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<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>vgacon.c: add cond reschedule points in vgacon_do_font_op</title>
<updated>2013-07-27T04:34:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Marcelo Tosatti</name>
<email>mtosatti@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-06-20T21:05:56+00:00</published>
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commit 7e6d72c15ff4cc0c27573901bb05f9eddbd71ed4 upstream.

Booting a 64-vcpu KVM guest, with CONFIG_PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY,
can result in a soft lockup:

BUG: soft lockup - CPU#41 stuck for 67s! [setfont:1505]
 RIP: 0010:[&lt;ffffffff812c48da&gt;]
[&lt;ffffffff812c48da&gt;] vgacon_do_font_op.clone.0+0x1ba/0x550

This is due to the 8192 (cmapsz) IO operations taking longer than expected
due to lock contention in QEMU.

Add conditional resched points in between writes allowing other tasks to
execute.

Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti &lt;mtosatti@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie &lt;airlied@redhat.com&gt;
[bwh: Backported to 3.2: add #include &lt;linux/sched.h&gt;, already present
 upstream]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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commit 7e6d72c15ff4cc0c27573901bb05f9eddbd71ed4 upstream.

Booting a 64-vcpu KVM guest, with CONFIG_PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY,
can result in a soft lockup:

BUG: soft lockup - CPU#41 stuck for 67s! [setfont:1505]
 RIP: 0010:[&lt;ffffffff812c48da&gt;]
[&lt;ffffffff812c48da&gt;] vgacon_do_font_op.clone.0+0x1ba/0x550

This is due to the 8192 (cmapsz) IO operations taking longer than expected
due to lock contention in QEMU.

Add conditional resched points in between writes allowing other tasks to
execute.

Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti &lt;mtosatti@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie &lt;airlied@redhat.com&gt;
[bwh: Backported to 3.2: add #include &lt;linux/sched.h&gt;, already present
 upstream]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>fbcon: when font is freed, clear also vc_font.data</title>
<updated>2013-05-13T14:02:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mika Kuoppala</name>
<email>mika.kuoppala@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-04-22T11:19:26+00:00</published>
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commit e6637d5427d2af9f3f33b95447bfc5347e5ccd85 upstream.

commit ae1287865f5361fa138d4d3b1b6277908b54eac9
Author: Dave Airlie &lt;airlied@redhat.com&gt;
Date:   Thu Jan 24 16:12:41 2013 +1000

    fbcon: don't lose the console font across generic-&gt;chip driver switch

uses a pointer in vc-&gt;vc_font.data to load font into the new driver.
However if the font is actually freed, we need to clear the data
so that we don't reload font from dangling pointer.

Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=892340
Signed-off-by: Mika Kuoppala &lt;mika.kuoppala@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie &lt;airlied@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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commit e6637d5427d2af9f3f33b95447bfc5347e5ccd85 upstream.

commit ae1287865f5361fa138d4d3b1b6277908b54eac9
Author: Dave Airlie &lt;airlied@redhat.com&gt;
Date:   Thu Jan 24 16:12:41 2013 +1000

    fbcon: don't lose the console font across generic-&gt;chip driver switch

uses a pointer in vc-&gt;vc_font.data to load font into the new driver.
However if the font is actually freed, we need to clear the data
so that we don't reload font from dangling pointer.

Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=892340
Signed-off-by: Mika Kuoppala &lt;mika.kuoppala@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie &lt;airlied@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>fbcon: fix locking harder</title>
<updated>2013-04-25T19:25:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dave Airlie</name>
<email>airlied@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-01-25T01:38:56+00:00</published>
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commit 054430e773c9a1e26f38e30156eff02dedfffc17 upstream.

Okay so Alan's patch handled the case where there was no registered fbcon,
however the other path entered in set_con2fb_map pit.

In there we called fbcon_takeover, but we also took the console lock in a couple
of places. So push the console lock out to the callers of set_con2fb_map,

this means fbmem and switcheroo needed to take the lock around the fb notifier
entry points that lead to this.

This should fix the efifb regression seen by Maarten.

Tested-by: Maarten Lankhorst &lt;maarten.lankhorst@canonical.com&gt;
Tested-by: Lu Hua &lt;huax.lu@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie &lt;airlied@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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commit 054430e773c9a1e26f38e30156eff02dedfffc17 upstream.

Okay so Alan's patch handled the case where there was no registered fbcon,
however the other path entered in set_con2fb_map pit.

In there we called fbcon_takeover, but we also took the console lock in a couple
of places. So push the console lock out to the callers of set_con2fb_map,

this means fbmem and switcheroo needed to take the lock around the fb notifier
entry points that lead to this.

This should fix the efifb regression seen by Maarten.

Tested-by: Maarten Lankhorst &lt;maarten.lankhorst@canonical.com&gt;
Tested-by: Lu Hua &lt;huax.lu@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie &lt;airlied@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>fb: Yet another band-aid for fixing lockdep mess</title>
<updated>2013-03-06T03:23:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Takashi Iwai</name>
<email>tiwai@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2013-01-25T00:28:18+00:00</published>
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commit e93a9a868792ad71cdd09d75e5a02d8067473c4e upstream.

