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Linus Torvalds
17cd4d6f05 Merge tag 'tty-6.3-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty
Pull tty / serial driver updates from Greg KH:
 "Here is the big set of serial and tty driver updates for 6.3-rc1.

  Once again, Jiri and Ilpo have done a number of core vt and tty/serial
  layer cleanups that were much needed and appreciated. Other than that,
  it's just a bunch of little tty/serial driver updates:

   - qcom-geni-serial driver updates

   - liteuart driver updates

   - hvcs driver cleanups

   - n_gsm updates and additions for new features

   - more 8250 device support added

   - fpga/dfl update and additions

   - imx serial driver updates

   - fsl_lpuart updates

   - other tiny fixes and updates for serial drivers

  All of these have been in linux-next for a while with no reported
  problems"

* tag 'tty-6.3-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty: (143 commits)
  tty: n_gsm: add keep alive support
  serial: imx: remove a redundant check
  dt-bindings: serial: snps-dw-apb-uart: add dma & dma-names properties
  soc: qcom: geni-se: Move qcom-geni-se.h to linux/soc/qcom/geni-se.h
  tty: n_gsm: add TIOCMIWAIT support
  tty: n_gsm: add RING/CD control support
  tty: n_gsm: mark unusable ioctl structure fields accordingly
  serial: imx: get rid of registers shadowing
  serial: imx: refine local variables in rxint()
  serial: imx: stop using USR2 in FIFO reading loop
  serial: imx: remove redundant USR2 read from FIFO reading loop
  serial: imx: do not break from FIFO reading loop prematurely
  serial: imx: do not sysrq broken chars
  serial: imx: work-around for hardware RX flood
  serial: imx: factor-out common code to imx_uart_soft_reset()
  serial: 8250_pci1xxxx: Add power management functions to quad-uart driver
  serial: 8250_pci1xxxx: Add RS485 support to quad-uart driver
  serial: 8250_pci1xxxx: Add driver for quad-uart support
  serial: 8250_pci: Add serial8250_pci_setup_port definition in 8250_pcilib.c
  tty: pcn_uart: fix memory leak with using debugfs_lookup()
  ...
2023-02-24 12:17:14 -08:00
Samuel Thibault
ffc1e08972 VT: Add height parameter to con_font_get/set consw operations
The current con_font_get/set API currently hardcodes a 32-pixel-tall
limitation, which only dates from the old VGA hardware which could not
handle taller fonts than that.

This change just adds a vpitch parameter to release this
constraint. Drivers which do not support vpitch != 32 can just return
EINVAL when it is not 32, font loading tools will revert to trying 32
and succeed.

This change makes the fbcon driver consider vpitch appropriately, thus
making it able to load large fonts.

Signed-off-by: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230119151934.932642243@ens-lyon.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2023-01-19 16:28:56 +01:00
Thomas Gleixner
02b2396d7d console: Document struct console
Add kerneldoc comments to struct console.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230109100800.1085541-4-john.ogness@linutronix.de
2023-01-11 15:35:11 +01:00
Thomas Gleixner
717a5651b1 console: Use BIT() macros for @flags values
Rather than manually calculating powers of 2, use the BIT() macros.
Also take this opportunatity to cleanup and restructure the value
comments into proper kerneldoc comments.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230109100800.1085541-3-john.ogness@linutronix.de
2023-01-11 15:35:11 +01:00
John Ogness
6f8836756f printk, xen: fbfront: create/use safe function for forcing preferred
With commit 9e124fe16ff2("xen: Enable console tty by default in domU
if it's not a dummy") a hack was implemented to make sure that the
tty console remains the console behind the /dev/console device. The
main problem with the hack is that, after getting the console pointer
to the tty console, it is assumed the pointer is still valid after
releasing the console_sem. This assumption is incorrect and unsafe.

Make the hack safe by introducing a new function
console_force_preferred_locked() and perform the full operation
under the console_list_lock.

Signed-off-by: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221116162152.193147-33-john.ogness@linutronix.de
2022-12-02 11:25:02 +01:00
John Ogness
1fd4224a6b console: introduce console_is_registered()
Currently it is not possible for drivers to detect if they have
already successfully registered their console. Several drivers
have multiple paths that lead to console registration. To avoid
attempting a 2nd registration (which leads to a WARN), drivers
are implementing their own solution.

Introduce console_is_registered() so drivers can easily identify
if their console is currently registered. A _locked() variant
is also provided if the caller is already holding the
console_list_lock.

Signed-off-by: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221116162152.193147-22-john.ogness@linutronix.de
2022-12-02 11:25:01 +01:00
John Ogness
100bdef2c1 console: introduce wrappers to read/write console flags
After switching to SRCU for console list iteration, some readers
will begin readings console->flags as a data race. Locklessly
reading console->flags provides a consistent value because there
is at most one CPU modifying console->flags and that CPU is
using only read-modify-write operations.

Introduce a wrapper for SRCU iterators to read console flags.
Introduce a matching wrapper to write to flags of registered
consoles. Writing to flags of registered consoles is synchronized
by the console_list_lock.

Signed-off-by: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221116162152.193147-13-john.ogness@linutronix.de
2022-12-02 11:25:00 +01:00
John Ogness
4dc64682ad printk: introduce console_list_lock
Currently there exist races in register_console(), where the types
of registered consoles are checked (without holding the console_lock)
and then after acquiring the console_lock, it is assumed that the list
has not changed. Also, some code that performs console_unregister()
make similar assumptions.

It might be possible to fix these races using the console_lock. But
it would require a complex analysis of all console drivers to make
sure that the console_lock is not taken in match() and setup()
callbacks. And we really prefer to split up and reduce the
responsibilities of console_lock rather than expand its complexity.
Therefore, introduce a new console_list_lock to provide full
synchronization for any console list changes.

In addition, also use console_list_lock for synchronization of
console->flags updates. All flags are either static or modified only
during the console registration. There are only two exceptions.

The first exception is CON_ENABLED, which is also modified by
console_start()/console_stop(). Therefore, these functions must
also take the console_list_lock.

The second exception is when the flags are modified by the console
driver init code before the console is registered. These will be
ignored because they are not visible to the rest of the system
via the console_drivers list.

Note that one of the various responsibilities of the console_lock is
also intended to provide console list and console->flags
synchronization. Later changes will update call sites relying on the
console_lock for these purposes. Once all call sites have been
updated, the console_lock will be relieved of synchronizing
console_list and console->flags updates.

Suggested-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/87sficwokr.fsf@jogness.linutronix.de
2022-12-02 11:25:00 +01:00
John Ogness
6c4afa7914 printk: Prepare for SRCU console list protection
Provide an NMI-safe SRCU protected variant to walk the console list.

Note that all console fields are now set before adding the console
to the list to avoid the console becoming visible by SCRU readers
before being fully initialized.

This is a preparatory change for a new console infrastructure which
operates independent of the console BKL.

Suggested-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221116162152.193147-4-john.ogness@linutronix.de
2022-12-02 11:24:59 +01:00
Thomas Gleixner
d9a4af5690 printk: Convert console_drivers list to hlist
Replace the open coded single linked list with a hlist so a conversion
to SRCU protected list walks can reuse the existing primitives.

Co-developed-by: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221116162152.193147-3-john.ogness@linutronix.de
2022-12-02 11:24:59 +01:00
Petr Mladek
5831788afb Revert "printk: add kthread console printers"
This reverts commit 09c5ba0aa2.

This reverts commit b87f02307d.

The testing of 5.19 release candidates revealed missing synchronization
between early and regular console functionality.

It would be possible to start the console kthreads later as a workaround.
But it is clear that console lock serialized console drivers between
each other. It opens a big area of possible problems that were not
considered by people involved in the development and review.

printk() is crucial for debugging kernel issues and console output is
very important part of it. The number of consoles is huge and a proper
review would take some time. As a result it need to be reverted for 5.19.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/YrBdjVwBOVgLfHyb@alley
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220623145157.21938-6-pmladek@suse.com
2022-06-23 18:41:40 +02:00
Petr Mladek
2d9ef940f8 Revert "printk: extend console_lock for per-console locking"
This reverts commit 8e27473211.

The testing of 5.19 release candidates revealed missing synchronization
between early and regular console functionality.

It would be possible to start the console kthreads later as a workaround.
But it is clear that console lock serialized console drivers between
each other. It opens a big area of possible problems that were not
considered by people involved in the development and review.

printk() is crucial for debugging kernel issues and console output is
very important part of it. The number of consoles is huge and a proper
review would take some time. As a result it need to be reverted for 5.19.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/YrBdjVwBOVgLfHyb@alley
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220623145157.21938-5-pmladek@suse.com
2022-06-23 18:41:40 +02:00
John Ogness
8e27473211 printk: extend console_lock for per-console locking
Currently threaded console printers synchronize against each
other using console_lock(). However, different console drivers
are unrelated and do not require any synchronization between
each other. Removing the synchronization between the threaded
console printers will allow each console to print at its own
speed.

