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2024-01-28tty: vt: remove CM_* constantsJiri Slaby (SUSE)1-2/+2
There is no difference between CM_MOVE and CM_DRAW. Either of them enables the cursor. CM_ERASE then disables cursor. So get rid of all of them and use simple "bool enable". Note that this propagates down to the fbcon code. And document the hook. Signed-off-by: "Jiri Slaby (SUSE)" <jirislaby@kernel.org> Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de> Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch> Cc: linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org Cc: dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org Cc: linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org Tested-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de> # parisc STI console Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240122110401.7289-30-jirislaby@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2024-01-28fbdev/core: simplify cursor_state setting in fbcon_ops::cursor()Jiri Slaby (SUSE)1-10/+1
There is a switch decicing if cursor should be drawn or not. The whole switch can be simplified to one line. Do this cleanup as a preparatory work for the next patch. There, all the CM_* constants are removed. Signed-off-by: "Jiri Slaby (SUSE)" <jirislaby@kernel.org> Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch> Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de> Cc: linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org Cc: dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org Tested-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de> # parisc STI console Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240122110401.7289-29-jirislaby@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2022-02-02fbcon: Add option to enable legacy hardware accelerationHelge Deller1-5/+5
Add a config option CONFIG_FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE_LEGACY_ACCELERATION to enable bitblt and fillrect hardware acceleration in the framebuffer console. If disabled, such acceleration will not be used, even if it is supported by the graphics hardware driver. If you plan to use DRM as your main graphics output system, you should disable this option since it will prevent compiling in code which isn't used later on when DRM takes over. For all other configurations, e.g. if none of your graphic cards support DRM (yet), DRM isn't available for your architecture, or you can't be sure that the graphic card in the target system will support DRM, you most likely want to enable this option. In the non-accelerated case (e.g. when DRM is used), the inlined fb_scrollmode() function is hardcoded to return SCROLL_REDRAW and as such the compiler is able to optimize much unneccesary code away. In this v3 patch version I additionally changed the GETVYRES() and GETVXRES() macros to take a pointer to the fbcon_display struct. This fixes the build when console rotation is enabled and helps the compiler again to optimize out code. Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v5.10+ Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch> Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20220202135531.92183-4-deller@gmx.de
2022-02-02Revert "fbdev: Garbage collect fbdev scrolling acceleration, part 1 (from ↵Helge Deller1-4/+24
TODO list)" This reverts commit b3ec8cdf457e5e63d396fe1346cc788cf7c1b578. Revert the second (of 2) commits which disabled scrolling acceleration in fbcon/fbdev. It introduced a regression for fbdev-supported graphic cards because of the performance penalty by doing screen scrolling by software instead of using the existing graphic card 2D hardware acceleration. Console scrolling acceleration was disabled by dropping code which checked at runtime the driver hardware capabilities for the BINFO_HWACCEL_COPYAREA or FBINFO_HWACCEL_FILLRECT flags and if set, it enabled scrollmode SCROLL_MOVE which uses hardware acceleration to move screen contents. After dropping those checks scrollmode was hard-wired to SCROLL_REDRAW instead, which forces all graphic cards to redraw every