Subject : keyboard under X with 2.6.31 Submitter : "Frédéric L. W. Meunier" <fredlwm@gmail.com> Date : 2009-10-07 20:19 References : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=125494753228217&w=4 Notify-Also : Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com> Notify-Also : "Justin P. Mattock" <justinmattock@gmail.com> Notify-Also : Boyan <btanastasov@yahoo.co.uk> Notify-Also : Ed Tomlinson <edt@aei.ca> This entry is being used for tracking a regression from 2.6.30. Please don't close it until the problem is fixed in the mainline. Reportedly caused by: commit e043e42bdb66885b3ac10d27a01ccb9972e2b0a3 Author: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp> Date: Wed Jul 29 12:15:56 2009 -0700 pty: avoid forcing 'low_latency' tty flag Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp> Tested-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> [ Modified to do the tty_flush_to_ldisc() inside input_available_p() so that it triggers for both read and poll() - Linus] Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
First-Bad-Commit : e043e42bdb66885b3ac10d27a01ccb9972e2b0a3
On Monday 12 October 2009, Justin P. Mattock wrote: > Not sure where this stands. Right now all three machines I have seem > to be having no issues with the kayboard > (xserver 1.6.*) I can go and build the latest xserver(1.7) to see if I > hit something.
I also use 1.7, but that doesn't seem to be the problem, because Boyan tested with two 1.6 versions - http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=125520660407325&w=4
On Tuesday 13 October 2009, Nix wrote: > On 12 Oct 2009, Justin P. Mattock uttered the following: > > > Not sure where this stands. Right now all three machines I have seem to be > having no issues with the kayboard > > (xserver 1.6.*) I can go and build the latest xserver(1.7) to see if I hit > something. > [...] > >> Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14388 > >> Subject : keyboard under X with 2.6.31 > >> Submitter : Frédéric L. W. Meunier <fredlwm@gmail.com> > >> Date : 2009-10-07 20:19 (5 days old) > >> First-Bad-Commit: > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=e043e42bdb66885b3ac10d27a01ccb9972e2b0a3 > >> References : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=125494753228217&w=4 > > I have been seeing problems precisely like those described (sometimes > the keyboard dies, sometimes it gets 'stuck' with a key held down, until > I switch TTYs, which generally means killing X as I'm not aware of an > easy way to switch VTs using only the mouse), since I moved to 2.6.31, > using the kbd driver from X.org git with head commit > 158d33c15df60696946031a0319e2bd2ec8b9541, and version 1.6.3.901 of the X > server, old enough that I'd been using it for a couple of weeks before > switching to 2.6.31 without incident. (Note, I'm using kbd, not > evdev. Maybe this is a common factor among everyone seeing failures: I > don't know.) > > So it seems likely to me that this is a kernel bug, somewhere, and the > TTY layer seems like a good place to look (OK, a horrible place, but a > *likely* place). > > I'm about to try reverting the suggested commit and will report back. I > see this failure about once a day, so I'll give it three days to go > wrong and then (if it doesn't) will presume it works and so inform you. > > > (Of course with this commit reverted Emacsen start dropping data from > their ptys, and as bad luck would have it I live in (X)Emacs, but that's > on a different machine! so I can have my compile buffer data *and* not > destroy X ;} )
On Monday 26 October 2009, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Tue, 27 Oct 2009, Boyan wrote: > > > > I think it is fixed in 2.6.31.5. I can't reproduce the problem with it. > > It was fixed by mainline commit c8e33141911bf8fe87dc6c92793b9a59b2be0130 > ("tty: Make flush_to_ldisc() locking more robust"), which got back-ported > to 2.6.31.5 as commit 86d23a057.