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fbcon: fix race condition between console lock and cursor timer (v1.1)
authorDave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
Tue, 21 Aug 2012 06:29:47 +0000 (16:29 +1000)
committerDave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
Wed, 22 Aug 2012 04:00:35 +0000 (14:00 +1000)
commitd8636a2717bb3da2a7ce2154bf08de90bb8c87b0
tree6a0d94c29669dcec4ad4bc584d2052c54f903a2f
parent27fc4f1c0be917b1e5cef934783f9b09e28e92ea
fbcon: fix race condition between console lock and cursor timer (v1.1)

So we've had a fair few reports of fbcon handover breakage between
efi/vesafb and i915 surface recently, so I dedicated a couple of
days to finding the problem.

Essentially the last thing we saw was the conflicting framebuffer
message and that was all.

So after much tracing with direct netconsole writes (printks
under console_lock not so useful), I think I found the race.

Thread A (driver load)    Thread B (timer thread)
  unbind_con_driver ->              |
  bind_con_driver ->                |
  vc->vc_sw->con_deinit ->          |
  fbcon_deinit ->                   |
  console_lock()                    |
      |                             |
      |                       fbcon_flashcursor timer fires
      |                       console_lock() <- blocked for A
      |
      |
fbcon_del_cursor_timer ->
  del_timer_sync
  (BOOM)

Of course because all of this is under the console lock,
we never see anything, also since we also just unbound the active
console guess what we never see anything.

Hopefully this fixes the problem for anyone seeing vesafb->kms
driver handoff.

v1.1: add comment suggestion from Alan.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
drivers/video/console/fbcon.c