kernel.git/drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbcon.c, branch linux-5.18.y

fbcon: Fix accelerated fbdev scrolling while logo is still shown

2022-08-17T12:40:08Z

commit 3866cba87dcd0162fb41e9b3b653d0af68fad5ec upstream. There is no need to directly skip over to the SCROLL_REDRAW case while the logo is still shown. When using DRM, this change has no effect because the code will reach the SCROLL_REDRAW case immediately anyway. But if you run an accelerated fbdev driver and have FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE_LEGACY_ACCELERATION enabled, console scrolling is slowed down by factors so that it feels as if you use a 9600 baud terminal. So, drop those unnecessary checks and speed up fbdev console acceleration during bootup. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v5.10+ Acked-by: Daniel Vetter Signed-off-by: Helge Deller Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/YpkYxk7wsBPx3po+@p100 Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

fbcon: Fix boundary checks for fbcon=vc:n1-n2 parameters

2022-08-17T12:40:08Z

commit cad564ca557f8d3bb3b1fa965d9a2b3f6490ec69 upstream. The user may use the fbcon=vc:- option to tell fbcon to take over the given range (n1...n2) of consoles. The value for n1 and n2 needs to be a positive number and up to (MAX_NR_CONSOLES - 1). The given values were not fully checked against those boundaries yet. To fix the issue, convert first_fb_vc and last_fb_vc to unsigned integers and check them against the upper boundary, and make sure that first_fb_vc is smaller than last_fb_vc. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.19+ Reviewed-by: Daniel Vetter Signed-off-by: Helge Deller Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/YpkYRMojilrtZIgM@p100 Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

fbcon: Prevent that screen size is smaller than font size

2022-07-12T14:42:16Z

commit e64242caef18b4a5840b0e7a9bff37abd4f4f933 upstream. We need to prevent that users configure a screen size which is smaller than the currently selected font size. Otherwise rendering chars on the screen will access memory outside the graphics memory region. This patch adds a new function fbcon_modechange_possible() which implements this check and which later may be extended with other checks if necessary. The new function is called from the FBIOPUT_VSCREENINFO ioctl handler in fbmem.c, which will return -EINVAL if userspace asked for a too small screen size. Signed-off-by: Helge Deller Reviewed-by: Geert Uytterhoeven Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v5.4+ Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

fbcon: Disallow setting font bigger than screen size

2022-07-12T14:42:16Z

commit 65a01e601dbba8b7a51a2677811f70f783766682 upstream. Prevent that users set a font size which is bigger than the physical screen. It's unlikely this may happen (because screens are usually much larger than the fonts and each font char is limited to 32x32 pixels), but it may happen on smaller screens/LCD displays. Signed-off-by: Helge Deller Reviewed-by: Daniel Vetter Reviewed-by: Geert Uytterhoeven Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.14+ Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

fbcon: Consistently protect deferred_takeover with console_lock()

2022-06-09T08:29:33Z

[ Upstream commit 43553559121ca90965b572cf8a1d6d0fd618b449 ] This shouldn't be a problem in practice since until we've actually taken over the console there's nothing we've registered with the console/vt subsystem, so the exit/unbind path that check this can't do the wrong thing. But it's confusing, so fix it by moving it a tad later. Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter Cc: Daniel Vetter Cc: Du Cheng Cc: Tetsuo Handa Cc: Claudio Suarez Cc: Thomas Zimmermann Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20220405210335.3434130-14-daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

fbcon: Avoid 'cap' set but not used warning

2022-02-08T13:44:15Z

Fix this kernel test robot warning: drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbcon.c: In function 'fbcon_init': drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbcon.c:1028:6: warning: variable 'cap' set but not used [-Wunused-but-set-variable] The cap variable is only used when CONFIG_FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE_LEGACY_ACCELERATION is enabled. Drop the temporary variable and use info->flags instead. Fixes: 87ab9f6b7417 ("Revert "fbcon: Disable accelerated scrolling") Reported-by: kernel test robot Signed-off-by: Helge Deller Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/YgFB4xqI+As196FR@p100

fbcon: Add option to enable legacy hardware acceleration

2022-02-02T14:16:26Z

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 Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v5.10+ Signed-off-by: Helge Deller Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20220202135531.92183-4-deller@gmx.de

Revert "fbcon: Disable accelerated scrolling"

2022-02-02T14:15:11Z

This reverts commit 39aead8373b3c20bb5965c024dfb51a94e526151. Revert the first (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 Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven Acked-by: Sven Schnelle Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v5.10+ Signed-off-by: Helge Deller Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20220202135531.92183-3-deller@gmx.de

Revert "fbdev: Garbage collect fbdev scrolling acceleration, part 1 (from TODO list)"

2022-02-02T14:14:56Z

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 Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven Acked-by: Sven Schnelle Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v5.16+ Signed-off-by: Helge Deller Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20220202135531.92183-2-deller@gmx.de

fbdev: Garbage collect fbdev scrolling acceleration, part 1 (from TODO list)

2021-10-13T13:29:23Z

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 Signed-off-by: Thomas Zimmermann Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/YVXTYqszZix9TxjJ@gineta.localdomain