Re: [PATCH 11/11] video/aperture: Only remove sysfb on the default vga pci device

From: Thomas Zimmermann
Date: Wed Jan 11 2023 - 11:23:48 EST


Hi

Am 11.01.23 um 16:41 schrieb Daniel Vetter:
This fixes a regression introduced by ee7a69aa38d8 ("fbdev: Disable
sysfb device registration when removing conflicting FBs"), where we
remove the sysfb when loading a driver for an unrelated pci device,
resulting in the user loosing their efifb console or similar.

Note that in practice this only is a problem with the nvidia blob,
because that's the only gpu driver people might install which does not
come with an fbdev driver of it's own. For everyone else the real gpu
driver will restor a working console.

Also note that in the referenced bug there's confusion that this same
bug also happens on amdgpu. But that was just another amdgpu specific
regression, which just happened to happen at roughly the same time and
with the same user-observable symptons. That bug is fixed now, see
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=216331#c15

For the above reasons the cc: stable is just notionally, this patch
will need a backport and that's up to nvidia if they care enough.

References: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=216303#c28
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Aaron Plattner <aplattner@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Javier Martinez Canillas <javierm@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Helge Deller <deller@xxxxxx>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@xxxxxxx>
Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> # v5.19+ (if someone else does the backport)
---
drivers/video/aperture.c | 7 ++++---
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/video/aperture.c b/drivers/video/aperture.c
index ba565515480d..a1821d369bb1 100644
--- a/drivers/video/aperture.c
+++ b/drivers/video/aperture.c
@@ -321,15 +321,16 @@ int aperture_remove_conflicting_pci_devices(struct pci_dev *pdev, const char *na
primary = pdev == vga_default_device();
+ if (primary)
+ sysfb_disable();
+

There's another sysfb_disable() in aperture_remove_conflicting_devices() without the branch but with a long comment. I find this slightly confusing.

I'd rather add a branched sysfb_disable() plus the comment to aperture_detach_devices(). And then add a 'primary' parameter to aperture_detach_devices(). In aperture_remove_conflicting_devices() the parameter would be unconditionally true.

Best regards
Thomas

for (bar = 0; bar < PCI_STD_NUM_BARS; ++bar) {
if (!(pci_resource_flags(pdev, bar) & IORESOURCE_MEM))
continue;
base = pci_resource_start(pdev, bar);
size = pci_resource_len(pdev, bar);
- ret = aperture_remove_conflicting_devices(base, size, name);
- if (ret)
- return ret;
+ aperture_detach_devices(base, size);
}
if (!primary)

--
Thomas Zimmermann
Graphics Driver Developer
SUSE Software Solutions Germany GmbH
Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany
(HRB 36809, AG Nürnberg)
Geschäftsführer: Ivo Totev

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