linux-stable.git/drivers/video/fbdev/core/tileblit.c, branch linux-5.10.y

fbcon: Avoid using FNTCHARCNT() and hard-coded built-in font charcount

2026-01-19T12:12:00+00:00

commit a1ac250a82a5e97db71f14101ff7468291a6aaef upstream.

For user-provided fonts, the framebuffer layer is using a magic
negative-indexing macro, FNTCHARCNT(), to keep track of their number of
characters:

	#define FNTCHARCNT(fd)	(((int *)(fd))[-3])

For built-in fonts, it is using hard-coded values (256). This results in
something like the following:

		map.length = (ops->p->userfont) ?
			FNTCHARCNT(ops->p->fontdata) : 256;

This is unsatisfactory. In fact, there is already a `charcount` field in
our virtual console descriptor (see `struct console_font` inside `struct
vc_data`), let us use it:

		map.length = vc->vc_font.charcount;

Recently we added a `charcount` field to `struct font_desc`. Use it to set
`vc->vc_font.charcount` properly. The idea is:

  - We only use FNTCHARCNT() on `vc->vc_font.data` and `p->fontdata`.
    Assume FNTCHARCNT() is working as intended;
  - Whenever `vc->vc_font.data` is set, also set `vc->vc_font.charcount`
    properly;
  - We can now replace `FNTCHARCNT(vc->vc_font.data)` with
    `vc->vc_font.charcount`;
  - Since `p->fontdata` always point to the same font data buffer with
    `vc->vc_font.data`, we can also replace `FNTCHARCNT(p->fontdata)` with
    `vc->vc_font.charcount`.

In conclusion, set `vc->vc_font.charcount` properly in fbcon_startup(),
fbcon_init(), fbcon_set_disp() and fbcon_do_set_font(), then replace
FNTCHARCNT() with `vc->vc_font.charcount`. No more if-else between
negative-indexing macros and hard-coded values.

Do not include  in fbcon_rotate.c and tileblit.c, since they
no longer need it.

Depends on patch "Fonts: Add charcount field to font_desc".

Suggested-by: Daniel Vetter 
Signed-off-by: Peilin Ye 
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman 
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter 
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/e460a5780e54e3022661d5f09555144583b4cc59.1605169912.git.yepeilin.cs@gmail.com
Cc: Ben Hutchings 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

fbdev: core: tileblit: Implement missing margin clearing for tileblit

2025-06-04T12:36:59+00:00

[ Upstream commit 76d3ca89981354e1f85a3e0ad9ac4217d351cc72 ]

I was wondering why there's garbage at the bottom of the screen when
tile blitting is used with an odd mode like 1080, 600 or 200. Sure there's
only space for half a tile but the same area is clean when the buffer
is bitmap.

Then later I found that it's supposed to be cleaned but that's not
implemented. So I took what's in bitblit and adapted it for tileblit.

This implementation was tested for both the horizontal and vertical case,
and now does the same as what's done for bitmap buffers.

If anyone is interested to reproduce the problem then I could bet that'd
be on a S3 or Ark. Just set up a mode with an odd line count and make
sure that the virtual size covers the complete tile at the bottom. E.g.
for 600 lines that's 608 virtual lines for a 16 tall tile. Then the
bottom area should be cleaned.

For the right side it's more difficult as there the drivers won't let an
odd size happen, unless the code is modified. But once it reports back a
few pixel columns short then fbcon won't use the last column. With the
patch that column is now clean.

Btw. the virtual size should be rounded up by the driver for both axes
(not only the horizontal) so that it's dividable by the tile size.
That's a driver bug but correcting it is not in scope for this patch.

Implement missing margin clearing for tileblit

Signed-off-by: Zsolt Kajtar 
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller 
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

fbcon: Use correct erase colour for clearing in fbcon

2025-06-04T12:36:59+00:00

[ Upstream commit 892c788d73fe4a94337ed092cb998c49fa8ecaf4 ]

The erase colour calculation for fbcon clearing should use get_color instead
of attr_col_ec, like everything else. The latter is similar but is not correct.
For example it's missing the depth dependent remapping and doesn't care about
blanking.