But the threaded consoles printers do still need to synchronize
against console_lock() callers. Introduce a per-console mutex
and a new console boolean field @blocked to provide this
synchronization.

console_lock() is modified so that it must acquire the mutex
of each console in order to set the @blocked field. Console
printing threads will acquire their mutex while printing a
record. If @blocked was set, the thread will go back to sleep
instead of printing.

The reason for the @blocked boolean field is so that
console_lock() callers do not need to acquire multiple console
mutexes simultaneously, which would introduce unnecessary
complexity due to nested mutex locking. Also, a new field
was chosen instead of adding a new @flags value so that the
blocked status could be checked without concern of reading
inconsistent values due to @flags updates from other contexts.

Threaded console printers also need to synchronize against
console_trylock() callers. Since console_trylock() may be
called from any context, the per-console mutex cannot be used
for this synchronization. (mutex_trylock() cannot be called
from atomic contexts.) Introduce a global atomic counter to
identify if any threaded printers are active. The threaded
printers will also check the atomic counter to identify if the
console has been locked by another task via console_trylock().

Note that @console_sem is still used to provide synchronization
between console_lock() and console_trylock() callers.

A locking overview for console_lock(), console_trylock(), and the
threaded printers is as follows (pseudo code):

console_lock()
{
        down(&console_sem);
        for_each_console(con) {
                mutex_lock(&con->lock);
                con->blocked = true;
                mutex_unlock(&con->lock);
        }
        /* console_lock acquired */
}

console_trylock()
{
        if (down_trylock(&console_sem) == 0) {
                if (atomic_cmpxchg(&console_kthreads_active, 0, -1) == 0) {
                        /* console_lock acquired */
                }
        }
}

threaded_printer()
{
        mutex_lock(&con->lock);
        if (!con->blocked) {
		/* console_lock() callers blocked */

                if (atomic_inc_unless_negative(&console_kthreads_active)) {
                        /* console_trylock() callers blocked */

                        con->write();

                        atomic_dec(&console_lock_count);
                }
        }
        mutex_unlock(&con->lock);
}

The console owner and waiter logic now only applies between contexts
that have taken the console_lock via console_trylock(). Threaded
printers never take the console_lock, so they do not have a
console_lock to handover. Tasks that have used console_lock() will
block the threaded printers using a mutex and if the console_lock
is handed over to an atomic context, it would be unable to unblock
the threaded printers. However, the console_trylock() case is
really the only scenario that is interesting for handovers anyway.

@panic_console_dropped must change to atomic_t since it is no longer
protected exclusively by the console_lock.

Since threaded printers remain asleep if they see that the console
is locked, they now must be explicitly woken in __console_unlock().
This means wake_up_klogd() calls following a console_unlock() are
no longer necessary and are removed.

Also note that threaded printers no longer need to check
@console_suspended. The check for the @blocked field implicitly
covers the suspended console case.

Signed-off-by: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/878rrs6ft7.fsf@jogness.linutronix.de
2022-04-26 14:32:00 +02:00
John Ogness
09c5ba0aa2 printk: add kthread console printers
Create a kthread for each console to perform console printing. During
normal operation (@system_state == SYSTEM_RUNNING), the kthread
printers are responsible for all printing on their respective
consoles.

During non-normal operation, console printing is done as it has been:
within the context of the printk caller or within irqwork triggered
by the printk caller, referred to as direct printing.

Since threaded console printers are responsible for all printing
during normal operation, this also includes messages generated via
deferred printk calls. If direct printing is in effect during a
deferred printk call, the queued irqwork will perform the direct
printing. To make it clear that this is the only time that the
irqwork will perform direct printing, rename the flag
PRINTK_PENDING_OUTPUT to PRINTK_PENDING_DIRECT_OUTPUT.

Threaded console printers synchronize against each other and against
console lockers by taking the console lock for each message that is
printed.

Note that the kthread printers do not care about direct printing.
They will always try to print if new records are available. They can
be blocked by direct printing, but will be woken again once direct
printing is finished.

Console unregistration is a bit tricky because the associated
kthread printer cannot be stopped while the console lock is held.
A policy is implemented that states: whichever task clears
con->thread (under the console lock) is responsible for stopping
the kthread. unregister_console() will clear con->thread while
the console lock is held and then stop the kthread after releasing
the console lock.

For consoles that have implemented the exit() callback, the kthread
is stopped before exit() is called.

Signed-off-by: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220421212250.565456-14-john.ogness@linutronix.de
2022-04-22 21:30:58 +02:00
John Ogness
a699449bb1 printk: refactor and rework printing logic
Refactor/rework printing logic in order to prepare for moving to
threaded console printing.

- Move @console_seq into struct console so that the current
  "position" of each console can be tracked individually.

