Re: [PATCH 00/33] fbcon notifier begone v3!

[Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch>]

On Tue, Jun 11, 2019 at 03:16:35PM +0100, Daniel Thompson wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 07, 2019 at 12:07:55PM +0200, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> > 
> > On 6/6/19 9:38 AM, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> > > Hi Bart,
> > 
> > Hi Daniel,
> > 
> > > On Tue, May 28, 2019 at 11:02:31AM +0200, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> > >> Hi all,
> > >>
> > >> I think we're slowly getting there. Previous cover letters with more
> > >> context:
> > >>
> > >> https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/dri-devel/2019-May/218362.html
> > >>
> > >> tldr; I have a multi-year plan to improve fbcon locking, because the
> > >> current thing is a bit a mess.
> > >>
> > >> Cover letter of this version, where I detail a bit more the details
> > >> fixed in this one here:
> > >>
> > >> https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/dri-devel/2019-May/218984.html
> > >>
> > >> Note that the locking plan in this one is already outdated, I overlooked a
> > >> few fun issues around any printk() going back to console_lock.
> > >>
> > >> I think remaining bits:
> > >>
> > >> - Ack from Daniel Thompson for the backlight bits, he wanted to check the
> > >>   big picture.
> > > 
> > > I think Daniel is still on vacation until next week or so.
> 
> Thanks for spotting that. As it happens the e-mail asking for extra detail
> was just about the last thing I sent before going on holiday (exactly to
> try and avoid round trips this wee ;-) ).

Vacations notices are sometimes indeed useful :-)

> > >> - Hash out actual merge plan.
> > > 
> > > I'd like to stuff this into drm.git somehow, I guess topic branch works
> > > too.
> > 
> > I would like to have topic branch for this patchset.
> 
> From a backlight perspective its Lee Jones who hoovers up the patches
> and worries about hiding merge conflicts from Linus.
> 
> I'll let him follow up if needed but I suspect he'd like an immutable
> branch to work from also.

Ok I'll build the topic branch, get it tested a bit and then send the pull
around to everyone. Thanks for taking a look at the backlight side.
-Daniel

> 
> 
> Daniel.
> 
> 
> > 
> > > Long term I think we need to reconsider how we handle fbdev, at least the
> > > core/fbcon pieces. Since a few years all the work in that area has been
> > > motivated by drm, and pushed by drm contributors. Having that maintained
> > > in a separate tree that doesn't regularly integrate imo doesn't make much
> > > sense, and we ended up merging almost everything through some drm tree.
> > > That one time we didn't (for some panel rotation stuff) it resulted in
> > > some good suprises.
> > > 
> > > I think best solution is if we put the core and fbcon bits into drm-misc,
> > > as group maintained infrastructure piece. All the other gfx infra pieces
> > > are maintained in there already too. You'd obviously get commit rights.
> > > I think that would include
> > > - drivers/video/fbdev
> > > - drivers/video/*c
> > > - drivers/video/console
> > 
> > Sounds fine to me.
> > 
> > > I don't really care about what happens with the actual fbdev drivers
> > > (aside from the drm one in drm_fb_helper.c, but that's already maintained
> > > as part of drm). I guess we could also put those into drm-misc, or as a
> > > separate tree, depending what you want.
> > > 
> > > Thoughts?
> > 
> > I would like to handle fbdev changes for v5.3 merge window using fbdev
> > tree but after that everything (including changes to fbdev drivers) can go
> > through drm-misc tree.
> > 
> > Best regards,
> > --
> > Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
> > Samsung R&D Institute Poland
> > Samsung Electronics
> > 
> > > Cheers, Daniel
> > > 
> > > 
> > >>
> > >> I'm also cc'ing the entire pile to a lot more people on request.
> > >>
> > >> Thanks, Daniel
> > >>
> > >> Daniel Vetter (33):
> > >>   dummycon: Sprinkle locking checks
> > >>   fbdev: locking check for fb_set_suspend
> > >>   vt: might_sleep() annotation for do_blank_screen
> > >>   vt: More locking checks
> > >>   fbdev/sa1100fb: Remove dead code
> > >>   fbdev/cyber2000: Remove struct display
> > >>   fbdev/aty128fb: Remove dead code
> > >>   fbcon: s/struct display/struct fbcon_display/
> > >>   fbcon: Remove fbcon_has_exited
> > >>   fbcon: call fbcon_fb_(un)registered directly
> > >>   fbdev/sh_mobile: remove sh_mobile_lcdc_display_notify
> > >>   fbdev/omap: sysfs files can't disappear before the device is gone
> > >>   fbdev: sysfs files can't disappear before the device is gone
> > >>   staging/olpc: lock_fb_info can't fail
> > >>   fbdev/atyfb: lock_fb_info can't fail
> > >>   fbdev: lock_fb_info cannot fail
> > >>   fbcon: call fbcon_fb_bind directly
> > >>   fbdev: make unregister/unlink functions not fail
> > >>   fbdev: unify unlink_framebuffer paths
> > >>   fbdev/sh_mob: Remove fb notifier callback
> > >>   fbdev: directly call fbcon_suspended/resumed
> > >>   fbcon: Call fbcon_mode_deleted/new_modelist directly
> > >>   fbdev: Call fbcon_get_requirement directly
> > >>   Revert "backlight/fbcon: Add FB_EVENT_CONBLANK"
> > >>   fbmem: pull fbcon_fb_blanked out of fb_blank
> > >>   fbdev: remove FBINFO_MISC_USEREVENT around fb_blank
> > >>   fb: Flatten control flow in fb_set_var
> > >>   fbcon: replace FB_EVENT_MODE_CHANGE/_ALL with direct calls
> > >>   vgaswitcheroo: call fbcon_remap_all directly
> > >>   fbcon: Call con2fb_map functions directly
> > >>   fbcon: Document what I learned about fbcon locking
> > >>   staging/olpc_dcon: Add drm conversion to TODO
> > >>   backlight: simplify lcd notifier
> > >>
> > >>  arch/arm/mach-pxa/am200epd.c                  |  13 +-
> > >>  drivers/gpu/vga/vga_switcheroo.c              |  11 +-
> > >>  drivers/media/pci/ivtv/ivtvfb.c               |   6 +-
> > >>  drivers/staging/fbtft/fbtft-core.c            |   4 +-
> > >>  drivers/staging/olpc_dcon/TODO                |   7 +
> > >>  drivers/staging/olpc_dcon/olpc_dcon.c         |   6 +-
> > >>  drivers/tty/vt/vt.c                           |  18 +
> > >>  drivers/video/backlight/backlight.c           |   2 +-
> > >>  drivers/video/backlight/lcd.c                 |  12 -
> > >>  drivers/video/console/dummycon.c              |   6 +
> > >>  drivers/video/fbdev/aty/aty128fb.c            |  64 ---
> > >>  drivers/video/fbdev/aty/atyfb_base.c          |   3 +-
> > >>  drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbcmap.c             |   6 +-
> > >>  drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbcon.c              | 313 ++++++--------
> > >>  drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbcon.h              |   6 +-
> > >>  drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbmem.c              | 399 +++++++-----------
> > >>  drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbsysfs.c            |  20 +-
> > >>  drivers/video/fbdev/cyber2000fb.c             |   1 -
> > >>  drivers/video/fbdev/neofb.c                   |   9 +-
> > >>  .../video/fbdev/omap2/omapfb/omapfb-sysfs.c   |  21 +-
> > >>  drivers/video/fbdev/sa1100fb.c                |  25 --
> > >>  drivers/video/fbdev/savage/savagefb_driver.c  |   9 +-
> > >>  drivers/video/fbdev/sh_mobile_lcdcfb.c        | 132 +-----
> > >>  drivers/video/fbdev/sh_mobile_lcdcfb.h        |   5 -
> > >>  include/linux/console_struct.h                |   5 +-
> > >>  include/linux/fb.h                            |  45 +-
> > >>  include/linux/fbcon.h                         |  30 ++
> > >>  27 files changed, 396 insertions(+), 782 deletions(-)
> > >>
> > >> --
> > >> 2.20.1
> > >>
> > > 
> > > --
> > > Daniel Vetter
> > > Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
> > > http://blog.ffwll.ch

-- 
Daniel Vetter
Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
http://blog.ffwll.ch