fbcon: Fix vc attr at deinit

2017-07-04T10:11:10+00:00

commit 8aac7f34369726d1a158788ae8aff3002d5eb528 upstream. fbcon can deal with vc_hi_font_mask (the upper 256 chars) and adjust the vc attrs dynamically when vc_hi_font_mask is changed at fbcon_init(). When the vc_hi_font_mask is set, it remaps the attrs in the existing console buffer with one bit shift up (for 9 bits), while it remaps with one bit shift down (for 8 bits) when the value is cleared. It works fine as long as the font gets updated after fbcon was initialized. However, we hit a bizarre problem when the console is switched to another fb driver (typically from vesafb or efifb to drmfb). At switching to the new fb driver, we temporarily rebind the console to the dummy console, then rebind to the new driver. During the switching, we leave the modified attrs as is. Thus, the new fbcon takes over the old buffer as if it were to contain 8 bits chars (although the attrs are still shifted for 9 bits), and effectively this results in the yellow color texts instead of the original white color, as found in the bugzilla entry below. An easy fix for this is to re-adjust the attrs before leaving the fbcon at con_deinit callback. Since the code to adjust the attrs is already present in the current fbcon code, in this patch, we simply factor out the relevant code, and call it from fbcon_deinit(). Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1000619 Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz Cc: Arnd Bergmann Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau

fbcon: queue work on power efficient wq

2016-08-26T18:22:05+00:00

fbcon uses workqueues and it has no real dependency of scheduling these on the cpu which scheduled them. On a idle system, it is observed that and idle cpu wakes up many times just to service this work. It would be better if we can schedule it on a cpu which the scheduler believes to be the most appropriate one. This patch replaces system_wq with system_power_efficient_wq. Cc: Dave Airlie Cc: linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo (cherry picked from commit a85f1a41f020bc2c97611060bcfae6f48a1db28d) Signed-off-by: Mark Brown Signed-off-by: Stefan Guendhoer

first commit

2016-08-15T02:19:42+00:00

xavi/android_kernel_m2note/drivers/video/console/fbcon.c, branch ng-7.1.2

fbcon: Fix vc attr at deinit

fbcon: queue work on power efficient wq

first commit