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

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Date:	Fri, 20 May 2016 10:26:21 +0800
From:	Jeremy Kerr <jk@...abs.org>
To:	Ming Lei <ming.lei@...onical.com>,
	Scot Doyle <lkml14@...tdoyle.com>
Cc:	Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@...com>,
	Jean-Christophe Plagniol-Villard <plagnioj@...osoft.com>,
	David Daney <david.daney@...ium.com>,
	Dann Frazier <dann.frazier@...onical.com>,
	Peter Hurley <peter@...leysoftware.com>,
	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>, Jonathan Liu <net147@...il.com>,
	Alistair Popple <alistair@...ple.id.au>,
	Jean-Philippe Brucker <jean-philippe.brucker@....com>,
	"Chintakuntla, Radha" <Radha.Chintakuntla@...iumnetworks.com>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.com>, David Airlie <airlied@...ux.ie>,
	David Daney <ddaney.cavm@...il.com>,
	dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org, linux-fbdev@...r.kernel.org,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	stable <stable@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fbcon: warn on invalid cursor blink intervals

Hi Ming,

> 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?

The main thing is that we don't set cur_blink_jiffies to the < 50ms
value. As far as I can tell, it means we'll still get the original
default, set in fbcon_startup():

	ops->cur_blink_jiffies = HZ / 5;

And so don't end up spinning on the timer expiry.

Cheers,


Jeremy