On Sun, 24 Jul 2016, gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled > > tty: vt: Fix soft lockup in fbcon cursor blink timer. > > to the 3.14-stable tree which can be found at: > http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary > > The filename of the patch is: > tty-vt-fix-soft-lockup-in-fbcon-cursor-blink-timer.patch > and it can be found in the queue-3.14 subdirectory. > > If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, > please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. > > > >From 1b45996d2ebf9680ccd0db875fc668aa025f40fd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 > From: David Daney <david.daney@xxxxxxxxxx> > Date: Tue, 17 May 2016 11:41:04 -0700 > Subject: tty: vt: Fix soft lockup in fbcon cursor blink timer. > > From: David Daney <david.daney@xxxxxxxxxx> > > commit 1b45996d2ebf9680ccd0db875fc668aa025f40fd upstream. > > We are getting somewhat random soft lockups with this signature: > > [ 86.992215] [<fffffc00080935e0>] el1_irq+0xa0/0x10c > [ 86.997082] [<fffffc000841822c>] cursor_timer_handler+0x30/0x54 > [ 87.002991] [<fffffc000810ec44>] call_timer_fn+0x54/0x1a8 > [ 87.008378] [<fffffc000810ef88>] run_timer_softirq+0x1c4/0x2bc > [ 87.014200] [<fffffc000809077c>] __do_softirq+0x114/0x344 > [ 87.019590] [<fffffc00080af45c>] irq_exit+0x74/0x98 > [ 87.024458] [<fffffc00080fac20>] __handle_domain_irq+0x98/0xfc > [ 87.030278] [<fffffc000809056c>] gic_handle_irq+0x94/0x190 > > This is caused by the vt visual_init() function calling into > fbcon_init() with a vc_cur_blink_ms value of zero. This is a > transient condition, as it is later set to a non-zero value. But, if > the timer happens to expire while the blink rate is zero, it goes into > an endless loop, and we get soft lockup. > > The fix is to initialize vc_cur_blink_ms before calling the con_init() > function. > > Signed-off-by: David Daney <david.daney@xxxxxxxxxx> > Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@xxxxxx> > Tested-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Acked-by: Scot Doyle <lkml14@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Tested-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@xxxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > --- > drivers/tty/vt/vt.c | 1 + > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) > > --- a/drivers/tty/vt/vt.c > +++ b/drivers/tty/vt/vt.c > @@ -742,6 +742,7 @@ static void visual_init(struct vc_data * > vc->vc_complement_mask = 0; > vc->vc_can_do_color = 0; > vc->vc_panic_force_write = false; > + vc->vc_cur_blink_ms = DEFAULT_CURSOR_BLINK_MS; > vc->vc_sw->con_init(vc, init); > if (!vc->vc_complement_mask) > vc->vc_complement_mask = vc->vc_can_do_color ? 0x7700 : 0x0800; > > > Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from david.daney@xxxxxxxxxx are > > queue-3.14/tty-vt-fix-soft-lockup-in-fbcon-cursor-blink-timer.patch > Hi Greg, This patch is only necessary for >= 4.2 kernels. Thanks, Scot -- 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