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<title>kernel/linux.git/drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbmem.c, branch v4.19.16</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree (mirror)</subtitle>
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<updated>2018-07-31T11:06:58+00:00</updated>
<entry>
<title>fbdev/core: Disable console-lock warnings when fb.lockless_register_fb is set</title>
<updated>2018-07-31T11:06:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Zimmermann</name>
<email>tzimmermann@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2018-07-31T11:06:58+00:00</published>
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If the console is unlocked during registration, the console subsystem
generates significant amounts of warnings, which obfuscate actual
debugging messages. Setting ignore_console_lock_warning while debugging
console registration avoid the noise.

v3:
	- manipulate ignore_console_lock_warning with atomic_{inc,dec}
v2:
	- restore ignore_console_lock_warning if lock_fb_info() fails

Signed-off-by: Thomas Zimmermann &lt;tzimmermann@suse.de&gt;
Acked-by: Hans de Goede &lt;hdegoede@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Sergey Senozhatsky &lt;sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz &lt;b.zolnierkie@samsung.com&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>fb: fix lost console when the user unplugs a USB adapter</title>
<updated>2018-07-25T13:41:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mikulas Patocka</name>
<email>mpatocka@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-07-25T13:41:54+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
I have a USB display adapter using the udlfb driver and I use it on an ARM
board that doesn't have any graphics card. When I plug the adapter in, the
console is properly displayed, however when I unplug and re-plug the
adapter, the console is not displayed and I can't access it until I reboot
the board.

The reason is this:
When the adapter is unplugged, dlfb_usb_disconnect calls
unlink_framebuffer, then it waits until the reference count drops to zero
and then it deallocates the framebuffer. However, the console that is
attached to the framebuffer device keeps the reference count non-zero, so
the framebuffer device is never destroyed. When the USB adapter is plugged
again, it creates a new device /dev/fb1 and the console is not attached to
it.

This patch fixes the bug by unbinding the console from unlink_framebuffer.
The code to unbind the console is moved from do_unregister_framebuffer to
a function unbind_console. When the console is unbound, the reference
count drops to zero and the udlfb driver frees the framebuffer. When the
adapter is plugged back, a new framebuffer is created and the console is
attached to it.

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka &lt;mpatocka@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Airlie &lt;airlied@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Bernie Thompson &lt;bernie@plugable.com&gt;
Cc: Ladislav Michl &lt;ladis@linux-mips.org&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
[b.zolnierkie: preserve old behavior for do_unregister_framebuffer()]
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz &lt;b.zolnierkie@samsung.com&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>fbdev: fbmem: mark expected switch fall-through</title>
<updated>2018-07-24T17:11:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Gustavo A. R. Silva</name>
<email>gustavo@embeddedor.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-07-24T17:11:27+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
In preparation to enabling -Wimplicit-fallthrough, mark switch cases
where we are expecting to fall through.

Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva &lt;gustavo@embeddedor.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz &lt;b.zolnierkie@samsung.com&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>fbcon: introduce for_each_registered_fb() helper</title>
<updated>2018-07-24T17:11:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Yisheng Xie</name>
<email>ysxie@foxmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-07-24T17:11:26+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
Following pattern is often used:

 for (i = 0; i &lt; FB_MAX; i++) {
        if (registered_fb[i]) {
                ...
        }
 }

Therefore, as Andy's suggestion, for_each_registered_fb() helper can
be introduced to make the code easier to read and write by reducing
indentation level. It also saves few lines of code in each occurrence.

This patch convert all part here at the same time.

Suggested-by: Andy Shevchenko &lt;andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Yisheng Xie &lt;ysxie@foxmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Hans de Goede &lt;hdegoede@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko &lt;andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: David Lechner &lt;david@lechnology.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz &lt;b.zolnierkie@samsung.com&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>treewide: kmalloc() -&gt; kmalloc_array()</title>
<updated>2018-06-12T23:19:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kees Cook</name>
<email>keescook@chromium.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-06-12T20:55:00+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
The kmalloc() function has a 2-factor argument form, kmalloc_array(). This
patch replaces cases of:

        kmalloc(a * b, gfp)

with:
        kmalloc_array(a * b, gfp)

as well as handling cases of:

        kmalloc(a * b * c, gfp)

with:

        kmalloc(array3_size(a, b, c), gfp)

as it's slightly less ugly than:

        kmalloc_array(array_size(a, b), c, gfp)

This does, however, attempt to ignore constant size factors like:

        kmalloc(4 * 1024, gfp)

though any constants defined via macros get caught up in the conversion.

Any factors with a sizeof() of "unsigned char", "char", and "u8" were
dropped, since they're redundant.

The tools/ directory was manually excluded, since it has its own
implementation of kmalloc().

