linux-toradex.git/drivers/video/console/Kconfig, branch v5.0

fbcon: Only allow FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE_DEFERRED_TAKEOVER if fbdev is builtin

2018-08-10T15:23:01+00:00

Having FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE_DEFERRED_TAKEOVER with fbdev+fbcon being build
as a module does not make much sense.

Having FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE_DEFERRED_TAKEOVER only when fbdev+fbcon are
builtin was always the intention, hence the =y checks but they were
checking the wrong option, fbcon is build as part of fb.ko, so we must
check for FB=y.

Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede 
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz

console/fbcon: Add support for deferred console takeover

2018-06-28T13:20:30+00:00

Currently fbcon claims fbdevs as soon as they are registered and takes over
the console as soon as the first fbdev gets registered.

This behavior is undesirable in cases where a smooth graphical bootup is
desired, in such cases we typically want the contents of the framebuffer
(typically a vendor logo) to stay in place as is.

The current solution for this problem (on embedded systems) is to not
enable fbcon.

This commit adds a new FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE_DEFERRED_TAKEOVER config option,
which when enabled defers fbcon taking over the console from the dummy
console until the first text is displayed on the console. Together with the
"quiet" kernel commandline option, this allows fbcon to still be used
together with a smooth graphical bootup, having it take over the console as
soon as e.g. an error message is logged.

Note the choice to detect the first console output in the dummycon driver,
rather then handling this entirely inside the fbcon code, was made after
2 failed attempts to handle this entirely inside the fbcon code. The fbcon
code is woven quite tightly into the console code, making this to only
feasible option.

Reviewed-by: Daniel Vetter 
Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede 
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz

Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux

2018-04-09T16:04:10+00:00

Pull s390 updates from Martin Schwidefsky:

 - Improvements for the spectre defense:
    * The spectre related code is consolidated to a single file
      nospec-branch.c
    * Automatic enable/disable for the spectre v2 defenses (expoline vs.
      nobp)
    * Syslog messages for specve v2 are added
    * Enable CONFIG_GENERIC_CPU_VULNERABILITIES and define the attribute
      functions for spectre v1 and v2

 - Add helper macros for assembler alternatives and use them to shorten
   the code in entry.S.

 - Add support for persistent configuration data via the SCLP Store Data
   interface. The H/W interface requires a page table that uses 4K pages
   only, the code to setup such an address space is added as well.

 - Enable virtio GPU emulation in QEMU. To do this the depends
   statements for a few common Kconfig options are modified.

 - Add support for format-3 channel path descriptors and add a binary
   sysfs interface to export the associated utility strings.

 - Add a sysfs attribute to control the IFCC handling in case of
   constant channel errors.

 - The vfio-ccw changes from Cornelia.

 - Bug fixes and cleanups.

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux: (40 commits)
  s390/kvm: improve stack frame constants in entry.S
  s390/lpp: use assembler alternatives for the LPP instruction
  s390/entry.S: use assembler alternatives
  s390: add assembler macros for CPU alternatives
  s390: add sysfs attributes for spectre
  s390: report spectre mitigation via syslog
  s390: add automatic detection of the spectre defense
  s390: move nobp parameter functions to nospec-branch.c
  s390/cio: add util_string sysfs attribute
  s390/chsc: query utility strings via fmt3 channel path descriptor
  s390/cio: rename struct channel_path_desc
  s390/cio: fix unbind of io_subchannel_driver
  s390/qdio: split up CCQ handling for EQBS / SQBS
  s390/qdio: don't retry EQBS after CCQ 96
  s390/qdio: restrict buffer merging to eligible devices
  s390/qdio: don't merge ERROR output buffers
  s390/qdio: simplify math in get_*_buffer_frontier()
  s390/decompressor: trim uncompressed image head during the build
  s390/crypto: Fix kernel crash on aes_s390 module remove.
  s390/defkeymap: fix global init to zero
  ...

Merge tag 'arch-removal' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/asm-generic

2018-04-03T03:20:12+00:00

Pul removal of obsolete architecture ports from Arnd Bergmann:
 "This removes the entire architecture code for blackfin, cris, frv,
  m32r, metag, mn10300, score, and tile, including the associated device
  drivers.

  I have been working with the (former) maintainers for each one to
  ensure that my interpretation was right and the code is definitely
  unused in mainline kernels. Many had fond memories of working on the
  respective ports to start with and getting them included in upstream,
  but also saw no point in keeping the port alive without any users.

  In the end, it seems that while the eight architectures are extremely
  different, they all suffered the same fate: There was one company in
  charge of an SoC line, a CPU microarchitecture and a software
  ecosystem, which was more costly than licensing newer off-the-shelf
  CPU cores from a third party (typically ARM, MIPS, or RISC-V). It
  seems that all the SoC product lines are still around, but have not
  used the custom CPU architectures for several years at this point. In
  contrast, CPU instruction sets that remain popular and have actively
  maintained kernel ports tend to all be used across multiple licensees.

  [ See the new nds32 port merged in the previous commit for the next
    generation of "one company in charge of an SoC line, a CPU
    microarchitecture and a software ecosystem"   - Linus ]

  The removal came out of a discussion that is now documented at
  https://lwn.net/Articles/748074/. Unlike the original plans, I'm not
  marking any ports as deprecated but remove them all at once after I
  made sure that they are all unused. Some architectures (notably tile,
  mn10300, and blackfin) are still being shipped in products with old
  kernels, but those products will never be updated to newer kernel
  releases.

  After this series, we still have a few architectures without mainline
  gcc support:

   - unicore32 and hexagon both have very outdated gcc releases, but the
     maintainers promised to work on providing something newer. At least
     in case of hexagon, this will only be llvm, not gcc.