character at the new screen position when scrolling. This change effectively disabled all hardware-based scrolling acceleration for ALL drivers, because now all kind of 2D hardware acceleration (bitblt, fillrect) in the drivers isn't used any longer. The original commit message mentions that only 3 DRM drivers (nouveau, omapdrm and gma500) used hardware acceleration in the past and thus code for checking and using scrolling acceleration is obsolete. This statement is NOT TRUE, because beside the DRM drivers there are around 35 other fbdev drivers which depend on fbdev/fbcon and still provide hardware acceleration for fbdev/fbcon. The original commit message also states that syzbot found lots of bugs in fbcon and thus it's "often the solution to just delete code and remove features". This is true, and the bugs - which actually affected all users of fbcon, including DRM - were fixed, or code was dropped like e.g. the support for software scrollback in vgacon (commit 973c096f6a85). So to further analyze which bugs were found by syzbot, I've looked through all patches in drivers/video which were tagged with syzbot or syzkaller back to year 2005. The vast majority fixed the reported issues on a higher level, e.g. when screen is to be resized, or when font size is to be changed. The few ones which touched driver code fixed a real driver bug, e.g. by adding a check. But NONE of those patches touched code of either the SCROLL_MOVE or the SCROLL_REDRAW case. That means, there was no real reason why SCROLL_MOVE had to be ripped-out and just SCROLL_REDRAW had to be used instead. The only reason I can imagine so far was that SCROLL_MOVE wasn't used by DRM and as such it was assumed that it could go away. That argument completely missed the fact that SCROLL_MOVE is still heavily used by fbdev (non-DRM) drivers. Some people mention that using memcpy() instead of the hardware acceleration is pretty much the same speed. But that's not true, at least not for older graphic cards and machines where we see speed decreases by factor 10 and more and thus this change leads to console responsiveness way worse than before. That's why the original commit is to be reverted. By reverting we reintroduce hardware-based scrolling acceleration and fix the performance regression for fbdev drivers. There isn't any impact on DRM when reverting those patches. Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de> Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Acked-by: Sven Schnelle <svens@stackframe.org> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v5.16+ Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch> Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20220202135531.92183-2-deller@gmx.de
2021-10-13fbdev: Garbage collect fbdev scrolling acceleration, part 1 (from TODO list)Claudio Suarez1-24/+4
Scroll acceleration is disabled in fbcon by hard-wiring p->scrollmode = SCROLL_REDRAW. Remove the obsolete code in fbcon.c and fbdev/core/ Signed-off-by: Claudio Suarez <cssk@net-c.es> Signed-off-by: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de> Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/YVXTYqszZix9TxjJ@gineta.localdomain
2020-11-17fbcon: Drop EXPORT_SYMBOLDaniel Vetter1-1/+0
Every since commit 6104c37094e729f3d4ce65797002112735d49cd1 Author: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch> Date: Tue Aug 1 17:32:07 2017 +0200 fbcon: Make fbcon a built-time depency for fbdev these are no longer distinct loadable modules, so exporting symbols is kinda pointless. Acked-by: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@intel.com> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@kernel.org> Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch> Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de> Cc: Peilin Ye <yepeilin.cs@gmail.com> Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20201029101428.4058311-2-daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch
2020-09-14fbcon: remove now unusued 'softback_lines' cursor() argumentLinus Torvalds1-10/+1