The Coccinelle script used for this was:

// Fix redundant parens around sizeof().
@@
type TYPE;
expression THING, E;
@@

(
  kmalloc(
-	(sizeof(TYPE)) * E
+	sizeof(TYPE) * E
  , ...)
|
  kmalloc(
-	(sizeof(THING)) * E
+	sizeof(THING) * E
  , ...)
)

// Drop single-byte sizes and redundant parens.
@@
expression COUNT;
typedef u8;
typedef __u8;
@@

(
  kmalloc(
-	sizeof(u8) * (COUNT)
+	COUNT
  , ...)
|
  kmalloc(
-	sizeof(__u8) * (COUNT)
+	COUNT
  , ...)
|
  kmalloc(
-	sizeof(char) * (COUNT)
+	COUNT
  , ...)
|
  kmalloc(
-	sizeof(unsigned char) * (COUNT)
+	COUNT
  , ...)
|
  kmalloc(
-	sizeof(u8) * COUNT
+	COUNT
  , ...)
|
  kmalloc(
-	sizeof(__u8) * COUNT
+	COUNT
  , ...)
|
  kmalloc(
-	sizeof(char) * COUNT
+	COUNT
  , ...)
|
  kmalloc(
-	sizeof(unsigned char) * COUNT
+	COUNT
  , ...)
)

// 2-factor product with sizeof(type/expression) and identifier or constant.
@@
type TYPE;
expression THING;
identifier COUNT_ID;
constant COUNT_CONST;
@@

(
- kmalloc
+ kmalloc_array
  (
-	sizeof(TYPE) * (COUNT_ID)
+	COUNT_ID, sizeof(TYPE)
  , ...)
|
- kmalloc
+ kmalloc_array
  (
-	sizeof(TYPE) * COUNT_ID
+	COUNT_ID, sizeof(TYPE)
  , ...)
|
- kmalloc
+ kmalloc_array
  (
-	sizeof(TYPE) * (COUNT_CONST)
+	COUNT_CONST, sizeof(TYPE)
  , ...)
|
- kmalloc
+ kmalloc_array
  (
-	sizeof(TYPE) * COUNT_CONST
+	COUNT_CONST, sizeof(TYPE)
  , ...)
|
- kmalloc
+ kmalloc_array
  (
-	sizeof(THING) * (COUNT_ID)
+	COUNT_ID, sizeof(THING)
  , ...)
|
- kmalloc
+ kmalloc_array
  (
-	sizeof(THING) * COUNT_ID
+	COUNT_ID, sizeof(THING)
  , ...)
|
- kmalloc
+ kmalloc_array
  (
-	sizeof(THING) * (COUNT_CONST)
+	COUNT_CONST, sizeof(THING)
  , ...)
|
- kmalloc
+ kmalloc_array
  (
-	sizeof(THING) * COUNT_CONST
+	COUNT_CONST, sizeof(THING)
  , ...)
)

// 2-factor product, only identifiers.
@@
identifier SIZE, COUNT;
@@

- kmalloc
+ kmalloc_array
  (
-	SIZE * COUNT
+	COUNT, SIZE
  , ...)

// 3-factor product with 1 sizeof(type) or sizeof(expression), with
// redundant parens removed.
@@
expression THING;
identifier STRIDE, COUNT;
type TYPE;
@@

(
  kmalloc(
-	sizeof(TYPE) * (COUNT) * (STRIDE)
+	array3_size(COUNT, STRIDE, sizeof(TYPE))
  , ...)
|
  kmalloc(
-	sizeof(TYPE) * (COUNT) * STRIDE
+	array3_size(COUNT, STRIDE, sizeof(TYPE))
  , ...)
|
  kmalloc(
-	sizeof(TYPE) * COUNT * (STRIDE)
+	array3_size(COUNT, STRIDE, sizeof(TYPE))
  , ...)
|
  kmalloc(
-	sizeof(TYPE) * COUNT * STRIDE
+	array3_size(COUNT, STRIDE, sizeof(TYPE))
  , ...)
|
  kmalloc(
-	sizeof(THING) * (COUNT) * (STRIDE)
+	array3_size(COUNT, STRIDE, sizeof(THING))
  , ...)
|
  kmalloc(
-	sizeof(THING) * (COUNT) * STRIDE
+	array3_size(COUNT, STRIDE, sizeof(THING))
  , ...)
|
  kmalloc(
-	sizeof(THING) * COUNT * (STRIDE)
+	array3_size(COUNT, STRIDE, sizeof(THING))
  , ...)
|
  kmalloc(
-	sizeof(THING) * COUNT * STRIDE
+	array3_size(COUNT, STRIDE, sizeof(THING))
  , ...)
)

// 3-factor product with 2 sizeof(variable), with redundant parens removed.
@@
expression THING1, THING2;
identifier COUNT;
type TYPE1, TYPE2;
@@