   - openrisc, risc-v and nds32 are still in the process of finishing
     their support or getting it added to mainline gcc in the first
     place. They all have patched gcc-7.3 ports that work to some
     degree, but complete upstream support won't happen before gcc-8.1.
     Csky posted their first kernel patch set last week, their situation
     will be similar

  [ Palmer Dabbelt points out that RISC-V support is in mainline gcc
    since gcc-7, although gcc-7.3.0 is the recommended minimum  - Linus ]"

This really says it all:

 2498 files changed, 95 insertions(+), 467668 deletions(-)

* tag 'arch-removal' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/asm-generic: (74 commits)
  MAINTAINERS: UNICORE32: Change email account
  staging: iio: remove iio-trig-bfin-timer driver
  tty: hvc: remove tile driver
  tty: remove bfin_jtag_comm and hvc_bfin_jtag drivers
  serial: remove tile uart driver
  serial: remove m32r_sio driver
  serial: remove blackfin drivers
  serial: remove cris/etrax uart drivers
  usb: Remove Blackfin references in USB support
  usb: isp1362: remove blackfin arch glue
  usb: musb: remove blackfin port
  usb: host: remove tilegx platform glue
  pwm: remove pwm-bfin driver
  i2c: remove bfin-twi driver
  spi: remove blackfin related host drivers
  watchdog: remove bfin_wdt driver
  can: remove bfin_can driver
  mmc: remove bfin_sdh driver
  input: misc: remove blackfin rotary driver
  input: keyboard: remove bf54x driver
  ...

treewide: simplify Kconfig dependencies for removed archs

2018-03-26T13:55:57+00:00

A lot of Kconfig symbols have architecture specific dependencies.
In those cases that depend on architectures we have already removed,
they can be omitted.

Acked-by: Kalle Valo 
Acked-by: Alexandre Belloni 
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann

s390/setup : enable display support for KVM guest

2018-03-19T06:01:58+00:00

The S390 architecture does not support any graphics hardware,
but with the latest support for Virtio GPU in Linux and Virtio
GPU emulation in QEMU, it's possible to enable graphics for
S390 using the Virtio GPU device.

To enable display we need to enable the Linux Virtual Terminal (VT)
layer for S390. But the VT subsystem initializes quite early
at boot so we need a dummy console driver till the Virtio GPU
driver is initialized and we can run the framebuffer console.

The framebuffer console over a Virtio GPU device can be run
in combination with the serial SCLP console (default on S390).
The SCLP console can still be accessed by management applications
(eg: via Libvirt's virsh console).

Signed-off-by: Farhan Ali 
Acked-by: Christian Borntraeger 
Reviewed-by: Thomas Huth 
Message-Id: 
Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger 
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman 
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky

Kconfig : Remove HAS_IOMEM dependency for Graphics support

2018-03-19T06:01:54+00:00

The 'commit e25df1205f37 ("[S390] Kconfig: menus with depends on HAS_IOMEM.")'
added the HAS_IOMEM dependecy for "Graphics support". This disabled the
"Graphics support" menu for S390. But if we enable VT layer for S390,
we would also need to enable the dummy console. So let's remove the
HAS_IOMEM dependency.

Move this dependency to sub menu items and console drivers that use
io memory.

Signed-off-by: Farhan Ali 
Reviewed-by: Thomas Huth 
Message-Id: <6e8ef238162df5be4462126be155975c722e9863.1519315352.git.alifm@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz 
Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger 
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky

mn10300: Remove the architecture

2018-03-09T22:19:56+00:00

Remove the MN10300 arch as the hardware is defunct.

Suggested-by: Arnd Bergmann 
Signed-off-by: David Howells 
cc: Masahiro Yamada 
cc: linux-am33-list@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann

drivers/video/concole: add negative dependency for VGA_CONSOLE on nds32

2018-02-22T02:44:30+00:00

nds32 does not support VGA console, so prevent that kconfig symbol from
being enabled for nds32, thus fixing these build errors:

  drivers/video/console/vgacon.o: In function `vgacon_save_screen':
  /NOBACKUP/sqa2/greentime/contrib/src_pkg/linux-nds32/drivers/video/console/vgacon.c:1327:
  undefined reference to `screen_info'
  /NOBACKUP/sqa2/greentime/contrib/src_pkg/linux-nds32/drivers/video/console/vgacon.c:1327:
  undefined reference to `screen_info'
  /NOBACKUP/sqa2/greentime/contrib/src_pkg/linux-nds32/drivers/video/console/vgacon.c:1328:
  undefined reference to `screen_info'
  /NOBACKUP/sqa2/greentime/contrib/src_pkg/linux-nds32/drivers/video/console/vgacon.c:1328:
  undefined reference to `screen_info'
  drivers/video/console/vgacon.o: In function `vgacon_init':
  /NOBACKUP/sqa2/greentime/contrib/src_pkg/linux-nds32/drivers/video/console/vgacon.c:591:
  undefined reference to `screen_info'
  drivers/video/console/vgacon.o:/NOBACKUP/sqa2/greentime/contrib/src_pkg/linux-nds32/drivers/video/console/vgacon.c:591:
  more undefined references to `screen_info' follow
  make: *** [vmlinux] Error 1

Signed-off-by: Greentime Hu

fbcon: Make fbcon a built-time depency for fbdev

2017-08-01T15:32:07+00:00

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 
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 
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 
Cc: Alan Cox 
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky 
Cc: Steven Rostedt 
Reviewed-by: Sean Paul 
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz