Thread (6 messages) 6 messages, 5 authors, 2012-08-22

Re: [PATCH] fbcon: fix race condition between console lock and cursor timer

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From: Alan Cox <hidden>
Date: 2012-08-21 09:10:41
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So after much tracing with direct netconsole writes (printks
under console_lock not so useful), I think I found the race.
Direct netconsole write would be a useful patch to have mainline I think
8)
Hopefully this fixes the problem for anyone seeing vesafb->kms
driver handoff.
Not really the proper fix but its clear and is probably the best thing to
go in initially with a cc: stable. Can you at least stick a large 

+ /* FIXME: we should sort out the unbind locking instead */

on the patch however.
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