Re: [PATCH 5/5] drm/i915: Kick out vga console

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Tomi/Jean can you please ack merging this through drm-intel trees? It
just exports the vga and dummy consoles so that i915 can do what it
needs to do.

Thanks, Daniel

On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 4:58 PM, Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Touching the VGA resources on an IVB EFI machine causes hard hangs when
> we then kick out the efifb. Ouch.
>
> Apparently this also prevents unclaimed register errors on hsw and
> hard machine hangs on my i855gm when trying to unbind fbcon.
>
> Also, we want this to make I915_FBDEV=n safe.
>
> v2: Rebase and pimp commit message.
>
> v3: We also need to unregister the vga console, otherwise the unbind
> of the fb console before module unload might resurrect it again.
>
> v4: Ignore errors when the vga console is already unregistered - this
> can happen when e.g. reloading i915.ko.
>
> Bugzilla: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=67813
> Cc: David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Jean-Christophe Plagniol-Villard <plagnioj@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@xxxxxx>
> Cc: linux-fbdev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> (v1)
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@xxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_dma.c  | 43 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>  drivers/video/console/dummycon.c |  1 +
>  drivers/video/console/vgacon.c   |  1 +
>  3 files changed, 44 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_dma.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_dma.c
> index 27fe65ac5940..bcb66ddd649e 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_dma.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_dma.c
> @@ -36,6 +36,8 @@
>  #include "i915_drv.h"
>  #include "i915_trace.h"
>  #include <linux/pci.h>
> +#include <linux/console.h>
> +#include <linux/vt.h>
>  #include <linux/vgaarb.h>
>  #include <linux/acpi.h>
>  #include <linux/pnp.h>
> @@ -1449,6 +1451,38 @@ static void i915_kick_out_firmware_fb(struct drm_i915_private *dev_priv)
>  }
>  #endif
>
> +#if !defined(CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE)
> +static int i915_kick_out_vgacon(struct drm_i915_private *dev_priv)
> +{
> +       return 0;
> +}
> +#elif !defined(CONFIG_DUMMY_CONSOLE)
> +static int i915_kick_out_vgacon(struct drm_i915_private *dev_priv)
> +{
> +       return -ENODEV;
> +}
> +#else
> +static int i915_kick_out_vgacon(struct drm_i915_private *dev_priv)
> +{
> +       int ret;
> +
> +       DRM_INFO("Replacing VGA console driver\n");
> +
> +       console_lock();
> +       ret = do_take_over_console(&dummy_con, 0, MAX_NR_CONSOLES - 1, 1);
> +       if (ret == 0) {
> +               ret = do_unregister_con_driver(&vga_con);
> +
> +               /* Ignore "already unregistered". */
> +               if (ret == -ENODEV)
> +                       ret = 0;
> +       }
> +       console_unlock();
> +
> +       return ret;
> +}
> +#endif
> +
>  static void i915_dump_device_info(struct drm_i915_private *dev_priv)
>  {
>         const struct intel_device_info *info = &dev_priv->info;
> @@ -1622,8 +1656,15 @@ int i915_driver_load(struct drm_device *dev, unsigned long flags)
>         if (ret)
>                 goto out_regs;
>
> -       if (drm_core_check_feature(dev, DRIVER_MODESET))
> +       if (drm_core_check_feature(dev, DRIVER_MODESET)) {
> +               ret = i915_kick_out_vgacon(dev_priv);
> +               if (ret) {
> +                       DRM_ERROR("failed to remove conflicting VGA console\n");
> +                       goto out_gtt;
> +               }
> +
>                 i915_kick_out_firmware_fb(dev_priv);
> +       }
>
>         pci_set_master(dev->pdev);
>
> diff --git a/drivers/video/console/dummycon.c b/drivers/video/console/dummycon.c
> index b63860f7beab..40bec8d64b0a 100644
> --- a/drivers/video/console/dummycon.c
> +++ b/drivers/video/console/dummycon.c
> @@ -77,3 +77,4 @@ const struct consw dummy_con = {
>      .con_set_palette = DUMMY,
>      .con_scrolldelta = DUMMY,
>  };
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(dummy_con);
> diff --git a/drivers/video/console/vgacon.c b/drivers/video/console/vgacon.c
> index 9d8feac67637..84acd6223dc5 100644
> --- a/drivers/video/console/vgacon.c
> +++ b/drivers/video/console/vgacon.c
> @@ -1440,5 +1440,6 @@ const struct consw vga_con = {
>         .con_build_attr = vgacon_build_attr,
>         .con_invert_region = vgacon_invert_region,
>  };
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(vga_con);
>
>  MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
> --
> 1.8.1.4
>



-- 
Daniel Vetter
Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
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