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<title>linux-stable.git/drivers/video/fbdev/Kconfig, branch v5.8</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree</subtitle>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/'/>
<entry>
<title>treewide: replace '---help---' in Kconfig files with 'help'</title>
<updated>2020-06-13T16:57:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Masahiro Yamada</name>
<email>masahiroy@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-06-13T16:50:22+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=a7f7f6248d9740d710fd6bd190293fe5e16410ac'/>
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<content type='text'>
Since commit 84af7a6194e4 ("checkpatch: kconfig: prefer 'help' over
'---help---'"), the number of '---help---' has been gradually
decreasing, but there are still more than 2400 instances.

This commit finishes the conversion. While I touched the lines,
I also fixed the indentation.

There are a variety of indentation styles found.

  a) 4 spaces + '---help---'
  b) 7 spaces + '---help---'
  c) 8 spaces + '---help---'
  d) 1 space + 1 tab + '---help---'
  e) 1 tab + '---help---'    (correct indentation)
  f) 1 tab + 1 space + '---help---'
  g) 1 tab + 2 spaces + '---help---'

In order to convert all of them to 1 tab + 'help', I ran the
following commend:

  $ find . -name 'Kconfig*' | xargs sed -i 's/^[[:space:]]*---help---/\thelp/'

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
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<pre>
Since commit 84af7a6194e4 ("checkpatch: kconfig: prefer 'help' over
'---help---'"), the number of '---help---' has been gradually
decreasing, but there are still more than 2400 instances.

This commit finishes the conversion. While I touched the lines,
I also fixed the indentation.

There are a variety of indentation styles found.

  a) 4 spaces + '---help---'
  b) 7 spaces + '---help---'
  c) 8 spaces + '---help---'
  d) 1 space + 1 tab + '---help---'
  e) 1 tab + '---help---'    (correct indentation)
  f) 1 tab + 1 space + '---help---'
  g) 1 tab + 2 spaces + '---help---'

In order to convert all of them to 1 tab + 'help', I ran the
following commend:

  $ find . -name 'Kconfig*' | xargs sed -i 's/^[[:space:]]*---help---/\thelp/'

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'powerpc-5.8-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux</title>
<updated>2020-06-05T19:39:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-06-05T19:39:30+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=7ae77150d94d3b535c7b85e6b3647113095e79bf'/>
<id>7ae77150d94d3b535c7b85e6b3647113095e79bf</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull powerpc updates from Michael Ellerman:

 - Support for userspace to send requests directly to the on-chip GZIP
   accelerator on Power9.

 - Rework of our lockless page table walking (__find_linux_pte()) to
   make it safe against parallel page table manipulations without
   relying on an IPI for serialisation.

 - A series of fixes &amp; enhancements to make our machine check handling
   more robust.

 - Lots of plumbing to add support for "prefixed" (64-bit) instructions
   on Power10.

 - Support for using huge pages for the linear mapping on 8xx (32-bit).

 - Remove obsolete Xilinx PPC405/PPC440 support, and an associated sound
   driver.

 - Removal of some obsolete 40x platforms and associated cruft.

 - Initial support for booting on Power10.

 - Lots of other small features, cleanups &amp; fixes.

Thanks to: Alexey Kardashevskiy, Alistair Popple, Andrew Donnellan,
Andrey Abramov, Aneesh Kumar K.V, Balamuruhan S, Bharata B Rao, Bulent
Abali, Cédric Le Goater, Chen Zhou, Christian Zigotzky, Christophe
JAILLET, Christophe Leroy, Dmitry Torokhov, Emmanuel Nicolet, Erhard F.,
Gautham R. Shenoy, Geoff Levand, George Spelvin, Greg Kurz, Gustavo A.
R. Silva, Gustavo Walbon, Haren Myneni, Hari Bathini, Joel Stanley,
Jordan Niethe, Kajol Jain, Kees Cook, Leonardo Bras, Madhavan
Srinivasan., Mahesh Salgaonkar, Markus Elfring, Michael Neuling, Michal
Simek, Nathan Chancellor, Nathan Lynch, Naveen N. Rao, Nicholas Piggin,
Oliver O'Halloran, Paul Mackerras, Pingfan Liu, Qian Cai, Ram Pai,
Raphael Moreira Zinsly, Ravi Bangoria, Sam Bobroff, Sandipan Das, Segher
Boessenkool, Stephen Rothwell, Sukadev Bhattiprolu, Tyrel Datwyler,
Wolfram Sang, Xiongfeng Wang.

