linux.git/drivers/video/console/fbcon.c, branch master Linux kernel source tree fbcon: Make fbcon a built-time depency for fbdev 2017-08-01T15:32:07+00:00 Daniel Vetter daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch 2017-08-01T15:32:07+00:00 6104c37094e729f3d4ce65797002112735d49cd1 There's a bunch of folks who're trying to make printk less contended and faster, but there's a problem: printk uses the console_lock, and the console lock has become the BKL for all things fbdev/fbcon, which in turn pulled in half the drm subsystem under that lock. That's awkward. There reasons for that is probably just a historical accident: - fbcon is a runtime option of fbdev, i.e. at runtime you can pick whether your fbdev driver instances are used as kernel consoles. Unfortunately this wasn't implemented with some module option, but through some module loading magic: As long as you don't load fbcon.ko, there's no fbdev console support, but loading it (in any order wrt fbdev drivers) will create console instances for all fbdev drivers. - This was implemented through a notifier chain. fbcon.ko enumerates all fbdev instances at load time and also registers itself as listener in the fbdev notifier. The fbdev core tries to register new fbdev instances with fbcon using the notifier. - On top of that the modifier chain is also used at runtime by the fbdev subsystem to e.g. control backlights for panels. - The problem is that the notifier puts a mutex locking context between fbdev and fbcon, which mixes up the locking contexts for both the runtime usage and the register time usage to notify fbcon. And at runtime fbcon (through the fbdev core) might call into the notifier from a printk critical section while console_lock is held. - This means console_lock must be an outer lock for the entire fbdev subsystem, which also means it must be acquired when registering a new framebuffer driver as the outermost lock since we might call into fbcon (through the notifier) which would result in a locking inversion if fbcon would acquire the console_lock from its notifier callback (which it needs to register the console). - console_lock can be held anywhere, since printk can be called anywhere, and through the above story, plus drm/kms being an fbdev driver, we pull in a shocking amount of locking hiercharchy underneath the console_lock. Which makes cleaning up printk really hard (not even splitting console_lock into an rwsem is all that useful due to this). There's various ways to address this, but the cleanest would be to make fbcon a compile-time option, where fbdev directly calls the fbcon register functions from register_framebuffer, or dummy static inline versions if fbcon is disabled. Maybe augmented with a runtime knob to disable fbcon, if that's needed (for debugging perhaps). But this could break some users who rely on the magic "loading fbcon.ko enables/disables fbdev framebuffers at runtime" thing, even if that's unlikely. Hence we must be careful: 1. Create a compile-time dependency between fbcon and fbdev in the least minimal way. This is what this patch does. 2. Wait at least 1 year to give possible users time to scream about how we broke their setup. Unlikely, since all distros make fbcon compile-in, and embedded platforms only compile stuff they know they need anyway. But still. 3. Convert the notifier to direct functions calls, with dummy static inlines if fbcon is disabled. We'll still need the fb notifier for the other uses (like backlights), but we can probably move it into the fb core (atm it must be built-into vmlinux). 4. Push console_lock down the call-chain, until it is down in console_register again. 5. Finally start to clean up and rework the printk/console locking. For context of this saga see commit 50e244cc793d511b86adea24972f3a7264cae114 Author: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com> Date: Fri Jan 25 10:28:15 2013 +1000 fb: rework locking to fix lock ordering on takeover plus the pile of commits on top that tried to make this all work without terminally upsetting lockdep. We've uncovered all this when console_lock lockdep annotations where added in commit daee779718a319ff9f83e1ba3339334ac650bb22 Author: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch> Date: Sat Sep 22 19:52:11 2012 +0200 console: implement lockdep support for console_lock On the patch itself: - Switch CONFIG_FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE to be a boolean, using the overall CONFIG_FB tristate to decided whether it should be a module or built-in. - At first I thought I could force the build depency with just a dummy symbol that fbcon.ko exports and fb.ko uses. But that leads to a module depency cycle (it works fine when built-in). Since this tight binding is the entire goal the simplest solution is to move all the fbcon modules (and there's a bunch of optinal source-files which are each modules of their own, for no good reason) into the overall fb.ko core module. That's a bit more than what I would have liked to do in this patch, but oh well. Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@intel.com> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Reviewed-by: Sean Paul <seanpaul@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@samsung.com> 
There's a bunch of folks who're trying to make printk less
contended and faster, but there's a problem: printk uses the
console_lock, and the console lock has become the BKL for all things
fbdev/fbcon, which in turn pulled in half the drm subsystem under that
lock. That's awkward.

There reasons for that is probably just a historical accident:

- fbcon is a runtime option of fbdev, i.e. at runtime you can pick
  whether your fbdev driver instances are used as kernel consoles.
  Unfortunately this wasn't implemented with some module option, but
  through some module loading magic: As long as you don't load
  fbcon.ko, there's no fbdev console support, but loading it (in any
  order wrt fbdev drivers) will create console instances for all fbdev
  drivers.

- This was implemented through a notifier chain. fbcon.ko enumerates
  all fbdev instances at load time and also registers itself as
  listener in the fbdev notifier. The fbdev core tries to register new
  fbdev instances with fbcon using the notifier.

- On top of that the modifier chain is also used at runtime by the
  fbdev subsystem to e.g. control backlights for panels.

- The problem is that the notifier puts a mutex locking context
  between fbdev and fbcon, which mixes up the locking contexts for
  both the runtime usage and the register time usage to notify fbcon.
  And at runtime fbcon (through the fbdev core) might call into the
  notifier from a printk critical section while console_lock is held.

- This means console_lock must be an outer lock for the entire fbdev
  subsystem, which also means it must be acquired when registering a
  new framebuffer driver as the outermost lock since we might call
  into fbcon (through the notifier) which would result in a locking
  inversion if fbcon would acquire the console_lock from its notifier
  callback (which it needs to register the console).

- console_lock can be held anywhere, since printk can be called
  anywhere, and through the above story, plus drm/kms being an fbdev
  driver, we pull in a shocking amount of locking hiercharchy
  underneath the console_lock. Which makes cleaning up printk really
  hard (not even splitting console_lock into an rwsem is all that
  useful due to this).

There's various ways to address this, but the cleanest would be to
make fbcon a compile-time option, where fbdev directly calls the fbcon
register functions from register_framebuffer, or dummy static inline
versions if fbcon is disabled. Maybe augmented with a runtime knob to
disable fbcon, if that's needed (for debugging perhaps).

But this could break some users who rely on the magic "loading
fbcon.ko enables/disables fbdev framebuffers at runtime" thing, even
if that's unlikely. Hence we must be careful:

1. Create a compile-time dependency between fbcon and fbdev in the
least minimal way. This is what this patch does.

2. Wait at least 1 year to give possible users time to scream about
how we broke their setup. Unlikely, since all distros make fbcon
compile-in, and embedded platforms only compile stuff they know they
need anyway. But still.

3. Convert the notifier to direct functions calls, with dummy static
inlines if fbcon is disabled. We'll still need the fb notifier for the
other uses (like backlights), but we can probably move it into the fb
core (atm it must be built-into vmlinux).

4. Push console_lock down the call-chain, until it is down in
console_register again.

5. Finally start to clean up and rework the printk/console locking.

For context of this saga see

commit 50e244cc793d511b86adea24972f3a7264cae114
Author: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Date:   Fri Jan 25 10:28:15 2013 +1000

    fb: rework locking to fix lock ordering on takeover

plus the pile of commits on top that tried to make this all work
without terminally upsetting lockdep. We've uncovered all this when
console_lock lockdep annotations where added in

commit daee779718a319ff9f83e1ba3339334ac650bb22
Author: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Date:   Sat Sep 22 19:52:11 2012 +0200

    console: implement lockdep support for console_lock

On the patch itself:
- Switch CONFIG_FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE to be a boolean, using the overall
  CONFIG_FB tristate to decided whether it should be a module or
  built-in.

- At first I thought I could force the build depency with just a dummy
  symbol that fbcon.ko exports and fb.ko uses. But that leads to a
  module depency cycle (it works fine when built-in).

  Since this tight binding is the entire goal the simplest solution is
  to move all the fbcon modules (and there's a bunch of optinal
  source-files which are each modules of their own, for no good
  reason) into the overall fb.ko core module. That's a bit more than
  what I would have liked to do in this patch, but oh well.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@intel.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Reviewed-by: Sean Paul <seanpaul@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@samsung.com>
video/console: use setup_timer and mod_timer instead of init_timer 2017-02-08T15:43:59+00:00 Jan Stourac xstourac@gmail.com 2017-02-08T15:43:59+00:00 cd7b917c98d6775fd1cb1eac84f5f1ea97b16e79 Use setup_timer and mod_timer functions instead of initializing timer with the function init_timer and data fields. Signed-off-by: Jan Stourac <xstourac@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@samsung.com> 
Use setup_timer and mod_timer functions instead of initializing timer with
the function init_timer and data fields.

Signed-off-by: Jan Stourac <xstourac@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@samsung.com>
fbcon: Fix vc attr at deinit 2017-01-11T16:09:50+00:00 Takashi Iwai tiwai@suse.de 2017-01-11T16:09:50+00:00 8aac7f34369726d1a158788ae8aff3002d5eb528 fbcon can deal with vc_hi_font_mask (the upper 256 chars) and adjust the vc attrs dynamically when vc_hi_font_mask is changed at fbcon_init(). When the vc_hi_font_mask is set, it remaps the attrs in the existing console buffer with one bit shift up (for 9 bits), while it remaps with one bit shift down (for 8 bits) when the value is cleared. It works fine as long as the font gets updated after fbcon was initialized. However, we hit a bizarre problem when the console is switched to another fb driver (typically from vesafb or efifb to drmfb). At switching to the new fb driver, we temporarily rebind the console to the dummy console, then rebind to the new driver. During the switching, we leave the modified attrs as is. Thus, the new fbcon takes over the old buffer as if it were to contain 8 bits chars (although the attrs are still shifted for 9 bits), and effectively this results in the yellow color texts instead of the original white color, as found in the bugzilla entry below. An easy fix for this is to re-adjust the attrs before leaving the fbcon at con_deinit callback. Since the code to adjust the attrs is already present in the current fbcon code, in this patch, we simply factor out the relevant code, and call it from fbcon_deinit(). Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1000619 Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@samsung.com> 
fbcon can deal with vc_hi_font_mask (the upper 256 chars) and adjust
the vc attrs dynamically when vc_hi_font_mask is changed at
fbcon_init().  When the vc_hi_font_mask is set, it remaps the attrs in
the existing console buffer with one bit shift up (for 9 bits), while
it remaps with one bit shift down (for 8 bits) when the value is
cleared.  It works fine as long as the font gets updated after fbcon
was initialized.

However, we hit a bizarre problem when the console is switched to
another fb driver (typically from vesafb or efifb to drmfb).  At
switching to the new fb driver, we temporarily rebind the console to
the dummy console, then rebind to the new driver.  During the
switching, we leave the modified attrs as is.  Thus, the new fbcon
takes over the old buffer as if it were to contain 8 bits chars
(although the attrs are still shifted for 9 bits), and effectively
this results in the yellow color texts instead of the original white
color, as found in the bugzilla entry below.

An easy fix for this is to re-adjust the attrs before leaving the
fbcon at con_deinit callback.  Since the code to adjust the attrs is
already present in the current fbcon code, in this patch, we simply
factor out the relevant code, and call it from fbcon_deinit().

Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1000619
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@samsung.com>
tty: vt, cleanup and document con_scroll 2016-10-27T14:37:43+00:00 Jiri Slaby jslaby@suse.cz 2016-10-03T09:18:33+00:00 d705ff38189fcfbbfa6aa97363d30c23348ad166 Scrolling helpers scrup and scrdown both accept 'top' and 'bottom' as unsigned int. Number of lines 'nr' is accepted as int, but all callers pass down unsigned too. So change the type of 'nr' to unsigned too. Now, promote unsigned int from the helpers up to the con_scroll hook which actually accepted all those as signed int. Next, the 'dir' parameter can have only two values and we define constants for that: SM_UP and SM_DOWN. Switch them to enum and do proper type checking on 'dir' too. Finally, document the behaviour of the hook. Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> Cc: Thomas Winischhofer <thomas@winischhofer.net> Cc: Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@ti.com> Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <jejb@parisc-linux.org> Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de> Cc: <linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org> Cc: <linux-usb@vger.kernel.org> Cc: <linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> 
Scrolling helpers scrup and scrdown both accept 'top' and 'bottom' as
unsigned int. Number of lines 'nr' is accepted as int, but all callers
pass down unsigned too. So change the type of 'nr' to unsigned too.
Now, promote unsigned int from the helpers up to the con_scroll
hook which actually accepted all those as signed int.

Next, the 'dir' parameter can have only two values and we define
constants for that: SM_UP and SM_DOWN. Switch them to enum and do
proper type checking on 'dir' too.

Finally, document the behaviour of the hook.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Cc: Thomas Winischhofer <thomas@winischhofer.net>
Cc: Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@ti.com>
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <jejb@parisc-linux.org>
Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Cc: <linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: <linux-usb@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: <linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
tty: vt, convert more macros to functions 2016-06-25T16:04:48+00:00 Jiri Slaby jslaby@suse.cz 2016-06-23T11:34:35+00:00 6ca8dfd78187d8238abc5b2996848a0c8f07948d Namely convert: * IS_FG -> con_is_fg * DO_UPDATE -> con_should_update * CON_IS_VISIBLE -> con_is_visible DO_UPDATE was a weird name for a yes/no answer, so the new name is con_should_update. Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> Cc: Thomas Winischhofer <thomas@winischhofer.net> Cc: Jean-Christophe Plagniol-Villard <plagnioj@jcrosoft.com> Cc: linux-usb@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> 
Namely convert:
* IS_FG -> con_is_fg
* DO_UPDATE -> con_should_update
* CON_IS_VISIBLE -> con_is_visible

DO_UPDATE was a weird name for a yes/no answer, so the new name is
con_should_update.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Cc: Thomas Winischhofer <thomas@winischhofer.net>
Cc: Jean-Christophe Plagniol-Villard <plagnioj@jcrosoft.com>
Cc: linux-usb@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
tty: vt, remove consw->con_bmove 2016-06-25T16:04:48+00:00 Jiri Slaby jslaby@suse.cz 2016-06-23T11:34:28+00:00 52ad1f38b4f6e2f2133668247036ad64ef7ae18a It is never called since commit 81732c3b2fede (tty vt: Fix line garbage in virtual console on command line edition) in 3.7. So remove all the callbacks. Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> Cc: Thomas Winischhofer <thomas@winischhofer.net> Cc: linux-usb@vger.kernel.org Cc: Jean-Christophe Plagniol-Villard <plagnioj@jcrosoft.com> Cc: Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@ti.com> Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <jejb@parisc-linux.org> Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de> Cc: linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> 
It is never called since commit 81732c3b2fede (tty vt: Fix line
garbage in virtual console on command line edition) in 3.7. So remove
all the callbacks.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Cc: Thomas Winischhofer <thomas@winischhofer.net>
Cc: linux-usb@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Jean-Christophe Plagniol-Villard <plagnioj@jcrosoft.com>
Cc: Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@ti.com>
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <jejb@parisc-linux.org>
Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Cc: linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
tty: vt, consw->con_set_palette cleanup 2016-06-25T16:04:48+00:00 Jiri Slaby jslaby@suse.cz 2016-06-23T11:34:27+00:00 709280da6238629c3b488b7be87c6d9185f4d03e * allow NULL consw->con_set_palette (some consoles define an empty hook) * => remove empty hooks now * return value of consw->con_set_palette is never checked => make the function void * document consw->con_set_palette a bit Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> Cc: Thomas Winischhofer <thomas@winischhofer.net> Cc: linux-usb@vger.kernel.org Cc: Jean-Christophe Plagniol-Villard <plagnioj@jcrosoft.com> Cc: Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@ti.com> Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <jejb@parisc-linux.org> Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de> Cc: linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> 
* allow NULL consw->con_set_palette (some consoles define an empty
  hook)
* => remove empty hooks now
* return value of consw->con_set_palette is never checked => make the
  function void
* document consw->con_set_palette a bit