The problem can be reproduced by setting up the background colour to grey
(vt.color=0x70) and having an fbcon console set to 2bpp (4 shades of gray).
Now the background attribute should be 1 (dark gray) on the console.

If the screen is scrolled when pressing enter in a shell prompt at the bottom
line then the new line is cleared using colour 7 instead of 1. That's not
something fillrect likes (at 2bbp it expect 0-3) so the result is interesting.

This patch switches to get_color with vc_video_erase_char to determine the
erase colour from attr_col_ec. That makes the latter function redundant as
no other users were left.

Use correct erase colour for clearing in fbcon

Signed-off-by: Zsolt Kajtar 
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller 
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

Merge tag 'drm-misc-fixes-2020-10-01' of git://anongit.freedesktop.org/drm/drm-misc into drm-fixes

2020-10-06T02:38:28+00:00

drm-misc-fixes for v5.9:
- Small doc fix.
- Re-add FB_ARMCLCD for android.
- Fix global-out-of-bounds read in fbcon_get_font().

Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie 

From: Maarten Lankhorst 
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/8585daa2-fcbc-3924-ac4f-e7b5668808e0@linux.intel.com

fbdev, newport_con: Move FONT_EXTRA_WORDS macros into linux/font.h

2020-09-25T08:28:18+00:00

drivers/video/console/newport_con.c is borrowing FONT_EXTRA_WORDS macros
from drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbcon.h. To keep things simple, move all
definitions into .

Since newport_con now uses four extra words, initialize the fourth word in
newport_set_font() properly.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Peilin Ye 
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman 
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter 
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/7fb8bc9b0abc676ada6b7ac0e0bd443499357267.1600953813.git.yepeilin.cs@gmail.com

fbcon: remove now unusued 'softback_lines' cursor() argument

2020-09-14T17:06:15+00:00

Since the softscroll code got removed, this argument is always zero and
makes no sense any more.

Tested-by: Yuan Ming 
Tested-by: Willy Tarreau 
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

vt: use newly defined CUR_* macros

2020-06-24T15:08:33+00:00

We defined macros for all the magic constants in the previous patch. So
let us use the macro in the code now.

No functional change intended.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby 
Cc: Thomas Winischhofer 
Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz 
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" 
Cc: Helge Deller 
Cc: linux-usb@vger.kernel.org
Cc: dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org
Cc: linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: Helge Deller 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200615074910.19267-26-jslaby@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

vc: separate state

2020-06-24T15:08:30+00:00

There are two copies of some members of struct vc_data. This is because
we need to save them and restore later. Move these memebers to a
separate structure called vc_state. So now instead of members like:
  vc_x, vc_y and vc_saved_x, vc_saved_y
we have
  state and saved_state (of type: struct vc_state)
containing
  state.x, state.y and saved_state.x, saved_state.y

This change:
* makes clear what is saved & restored
* eases save & restore by using memcpy (see save_cur and restore_cur)

Finally, we document the newly added struct vc_state using kernel-doc.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200615074910.19267-1-jslaby@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

fbcon: add fbcon=margin: command line option

2017-08-18T17:56:40+00:00

This adds a new command line option to select the fbcon margin color.

The motivation for this is screens where black does not blend into the
physical surroundings of the screen. For example, using an LCD (not the
backlit kind), white text on a black background is hard to read, so
inverting the colors is preferred. However, when you do this, most of the
screen is filled with white but the margins are still filled with black.
This makes a big, black, backwards 'L' on the screen. By setting
fbcon=margin:7, the margins will be filled with white and the LCD looks as
expected.

Signed-off-by: David Lechner 
[b.zolnierkie: ported over fbcon changes]
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz

fbcon: Make fbcon a built-time depency for fbdev

2017-08-01T15:32:07+00:00

There's a bunch of folks who're trying to make printk less
contended and faster, but there's a problem: printk uses the
console_lock, and the console lock has become the BKL for all things
fbdev/fbcon, which in turn pulled in half the drm subsystem under that
lock. That's awkward.