Since the softscroll code got removed, this argument is always zero and makes no sense any more. Tested-by: Yuan Ming <yuanmingbuaa@gmail.com> Tested-by: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu> Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2020-07-27Merge 5.8-rc7 into tty-nextGreg Kroah-Hartman1-2/+2
we need the tty/serial fixes in here as well. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2020-07-23fbdev: Detect integer underflow at "struct fbcon_ops"->clear_margins.Tetsuo Handa1-2/+2
syzbot is reporting general protection fault in bitfill_aligned() [1] caused by integer underflow in bit_clear_margins(). The cause of this problem is when and how do_vc_resize() updates vc->vc_{cols,rows}. If vc_do_resize() fails (e.g. kzalloc() fails) when var.xres or var.yres is going to shrink, vc->vc_{cols,rows} will not be updated. This allows bit_clear_margins() to see info->var.xres < (vc->vc_cols * cw) or info->var.yres < (vc->vc_rows * ch). Unexpectedly large rw or bh will try to overrun the __iomem region and causes general protection fault. Also, vc_resize(vc, 0, 0) does not set vc->vc_{cols,rows} = 0 due to new_cols = (cols ? cols : vc->vc_cols); new_rows = (lines ? lines : vc->vc_rows); exception. Since cols and lines are calculated as cols = FBCON_SWAP(ops->rotate, info->var.xres, info->var.yres); rows = FBCON_SWAP(ops->rotate, info->var.yres, info->var.xres); cols /= vc->vc_font.width; rows /= vc->vc_font.height; vc_resize(vc, cols, rows); in fbcon_modechanged(), var.xres < vc->vc_font.width makes cols = 0 and var.yres < vc->vc_font.height makes rows = 0. This means that const int fd = open("/dev/fb0", O_ACCMODE); struct fb_var_screeninfo var = { }; ioctl(fd, FBIOGET_VSCREENINFO, &var); var.xres = var.yres = 1; ioctl(fd, FBIOPUT_VSCREENINFO, &var); easily reproduces integer underflow bug explained above. Of course, callers of vc_resize() are not handling vc_do_resize() failure is bad. But we can't avoid vc_resize(vc, 0, 0) which returns 0. Therefore, as a band-aid workaround, this patch checks integer underflow in "struct fbcon_ops"->clear_margins call, assuming that vc->vc_cols * vc->vc_font.width and vc->vc_rows * vc->vc_font.heigh do not cause integer overflow. [1] https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?id=a565882df74fa76f10d3a6fec4be31098dbb37c6 Reported-and-tested-by: syzbot <syzbot+e5fd3e65515b48c02a30@syzkaller.appspotmail.com> Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> Acked-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch> Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200715015102.3814-1-penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2020-06-24vt: use newly defined CUR_* macrosJiri Slaby1-1/+1
We defined macros for all the magic constants in the previous patch. So let us use the macro in the code now. No functional change intended. Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> Cc: Thomas Winischhofer <thomas@winischhofer.net> Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@samsung.com> Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de> Cc: linux-usb@vger.kernel.org Cc: dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org Cc: linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org Acked-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200615074910.19267-26-jslaby@suse.cz Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2020-06-24vt: redefine world of cursor macrosJiri Slaby1-1/+1
The cursor code used to use magic constants, ANDs, ORs, and some macros. Redefine all this to make some sense. In particular: * Drop CUR_DEFAULT, which is CUR_UNDERLINE. CUR_DEFAULT was used only for cur_default variable initialization, so use CUR_UNDERLINE there to make obvious what's the default. * Drop CUR_HWMASK. Instead, define CUR_SIZE() which explains it more. And use it all over the places. * Define few more masks and bits which will be used in next patches instead of magic constants. * Define CUR_MAKE to build up cursor value. Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@samsung.com> Cc: dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org Cc: linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200615074910.19267-25-jslaby@suse.cz Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2020-06-24vc: separate stateJiri Slaby1-2/+2
