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From: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
To: Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch>
Cc: dri-devel <dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Atomicity in KMS panic notifier
Date: Mon, 05 May 2014 17:04:57 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <s5h8uqgfequ.wl%tiwai@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKMK7uGD5JCQSfk+Vuf=qrjU9x+Y+-W3o-xyGyTM_BreR_XZcw@mail.gmail.com>

At Mon, 5 May 2014 16:52:45 +0200,
Daniel Vetter wrote:
> 
> On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 4:48 PM, Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> wrote:
> >
> > The current problem I see is that the rest of panic notifier chain
> > won't be called once when we hit the problem in KMS notifier.  So,
> > this bug in KMS influences on the rest panic behavior.
> >
> > Maybe a hackish solution would be to keep KMS notifier at the end of
> > notifier chain so that it crashes at last.  I don't like this either,
> > but...
> 
> You need to do that with both the kms panic notifier in
> drm_fb_helper.c and with the fbcon panic notifier. And iirc there's
> also a console->unblank call somewhere which _also_ can end up in
> ->set_par. But I'm not sure anymore when exactly that one is run, I've
> tried hard to forget this all ;-)

Oh well, you're suggesting the need for Propranolol overdose ;)


Takashi

  reply	other threads:[~2014-05-05 15:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-05-05 13:02 Takashi Iwai
2014-05-05 14:29 ` Daniel Vetter
2014-05-05 14:48   ` Takashi Iwai
2014-05-05 14:52     ` Daniel Vetter
2014-05-05 15:04       ` Takashi Iwai [this message]
2014-05-06 13:27       ` Takashi Iwai
2014-05-06 13:32         ` David Herrmann
2014-05-06 13:38           ` Takashi Iwai
2014-05-06 13:53             ` David Herrmann
2014-05-06 14:07               ` Takashi Iwai
2014-05-07 16:15   ` One Thousand Gnomes

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