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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 17:39:40 +0000 (10:39 -0700)
commit7e9b8a5333503decc32e04c910068eca4e4ec6c2
treeb3c3c7c44c9e5c1591c2bad044cf776d1bbfed58
parent0d9ed3f9251d5222d6abf0f938207fb8f02659d6
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