* tag 'powerpc-5.8-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux: (299 commits)
  powerpc/pseries: Make vio and ibmebus initcalls pseries specific
  cxl: Remove dead Kconfig options
  powerpc: Add POWER10 architected mode
  powerpc/dt_cpu_ftrs: Add MMA feature
  powerpc/dt_cpu_ftrs: Enable Prefixed Instructions
  powerpc/dt_cpu_ftrs: Advertise support for ISA v3.1 if selected
  powerpc: Add support for ISA v3.1
  powerpc: Add new HWCAP bits
  powerpc/64s: Don't set FSCR bits in INIT_THREAD
  powerpc/64s: Save FSCR to init_task.thread.fscr after feature init
  powerpc/64s: Don't let DT CPU features set FSCR_DSCR
  powerpc/64s: Don't init FSCR_DSCR in __init_FSCR()
  powerpc/32s: Fix another build failure with CONFIG_PPC_KUAP_DEBUG
  powerpc/module_64: Use special stub for _mcount() with -mprofile-kernel
  powerpc/module_64: Simplify check for -mprofile-kernel ftrace relocations
  powerpc/module_64: Consolidate ftrace code
  powerpc/32: Disable KASAN with pages bigger than 16k
  powerpc/uaccess: Don't set KUEP by default on book3s/32
  powerpc/uaccess: Don't set KUAP by default on book3s/32
  powerpc/8xx: Reduce time spent in allow_user_access() and friends
  ...
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<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Pull powerpc updates from Michael Ellerman:

 - Support for userspace to send requests directly to the on-chip GZIP
   accelerator on Power9.

 - Rework of our lockless page table walking (__find_linux_pte()) to
   make it safe against parallel page table manipulations without
   relying on an IPI for serialisation.

 - A series of fixes &amp; enhancements to make our machine check handling
   more robust.

 - Lots of plumbing to add support for "prefixed" (64-bit) instructions
   on Power10.

 - Support for using huge pages for the linear mapping on 8xx (32-bit).

 - Remove obsolete Xilinx PPC405/PPC440 support, and an associated sound
   driver.

 - Removal of some obsolete 40x platforms and associated cruft.

 - Initial support for booting on Power10.

 - Lots of other small features, cleanups &amp; fixes.

Thanks to: Alexey Kardashevskiy, Alistair Popple, Andrew Donnellan,
Andrey Abramov, Aneesh Kumar K.V, Balamuruhan S, Bharata B Rao, Bulent
Abali, Cédric Le Goater, Chen Zhou, Christian Zigotzky, Christophe
JAILLET, Christophe Leroy, Dmitry Torokhov, Emmanuel Nicolet, Erhard F.,
Gautham R. Shenoy, Geoff Levand, George Spelvin, Greg Kurz, Gustavo A.
R. Silva, Gustavo Walbon, Haren Myneni, Hari Bathini, Joel Stanley,
Jordan Niethe, Kajol Jain, Kees Cook, Leonardo Bras, Madhavan
Srinivasan., Mahesh Salgaonkar, Markus Elfring, Michael Neuling, Michal
Simek, Nathan Chancellor, Nathan Lynch, Naveen N. Rao, Nicholas Piggin,
Oliver O'Halloran, Paul Mackerras, Pingfan Liu, Qian Cai, Ram Pai,
Raphael Moreira Zinsly, Ravi Bangoria, Sam Bobroff, Sandipan Das, Segher
Boessenkool, Stephen Rothwell, Sukadev Bhattiprolu, Tyrel Datwyler,
Wolfram Sang, Xiongfeng Wang.