- Move @console_dropped into struct console so that the current drop
  count of each console can be tracked individually.

- Modify printing logic so that each console independently loads,
  prepares, and prints its next record.

- Remove exclusive_console logic. Since console positions are
  handled independently, replaying past records occurs naturally.

- Update the comments explaining why preemption is disabled while
  printing from printk() context.

With these changes, there is a change in behavior: the console
replaying the log (formerly exclusive console) will no longer block
other consoles. New messages appear on the other consoles while the
newly added console is still replaying.

Signed-off-by: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220421212250.565456-10-john.ogness@linutronix.de
2022-04-22 21:30:57 +02:00
Javier Martinez Canillas
6a2d2ddf2c drm: Move nomodeset kernel parameter to the DRM subsystem
The "nomodeset" kernel cmdline parameter is handled by the vgacon driver
but the exported vgacon_text_force() symbol is only used by DRM drivers.

It makes much more sense for the parameter logic to be in the subsystem
of the drivers that are making use of it.

Let's move the vgacon_text_force() function and related logic to the DRM
subsystem. While doing that, rename it to drm_firmware_drivers_only() and
make it return true if "nomodeset" was used and false otherwise. This is
a better description of the condition that the drivers are testing for.

Suggested-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javierm@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
Acked-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>
Acked-by: Pekka Paalanen <pekka.paalanen@collabora.com>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20211112133230.1595307-4-javierm@redhat.com
2021-11-27 13:52:22 +01:00
Pali Rohár
027b57170b serial: core: Fix initializing and restoring termios speed
Since commit edc6afc549 ("tty: switch to ktermios and new framework")
termios speed is no longer stored only in c_cflag member but also in new
additional c_ispeed and c_ospeed members. If BOTHER flag is set in c_cflag
then termios speed is stored only in these new members.

Therefore to correctly restore termios speed it is required to store also
ispeed and ospeed members, not only cflag member.

In case only cflag member with BOTHER flag is restored then functions
tty_termios_baud_rate() and tty_termios_input_baud_rate() returns baudrate
stored in c_ospeed / c_ispeed member, which is zero as it was not restored
too. If reported baudrate is invalid (e.g. zero) then serial core functions
report fallback baudrate value 9600. So it means that in this case original
baudrate is lost and kernel changes it to value 9600.

Simple reproducer of this issue is to boot kernel with following command
line argument: "console=ttyXXX,86400" (where ttyXXX is the device name).
For speed 86400 there is no Bnnn constant and therefore kernel has to
represent this speed via BOTHER c_cflag. Which means that speed is stored
only in c_ospeed and c_ispeed members, not in c_cflag anymore.

If bootloader correctly configures serial device to speed 86400 then kernel
prints boot log to early console at speed speed 86400 without any issue.
But after kernel starts initializing real console device ttyXXX then speed
is changed to fallback value 9600 because information about speed was lost.

This patch fixes above issue by storing and restoring also ispeed and
ospeed members, which are required for BOTHER flag.

Fixes: edc6afc549 ("[PATCH] tty: switch to ktermios and new framework")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Pali Rohár <pali@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211002130900.9518-1-pali@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2021-10-05 15:02:44 +02:00
Petr Mladek
a91bd6223e Revert "init/console: Use ttynull as a fallback when there is no console"
This reverts commit 757055ae8d.

The commit caused that ttynull was used as the default console
on several systems[1][2][3]. As a result, the console was
blank even when a better alternative existed.

It happened when there was no console configured
on the command line and ttynull_init() was the first initcall
calling register_console().

Or it happened when /dev/ did not exist when console_on_rootfs()
was called. It was not able to open /dev/console even though
a console driver was registered. It tried to add ttynull console
but it obviously did not help. But ttynull became the preferred
console and was used by /dev/console when it was available later.

The commit tried to fix a historical problem that have been there
for ages. The primary motivation was the commit 3cffa06aee
("printk/console: Allow to disable console output by using console=""
 or console=null"). It provided a clean solution for a workaround
 that was widely used and worked only by chance.

This revert causes that the console="" or console=null command line
options will again work only by chance. These options will cause that
a particular console will be preferred and the default (tty) ones
will not get enabled. There will be no console registered at
all. As a result there won't be stdin, stdout, and stderr for
the init process. But it worked exactly this way even before.

The proper solution has to fulfill many conditions:

  + Register ttynull only when explicitly required or as
    the ultimate fallback.

  + ttynull should get associated with /dev/console but it must
    not become preferred console when used as a fallback.
    Especially, it must still be possible to replace it
    by a better console later.

