Re: [PATCH] panic: Ensure preemption is disabled during panic()

[Jiri Kosina]

On Fri, 4 Oct 2019, Will Deacon wrote:

> Indeed, and I think the LED blinking is already unreliable if the
> brightness operation needs to sleep. 

One thing is that led_set_brightness() can probably be forced to avoid the 
workqueue scheduling, by setting LED_BLINK_SW on the device (e.g. by 
issuing led_set_software_blink() during panic).

But I am afraid this still won't solve the issue completely, as USB 
keyboards need workqueues for blinking the LEDs in for URB management.

-- 
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs