fbdev: Provide I/O-memory helpers as module

[ Upstream commit 6b180f66c0dd6266eeb2f74b59ee79a9f14fe430 ]

Provide helpers for accessing I/O memory in a helper module. The fbdev
core uses these helpe

fbdev: Provide I/O-memory helpers as module

[ Upstream commit 6b180f66c0dd6266eeb2f74b59ee79a9f14fe430 ]

Provide helpers for accessing I/O memory in a helper module. The fbdev
core uses these helpers, so select the module unconditionally for fbdev.
Drivers will later be able to select the module individually and the
helpers will become optional.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javierm@redhat.com>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20230927074722.6197-2-tzimmermann@suse.de
Stable-dep-of: 01c0cce88c54 ("drm/omapdrm: Fix console with deferred ops")
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>

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fbdev: Provide I/O-memory helpers as module

[ Upstream commit 6b180f66c0dd6266eeb2f74b59ee79a9f14fe430 ]

Provide helpers for accessing I/O memory in a helper module. The fbdev
core uses these helpe

fbdev: Provide I/O-memory helpers as module

[ Upstream commit 6b180f66c0dd6266eeb2f74b59ee79a9f14fe430 ]

Provide helpers for accessing I/O memory in a helper module. The fbdev
core uses these helpers, so select the module unconditionally for fbdev.
Drivers will later be able to select the module individually and the
helpers will become optional.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javierm@redhat.com>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20230927074722.6197-2-tzimmermann@suse.de
Stable-dep-of: 01c0cce88c54 ("drm/omapdrm: Fix console with deferred ops")
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>

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fbdev: Provide I/O-memory helpers as module

[ Upstream commit 6b180f66c0dd6266eeb2f74b59ee79a9f14fe430 ]

Provide helpers for accessing I/O memory in a helper module. The fbdev
core uses these helpe

fbdev: Provide I/O-memory helpers as module

[ Upstream commit 6b180f66c0dd6266eeb2f74b59ee79a9f14fe430 ]

Provide helpers for accessing I/O memory in a helper module. The fbdev
core uses these helpers, so select the module unconditionally for fbdev.
Drivers will later be able to select the module individually and the
helpers will become optional.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javierm@redhat.com>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20230927074722.6197-2-tzimmermann@suse.de
Stable-dep-of: 01c0cce88c54 ("drm/omapdrm: Fix console with deferred ops")
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>

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fbdev: Provide I/O-memory helpers as module

[ Upstream commit 6b180f66c0dd6266eeb2f74b59ee79a9f14fe430 ]

Provide helpers for accessing I/O memory in a helper module. The fbdev
core uses these helpe

fbdev: Provide I/O-memory helpers as module

[ Upstream commit 6b180f66c0dd6266eeb2f74b59ee79a9f14fe430 ]

Provide helpers for accessing I/O memory in a helper module. The fbdev
core uses these helpers, so select the module unconditionally for fbdev.
Drivers will later be able to select the module individually and the
helpers will become optional.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javierm@redhat.com>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20230927074722.6197-2-tzimmermann@suse.de
Stable-dep-of: 01c0cce88c54 ("drm/omapdrm: Fix console with deferred ops")
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>

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fbdev: Provide I/O-memory helpers as module

[ Upstream commit 6b180f66c0dd6266eeb2f74b59ee79a9f14fe430 ]

Provide helpers for accessing I/O memory in a helper module. The fbdev
core uses these helpe

fbdev: Provide I/O-memory helpers as module

[ Upstream commit 6b180f66c0dd6266eeb2f74b59ee79a9f14fe430 ]

Provide helpers for accessing I/O memory in a helper module. The fbdev
core uses these helpers, so select the module unconditionally for fbdev.
Drivers will later be able to select the module individually and the
helpers will become optional.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javierm@redhat.com>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20230927074722.6197-2-tzimmermann@suse.de
Stable-dep-of: 01c0cce88c54 ("drm/omapdrm: Fix console with deferred ops")
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>

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fbdev: Provide I/O-memory helpers as module

[ Upstream commit 6b180f66c0dd6266eeb2f74b59ee79a9f14fe430 ]

Provide helpers for accessing I/O memory in a helper module. The fbdev
core uses these helpe

fbdev: Provide I/O-memory helpers as module

[ Upstream commit 6b180f66c0dd6266eeb2f74b59ee79a9f14fe430 ]

Provide helpers for accessing I/O memory in a helper module. The fbdev
core uses these helpers, so select the module unconditionally for fbdev.
Drivers will later be able to select the module individually and the
helpers will become optional.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javierm@redhat.com>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20230927074722.6197-2-tzimmermann@suse.de
Stable-dep-of: 01c0cce88c54 ("drm/omapdrm: Fix console with deferred ops")
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>

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fbdev: Provide I/O-memory helpers as module

[ Upstream commit 6b180f66c0dd6266eeb2f74b59ee79a9f14fe430 ]

Provide helpers for accessing I/O memory in a helper module. The fbdev
core uses these helpe

fbdev: Provide I/O-memory helpers as module

[ Upstream commit 6b180f66c0dd6266eeb2f74b59ee79a9f14fe430 ]

Provide helpers for accessing I/O memory in a helper module. The fbdev
core uses these helpers, so select the module unconditionally for fbdev.
Drivers will later be able to select the module individually and the
helpers will become optional.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javierm@redhat.com>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20230927074722.6197-2-tzimmermann@suse.de
Stable-dep-of: 01c0cce88c54 ("drm/omapdrm: Fix console with deferred ops")
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>

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fbdev: Split frame buffer support in FB and FB_CORE symbols

Currently the CONFIG_FB option has to be enabled even if no legacy fbdev
drivers are needed (e.g: only to have support for framebuffer con

fbdev: Split frame buffer support in FB and FB_CORE symbols

Currently the CONFIG_FB option has to be enabled even if no legacy fbdev
drivers are needed (e.g: only to have support for framebuffer consoles).

The DRM subsystem has a fbdev emulation layer, but depends on CONFIG_FB
and so it can only be enabled if that dependency is enabled as well.

That means fbdev drivers have to be explicitly disabled if users want to
enable CONFIG_FB, only to use fbcon and/or the DRM fbdev emulation layer.

This patch introduces a non-visible CONFIG_FB_CORE symbol that could be
enabled just to have core support needed for CONFIG_DRM_FBDEV_EMULATION,
allowing CONFIG_FB to be disabled (and automatically disabling all the
fbdev drivers).

Nothing from fb_backlight.o and fbmon.o is used by the DRM fbdev emulation
layer so these two objects can be compiled out when CONFIG_FB is disabled.

Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javierm@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Tested-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20230719081544.741051-4-javierm@redhat.com

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fbdev: Make support for userspace interfaces configurable

Add Kconfig option CONFIG_FB_DEVICE and make the virtual fbdev
device optional. If the new option has not been selected, fbdev
does not crea

fbdev: Make support for userspace interfaces configurable

Add Kconfig option CONFIG_FB_DEVICE and make the virtual fbdev
device optional. If the new option has not been selected, fbdev
does not create files in devfs, sysfs or procfs.

Most modern Linux systems run a DRM-based graphics stack that uses
the kernel's framebuffer console, but has otherwise deprecated fbdev
support. Yet fbdev userspace interfaces are still present.

The option makes it possible to use the fbdev subsystem as console
implementation without support for userspace. This closes potential
entry points to manipulate kernel or I/O memory via framebuffers. It
also prevents the execution of driver code via ioctl or sysfs, both
of which might allow malicious software to exploit bugs in the fbdev
code.

A small number of fbdev drivers require struct fbinfo.dev to be
initialized, usually for the support of sysfs interface. Make these
drivers depend on FB_DEVICE. They can later be fixed if necessary.

v3:
* effect -> affect in Kconfig help (Daniel)
v2:
* set FB_DEVICE default to y (Geert)
* comment on {get,put}_device() (Sam)
* Kconfig fixes (Sam)
* add TODO item about FB_DEVICE dependencies (Sam)

Signed-off-by: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20230613110953.24176-39-tzimmermann@suse.de

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fbdev/core: Move file-I/O code into separate file

Move fbdev's file-I/O code into a separate file and contain it in
init and cleanup helpers. No functional changes.

v3:
* add missing file fb_chrde

fbdev/core: Move file-I/O code into separate file

Move fbdev's file-I/O code into a separate file and contain it in
init and cleanup helpers. No functional changes.

v3:
* add missing file fb_chrdev.c
v2:
* rename source file (Sam)
* include <linux/compat.h> (Javier, kernel test robot)

Signed-off-by: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20230613110953.24176-37-tzimmermann@suse.de

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fbdev/core: Move procfs code to separate file

Move fbdev's procfs code into a separate file and contain it in
init and cleanup helpers. For the cleanup, replace remove_proc_entry()
with proc_remove(

fbdev/core: Move procfs code to separate file

Move fbdev's procfs code into a separate file and contain it in
init and cleanup helpers. For the cleanup, replace remove_proc_entry()
with proc_remove(). It is equivalent in functionality, but looks
more like an inverse of proc_create_seq().

v2:
* document proc_remove() usage (Sam)
* revert unrelated removal of for_each_registered_fb()

Signed-off-by: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20230613110953.24176-36-tzimmermann@suse.de

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fbdev/core: Move framebuffer and backlight helpers into separate files

Move framebuffer and backlight helpers into separate files. Leave
fbsysfs.c to sysfs-related code. No functional changes.

The

fbdev/core: Move framebuffer and backlight helpers into separate files

Move framebuffer and backlight helpers into separate files. Leave
fbsysfs.c to sysfs-related code. No functional changes.

The framebuffer helpers are not in fbmem.c because they are under
GPL-2.0-or-later copyright, while fbmem.c is GPL-2.0.

v2:
* include <linux/mutex.h> (Sam)

Signed-off-by: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20230613110953.24176-34-tzimmermann@suse.de

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fbdev: Move I/O read and write code into helper functions

Move the existing I/O read and write code for I/O memory into
the new helpers fb_cfb_read() and fb_cfb_write(). Make them the
default fp_ops

fbdev: Move I/O read and write code into helper functions

Move the existing I/O read and write code for I/O memory into
the new helpers fb_cfb_read() and fb_cfb_write(). Make them the
default fp_ops. No functional changes.

In the near term, the new functions will be useful to the DRM
subsystem, which currently provides it's own implementation. It
can then use the shared code. In the longer term, it might make
sense to revise the I/O helper's default status and make them
opt-in by the driver. Systems that don't use them would not
contain the code any longer.

v2:
* add detailed commit message (Javier)
* rename fb_cfb_() to fb_io_() (Geert)
* add fixes that got lost while moving the code (Geert)

Signed-off-by: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
Tested-by: Sui Jingfeng <suijingfeng@loongson.cn>
Reviewed-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javierm@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Reviewed-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20230428122452.4856-19-tzimmermann@suse.de

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fbdev: Handle video= parameter in video/cmdline.c

Handle the command-line parameter video= in video/cmdline.c. Implement
the fbdev helper fb_get_options() on top. Will allows to handle the
kernel pa

fbdev: Handle video= parameter in video/cmdline.c

Handle the command-line parameter video= in video/cmdline.c. Implement
the fbdev helper fb_get_options() on top. Will allows to handle the
kernel parameter in DRM without fbdev dependencies.

Note that __video_get_options() has the meaning of its return value
inverted compared to fb_get_options(). The new helper returns true if
the adapter has been enabled, and false otherwise.

There is the ofonly parameter, which disables output for non-OF-based
framebuffers. It is only for offb and looks like a workaround. The actual
purpose it not clear to me. Use 'video=off' or 'nomodeset' instead.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javierm@redhat.com>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20230209135509.7786-9-tzimmermann@suse.de

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fbdev: remove object duplication in Makefile

The objects in $(fb-objs) $(fb-y) $(fb-m) are linked to fb.ko .

This line adds $(fb-y) to fb-objs, so the objects from $(fb-y) are
listed twice as the d

fbdev: remove object duplication in Makefile

The objects in $(fb-objs) $(fb-y) $(fb-m) are linked to fb.ko .

This line adds $(fb-y) to fb-objs, so the objects from $(fb-y) are
listed twice as the dependency of the module.

It works because Kbuild trims the duplicated objects from linking,
but there is no good reason to have this line.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@samsung.com>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20200106081352.27730-1-masahiroy@kernel.org

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fbcon: Remove dmi quirk table

This is now all handled in the drivers and communicated through
fb_info.fbcon_rotate_hint.

Acked-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by

fbcon: Remove dmi quirk table

This is now all handled in the drivers and communicated through
fb_info.fbcon_rotate_hint.

Acked-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20171125193553.23986-8-hdegoede@redhat.com

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License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license

Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which
makes it harder for compliance tools to determine

License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license

Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which
makes it harder for compliance tools to determine the correct license.

By default all files without license information are under the default
license of the kernel, which is GPL version 2.

Update the files which contain no license information with the 'GPL-2.0'
SPDX license identifier. The SPDX identifier is a legally binding
shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text.

This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and
Philippe Ombredanne.

How this work was done:

Patches were generated and checked against linux-4.14-rc6 for a subset of
the use cases:
- file had no licensing information it it.
- file was a */uapi/* one with no licensing information in it,
- file was a */uapi/* one with existing licensing information,

Further patches will be generated in subsequent months to fix up cases
where non-standard license headers were used, and references to license
had to be inferred by heuristics based on keywords.

The analysis to determine which SPDX License Identifier to be applied to
a file was done in a spreadsheet of side by side results from of the
output of two independent scanners (ScanCode & Windriver) producing SPDX
tag:value files created by Philippe Ombredanne. Philippe prepared the
base worksheet, and did an initial spot review of a few 1000 files.

The 4.13 kernel was the starting point of the analysis with 60,537 files
assessed. Kate Stewart did a file by file comparison of the scanner
results in the spreadsheet to determine which SPDX license identifier(s)
to be applied to the file. She confirmed any determination that was not
immediately clear with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

Criteria used to select files for SPDX license identifier tagging was:
- Files considered eligible had to be source code files.
- Make and config files were included as candidates if they contained >5
lines of source
- File already had some variant of a license header in it (even if <5
lines).

All documentation files were explicitly excluded.

The following heuristics were used to determine which SPDX license
identifiers to apply.

- when both scanners couldn't find any license traces, file was
considered to have no license information in it, and the top level
COPYING file license applied.

For non */uapi/* files that summary was:

SPDX license identifier # files
---------------------------------------------------|-------
GPL-2.0 11139

and resulted in the first patch in this series.

If that file was a */uapi/* path one, it was "GPL-2.0 WITH
Linux-syscall-note" otherwise it was "GPL-2.0". Results of that was:

SPDX license identifier # files
---------------------------------------------------|-------
GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 930

and resulted in the second patch in this series.

- if a file had some form of licensing information in it, and was one
of the */uapi/* ones, it was denoted with the Linux-syscall-note if
any GPL family license was found in the file or had no licensing in
it (per prior point). Results summary:

SPDX license identifier # files
---------------------------------------------------|------
GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 270
GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 169
((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-2-Clause) 21
((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 17
LGPL-2.1+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 15
GPL-1.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 14
((GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 5
LGPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 4
LGPL-2.1 WITH Linux-syscall-note 3
((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR MIT) 3
((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND MIT) 1

and that resulted in the third patch in this series.

- when the two scanners agreed on the detected license(s), that became
the concluded license(s).

- when there was disagreement between the two scanners (one detected a
license but the other didn't, or they both detected different
licenses) a manual inspection of the file occurred.

- In most cases a manual inspection of the information in the file
resulted in a clear resolution of the license that should apply (and
which scanner probably needed to revisit its heuristics).

- When it was not immediately clear, the license identifier was
confirmed with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

- If there was any question as to the appropriate license identifier,
the file was flagged for further research and to be revisited later
in time.

In total, over 70 hours of logged manual review was done on the
spreadsheet to determine the SPDX license identifiers to apply to the
source files by Kate, Philippe, Thomas and, in some cases, confirmation
by lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

Kate also obtained a third independent scan of the 4.13 code base from
FOSSology, and compared selected files where the other two scanners
disagreed against that SPDX file, to see if there was new insights. The
Windriver scanner is based on an older version of FOSSology in part, so
they are related.

Thomas did random spot checks in about 500 files from the spreadsheets
for the uapi headers and agreed with SPDX license identifier in the
files he inspected. For the non-uapi files Thomas did random spot checks
in about 15000 files.

In initial set of patches against 4.14-rc6, 3 files were found to have
copy/paste license identifier errors, and have been fixed to reflect the
correct identifier.

Additionally Philippe spent 10 hours this week doing a detailed manual
inspection and review of the 12,461 patched files from the initial patch
version early this week with:
- a full scancode scan run, collecting the matched texts, detected
license ids and scores
- reviewing anything where there was a license detected (about 500+
files) to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct
- reviewing anything where there was no detection but the patch license
was not GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note to ensure that the applied
SPDX license was correct

This produced a worksheet with 20 files needing minor correction. This
worksheet was then exported into 3 different .csv files for the
different types of files to be modified.

These .csv files were then reviewed by Greg. Thomas wrote a script to
parse the csv files and add the proper SPDX tag to the file, in the
format that the file expected. This script was further refined by Greg
based on the output to detect more types of files automatically and to
distinguish between header and source .c files (which need different
comment types.) Finally Greg ran the script using the .csv files to
generate the patches.

Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart <kstewart@linuxfoundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@nexb.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

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video/console: Add dmi quirk table for x86 systems which need fbcon rotation

Some x86 clamshell design devices use portrait tablet screens and a
display engine which cannot rotate in hardware, so we

video/console: Add dmi quirk table for x86 systems which need fbcon rotation

Some x86 clamshell design devices use portrait tablet screens and a
display engine which cannot rotate in hardware, so we need to rotate
the fbcon to compensate.

This commit adds a DMI based quirk table which is initially populated with
4 such devices: The Asus T100HA, GPD Pocket, the GPD win and the I.T.Works
TW891, so that the console comes up in the right orientation on these
devices OOTB.

Unfortunately these (cheap) devices also typically have quite generic DMI
data, so we match on a combination of DMI data, screen resolution and a
list of known BIOS dates to avoid false positives.

Suggested-by: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de>
[b.zolnierkie: ported over fbcon changes]
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@samsung.com>

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fbcon: Make fbcon a built-time depency for fbdev

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

fbcon: Make fbcon a built-time depency for fbdev

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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fbdev: Make fb-notify a no-op if CONFIG_FB=n

There's no point in having support for framebuffer notifications
is CONFIG_FB is disabled. This commit adds the necessary stubs
for code to link properly

fbdev: Make fb-notify a no-op if CONFIG_FB=n

There's no point in having support for framebuffer notifications
is CONFIG_FB is disabled. This commit adds the necessary stubs
for code to link properly when CONFIG_FB=n and moves fb-notify.o
to be built only when CONFIG_FB=y.

Signed-off-by: Ezequiel Garcia <ezequiel@vanguardiasur.com.ar>
Signed-off-by: Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@ti.com>

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framebuffer: don't link fb_devio into kernel image unconditionally

CONFIG_FB_DEFERRED_IO is defined as bool while CONFIG_FB is defined as
tristate. Currently fb_defio.o is linked into the kernel ima

framebuffer: don't link fb_devio into kernel image unconditionally

CONFIG_FB_DEFERRED_IO is defined as bool while CONFIG_FB is defined as
tristate. Currently fb_defio.o is linked into the kernel image even if
CONFIG_FB=m.

I fix this by updating the Makefile to link fb_defio.o into fb.o and thus
go into one place with the other core framebuffer code.

Signed-off-by: Harald Geyer <harald@ccbib.org>
Signed-off-by: Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@ti.com>

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video/fbdev: Always built-in video= cmdline parsing

In drm/i915 we want to get at the video= cmdline modes even when we
don't have fbdev support enabled, so that users can always override
the kernel

video/fbdev: Always built-in video= cmdline parsing

In drm/i915 we want to get at the video= cmdline modes even when we
don't have fbdev support enabled, so that users can always override
the kernel's initial mode selection.

But that gives us a direct depency upon the parsing code in the fbdev
subsystem. Since it's so little code just extract these 2 functions
and always build them in.

Whiel at it fix the checkpatch fail in this code.

v2: Also move fb_mode_option. Spotted by the kbuild.

v3: Review from Geert:
- Keep the old copyright notice from fb_mem.c, although I have no
idea what exactly applies.
- Only compile this when needed.

Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Plagniol-Villard <plagnioj@jcrosoft.com>
Cc: Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@ti.com>
Cc: linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>

--

I prefer if we can merge this through drm-next since we'll use it
there in follow-up patches.
-Daniel

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fbdev: move fbdev core files to separate directory

Instead of having fbdev framework core files at the root fbdev
directory, mixed with random fbdev device drivers, move the fbdev core
files to a se

fbdev: move fbdev core files to separate directory

Instead of having fbdev framework core files at the root fbdev
directory, mixed with random fbdev device drivers, move the fbdev core
files to a separate core directory. This makes it much clearer which of
the files are actually part of the fbdev framework, and which are part
of device drivers.

Signed-off-by: Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@ti.com>
Acked-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Acked-by: Rob Clark <robdclark@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Jingoo Han <jg1.han@samsung.com>
Acked-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>

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fbdev: remove object duplication in Makefile

The objects in $(fb-objs) $(fb-y) $(fb-m) are linked to fb.ko .

This line adds $(fb-y) to fb-objs, so the objects from $(fb-y) are
l

fbdev: remove object duplication in Makefile

The objects in $(fb-objs) $(fb-y) $(fb-m) are linked to fb.ko .

This line adds $(fb-y) to fb-objs, so the objects from $(fb-y) are
listed twice as the dependency of the module.

It works because Kbuild trims the duplicated objects from linking,
but there is no good reason to have this line.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@samsung.com>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20200106081352.27730-1-masahiroy@kernel.org

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fbcon: Remove dmi quirk table

This is now all handled in the drivers and communicated through
fb_info.fbcon_rotate_hint.

Acked-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@samsun

fbcon: Remove dmi quirk table

This is now all handled in the drivers and communicated through
fb_info.fbcon_rotate_hint.

Acked-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20171125193553.23986-8-hdegoede@redhat.com

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