Now that the core vt code knows how to preserve unicode values for each
displayed character, it is then possible to let user space access it via
/dev/vcs*.
Unicode characters are presented as 32 bit values in native endianity
via the /dev/vcsu* devices, mimicking the simple /dev/vcs* devices.
Unicode with attributes (similarly to /dev/vcsa*) is not supported at
the moment.
Data is available only as long as the console is in UTF-8 mode. ENODATA
is returned otherwise.
This was tested with the latest development version (to become
version 5.7) of BRLTTY. Amongst other things, this allows ⠋⠕⠗ ⠞⠓⠊⠎
⠃⠗⠁⠊⠇⠇⠑⠀⠞⠑⠭⠞⠀to appear directly on braille displays regardless of the
console font being used.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org>
Tested-by: Dave Mielke <Dave@mielke.cc>
Acked-by: Adam Borowski <kilobyte@angband.pl>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
The vt code translates UTF-8 strings into glyph index values and stores
those glyph values directly in the screen buffer. Because there can only
be at most 512 glyphs, it is impossible to represent most unicode
characters, in which case a default glyph (often '?') is displayed
instead. The original unicode value is then lost.
This patch implements the basic screen buffer handling to preserve unicode
values alongside corresponding display glyphs. It is not activated by
default, meaning that people not relying on that functionality won't get
the implied overhead.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org>
Tested-by: Dave Mielke <Dave@mielke.cc>
Acked-by: Adam Borowski <kilobyte@angband.pl>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Commit f8df13e0a9 ("tty: Clean console safely") added code to clear
both the scrollback buffer and the screen with "\e[3J", then execution
falls through into the code to simply clear the screen. This means
scr_memsetw() and the console driver update callback are called twice
on the whole screen buffer. Let's reorganize the code so the same work
is not performed twice needlessly.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Here is the big set of tty and serial driver patches for 4.17-rc1
Not all that big really, most are just small fixes and additions to
existing drivers. There's a bunch of work on the imx serial driver
recently for some reason, and a new embedded serial driver added as
well.
Full details are in the shortlog.
All of these have been in the linux-next tree for a while with no
reported issues.
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Merge tag 'tty-4.17-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty
Pull tty/serial driver updates from Greg KH:
"Here is the big set of tty and serial driver patches for 4.17-rc1
Not all that big really, most are just small fixes and additions to
existing drivers. There's a bunch of work on the imx serial driver
recently for some reason, and a new embedded serial driver added as
well.
Full details are in the shortlog.
All of these have been in the linux-next tree for a while with no
reported issues"
* tag 'tty-4.17-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty: (66 commits)
serial: expose buf_overrun count through proc interface
serial: mvebu-uart: fix tx lost characters
tty: serial: msm_geni_serial: Fix return value check in qcom_geni_serial_probe()
tty: serial: msm_geni_serial: Add serial driver support for GENI based QUP
8250-men-mcb: add support for 16z025 and 16z057
powerpc: Mark the variable earlycon_acpi_spcr_enable maybe_unused
serial: stm32: fix initialization of RS485 mode
ARM: dts: STi: Remove "console=ttyASN" from bootargs for STi boards
vt: change SGR 21 to follow the standards
serdev: Fix typo in serdev_device_alloc
ARM: dts: STi: Fix aliases property name for STi boards
tty: st-asc: Update tty alias
serial: stm32: add support for RS485 hardware control mode
dt-bindings: serial: stm32: add RS485 optional properties
selftests: add devpts selftests
devpts: comment devpts_mntget()
devpts: resolve devpts bind-mounts
devpts: hoist out check for DEVPTS_SUPER_MAGIC
serial: 8250: Add Nuvoton NPCM UART
serial: mxs-auart: disable clks of Alphascale ASM9260
...
Tabs on a console with long lines do not wrap properly, so correctly
account for the line length when computing the tab placement location.
Reported-by: James Holderness <j4_james@hotmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
ECMA-48 [1] (aka ISO 6429) has defined SGR 21 as "doubly underlined"
since at least March 1984. The Linux kernel has treated it as SGR 22
"normal intensity" since it was added in Linux-0.96b in June 1992.
Before that, it was simply ignored. Other terminal emulators have
either ignored it, or treat it as double underline now. xterm for
example added support in its 304 release (May 2014) [2] where it was
previously ignoring it.
Changing this behavior shouldn't be an issue:
- It isn't a named capability in ncurses's terminfo database, so no
script is using libtinfo/libcurses to look this up, or using tput
to query & output the right sequence.
- Any script assuming SGR 21 will reset intensity in all terminals
already do not work correctly on non-Linux VTs (including running
under screen/tmux/etc...).
- If someone has written a script that only runs in the Linux VT, and
they're using SGR 21 (instead of SGR 22), the output should still
be readable.
imo it's important to change this as the Linux VT's non-conformance
is sometimes used as an argument for other terminal emulators to not
implement SGR 21 at all, or do so incorrectly.