* tag 'powerpc-5.8-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux: (299 commits)
  powerpc/pseries: Make vio and ibmebus initcalls pseries specific
  cxl: Remove dead Kconfig options
  powerpc: Add POWER10 architected mode
  powerpc/dt_cpu_ftrs: Add MMA feature
  powerpc/dt_cpu_ftrs: Enable Prefixed Instructions
  powerpc/dt_cpu_ftrs: Advertise support for ISA v3.1 if selected
  powerpc: Add support for ISA v3.1
  powerpc: Add new HWCAP bits
  powerpc/64s: Don't set FSCR bits in INIT_THREAD
  powerpc/64s: Save FSCR to init_task.thread.fscr after feature init
  powerpc/64s: Don't let DT CPU features set FSCR_DSCR
  powerpc/64s: Don't init FSCR_DSCR in __init_FSCR()
  powerpc/32s: Fix another build failure with CONFIG_PPC_KUAP_DEBUG
  powerpc/module_64: Use special stub for _mcount() with -mprofile-kernel
  powerpc/module_64: Simplify check for -mprofile-kernel ftrace relocations
  powerpc/module_64: Consolidate ftrace code
  powerpc/32: Disable KASAN with pages bigger than 16k
  powerpc/uaccess: Don't set KUEP by default on book3s/32
  powerpc/uaccess: Don't set KUAP by default on book3s/32
  powerpc/8xx: Reduce time spent in allow_user_access() and friends
  ...
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc: Remove Xilinx PPC405/PPC440 support</title>
<updated>2020-05-28T13:24:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michal Simek</name>
<email>michal.simek@xilinx.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-05-21T16:55:52+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=7ade8495dcfd788a76e6877c9ea86f5207369ea4'/>
<id>7ade8495dcfd788a76e6877c9ea86f5207369ea4</id>
<content type='text'>
The latest Xilinx design tools called ISE and EDK has been released in
October 2013. New tool doesn't support any PPC405/PPC440 new designs.
These platforms are no longer supported and tested.

PowerPC 405/440 port is orphan from 2013 by
commit cdeb89943bfc ("MAINTAINERS: Fix incorrect status tag") and
commit 19624236cce1 ("MAINTAINERS: Update Grant's email address and maintainership")
that's why it is time to remove the support fot these platforms.

Signed-off-by: Michal Simek &lt;michal.simek@xilinx.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy &lt;christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu&gt;
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/8c593895e2cb57d232d85ce4d8c3a1aa7f0869cc.1590079968.git.christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
The latest Xilinx design tools called ISE and EDK has been released in
October 2013. New tool doesn't support any PPC405/PPC440 new designs.
These platforms are no longer supported and tested.

PowerPC 405/440 port is orphan from 2013 by
commit cdeb89943bfc ("MAINTAINERS: Fix incorrect status tag") and
commit 19624236cce1 ("MAINTAINERS: Update Grant's email address and maintainership")
that's why it is time to remove the support fot these platforms.

Signed-off-by: Michal Simek &lt;michal.simek@xilinx.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy &lt;christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu&gt;
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/8c593895e2cb57d232d85ce4d8c3a1aa7f0869cc.1590079968.git.christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>video: fbdev: controlfb: add COMPILE_TEST support</title>
<updated>2020-04-17T13:50:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz</name>
<email>b.zolnierkie@samsung.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-03-24T13:45:04+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=a07a63b0e24dd1316d11427601a9f83dc955bb40'/>
<id>a07a63b0e24dd1316d11427601a9f83dc955bb40</id>
<content type='text'>
Add COMPILE_TEST support to controlfb driver for better compile
testing coverage.

While at it:
- convert driver to use eieio() and dcbf() helpers instead of
  open-coding them
- add invalid_vram_cache() helper to avoid code duplication

Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg &lt;sam@ravnborg.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz &lt;b.zolnierkie@samsung.com&gt;
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20200324134508.25120-3-b.zolnierkie@samsung.com
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Add COMPILE_TEST support to controlfb driver for better compile
testing coverage.