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Cc: Thomas Winischhofer <thomas@winischhofer.net>
Cc: linux-usb@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Jean-Christophe Plagniol-Villard <plagnioj@jcrosoft.com>
Cc: Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@ti.com>
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <jejb@parisc-linux.org>
Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Cc: linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
tty: vt, consw->con_scrolldelta cleanup 2016-06-25T16:04:48+00:00 Jiri Slaby jslaby@suse.cz 2016-06-23T11:34:26+00:00 97293de977365fe672daec2523e66ef457104921 * allow NULL consw->con_scrolldelta (some consoles define an empty hook) * => remove empty hooks now * return value of consw->con_scrolldelta is never checked => make the function void * document consw->con_scrolldelta a bit Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> Cc: Thomas Winischhofer <thomas@winischhofer.net> Cc: linux-usb@vger.kernel.org Cc: Jean-Christophe Plagniol-Villard <plagnioj@jcrosoft.com> Cc: Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@ti.com> Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <jejb@parisc-linux.org> Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de> Cc: linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> 
* allow NULL consw->con_scrolldelta (some consoles define an empty
  hook)
* => remove empty hooks now
* return value of consw->con_scrolldelta is never checked => make the
  function void
* document consw->con_scrolldelta a bit

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Cc: Thomas Winischhofer <thomas@winischhofer.net>
Cc: linux-usb@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Jean-Christophe Plagniol-Villard <plagnioj@jcrosoft.com>
Cc: Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@ti.com>
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <jejb@parisc-linux.org>
Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Cc: linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
tty: vt, make color_table const 2016-04-30T16:26:55+00:00 Jiri Slaby jslaby@suse.cz 2016-03-31T08:08:16+00:00 8ede5cce4f0baff77ef63aa3cb3afc65d0317e0b This means all ->con_set_palette have to have the second parameter const too now. Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> 
This means all ->con_set_palette have to have the second parameter
const too now.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
fbcon: set a default value to blink interval 2016-02-26T11:19:55+00:00 Jean-Philippe Brucker jean-philippe.brucker@arm.com 2016-02-15T18:41:33+00:00 a1e533ec07d583d01349ef13c0c965b8633e1b91 Since commit 27a4c827c34ac4256a190cc9d24607f953c1c459 fbcon: use the cursor blink interval provided by vt two attempts have been made at fixing a possible hang caused by cursor_timer_handler. That function registers a timer to be triggered at "jiffies + fbcon_ops.cur_blink_jiffies". A new case had been encountered during initialisation of clcd-pl11x: fbcon_fb_registered do_fbcon_takeover -> do_register_con_driver fbcon_startup (A) add_cursor_timer (with cur_blink_jiffies = 0) -> do_bind_con_driver visual_init fbcon_init (B) cur_blink_jiffies = msecs_to_jiffies(vc->vc_cur_blink_ms); If we take an softirq anywhere between A and B (and we do), cursor_timer_handler executes indefinitely. Instead of patching all possible paths that lead to this case one at a time, fix the issue at the source and initialise cur_blink_jiffies to 200ms when allocating fbcon_ops. This was its default value before aforesaid commit. fbcon_cursor or fbcon_init will refine this value downstream. Signed-off-by: Jean-Philippe Brucker <jean-philippe.brucker@arm.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v4.2 Tested-by: Scot Doyle <lkml14@scotdoyle.com> Signed-off-by: Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@ti.com> 
Since commit 27a4c827c34ac4256a190cc9d24607f953c1c459
	fbcon: use the cursor blink interval provided by vt

two attempts have been made at fixing a possible hang caused by
cursor_timer_handler. That function registers a timer to be triggered at
"jiffies + fbcon_ops.cur_blink_jiffies".

A new case had been encountered during initialisation of clcd-pl11x:

    fbcon_fb_registered
    do_fbcon_takeover

    ->  do_register_con_driver
        fbcon_startup
    (A) add_cursor_timer (with cur_blink_jiffies = 0)

    ->  do_bind_con_driver
        visual_init
        fbcon_init
    (B) cur_blink_jiffies = msecs_to_jiffies(vc->vc_cur_blink_ms);

If we take an softirq anywhere between A and B (and we do),
cursor_timer_handler executes indefinitely.

Instead of patching all possible paths that lead to this case one at a
time, fix the issue at the source and initialise cur_blink_jiffies to
200ms when allocating fbcon_ops. This was its default value before
aforesaid commit. fbcon_cursor or fbcon_init will refine this value
downstream.

Signed-off-by: Jean-Philippe Brucker <jean-philippe.brucker@arm.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v4.2
Tested-by: Scot Doyle <lkml14@scotdoyle.com>
Signed-off-by: Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@ti.com>