[PATCH] fbcon: use default if cursor blink interval is not valid

On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 10:22 PM, Scot Doyle wrote: > On Thu, 19 May 2016, Pavel Machek wrote: >> Hi! >> >> > Two current [1] and three previous [2] systems locked during boot >> > because the cursor flash timer was set using an ops->cur_blink_jiffies >> > value of 0. Previous patches attempted to

[PATCH] tty: vt: Fix soft lockup in fbcon cursor blink timer.

r 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 >> Cc: stable at vger

ast: cursor flashing softlockups

Hi, On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 4:07 AM, Dann Frazier wrote: > Hi, > I'm observing a soft lockup issue w/ the ASPEED controller on an > arm64 server platform. This was originally seen on Ubuntu's 4.4 > kernel, but it is reproducible w/ vanilla 4.6-rc7 as well. > > [ 32.792656] NMI watchdog: BUG: s