I've still got lockdep warnings even after Alan's patch, and it seems that
yet more band aids are required to paper over similar paths for
unbind_con_driver() and unregister_con_driver().  After this hack, lockdep
warnings are finally gone.

Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai &lt;tiwai@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Alan Cox &lt;alan@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Florian Tobias Schandinat &lt;FlorianSchandinat@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: Jiri Kosina &lt;jkosina@suse.cz&gt;
Tested-by: Sedat Dilek &lt;sedat.dilek@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie &lt;airlied@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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commit e93a9a868792ad71cdd09d75e5a02d8067473c4e upstream.

I've still got lockdep warnings even after Alan's patch, and it seems that
yet more band aids are required to paper over similar paths for
unbind_con_driver() and unregister_con_driver().  After this hack, lockdep
warnings are finally gone.

Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai &lt;tiwai@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Alan Cox &lt;alan@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Florian Tobias Schandinat &lt;FlorianSchandinat@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: Jiri Kosina &lt;jkosina@suse.cz&gt;
Tested-by: Sedat Dilek &lt;sedat.dilek@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie &lt;airlied@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>fb: rework locking to fix lock ordering on takeover</title>
<updated>2013-03-06T03:23:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alan Cox</name>
<email>alan@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-01-25T00:28:15+00:00</published>
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commit 50e244cc793d511b86adea24972f3a7264cae114 upstream.

Adjust the console layer to allow a take over call where the caller
already holds the locks.  Make the fb layer lock in order.

This is partly a band aid, the fb layer is terminally confused about the
locking rules it uses for its notifiers it seems.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: remove stray non-ascii char, tidy comment]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: export do_take_over_console()]
[airlied: cleanup another non-ascii char]
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox &lt;alan@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Florian Tobias Schandinat &lt;FlorianSchandinat@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: Stephen Rothwell &lt;sfr@canb.auug.org.au&gt;
Cc: Jiri Kosina &lt;jkosina@suse.cz&gt;
Tested-by: Sedat Dilek &lt;sedat.dilek@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Daniel Vetter &lt;daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie &lt;airlied@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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commit 50e244cc793d511b86adea24972f3a7264cae114 upstream.

Adjust the console layer to allow a take over call where the caller
already holds the locks.  Make the fb layer lock in order.

This is partly a band aid, the fb layer is terminally confused about the
locking rules it uses for its notifiers it seems.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: remove stray non-ascii char, tidy comment]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: export do_take_over_console()]
[airlied: cleanup another non-ascii char]
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox &lt;alan@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Florian Tobias Schandinat &lt;FlorianSchandinat@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: Stephen Rothwell &lt;sfr@canb.auug.org.au&gt;
Cc: Jiri Kosina &lt;jkosina@suse.cz&gt;
Tested-by: Sedat Dilek &lt;sedat.dilek@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Daniel Vetter &lt;daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie &lt;airlied@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>fbcon: don't lose the console font across generic-&gt;chip driver switch</title>
<updated>2013-03-06T03:23:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dave Airlie</name>
<email>airlied@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-01-24T06:12:41+00:00</published>
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commit ae1287865f5361fa138d4d3b1b6277908b54eac9 upstream.

If grub2 loads efifb/vesafb, then when systemd starts it can set the console
font on that framebuffer device, however when we then load the native KMS
driver, the first thing it does is tear down the generic framebuffer driver.

The thing is the generic code is doing the right thing, it frees the font
because otherwise it would leak memory. However we can assume that if you
are removing the generic firmware driver (vesa/efi/offb), that a new driver
*should* be loading soon after, so we effectively leak the font.

However the old code left a dangling pointer in vc-&gt;vc_font.data and we
can now reuse that dangling pointer to load the font into the new
driver, now that we aren't freeing it.

Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=892340

Cc: Kay Sievers &lt;kay.sievers@vrfy.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie &lt;airlied@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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commit ae1287865f5361fa138d4d3b1b6277908b54eac9 upstream.

If grub2 loads efifb/vesafb, then when systemd starts it can set the console
font on that framebuffer device, however when we then load the native KMS
driver, the first thing it does is tear down the generic framebuffer driver.

The thing is the generic code is doing the right thing, it frees the font
because otherwise it would leak memory. However we can assume that if you
are removing the generic firmware driver (vesa/efi/offb), that a new driver
*should* be loading soon after, so we effectively leak the font.

However the old code left a dangling pointer in vc-&gt;vc_font.data and we
can now reuse that dangling pointer to load the font into the new
driver, now that we aren't freeing it.

Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=892340

Cc: Kay Sievers &lt;kay.sievers@vrfy.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie &lt;airlied@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>vgacon/vt: clear buffer attributes when we load a 512 character font (v2)</title>
<updated>2013-03-06T03:23:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dave Airlie</name>
<email>airlied@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-01-24T04:14:19+00:00</published>
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commit 2a2483072393b27f4336ab068a1f48ca19ff1c1e upstream.

When we switch from 256-&gt;512 byte font rendering mode, it means the
current contents of the screen is being reinterpreted. The bit that holds
the high bit of the 9-bit font, may have been previously set, and thus
the new font misrenders.

The problem case we see is grub2 writes spaces with the bit set, so it
ends up with data like 0x820, which gets reinterpreted into 0x120 char
which the font translates into G with a circumflex. This flashes up on
screen at boot and is quite ugly.

A current side effect of this patch though is that any rendering on the
screen changes color to a slightly darker color, but at least the screen
no longer corrupts.

v2: as suggested by hpa, always clear the attribute space, whether we
are are going to or from 512 chars.

Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie &lt;airlied@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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commit 2a2483072393b27f4336ab068a1f48ca19ff1c1e upstream.

When we switch from 256-&gt;512 byte font rendering mode, it means the
current contents of the screen is being reinterpreted. The bit that holds
the high bit of the 9-bit font, may have been previously set, and thus
the new font misrenders.

The problem case we see is grub2 writes spaces with the bit set, so it
ends up with data like 0x820, which gets reinterpreted into 0x120 char
which the font translates into G with a circumflex. This flashes up on
screen at boot and is quite ugly.

A current side effect of this patch though is that any rendering on the
screen changes color to a slightly darker color, but at least the screen
no longer corrupts.

v2: as suggested by hpa, always clear the attribute space, whether we
are are going to or from 512 chars.

Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie &lt;airlied@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>fbcon: fix race condition between console lock and cursor timer (v1.1)</title>
<updated>2012-09-12T02:37:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dave Airlie</name>
<email>airlied@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-08-21T06:29:47+00:00</published>
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commit d8636a2717bb3da2a7ce2154bf08de90bb8c87b0 upstream.

So we've had a fair few reports of fbcon handover breakage between
efi/vesafb and i915 surface recently, so I dedicated a couple of
days to finding the problem.

Essentially the last thing we saw was the conflicting framebuffer
message and that was all.

So after much tracing with direct netconsole writes (printks
under console_lock not so useful), I think I found the race.

Thread A (driver load)    Thread B (timer thread)
  unbind_con_driver -&gt;              |
  bind_con_driver -&gt;                |
  vc-&gt;vc_sw-&gt;con_deinit -&gt;          |
  fbcon_deinit -&gt;                   |
  console_lock()                    |
      |                             |
      |                       fbcon_flashcursor timer fires
      |                       console_lock() &lt;- blocked for A
      |
      |
fbcon_del_cursor_timer -&gt;
  del_timer_sync
  (BOOM)

Of course because all of this is under the console lock,
we never see anything, also since we also just unbound the active
console guess what we never see anything.

Hopefully this fixes the problem for anyone seeing vesafb-&gt;kms
driver handoff.

v1.1: add comment suggestion from Alan.

Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie &lt;airlied@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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commit d8636a2717bb3da2a7ce2154bf08de90bb8c87b0 upstream.

So we've had a fair few reports of fbcon handover breakage between
efi/vesafb and i915 surface recently, so I dedicated a couple of
days to finding the problem.

Essentially the last thing we saw was the conflicting framebuffer
message and that was all.

So after much tracing with direct netconsole writes (printks
under console_lock not so useful), I think I found the race.

Thread A (driver load)    Thread B (timer thread)
  unbind_con_driver -&gt;              |
  bind_con_driver -&gt;                |
  vc-&gt;vc_sw-&gt;con_deinit -&gt;          |
  fbcon_deinit -&gt;                   |
  console_lock()                    |
      |                             |
      |                       fbcon_flashcursor timer fires
      |                       console_lock() &lt;- blocked for A
      |
      |
fbcon_del_cursor_timer -&gt;
  del_timer_sync
  (BOOM)

Of course because all of this is under the console lock,
we never see anything, also since we also just unbound the active
console guess what we never see anything.

Hopefully this fixes the problem for anyone seeing vesafb-&gt;kms
driver handoff.

v1.1: add comment suggestion from Alan.

Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie &lt;airlied@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>locking, video: Annotate vga console lock as raw</title>
<updated>2011-09-13T09:12:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2009-07-25T14:17:02+00:00</published>
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The vga_lock lock can be taken in atomic context and therefore
cannot be preempted on -rt - annotate it.

In mainline this change documents the low level nature of
the lock - otherwise there's no functional difference. Lockdep
and Sparse checking will work as usual.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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The vga_lock lock can be taken in atomic context and therefore
cannot be preempted on -rt - annotate it.

In mainline this change documents the low level nature of
the lock - otherwise there's no functional difference. Lockdep
and Sparse checking will work as usual.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'master' into for-next</title>
<updated>2011-04-26T08:22:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jiri Kosina</name>
<email>jkosina@suse.cz</email>
</author>
<published>2011-04-26T08:22:15+00:00</published>
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Fast-forwarded to current state of Linus' tree as there are patches to be
applied for files that didn't exist on the old branch.
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Fast-forwarded to current state of Linus' tree as there are patches to be
applied for files that didn't exist on the old branch.
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