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>
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.
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
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>
We need the console patches in here as well for futher work from Andy.
* 'for-5.7-console-exit' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pmladek/printk:
console: Introduce ->exit() callback
console: Don't notify user space when unregister non-listed console
console: Avoid positive return code from unregister_console()
console: Drop misleading comment
console: Use for_each_console() helper in unregister_console()
console: Drop double check for console_drivers being non-NULL
console: Don't perform test for CON_BRL flag
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
CON_CONSDEV flag was historically used to put/keep the preferred console
first in console_drivers list. Where the preferred console is the last
on the command line.
The ordering is important only when opening /dev/console:
+ tty_kopen()
+ tty_lookup_driver()
+ console_device()
The flag was originally an implementation detail. But it was later
made accessible from userspace via /proc/consoles. It was used,
for example, by the tool "showconsole" to show the real tty
accessible via /dev/console, see
https://github.com/bitstreamout/showconsole
Now, the current code sets CON_CONSDEV only for the preferred
console or when a fallback console is added. The flag is not
set when the preferred console is defined on the command line
but it is not registered from some reasons.
Simple solution is to set CON_CONSDEV flag for the first
registered console. It will work most of the time because:
+ Most real consoles have console->device defined.
+ Boot consoles are removed in printk_late_init().
+ unregister_console() moves CON_CONSDEV flag to the next
console.
Clean solution would require checking con->device when the
preferred console is registered and in unregister_console().
Conclusion:
Use the simple solution for now. It is better than the current
state and good enough.
The clean solution is not worth it. It would complicate the already
complicated code without too much gain. Instead the code would deserve
a complete rewrite.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200213095133.23176-4-pmladek@suse.com
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
[pmladek@suse.com: Correct reasoning in the commit message, comment update.]
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
commit 09d3f3f0e0 ("sparc: Kill PROM console driver.") missed removing
the declarations of the deleted prom_con structure and prom_con_init
function from console.h. Kill them off now.
Signed-off-by: Arvind Sankar <nivedita@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
The macro WARN_CONSOLE_UNLOCKED prints a warning when a thread enters
the console's critical section without having acquired the console
lock. The console lock can be ignored when debugging the console using
printk, but this makes WARN_CONSOLE_UNLOCKED generate unnecessary
warnings.
The variable ignore_console_lock_warning temporarily disables
WARN_CONSOLE_UNLOCKED. Developers interested in debugging the console's
critical sections should increment it before entering the CS and
decrement it after leaving the CS. Setting ignore_console_lock_warning
is only for debugging. Regular operation should not manipulate it.
Acknoledgements: This patch is based on an earlier version by Steven
Rostedt. The use of atomic increment/decrement was suggested by Petr
Mladek.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/717e6337-e7a6-7a92-1c1b-8929a25696b5@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
Acked-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
[b.zolnierkie: use <linux/atomic.h>]
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@samsung.com>
Currently fbcon claims fbdevs as soon as they are registered and takes over
the console as soon as the first fbdev gets registered.
This behavior is undesirable in cases where a smooth graphical bootup is
desired, in such cases we typically want the contents of the framebuffer
(typically a vendor logo) to stay in place as is.
The current solution for this problem (on embedded systems) is to not
enable fbcon.
This commit adds a new FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE_DEFERRED_TAKEOVER config option,
which when enabled defers fbcon taking over the console from the dummy
console until the first text is displayed on the console. Together with the
"quiet" kernel commandline option, this allows fbcon to still be used
together with a smooth graphical bootup, having it take over the console as
soon as e.g. an error message is logged.
Note the choice to detect the first console output in the dummycon driver,
rather then handling this entirely inside the fbcon code, was made after
2 failed attempts to handle this entirely inside the fbcon code. The fbcon
code is woven quite tightly into the console code, making this to only
feasible option.
Reviewed-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@samsung.com>
Reading the function declarations for the console callbacks lacks any
hints as to what the arguments are. Instead of going and digging around in
various implementations that may each only have a subset of the callbacks,
name all the arguments in the declaration. This has no functional change.
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
All the console driver handling code lives in printk.c.
Move console_init() there as well so console support can still be used
when the TTY code is configured out. No logical changes from this patch.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
This new callback is in preparation for persistent scrollback buffer
support for VGA consoles.
With a single scrollback buffer for all consoles, we could flush the
buffer just by invocating consw->con_switch(). But when each VGA console
has its own scrollback buffer, we need a new callback to tell the
video console driver which buffer to flush.
Signed-off-by: Manuel Schölling <manuel.schoelling@gmx.de>
Reviewed-by: Andrey Utkin <andrey_utkin@fastmail.com>
Tested-by: Andrey Utkin <andrey_utkin@fastmail.com>
Tested-by: Adam Borowski <kilobyte@angband.pl>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Pull tty/serial updates from Greg KH:
"Here's the tty/serial patchset for 4.10-rc1.
It's been a quiet kernel cycle for this subsystem, just a small number
of changes. A few new serial drivers, and some cleanups to the old
vgacon logic, and other minor serial driver changes as well.
All of these have been in linux-next for a while with no reported
issues"
* tag 'tty-4.10-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty: (54 commits)
serial: 8250_mid fix calltrace when hotplug 8250 serial controller
console: Move userspace I/O out of console_lock to fix lockdep warning
tty: nozomi: avoid sprintf buffer overflow
serial: 8250_pci: Detach low-level driver during PCI error recovery
serial: core: don't check port twice in a row
mxs-auart: count FIFO overrun errors
serial: 8250_dw: Add support for IrDA SIR mode
serial: 8250: Expose set_ldisc function
serial: 8250: Add IrDA to UART capabilities
serial: 8250_dma: power off device after TX is done
serial: 8250_port: export serial8250_rpm_{get|put}_tx()
serial: sunsu: Free memory when probe fails
serial: sunhv: Free memory when remove() is called
vt: fix Scroll Lock LED trigger name
tty: typo in comments in drivers/tty/vt/keyboard.c
tty: amba-pl011: Add earlycon support for SBSA UART
tty: nozomi: use permission-specific DEVICE_ATTR variants
tty: serial: Make the STM32 serial port depend on it's arch
serial: ifx6x60: Free memory when probe fails
serial: ioc4_serial: Free memory when kzalloc fails during probe
...
This reverts commit 05fd007e46 ("console: don't prefer first
registered if DT specifies stdout-path").
The reverted commit changes existing behavior on which many ARM boards
rely. Many ARM small-board-computers, like e.g. the Raspberry Pi have
both a video output and a serial console. Depending on whether the user
is using the device as a more regular computer; or as a headless device
we need to have the console on either one or the other.
Many users rely on the kernel behavior of the console being present on
both outputs, before the reverted commit the console setup with no
console= kernel arguments on an ARM board which sets stdout-path in dt
would look like this:
[root@localhost ~]# cat /proc/consoles
ttyS0 -W- (EC p a) 4:64
tty0 -WU (E p ) 4:1
Where as after the reverted commit, it looks like this:
[root@localhost ~]# cat /proc/consoles
ttyS0 -W- (EC p a) 4:64
This commit reverts commit 05fd007e46 ("console: don't prefer first
registered if DT specifies stdout-path") restoring the original
behavior.
Fixes: 05fd007e46 ("console: don't prefer first registered if DT specifies stdout-path")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161104121135.4780-2-hdegoede@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Burton <paul.burton@imgtec.com>
Cc: Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org>
Cc: Frank Rowand <frowand.list@gmail.com>
Cc: Thorsten Leemhuis <regressions@leemhuis.info>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Scrolling helpers scrup and scrdown both accept 'top' and 'bottom' as
unsigned int. Number of lines 'nr' is accepted as int, but all callers
pass down unsigned too. So change the type of 'nr' to unsigned too.
Now, promote unsigned int from the helpers up to the con_scroll
hook which actually accepted all those as signed int.
Next, the 'dir' parameter can have only two values and we define
constants for that: SM_UP and SM_DOWN. Switch them to enum and do
proper type checking on 'dir' too.
Finally, document the behaviour of the hook.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Cc: Thomas Winischhofer <thomas@winischhofer.net>
Cc: Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@ti.com>
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <jejb@parisc-linux.org>
Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Cc: <linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: <linux-usb@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: <linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
If a device tree specifies a preferred device for kernel console output
via the stdout-path or linux,stdout-path chosen node properties or the
stdout alias then the kernel ought to honor it & output the kernel
console to that device. As it stands, this isn't the case. Whilst we
parse the stdout-path properties & set an of_stdout variable from
of_alias_scan(), and use that from of_console_check() to determine
whether to add a console device as a preferred console whilst
registering it, we also prefer the first registered console if no other
has been selected at the time of its registration.
This means that if a console other than the one the device tree selects
via stdout-path is registered first, we will switch to using it & when
the stdout-path console is later registered the call to
add_preferred_console() via of_console_check() is too late to do
anything useful. In practice this seems to mean that we switch to the
dummy console device fairly early & see no further console output:
Console: colour dummy device 80x25
console [tty0] enabled
bootconsole [ns16550a0] disabled
Fix this by not automatically preferring the first registered console if
one is specified by the device tree. This allows consoles to be
registered but not enabled, and once the driver for the console selected
by stdout-path calls of_console_check() the driver will be added to the
list of preferred consoles before any other console has been enabled.
When that console is then registered via register_console() it will be
enabled as expected.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160809151937.26118-1-paul.burton@imgtec.com
Signed-off-by: Paul Burton <paul.burton@imgtec.com>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Paul Burton <paul.burton@imgtec.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Cc: Ivan Delalande <colona@arista.com>
Cc: Thierry Reding <treding@nvidia.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.com>
Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org>
Cc: Frank Rowand <frowand.list@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
