Re: [PATCH] fbcon: warn on invalid cursor blink intervals
From: Jeremy Kerr
Date: Thu May 19 2016 - 22:26:32 EST
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