on invalid cursor blink intervals Scot Doyle <lkml14@scotdoyle.com> - 2016-05-20 00:40 +0200
              Re: [PATCH] fbcon: warn on invalid cursor blink intervals Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org> - 2016-05-20 03:30 +0200
              Re: [PATCH] fbcon: warn on invalid cursor blink intervals Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com> - 2016-05-20 04:20 +0200
                Re: [PATCH] fbcon: warn on invalid cursor blink intervals Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org> - 2016-05-20 04:30 +0200
                Re: [PATCH] fbcon: warn on invalid cursor blink intervals Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com> - 2016-05-20 04:50 +0200
                Re: [PATCH] fbcon: warn on invalid cursor blink intervals Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org> - 2016-05-20 07:10 +0200
                Re: [PATCH] fbcon: warn on invalid cursor blink intervals Scot Doyle <lkml14@scotdoyle.com> - 2016-05-20 18:30 +0200
                Re: [PATCH] fbcon: warn on invalid cursor blink intervals Scot Doyle <lkml14@scotdoyle.com> - 2016-05-24 03:30 +0200
                Re: [PATCH] fbcon: warn on invalid cursor blink intervals Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br> - 2016-05-28 13:50 +0200
              Re: [PATCH] fbcon: warn on invalid cursor blink intervals Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br> - 2016-05-28 13:50 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] tty: vt: Fix soft lockup in fbcon cursor blink timer. Scot Doyle <lkml14@scotdoyle.com> - 2016-05-20 00:40 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] tty: vt: Fix soft lockup in fbcon cursor blink timer. Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br> - 2016-05-28 13:50 +0200

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