(
  kmalloc(
-	sizeof(TYPE1) * sizeof(TYPE2) * COUNT
+	array3_size(COUNT, sizeof(TYPE1), sizeof(TYPE2))
  , ...)
|
  kmalloc(
-	sizeof(TYPE1) * sizeof(THING2) * (COUNT)
+	array3_size(COUNT, sizeof(TYPE1), sizeof(TYPE2))
  , ...)
|
  kmalloc(
-	sizeof(THING1) * sizeof(THING2) * COUNT
+	array3_size(COUNT, sizeof(THING1), sizeof(THING2))
  , ...)
|
  kmalloc(
-	sizeof(THING1) * sizeof(THING2) * (COUNT)
+	array3_size(COUNT, sizeof(THING1), sizeof(THING2))
  , ...)
|
  kmalloc(
-	sizeof(TYPE1) * sizeof(THING2) * COUNT
+	array3_size(COUNT, sizeof(TYPE1), sizeof(THING2))
  , ...)
|
  kmalloc(
-	sizeof(TYPE1) * sizeof(THING2) * (COUNT)
+	array3_size(COUNT, sizeof(TYPE1), sizeof(THING2))
  , ...)
)

// 3-factor product, only identifiers, with redundant parens removed.
@@
identifier STRIDE, SIZE, COUNT;
@@

(
  kmalloc(
-	(COUNT) * STRIDE * SIZE
+	array3_size(COUNT, STRIDE, SIZE)
  , ...)
|
  kmalloc(
-	COUNT * (STRIDE) * SIZE
+	array3_size(COUNT, STRIDE, SIZE)
  , ...)
|
  kmalloc(
-	COUNT * STRIDE * (SIZE)
+	array3_size(COUNT, STRIDE, SIZE)
  , ...)
|
  kmalloc(
-	(COUNT) * (STRIDE) * SIZE
+	array3_size(COUNT, STRIDE, SIZE)
  , ...)
|
  kmalloc(
-	COUNT * (STRIDE) * (SIZE)
+	array3_size(COUNT, STRIDE, SIZE)
  , ...)
|
  kmalloc(
-	(COUNT) * STRIDE * (SIZE)
+	array3_size(COUNT, STRIDE, SIZE)
  , ...)
|
  kmalloc(
-	(COUNT) * (STRIDE) * (SIZE)
+	array3_size(COUNT, STRIDE, SIZE)
  , ...)
|
  kmalloc(
-	COUNT * STRIDE * SIZE
+	array3_size(COUNT, STRIDE, SIZE)
  , ...)
)

// Any remaining multi-factor products, first at least 3-factor products,
// when they're not all constants...
@@
expression E1, E2, E3;
constant C1, C2, C3;
@@

(
  kmalloc(C1 * C2 * C3, ...)
|
  kmalloc(
-	(E1) * E2 * E3
+	array3_size(E1, E2, E3)
  , ...)
|
  kmalloc(
-	(E1) * (E2) * E3
+	array3_size(E1, E2, E3)
  , ...)
|
  kmalloc(
-	(E1) * (E2) * (E3)
+	array3_size(E1, E2, E3)
  , ...)
|
  kmalloc(
-	E1 * E2 * E3
+	array3_size(E1, E2, E3)
  , ...)
)

// And then all remaining 2 factors products when they're not all constants,
// keeping sizeof() as the second factor argument.
@@
expression THING, E1, E2;
type TYPE;
constant C1, C2, C3;
@@

(
  kmalloc(sizeof(THING) * C2, ...)
|
  kmalloc(sizeof(TYPE) * C2, ...)
|
  kmalloc(C1 * C2 * C3, ...)
|
  kmalloc(C1 * C2, ...)
|
- kmalloc
+ kmalloc_array
  (
-	sizeof(TYPE) * (E2)
+	E2, sizeof(TYPE)
  , ...)
|
- kmalloc
+ kmalloc_array
  (
-	sizeof(TYPE) * E2
+	E2, sizeof(TYPE)
  , ...)
|
- kmalloc
+ kmalloc_array
  (
-	sizeof(THING) * (E2)
+	E2, sizeof(THING)
  , ...)
|
- kmalloc
+ kmalloc_array
  (
-	sizeof(THING) * E2
+	E2, sizeof(THING)
  , ...)
|
- kmalloc
+ kmalloc_array
  (
-	(E1) * E2
+	E1, E2
  , ...)
|
- kmalloc
+ kmalloc_array
  (
-	(E1) * (E2)
+	E1, E2
  , ...)
|
- kmalloc
+ kmalloc_array
  (
-	E1 * E2
+	E1, E2
  , ...)
)

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>proc: introduce proc_create_seq{,_data}</title>
<updated>2018-05-16T05:23:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Hellwig</name>
<email>hch@lst.de</email>
</author>
<published>2018-04-13T17:44:18+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
Variants of proc_create{,_data} that directly take a struct seq_operations
argument and drastically reduces the boilerplate code in the callers.

