At Wed, 18 Dec 2013 09:44:35 +0100,
Takashi Iwai wrote:
>
> At Wed, 18 Dec 2013 09:21:28 +0100,
> David Herrmann wrote:
> >
> > Hi
> >
> > On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 8:42 AM, Takashi Iwai <ti...@suse.de> wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > with the recent enablement of simplefb on x86, cirrusdrmfb on QEMU/KVM
> > > gets broken now, as reported at:
> > > https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=855821
> > >
> > > The cirrus VGA resource is reserved at first as "BOOTFB" in
> > > arch/x86/kernel/sysfb_simplefb.c, which is taken by simplefb platform
> > > device. This resource is, however, never released until the platform
> > > device is destroyed, and the framebuffer switching doesn't trigger
> > > it. It calls fb's destroy callback, at most. Then, cirrus driver
> > > tries to assign the resource, fails and gives up, resulting in a
> > > complete blank screen.
> > >
> > > The same problem should exist on other KMS drivers like mgag200 or
> > > ast, not only cirrus. Intel graphics doesn't hit this problem just
> > > because the reserved iomem by BOOTFB isn't required by i915 driver.
> > >
> > > The patch below is a quick attempt to solve the issue. It adds a new
> > > API function for releasing resources of platform_device, and call it
> > > in destroy op of simplefb. But, forcibly releasing resources of a
> > > parent device doesn't sound like a correct design. We may take such
> > > as a band aid, but definitely need a more fundamental fix.
> > >
> > > Any thoughts?
> >
> > That bug always existed, simplefb is just the first driver to hit it
> > (vesafb/efifb didn't use resources).
>
> Heh, the bug didn't "exist" because no other grabbed the resource
> before. The way the cirrus driver allocates the resource is no bug,
> per se. But the proper resource takeover is missing.
>
> > I'm aware of the issue but as a
> > workaround you can simply disable CONFIG_X86_SYSFB. That restores the
> > old behavior.
>
> Yes, but CONFIG_X86_SYSFB breaks things as of now. Shouldn't it be
> mentioned or give some kconfig hints instead of silently giving a
> broken output, if any quick fix isn't possible?
>
> > As a proper fix, I'd propose something like:
> > dev = platform_find_device("platform-framebuffer");
> > platform_remove_device(dev);
> >
> > And we wrap this as:
> > sysfb_remove_framebuffers()
> > in arch/x86/kernel/sysfb.c
> >
> > This should cause a ->remove() event for the platform-driver and
> > correctly release the resources. Comments?
>
> Who will call this? From destroy callback?
> Or can we simply do put_device() the bound platform device instead?
Just tested, put_device() doesn't work since the refcount isn't 1, so
if any, we need to call platform_device_unregister() to release
forcibly.
The patch below seems working at a quick test. But I still have
some bad feeling for unregistering the parent device from the child's
destroy callback...
thanks,
Takashi
---
diff --git a/drivers/video/simplefb.c b/drivers/video/simplefb.c
index 210f3a02121a..196360c54157 100644
--- a/drivers/video/simplefb.c
+++ b/drivers/video/simplefb.c
@@ -41,6 +41,11 @@ static struct fb_var_screeninfo simplefb_var = {
.vmode = FB_VMODE_NONINTERLACED,
};
+struct simplefb_priv {
+ u32 pseudo_palette[16];
+ struct platform_device *pdev;
+};
+
static int simplefb_setcolreg(u_int regno, u_int red, u_int green, u_int blue,
u_int transp, struct fb_info *info)
{
@@ -68,8 +73,19 @@ static int simplefb_setcolreg(u_int regno, u_int red, u_int
green, u_int blue,
static void simplefb_destroy(struct fb_info *info)
{
+ struct simplefb_priv *priv = info->par;
+ struct platform_device *pdev = priv->pdev;
+
if (info->screen_base)
iounmap(info->screen_base);
+
+ /* release the bound platform device when called from
+ * remove_conflicting_framebuffers()
+ */
+ if (pdev) {
+ priv->pdev = NULL; /* to avoid double-free */
+ platform_device_unregister(pdev);
+ }
}
static struct fb_ops simplefb_ops = {
@@ -169,6 +185,7 @@ static int simplefb_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
struct simplefb_params params;
struct fb_info *info;
struct resource *mem;
+ struct simplefb_priv *priv;
if (fb_get_options("simplefb", NULL))
return -ENODEV;
@@ -188,7 +205,7 @@ static int simplefb_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
return -EINVAL;
}
- info = framebuffer_alloc(sizeof(u32) * 16, &pdev->dev);
+ info = framebuffer_alloc(sizeof(struct simplefb_priv), &pdev->dev);
if (!info)
return -ENOMEM;
platform_set_drvdata(pdev, info);
@@ -225,7 +242,9 @@ static int simplefb_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
framebuffer_release(info);
return -ENODEV;
}
- info->pseudo_palette = (void *)(info + 1);
+
+ priv = info->par;
+ info->pseudo_palette = priv->pseudo_palette;
dev_info(&pdev->dev, "framebuffer at 0x%lx, 0x%x bytes, mapped to
0x%p\n",
info->fix.smem_start, info->fix.smem_len,
@@ -243,6 +262,7 @@ static int simplefb_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
return ret;
}
+ priv->pdev = pdev;
dev_info(&pdev->dev, "fb%d: simplefb registered!\n", info->node);
return 0;
@@ -251,8 +271,13 @@ static int simplefb_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
static int simplefb_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
{
struct fb_info *info = platform_get_drvdata(pdev);
+ struct simplefb_priv *priv = info->par;
+
+ if (priv->pdev) {
+ priv->pdev = NULL; /* to avoid double-free */
+ unregister_framebuffer(info);
+ }
- unregister_framebuffer(info);
framebuffer_release(info);
return 0;
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