There reasons for that is probably just a historical accident:

- fbcon is a runtime option of fbdev, i.e. at runtime you can pick
  whether your fbdev driver instances are used as kernel consoles.
  Unfortunately this wasn't implemented with some module option, but
  through some module loading magic: As long as you don't load
  fbcon.ko, there's no fbdev console support, but loading it (in any
  order wrt fbdev drivers) will create console instances for all fbdev
  drivers.

- This was implemented through a notifier chain. fbcon.ko enumerates
  all fbdev instances at load time and also registers itself as
  listener in the fbdev notifier. The fbdev core tries to register new
  fbdev instances with fbcon using the notifier.

- On top of that the modifier chain is also used at runtime by the
  fbdev subsystem to e.g. control backlights for panels.

- The problem is that the notifier puts a mutex locking context
  between fbdev and fbcon, which mixes up the locking contexts for
  both the runtime usage and the register time usage to notify fbcon.
  And at runtime fbcon (through the fbdev core) might call into the
  notifier from a printk critical section while console_lock is held.

- This means console_lock must be an outer lock for the entire fbdev
  subsystem, which also means it must be acquired when registering a
  new framebuffer driver as the outermost lock since we might call
  into fbcon (through the notifier) which would result in a locking
  inversion if fbcon would acquire the console_lock from its notifier
  callback (which it needs to register the console).

- console_lock can be held anywhere, since printk can be called
  anywhere, and through the above story, plus drm/kms being an fbdev
  driver, we pull in a shocking amount of locking hiercharchy
  underneath the console_lock. Which makes cleaning up printk really
  hard (not even splitting console_lock into an rwsem is all that
  useful due to this).

There's various ways to address this, but the cleanest would be to
make fbcon a compile-time option, where fbdev directly calls the fbcon
register functions from register_framebuffer, or dummy static inline
versions if fbcon is disabled. Maybe augmented with a runtime knob to
disable fbcon, if that's needed (for debugging perhaps).

But this could break some users who rely on the magic "loading
fbcon.ko enables/disables fbdev framebuffers at runtime" thing, even
if that's unlikely. Hence we must be careful:

1. Create a compile-time dependency between fbcon and fbdev in the
least minimal way. This is what this patch does.

2. Wait at least 1 year to give possible users time to scream about
how we broke their setup. Unlikely, since all distros make fbcon
compile-in, and embedded platforms only compile stuff they know they
need anyway. But still.

3. Convert the notifier to direct functions calls, with dummy static
inlines if fbcon is disabled. We'll still need the fb notifier for the
other uses (like backlights), but we can probably move it into the fb
core (atm it must be built-into vmlinux).

4. Push console_lock down the call-chain, until it is down in
console_register again.

5. Finally start to clean up and rework the printk/console locking.

For context of this saga see

commit 50e244cc793d511b86adea24972f3a7264cae114
Author: Alan Cox 
Date:   Fri Jan 25 10:28:15 2013 +1000

    fb: rework locking to fix lock ordering on takeover

plus the pile of commits on top that tried to make this all work
without terminally upsetting lockdep. We've uncovered all this when
console_lock lockdep annotations where added in

commit daee779718a319ff9f83e1ba3339334ac650bb22
Author: Daniel Vetter 
Date:   Sat Sep 22 19:52:11 2012 +0200

    console: implement lockdep support for console_lock

On the patch itself:
- Switch CONFIG_FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE to be a boolean, using the overall
  CONFIG_FB tristate to decided whether it should be a module or
  built-in.

- At first I thought I could force the build depency with just a dummy
  symbol that fbcon.ko exports and fb.ko uses. But that leads to a
  module depency cycle (it works fine when built-in).

  Since this tight binding is the entire goal the simplest solution is
  to move all the fbcon modules (and there's a bunch of optinal
  source-files which are each modules of their own, for no good
  reason) into the overall fb.ko core module. That's a bit more than
  what I would have liked to do in this patch, but oh well.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter 
Cc: Alan Cox 
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky 
Cc: Steven Rostedt 
Reviewed-by: Sean Paul 
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz