kernel/linux.git/drivers/video/console/dummycon.c, branch v6.6.141

dummycon: Trigger redraw when switching consoles with deferred takeover

2025-07-06T09:00:10+00:00

[ Upstream commit 03bcbbb3995ba5df43af9aba45334e35f2dfe27b ] Signal vt subsystem to redraw console when switching to dummycon with deferred takeover enabled. Makes the console switch to fbcon and displays the available output. With deferred takeover enabled, dummycon acts as the placeholder until the first output to the console happens. At that point, fbcon takes over. If the output happens while dummycon is not active, it cannot inform fbcon. This is the case if the vt subsystem runs in graphics mode. A typical graphical boot starts plymouth, a display manager and a compositor; all while leaving out dummycon. Switching to a text-mode console leaves the console with dummycon even if a getty terminal has been started. Returning true from dummycon's con_switch helper signals the vt subsystem to redraw the screen. If there's output available dummycon's con_putc{s} helpers trigger deferred takeover of fbcon, which sets a display mode and displays the output. If no output is available, dummycon remains active. v2: - make the comment slightly more verbose (Javier) Signed-off-by: Thomas Zimmermann Reported-by: Andrei Borzenkov Closes: https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1242191 Tested-by: Andrei Borzenkov Acked-by: Javier Martinez Canillas Fixes: 83d83bebf401 ("console/fbcon: Add support for deferred console takeover") Cc: Hans de Goede Cc: linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org Cc: dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org Cc: # v4.19+ Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250520071418.8462-1-tzimmermann@suse.de Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

tty: vt: make consw::con_switch() return a bool

2025-07-06T09:00:10+00:00

[ Upstream commit 8d5cc8eed738e3202379722295c626cba0849785 ] The non-zero (true) return value from consw::con_switch() means a redraw is needed. So make this return type a bool explicitly instead of int. The latter might imply that -Eerrors are expected. They are not. And document the hook. Signed-off-by: "Jiri Slaby (SUSE)" Cc: Helge Deller Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" Cc: Daniel Vetter Cc: linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org Cc: dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org Cc: linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org Tested-by: Helge Deller # parisc STI console Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240122110401.7289-31-jirislaby@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman Stable-dep-of: 03bcbbb3995b ("dummycon: Trigger redraw when switching consoles with deferred takeover") Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

tty: vt: sanitize arguments of consw::con_clear()

2025-07-06T09:00:10+00:00

[ Upstream commit 559f01a0ee6d924c6fec3eaf6a5b078b15e71070 ] In consw::con_clear(): * Height is always 1, so drop it. * Offsets and width are always unsigned values, so re-type them as such. This needs a new __fbcon_clear() in the fbcon code to still handle height which might not be 1 when called internally. Note that tests for negative count/width are left in place -- they are taken care of in the next patches. And document the hook. Signed-off-by: "Jiri Slaby (SUSE)" Cc: Helge Deller Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" Cc: Daniel Vetter Cc: linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org Cc: dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org Cc: linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org Tested-by: Helge Deller # parisc STI console Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240122110401.7289-22-jirislaby@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman Stable-dep-of: 03bcbbb3995b ("dummycon: Trigger redraw when switching consoles with deferred takeover") Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

tty: vt: make init parameter of consw::con_init() a bool

2025-07-06T09:00:10+00:00

[ Upstream commit dae3e6b6180f1a2394b984c596d39ed2c57d25fe ] The 'init' parameter of consw::con_init() is true for the first call of the hook on a particular console. So make the parameter a bool. And document the hook. Signed-off-by: "Jiri Slaby (SUSE)" Reviewed-by: Geert Uytterhoeven Cc: Helge Deller Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" Cc: Daniel Vetter Cc: linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org Cc: dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org Cc: linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org Tested-by: Helge Deller # parisc STI console Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240122110401.7289-21-jirislaby@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman Stable-dep-of: 03bcbbb3995b ("dummycon: Trigger redraw when switching consoles with deferred takeover") Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

console: Delete dummy con_font_set() and con_font_default() callback implementations

2020-11-16T15:31:09+00:00

.con_font_set and .con_font_default callbacks should not pass `struct console_font *` as a parameter, since `struct console_font` is a UAPI structure. We are trying to let them use our new kernel font descriptor, `struct font_desc` instead. To make that work slightly easier, first delete all of their no-op implementations used by dummy consoles. This will make KD_FONT_OP_SET and KD_FONT_OP_SET_DEFAULT ioctl() requests on dummy consoles start to fail and return `-ENOSYS`, which is intended, since no user should ever expect such operations to succeed on dummy consoles. Suggested-by: Daniel Vetter Signed-off-by: Peilin Ye Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/9952c7538d2a32bb1a82af323be482e7afb3dedf.1605169912.git.yepeilin.cs@gmail.com

console: Delete unused con_font_copy() callback implementations

2020-11-16T15:27:03+00:00

Recently in commit 3c4e0dff2095 ("vt: Disable KD_FONT_OP_COPY") we disabled the KD_FONT_OP_COPY ioctl() option. Delete all the con_font_copy() callbacks, since we no longer use them. Mark KD_FONT_OP_COPY as "obsolete" in include/uapi/linux/kd.h, just like what we have done for PPPIOCDETACH in commit af8d3c7c001a ("ppp: remove the PPPIOCDETACH ioctl"). Signed-off-by: Peilin Ye Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/c8d28007edf50de4387e1532eb3eb736db716f73.1605169912.git.yepeilin.cs@gmail.com

dummycon: Sprinkle locking checks

2019-06-12T18:26:55+00:00

As part of trying to understand the locking (or lack thereof) in the fbcon/vt/fbdev maze, annotate everything. Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter Reviewed-by: Sam Ravnborg Reviewed-by: Maarten Lankhorst Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz Cc: Hans de Goede Cc: Daniel Vetter Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: Kees Cook Cc: Nicolas Pitre Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20190528090304.9388-2-daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch

treewide: Add SPDX license identifier for missed files

2019-05-21T08:50:45+00:00

Add SPDX license identifiers to all files which: - Have no license information of any form - Have EXPORT_.*_SYMBOL_GPL inside which was used in the initial scan/conversion to ignore the file These files fall under the project license, GPL v2 only. The resulting SPDX license identifier is: GPL-2.0-only Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

dummycon: Stop exporting dummycon_[un]register_output_notifier

2018-08-10T15:23:02+00:00

Now that we only allow FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE_DEFERRED_TAKEOVER when fbdev+fbcon are builtin exporting these is no longer necessary. Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz

console: dummycon: export dummycon_[un]register_output_notifier

2018-06-29T09:46:19+00:00

Export dummycon_[un]register_output_notifier, the fbcon code needs this and may be build as a module. Fixes: 83d83bebf401 ("console/fbcon: Add support for deferred console takeover") Cc: Stephen Rothwell Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz