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Daniel Vetter 39aead8373 fbcon: Disable accelerated scrolling 
So ever since syzbot discovered fbcon, we have solid proof that it's
full of bugs. And often the solution is to just delete code and remove
features, e.g.  50145474f6 ("fbcon: remove soft scrollback code").

Now the problem is that most modern-ish drivers really only treat
fbcon as an dumb kernel console until userspace takes over, and Oops
printer for some emergencies. Looking at drm drivers and the basic
vesa/efi fbdev drivers shows that only 3 drivers support any kind of
acceleration:

- nouveau, seems to be enabled by default
- omapdrm, when a DMM remapper exists using remapper rewriting for
  y/xpanning
- gma500, but that is getting deleted now for the GTT remapper trick,
  and the accelerated copyarea never set the FBINFO_HWACCEL_COPYAREA
  flag, so unused (and could be deleted already I think).

No other driver supportes accelerated fbcon. And fbcon is the only
user of this accel code (it's not exposed as uapi through ioctls),
which means we could garbage collect fairly enormous amounts of code
if we kill this.

Plus because syzbot only runs on virtual hardware, and none of the
drivers for that have acceleration, we'd remove a huge gap in testing.
And there's no other even remotely comprehensive testing aside from
syzbot.

This patch here just disables the acceleration code by always
redrawing when scrolling. The plan is that once this has been merged
for well over a year in released kernels, we can start to go around
and delete a lot of code.

v2:
- Drop a few more unused local variables, somehow I missed the
compiler warnings (Sam)
- Fix typo in comment (Jiri)
- add a todo entry for the cleanup (Thomas)

v3: Remove more unused variables (0day)

Reviewed-by: Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@ti.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@kernel.org>
Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@samsung.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ben Skeggs <bskeggs@redhat.com>
Cc: nouveau@lists.freedesktop.org
Cc: Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@ti.com>
Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@kernel.org>
Cc: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavoars@kernel.org>
Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Cc: Peilin Ye <yepeilin.cs@gmail.com>
Cc: George Kennedy <george.kennedy@oracle.com>
Cc: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Rosin <peda@axentia.se>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@intel.com>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20201029132229.4068359-1-daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch
2020-11-17 11:00:29 +01:00
arch Linux 5.10-rc3 2020-11-10 14:36:36 +01:00
block blk-mq: mark flush request as IDLE in flush_end_io() 2020-10-30 08:33:49 -06:00
certs .gitignore: add SPDX License Identifier 2020-03-25 11:50:48 +01:00
crypto drivers-5.10-2020-10-12 2020-10-13 13:04:41 -07:00
Documentation fbcon: Disable accelerated scrolling 2020-11-17 11:00:29 +01:00
drivers fbcon: Disable accelerated scrolling 2020-11-17 11:00:29 +01:00
fs Fixes for 5.10-rc3: 2020-11-08 10:23:07 -08:00
include drm: fix some kernel-doc markups 2020-11-16 20:48:20 +01:00
init linux-kselftest-kunit-5.10-rc1 2020-10-18 14:45:59 -07:00
ipc ipc: adjust proc_ipc_sem_dointvec definition to match prototype 2020-09-05 12:14:29 -07:00
kernel fork: fix copy_process(CLONE_PARENT) race with the exiting ->real_parent 2020-11-08 11:18:39 -08:00
lib Fonts: Add charcount field to font_desc 2020-11-16 16:31:41 +01:00
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mm mm/truncate.c: make __invalidate_mapping_pages() static 2020-11-02 12:14:19 -08:00
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usr Merge branch 'work.fdpic' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2020-08-07 13:29:39 -07:00
virt kvm: x86/mmu: Support dirty logging for the TDP MMU 2020-10-23 03:42:13 -04:00
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.gitignore .gitignore: docs: ignore sphinx_*/ directories 2020-09-10 10:44:31 -06:00
.mailmap MAINTAINERS: jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com -> jarkko@kernel.org 2020-10-16 11:11:19 -07:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS MAINTAINERS: Move Sangbeom Kim to credits 2020-10-26 10:11:18 +01:00
Kbuild kbuild: rename hostprogs-y/always to hostprogs/always-y 2020-02-04 01:53:07 +09:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
MAINTAINERS Merge drm/drm-next into drm-misc-next 2020-11-10 17:11:37 +01:00
Makefile Linux 5.10-rc3 2020-11-08 16:10:16 -08:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

README 

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.