Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 21 Aug 2012 10:15:05 +0100 | From | Alan Cox <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] fbcon: fix race condition between console lock and cursor timer |
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> So after much tracing with direct netconsole writes (printks > under console_lock not so useful), I think I found the race.
Direct netconsole write would be a useful patch to have mainline I think 8)
> Hopefully this fixes the problem for anyone seeing vesafb->kms > driver handoff.
Not really the proper fix but its clear and is probably the best thing to go in initially with a cc: stable. Can you at least stick a large
+ /* FIXME: we should sort out the unbind locking instead */
on the patch however.
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