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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html