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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)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Tue, 2 Oct 2012 17:30:22 +0000 (10:30 -0700)
commit13e902acc58ef41e6516f160bd55976891d3b9cb
tree5f0904c8ec306d0457682ae548a63c0e581b7275
parent95c1d943a1e7515643dcd8466ba82c3566f778b6
fbcon: fix race condition between console lock and cursor timer (v1.1)

commit d8636a2717bb3da2a7ce2154bf08de90bb8c87b0 upstream.

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.

Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Tested-by: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/video/console/fbcon.c