While at it:
- convert driver to use eieio() and dcbf() helpers instead of
  open-coding them
- add invalid_vram_cache() helper to avoid code duplication

Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg &lt;sam@ravnborg.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz &lt;b.zolnierkie@samsung.com&gt;
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20200324134508.25120-3-b.zolnierkie@samsung.com
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>video: fbdev: wm8505fb: add COMPILE_TEST support</title>
<updated>2020-03-02T15:32:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz</name>
<email>b.zolnierkie@samsung.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-01-16T14:58:08+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=9e24d63b054ba692129872c1acb9be7536fd1d45'/>
<id>9e24d63b054ba692129872c1acb9be7536fd1d45</id>
<content type='text'>
Add COMPILE_TEST support to wm8505fb driver for better compile
testing coverage.

Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz &lt;b.zolnierkie@samsung.com&gt;
Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg &lt;sam@ravnborg.org&gt;
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/900c16b3-9306-7d17-f467-0f98bc95416a@samsung.com
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Add COMPILE_TEST support to wm8505fb driver for better compile
testing coverage.

Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz &lt;b.zolnierkie@samsung.com&gt;
Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg &lt;sam@ravnborg.org&gt;
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/900c16b3-9306-7d17-f467-0f98bc95416a@samsung.com
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>video: fbdev: w100fb: add COMPILE_TEST support</title>
<updated>2020-03-02T15:32:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz</name>
<email>b.zolnierkie@samsung.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-01-16T14:53:58+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=ee5aca2e7167ee3feccc989ad609b64e698d5eb3'/>
<id>ee5aca2e7167ee3feccc989ad609b64e698d5eb3</id>
<content type='text'>
Add COMPILE_TEST support to w100fb driver for better compile
testing coverage.

Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz &lt;b.zolnierkie@samsung.com&gt;
Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg &lt;sam@ravnborg.org&gt;
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/a929db5e-d373-7b09-ae2b-efec227f7e85@samsung.com
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Add COMPILE_TEST support to w100fb driver for better compile
testing coverage.

Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz &lt;b.zolnierkie@samsung.com&gt;
Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg &lt;sam@ravnborg.org&gt;
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/a929db5e-d373-7b09-ae2b-efec227f7e85@samsung.com
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>video: fbdev: arcfb: add COMPILE_TEST support</title>
<updated>2020-03-02T15:31:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz</name>
<email>b.zolnierkie@samsung.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-01-16T14:49:07+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=3d3287e609877aa549b1cbb41eafaf73c3742a0b'/>
<id>3d3287e609877aa549b1cbb41eafaf73c3742a0b</id>
<content type='text'>
Add COMPILE_TEST support to arcfb driver for better compile
testing coverage.

Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz &lt;b.zolnierkie@samsung.com&gt;
Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg &lt;sam@ravnborg.org&gt;
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/acf2cc2e-614d-f0fb-ce40-cee62bfcde4c@samsung.com
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Add COMPILE_TEST support to arcfb driver for better compile
testing coverage.

Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz &lt;b.zolnierkie@samsung.com&gt;
Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg &lt;sam@ravnborg.org&gt;
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/acf2cc2e-614d-f0fb-ce40-cee62bfcde4c@samsung.com
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>video: fbdev: sh_mobile_lcdcfb: add COMPILE_TEST support</title>
<updated>2020-03-02T15:31:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz</name>
<email>b.zolnierkie@samsung.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-01-16T14:51:57+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=6df8627609fdc03e0824de47a3a3b8cec7324df5'/>
<id>6df8627609fdc03e0824de47a3a3b8cec7324df5</id>
<content type='text'>
Add COMPILE_TEST support to sh_mobile_lcdcfb driver for better compile
testing coverage.

Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz &lt;b.zolnierkie@samsung.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert+renesas@glider.be&gt;
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/d98fea18-b72e-6d0f-33ac-1421738bd12b@samsung.com
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Add COMPILE_TEST support to sh_mobile_lcdcfb driver for better compile
testing coverage.

Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz &lt;b.zolnierkie@samsung.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert+renesas@glider.be&gt;
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/d98fea18-b72e-6d0f-33ac-1421738bd12b@samsung.com
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>video: hyperv: hyperv_fb: Use physical memory for fb on HyperV Gen 1 VMs.</title>
<updated>2020-01-27T02:22:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Wei Hu</name>
<email>weh@microsoft.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-12-09T07:57:49+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=3a6fb6c4255c3893ab61e2bd4e9ae01ca6bbcd94'/>
<id>3a6fb6c4255c3893ab61e2bd4e9ae01ca6bbcd94</id>
<content type='text'>
On Hyper-V, Generation 1 VMs can directly use VM's physical memory for
their framebuffers. This can improve the efficiency of framebuffer and
overall performence for VM. The physical memory assigned to framebuffer
must be contiguous. We use CMA allocator to get contiguouse physicial
memory when the framebuffer size is greater than 4MB. For size under
4MB, we use alloc_pages to achieve this.

To enable framebuffer memory allocation from CMA, supply a kernel
parameter to give enough space to CMA allocator at boot time. For
example:
    cma=130m
This gives 130MB memory to CAM allocator that can be allocated to
framebuffer. If this fails, we fall back to the old way of using
mmio for framebuffer.

Reported-by: kbuild test robot &lt;lkp@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Wei Hu &lt;weh@microsoft.com&gt;
Acked-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz &lt;b.zolnierkie@samsung.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
On Hyper-V, Generation 1 VMs can directly use VM's physical memory for
their framebuffers. This can improve the efficiency of framebuffer and
overall performence for VM. The physical memory assigned to framebuffer
must be contiguous. We use CMA allocator to get contiguouse physicial
memory when the framebuffer size is greater than 4MB. For size under
4MB, we use alloc_pages to achieve this.

To enable framebuffer memory allocation from CMA, supply a kernel
parameter to give enough space to CMA allocator at boot time. For
example:
    cma=130m
This gives 130MB memory to CAM allocator that can be allocated to
framebuffer. If this fails, we fall back to the old way of using
mmio for framebuffer.

Reported-by: kbuild test robot &lt;lkp@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Wei Hu &lt;weh@microsoft.com&gt;
Acked-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz &lt;b.zolnierkie@samsung.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>video: hyperv: hyperv_fb: Support deferred IO for Hyper-V frame buffer driver</title>
<updated>2019-11-22T01:10:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Wei Hu</name>
<email>weh@microsoft.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-09-18T06:03:20+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=d21987d709e807ba7bbf47044deb56a3c02e8be4'/>
<id>d21987d709e807ba7bbf47044deb56a3c02e8be4</id>
<content type='text'>
Without deferred IO support, hyperv_fb driver informs the host to refresh
the entire guest frame buffer at fixed rate, e.g. at 20Hz, no matter there
is screen update or not. This patch supports deferred IO for screens in
graphics mode and also enables the frame buffer on-demand refresh. The
highest refresh rate is still set at 20Hz.

Currently Hyper-V only takes a physical address from guest as the starting
address of frame buffer. This implies the guest must allocate contiguous
physical memory for frame buffer. In addition, Hyper-V Gen 2 VMs only
accept address from MMIO region as frame buffer address. Due to these
limitations on Hyper-V host, we keep a shadow copy of frame buffer
in the guest. This means one more copy of the dirty rectangle inside
guest when doing the on-demand refresh. This can be optimized in the
future with help from host. For now the host performance gain from deferred
IO outweighs the shadow copy impact in the guest.

Signed-off-by: Wei Hu &lt;weh@microsoft.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Dexuan Cui &lt;decui@microsoft.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Michael Kelley &lt;mikelley@microsoft.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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Without deferred IO support, hyperv_fb driver informs the host to refresh
the entire guest frame buffer at fixed rate, e.g. at 20Hz, no matter there
is screen update or not. This patch supports deferred IO for screens in
graphics mode and also enables the frame buffer on-demand refresh. The
highest refresh rate is still set at 20Hz.

Currently Hyper-V only takes a physical address from guest as the starting
address of frame buffer. This implies the guest must allocate contiguous
physical memory for frame buffer. In addition, Hyper-V Gen 2 VMs only
accept address from MMIO region as frame buffer address. Due to these
limitations on Hyper-V host, we keep a shadow copy of frame buffer
in the guest. This means one more copy of the dirty rectangle inside
guest when doing the on-demand refresh. This can be optimized in the
future with help from host. For now the host performance gain from deferred
IO outweighs the shadow copy impact in the guest.

Signed-off-by: Wei Hu &lt;weh@microsoft.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Dexuan Cui &lt;decui@microsoft.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Michael Kelley &lt;mikelley@microsoft.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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