Such a change requires clean up of the register_console() code.
Otherwise, it would be even harder to follow. Especially, the use
of has_preferred_console and CON_CONSDEV flag is tricky. The clean
up is risky. The ordering of consoles is not well defined. And
any changes tend to break existing user settings.

Do the revert at the least risky solution for now.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-kselftest/20201221144302.GR4077@smile.fi.intel.com/
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/d2a3b3c0-e548-7dd1-730f-59bc5c04e191@synopsys.com/
[3] https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/linux-um/patch/20210105120128.10854-1-thomas@m3y3r.de/

Reported-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Reported-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
Reported-by: Thomas Meyer <thomas@m3y3r.de>
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Acked-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2021-01-08 11:02:18 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
d3eb52113d Merge tag 'printk-for-5.11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/printk/linux
Pull printk updates from Petr Mladek:

 - Finally allow parallel writes and reads into/from the lockless
   ringbuffer. But it is not a complete solution. Readers are still
   serialized against each other. And nested writes are still prevented
   by printk_safe per-CPU buffers.

 - Use ttynull as the ultimate fallback for /dev/console.

 - Officially allow disabling console output by using console="" or
   console=null

 - A few code cleanups

* tag 'printk-for-5.11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/printk/linux:
  printk: remove logbuf_lock writer-protection of ringbuffer
  printk: inline log_output(),log_store() in vprintk_store()
  printk: remove obsolete dead assignment
  printk/console: Allow to disable console output by using console="" or console=null
  init/console: Use ttynull as a fallback when there is no console
  printk: ringbuffer: Reference text_data_ring directly in callees.
2020-12-16 10:45:11 -08:00
Petr Mladek
757055ae8d init/console: Use ttynull as a fallback when there is no console
stdin, stdout, and stderr standard I/O stream are created for the init
process. They are not available when there is no console registered
for /dev/console. It might lead to a crash when the init process
tries to use them, see the commit 48021f9813 ("printk: handle
blank console arguments passed in.").

Normally, ttySX and ttyX consoles are used as a fallback when no consoles
are defined via the command line, device tree, or SPCR. But there
will be no console registered when an invalid console name is configured
or when the configured consoles do not exist on the system.

Users even try to avoid the console intentionally, for example,
by using console="" or console=null. It is used on production
systems where the serial port or terminal are not visible to
users. Pushing messages to these consoles would just unnecessary
slowdown the system.

Make sure that stdin, stdout, stderr, and /dev/console are always
available by a fallback to the existing ttynull driver. It has
been implemented for exactly this purpose but it was used only
when explicitly configured.

Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Tested-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Acked-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201111135450.11214-2-pmladek@suse.com
2020-11-20 12:23:50 +01:00
Peilin Ye
7a089ec7d7 console: Delete unused con_font_copy() callback implementations
Recently in commit 3c4e0dff20 ("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 af8d3c7c00 ("ppp: remove
the PPPIOCDETACH ioctl").

Signed-off-by: Peilin Ye <yepeilin.cs@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/c8d28007edf50de4387e1532eb3eb736db716f73.1605169912.git.yepeilin.cs@gmail.com
2020-11-16 16:27:03 +01:00
Jiri Slaby
d73568c4cc vt: make vc_data pointers const in selection.h
There are many functions declared in selection.h which only read from
struct vc_data passed as a parameter. Make all those uses const to hint
the compiler a bit.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200818085706.12163-1-jslaby@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2020-08-18 13:45:20 +02:00
Jiri Slaby
9a6f72d9b6 vt: get rid of VT10.ID macros
VT100ID is unused, but defined twice. Kill it.

VT102ID is used only in respond_ID. Define there a variable with proper
type and use that instead. Then drop both defines of VT102ID too.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200615074910.19267-9-jslaby@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2020-06-24 17:08:31 +02:00
Jiri Slaby
77bc14f273 vc: switch state to bool
The code currently uses bitfields to store true-false values. Switch all
of that to bools. Apart from the cleanup, it saves 20B of code as many
shifts, ANDs, and ORs became simple movzb's.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200615074910.19267-3-jslaby@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2020-06-24 17:08:31 +02:00
Jiri Slaby
b84ae3dc70 vt: introduce enum vc_intensity for intensity
Introduce names (en enum) for 0, 1, and 2 constants. We now have
VCI_HALF_BRIGHT, VCI_NORMAL, and VCI_BOLD instead.

Apart from the cleanup,
1) the enum allows for better type checking, and
2) this saves some code. No more fiddling with bits is needed in
   assembly now. (OTOH, the structure is larger.)

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200615074910.19267-2-jslaby@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2020-06-24 17:08:31 +02:00