From: Scot Doyle <lkml14@scotdoyle.com>
To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@ti.com>,
Jean-Christophe Plagniol-Villard <plagnioj@jcrosoft.com>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
Alistair Popple <alistair@popple.id.au>,
Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>,
airlied@redhat.com, linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fbcon: initialize blink interval before calling fb_set_par
Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2015 22:04:22 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.11.1510202110060.1573@local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1445374804.3025.16.camel@kernel.crashing.org>
On Wed, 21 Oct 2015, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Fri, 2015-10-09 at 15:08 +0000, Scot Doyle wrote:
> > Since commit 27a4c827c34ac4256a190cc9d24607f953c1c459
> > fbcon: use the cursor blink interval provided by vt
> >
> > a PPC64LE kernel fails to boot when fbcon_add_cursor_timer uses an
> > uninitialized ops->cur_blink_jiffies. Prevent by initializing
> > in fbcon_init before the call to info->fbops->fb_set_par.
>
> Any reason that hasn't hit upstream (and stable) yet ? This is pretty
> major...
It's currently in the tty-linus branch of Greg's tty tree, so should be
included in the next rc.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-10-20 22:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-10-03 1:38 [BUG] RCU stall in cursor_timer_handler Alistair Popple
2015-10-03 5:12 ` Scot Doyle
2015-10-09 5:31 ` Alistair Popple
2015-10-09 15:08 ` [PATCH] fbcon: initialize blink interval before calling fb_set_par Scot Doyle
2015-10-09 20:48 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2015-10-20 21:00 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2015-10-20 22:04 ` Scot Doyle [this message]
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