There are two copies of some members of struct vc_data. This is because we need to save them and restore later. Move these memebers to a separate structure called vc_state. So now instead of members like: vc_x, vc_y and vc_saved_x, vc_saved_y we have state and saved_state (of type: struct vc_state) containing state.x, state.y and saved_state.x, saved_state.y This change: * makes clear what is saved & restored * eases save & restore by using memcpy (see save_cur and restore_cur) Finally, we document the newly added struct vc_state using kernel-doc. Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200615074910.19267-1-jslaby@suse.cz Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2018-06-13treewide: kmalloc() -> kmalloc_array()Kees Cook1-3/+4
The kmalloc() function has a 2-factor argument form, kmalloc_array(). This patch replaces cases of: kmalloc(a * b, gfp) with: kmalloc_array(a * b, gfp) as well as handling cases of: kmalloc(a * b * c, gfp) with: kmalloc(array3_size(a, b, c), gfp) as it's slightly less ugly than: kmalloc_array(array_size(a, b), c, gfp) This does, however, attempt to ignore constant size factors like: kmalloc(4 * 1024, gfp) though any constants defined via macros get caught up in the conversion. Any factors with a sizeof() of "unsigned char", "char", and "u8" were dropped, since they're redundant. The tools/ directory was manually excluded, since it has its own implementation of kmalloc(). The Coccinelle script used for this was: // Fix redundant parens around sizeof(). @@ type TYPE; expression THING, E; @@ ( kmalloc( - (sizeof(TYPE)) * E + sizeof(TYPE) * E , ...) | kmalloc( - (sizeof(THING)) * E + sizeof(THING) * E , ...) ) // Drop single-byte sizes and redundant parens. @@ expression COUNT; typedef u8; typedef __u8; @@ ( kmalloc( - sizeof(u8) * (COUNT) + COUNT , ...) | kmalloc( - sizeof(__u8) * (COUNT) + COUNT , ...) | kmalloc( - sizeof(char) * (COUNT) + COUNT , ...) | kmalloc( - sizeof(unsigned char) * (COUNT) + COUNT , ...) | kmalloc( - sizeof(u8) * COUNT + COUNT , ...) | kmalloc( - sizeof(__u8) * COUNT + COUNT , ...) | kmalloc( - sizeof(char) * COUNT + COUNT , ...) | kmalloc( - sizeof(unsigned char) * COUNT + COUNT , ...) ) // 2-factor product with sizeof(type/expression) and identifier or constant. @@ type TYPE; expression THING; identifier COUNT_ID; constant COUNT_CONST; @@ ( - kmalloc + kmalloc_array ( - sizeof(TYPE) * (COUNT_ID) + COUNT_ID, sizeof(TYPE) , ...) | - kmalloc + kmalloc_array ( - sizeof(TYPE) * COUNT_ID + COUNT_ID, sizeof(TYPE) , ...) | - kmalloc + kmalloc_array ( - sizeof(TYPE) * (COUNT_CONST) + COUNT_CONST, sizeof(TYPE) , ...) | - kmalloc + kmalloc_array ( - sizeof(TYPE) * COUNT_CONST + COUNT_CONST, sizeof(TYPE) , ...) | - kmalloc + kmalloc_array ( - sizeof(THING) * (COUNT_ID) + COUNT_ID, sizeof(THING) , ...) | - kmalloc + kmalloc_array ( - sizeof(THING) * COUNT_ID + COUNT_ID, sizeof(THING) , ...) | - kmalloc + kmalloc_array ( - sizeof(THING) * (COUNT_CONST) + COUNT_CONST, sizeof(THING) , ...) | - kmalloc + kmalloc_array ( - sizeof(THING) * COUNT_CONST + COUNT_CONST, sizeof(THING) , ...) ) // 2-factor product, only identifiers. @@ identifier SIZE, COUNT; @@ - kmalloc + kmalloc_array ( - SIZE * COUNT + COUNT, SIZE , ...) // 3-factor product with 1 sizeof(type) or sizeof(expression), with // redundant parens removed. @@ expression THING; identifier STRIDE, COUNT; type TYPE; @@ ( kmalloc( - sizeof(TYPE) * (COUNT) * (STRIDE) + array3_size(COUNT, STRIDE, sizeof(TYPE)) , ...) | kmalloc( - sizeof(TYPE) * (COUNT) * STRIDE + array3_size(COUNT, STRIDE, sizeof(TYPE)) , ...) | kmalloc( - sizeof(TYPE) * COUNT * (STRIDE) + array3_size(COUNT, STRIDE, sizeof(TYPE)) , ...) | kmalloc( - sizeof(TYPE) * COUNT * STRIDE + array3_size(COUNT, STRIDE, sizeof(TYPE)) , ...) | kmalloc( - sizeof(THING) * (COUNT) * (STRIDE) + array3_size(COUNT, STRIDE, sizeof(THING)) , ...) | kmalloc( - sizeof(THING) * (COUNT) * STRIDE + array3_size(COUNT, STRIDE, sizeof(THING)) , ...) | kmalloc( - sizeof(THING) * COUNT * (STRIDE) + array3_size(COUNT, STRIDE, sizeof(THING)) , ...) | kmalloc( - sizeof(THING) * COUNT * STRIDE + array3_size(COUNT, STRIDE, sizeof(THING)) , ...) ) // 3-factor product with 2 sizeof(variable), with redundant parens removed. @@ expression THING1, THING2; identifier COUNT; type TYPE1, TYPE2; @@ ( kmalloc( - sizeof(TYPE1) * sizeof(TYPE2) * COUNT + array3_size(COUNT, sizeof(TYPE1), sizeof(TYPE2)) , ...) | kmalloc( - sizeof(TYPE1) * sizeof(THING2) * (COUNT) + array3_size(COUNT, sizeof(TYPE1), sizeof(TYPE2)) , ...) | kmalloc( - sizeof(THING1) * sizeof(THING2) * COUNT + array3_size(COUNT, sizeof(THING1), sizeof(THING2)) , ...) | kmalloc( - sizeof(THING1) * sizeof(THING2) * (COUNT) + array3_size(COUNT, sizeof(THING1), sizeof(THING2)) , ...) | kmalloc( - sizeof(TYPE1) * sizeof(THING2) * COUNT + array3_size(COUNT, sizeof(TYPE1), sizeof(THING2)) , ...) | kmalloc( - sizeof(TYPE1) * sizeof(THING2) * (COUNT) + array3_size(COUNT, sizeof(TYPE1), sizeof(THING2)) , ...) ) // 3-factor product, only identifiers, with redundant parens removed. @@ identifier STRIDE, SIZE, COUNT; @@ ( kmalloc( - (COUNT) * STRIDE * SIZE + array3_size(COUNT, STRIDE, SIZE) , ...) | kmalloc( - COUNT * (STRIDE) * SIZE + array3_size(COUNT, STRIDE, SIZE) , ...) | kmalloc( - COUNT * STRIDE * (SIZE) + array3_size(COUNT, STRIDE, SIZE) , ...) | kmalloc( - (COUNT) * (STRIDE) * SIZE + array3_size(COUNT, STRIDE, SIZE) , ...) | kmalloc( - COUNT * (STRIDE) * (SIZE) + array3_size(COUNT, STRIDE, SIZE) , ...) | kmalloc( - (COUNT) * STRIDE * (SIZE) + array3_size(COUNT, STRIDE, SIZE) , ...) | kmalloc( - (COUNT) * (STRIDE) * (SIZE) + array3_size(COUNT, STRIDE, SIZE) , ...) | kmalloc( - COUNT * STRIDE * SIZE + array3_size(COUNT, STRIDE, SIZE) , ...) ) // Any remaining multi-factor products, first at least 3-factor products, // when they're not all constants... @@ expression E1, E2, E3; constant C1, C2, C3; @@ ( kmalloc(C1 * C2 * C3, ...) | kmalloc( - (E1) * E2 * E3 + array3_size(E1, E2, E3) , ...) | kmalloc( - (E1) * (E2) * E3 + array3_size(E1, E2, E3) , ...) | kmalloc( - (E1) * (E2) * (E3) + array3_size(E1, E2, E3) , ...) | kmalloc( - E1 * E2 * E3 + array3_size(E1, E2, E3) , ...) ) // And then all remaining 2 factors products when they're not all constants, // keeping sizeof() as the second factor argument. @@ expression THING, E1, E2; type TYPE; constant C1, C2, C3; @@ ( kmalloc(sizeof(THING) * C2, ...) | kmalloc(sizeof(TYPE) * C2, ...) | kmalloc(C1 * C2 * C3, ...) | kmalloc(C1 * C2, ...) | - kmalloc + kmalloc_array ( - sizeof(TYPE) * (E2) + E2, sizeof(TYPE) , ...) | - kmalloc + kmalloc_array ( - sizeof(TYPE) * E2 + E2, sizeof(TYPE) , ...) | - kmalloc + kmalloc_array ( - sizeof(THING) * (E2) + E2, sizeof(THING) , ...) | - kmalloc + kmalloc_array ( - sizeof(THING) * E2 + E2, sizeof(THING) , ...) | - kmalloc + kmalloc_array ( - (E1) * E2 + E1, E2 , ...) | - kmalloc + kmalloc_array ( - (E1) * (E2) + E1, E2 , ...) | - kmalloc + kmalloc_array ( - E1 * E2 + E1, E2 , ...) ) Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
2017-08-18fbcon: add fbcon=margin:<color> command line optionDavid Lechner1-2/+2
This adds a new command line option to select the fbcon margin color. The motivation for this is screens where black does not blend into the physical surroundings of the screen. For example, using an LCD (not the backlit kind), white text on a black background is hard to read, so inverting the colors is preferred. However, when you do this, most of the screen is filled with white but the margins are still filled with black. This makes a big, black, backwards 'L' on the screen. By setting fbcon=margin:7, the margins will be filled with white and the LCD looks as expected. Signed-off-by: David Lechner <david@lechnology.com> [b.zolnierkie: ported over fbcon changes] Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@samsung.com>
2017-08-01fbcon: Make fbcon a built-time depency for fbdevDaniel Vetter1-0/+420
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>
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