All trivial callers converted over.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'fbdev-v4.14' of git://github.com/bzolnier/linux</title>
<updated>2017-09-14T20:33:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-09-14T20:33:33+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
Pull fbdev updates from Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz:

 - make fbcon a built-time depency for fbdev (fbcon was tristate option
   before, now it is a bool) - this is a first step in preparations for
   making console_lock usage saner (currently it acts like the BKL for
   all things fbdev/fbcon) (Daniel Vetter)

 - add fbcon=margin:&lt;color&gt; command line option to select the fbcon
   margin color (David Lechner)

 - add DMI quirk table for x86 systems which need fbcon rotation
   (devices like Asus T100HA, GPD Pocket, the GPD win and the I.T.Works
   TW891) (Hans de Goede)

 - fix 1bpp logo support for unusual width (needed by LEGO MINDSTORMS
   EV3) (David Lechner)

 - enable Xilinx FB driver for ARM ZynqMP platform (Michal Simek)

 - fix use after free in the error path of udlfb driver (Anton Vasilyev)

 - fix error return code handling in pxa3xx_gcu driver (Gustavo A. R.
   Silva)

 - fix bootparams.screeninfo arguments checking in vgacon (Jan H.
   Schönherr)

 - do not leak uninitialized padding in clk to userspace in the debug
   code of atyfb driver (Vladis Dronov)

 - fix compiler warnings in fbcon code and matroxfb driver (Arnd
   Bergmann)

 - convert fbdev susbsytem to using %pOF instead of full_name (Rob
   Herring)

 - structures constifications (Arvind Yadav, Bhumika Goyal, Gustavo A.
   R. Silva, Julia Lawall)

 - misc cleanups (Gustavo A. R. Silva, Hyun Kwon, Julia Lawall, Kuninori
   Morimoto, Lynn Lei)

* tag 'fbdev-v4.14' of git://github.com/bzolnier/linux: (75 commits)
  video/console: Update BIOS dates list for GPD win console rotation DMI quirk
  video/console: Add rotated LCD-panel DMI quirk for the VIOS LTH17
  video: fbdev: sis: fix duplicated code for different branches
  video: fbdev: make fb_var_screeninfo const
  video: fbdev: aty: do not leak uninitialized padding in clk to userspace
  vgacon: Prevent faulty bootparams.screeninfo from causing harm
  video: fbdev: make fb_videomode const
  video/console: Add new BIOS date for GPD pocket to dmi quirk table
  fbcon: remove restriction on margin color
  video: ARM CLCD: constify amba_id
  video: fm2fb: constify zorro_device_id
  video: fbdev: annotate fb_fix_screeninfo with const and __initconst
  omapfb: constify omap_video_timings structures
  video: fbdev: udlfb: Fix use after free on dlfb_usb_probe error path
  fbdev: i810: make fb_ops const
  fbdev: matrox: make fb_ops const
  video: fbdev: pxa3xx_gcu: fix error return code in pxa3xx_gcu_probe()
  video: fbdev: Enable Xilinx FB for ZynqMP
  video: fbdev: Fix multiple style issues in xilinxfb
  video: fbdev: udlfb: constify usb_device_id.
  ...
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>fbdev: fix 1bpp logo for unusual width</title>
<updated>2017-08-18T17:56:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Lechner</name>
<email>david@lechnology.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-08-18T17:56:40+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
This check is needed in the case where the width of the framebuffer
is not a multiple of 8 pixels. For example, LEGO MINDSTORMS EV3 has
a 178x128 1bpp display.

Signed-off-by: David Lechner &lt;david@lechnology.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz &lt;b.zolnierkie@samsung.com&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>fbdev: Nuke FBINFO_MODULE</title>
<updated>2017-08-01T15:33:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Daniel Vetter</name>
<email>daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch</email>
</author>
<published>2017-08-01T15:33:02+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
Instead check info-&gt;ops-&gt;owner, which amounts to the same.

Spotted because I want to remove the pile of broken and cargo-culted
fb_info-&gt;flags assignments in drm drivers.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter &lt;daniel.vetter@intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Sean Paul &lt;seanpaul@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz &lt;b.zolnierkie@samsung.com&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>fbcon: Make fbcon a built-time depency for fbdev</title>
<updated>2017-08-01T15:32:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Daniel Vetter</name>
<email>daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch</email>
</author>
<published>2017-08-01T15:32:07+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
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 &lt;alan@linux.intel.com&gt;
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 &lt;daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch&gt;
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 &lt;daniel.vetter@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Alan Cox &lt;alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky &lt;sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Sean Paul &lt;seanpaul@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz &lt;b.zolnierkie@samsung.com&gt;
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