[1]: https://www.ecma-international.org/publications/standards/Ecma-048.htm
[2]: 2fd29cb98d
Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@chromium.org>
Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
This changes all DEFINE_TIMER() callbacks to use a struct timer_list
pointer instead of unsigned long. Since the data argument has already been
removed, none of these callbacks are using their argument currently, so
this renames the argument to "unused".
Done using the following semantic patch:
@match_define_timer@
declarer name DEFINE_TIMER;
identifier _timer, _callback;
@@
DEFINE_TIMER(_timer, _callback);
@change_callback depends on match_define_timer@
identifier match_define_timer._callback;
type _origtype;
identifier _origarg;
@@
void
-_callback(_origtype _origarg)
+_callback(struct timer_list *unused)
{ ... }
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Here is the big tty/serial driver pull request for 4.15-rc1.
Lots of serial driver updates in here, some small vt cleanups, and a
raft of SPDX and license boilerplate cleanups, messing up the diffstat a
bit.
Nothing major, with no realy functional changes except better hardware
support for some platforms.
All of these have been in linux-next for a while with no reported
issues.
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Merge tag 'tty-4.15-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty
Pull tty/serial updates from Greg KH:
"Here is the big tty/serial driver pull request for 4.15-rc1.
Lots of serial driver updates in here, some small vt cleanups, and a
raft of SPDX and license boilerplate cleanups, messing up the diffstat
a bit.
Nothing major, with no realy functional changes except better hardware
support for some platforms.
All of these have been in linux-next for a while with no reported
issues"
* tag 'tty-4.15-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty: (110 commits)
tty: ehv_bytechan: fix spelling mistake
tty: serial: meson: allow baud-rates lower than 9600
serial: 8250_fintek: Fix crash with baud rate B0
serial: 8250_fintek: Disable delays for ports != 0
serial: 8250_fintek: Return -EINVAL on invalid configuration
tty: Remove redundant license text
tty: serdev: Remove redundant license text
tty: hvc: Remove redundant license text
tty: serial: Remove redundant license text
tty: add SPDX identifiers to all remaining files in drivers/tty/
tty: serial: jsm: remove redundant pointer ts
tty: serial: jsm: add space before the open parenthesis '('
tty: serial: jsm: fix coding style
tty: serial: jsm: delete space between function name and '('
tty: serial: jsm: add blank line after declarations
tty: serial: jsm: change the type of local variable
tty: serial: imx: remove dead code imx_dma_rxint
tty: serial: imx: disable ageing timer interrupt if dma in use
serial: 8250: fix potential deadlock in rs485-mode
serial: m32r_sio: Drop redundant .data assignment
...
It's good to have SPDX identifiers in all files to make it easier to
audit the kernel tree for correct licenses.
Update the drivers/tty files files with the correct SPDX license
identifier based on the license text in the file itself. The SPDX
identifier is a legally binding shorthand, which can be used instead of
the full boiler plate text.
This work is based on a script and data from Thomas Gleixner, Philippe
Ombredanne, and Kate Stewart.
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@mellanox.com>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jikos@kernel.org>
Cc: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
Cc: James Hogan <jhogan@kernel.org>
Cc: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
Cc: Eric Anholt <eric@anholt.net>
Cc: Stefan Wahren <stefan.wahren@i2se.com>
Cc: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Cc: Ray Jui <rjui@broadcom.com>
Cc: Scott Branden <sbranden@broadcom.com>
Cc: bcm-kernel-feedback-list@broadcom.com
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <jejb@parisc-linux.org>
Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Cc: Joachim Eastwood <manabian@gmail.com>
Cc: Matthias Brugger <matthias.bgg@gmail.com>
Cc: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Cc: Tobias Klauser <tklauser@distanz.ch>
Cc: Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
Cc: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
Cc: Richard Genoud <richard.genoud@gmail.com>
Cc: Alexander Shiyan <shc_work@mail.ru>
Cc: Baruch Siach <baruch@tkos.co.il>
Cc: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@linux-mips.org>
Cc: "Uwe Kleine-König" <kernel@pengutronix.de>
Cc: Pat Gefre <pfg@sgi.com>
Cc: "Guilherme G. Piccoli" <gpiccoli@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Cc: Vladimir Zapolskiy <vz@mleia.com>
Cc: Sylvain Lemieux <slemieux.tyco@gmail.com>
Cc: Carlo Caione <carlo@caione.org>
Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@baylibre.com>
Cc: Liviu Dudau <liviu.dudau@arm.com>
Cc: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@arm.com>
Cc: Lorenzo Pieralisi <lorenzo.pieralisi@arm.com>
Cc: Andy Gross <andy.gross@linaro.org>
Cc: David Brown <david.brown@linaro.org>
Cc: "Andreas Färber" <afaerber@suse.de>
Cc: Kevin Cernekee <cernekee@gmail.com>
Cc: Laxman Dewangan <ldewangan@nvidia.com>
Cc: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@gmail.com>
Cc: Jonathan Hunter <jonathanh@nvidia.com>
Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>
Cc: Patrice Chotard <patrice.chotard@st.com>
Cc: Maxime Coquelin <mcoquelin.stm32@gmail.com>
Cc: Alexandre Torgue <alexandre.torgue@st.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
Cc: Timur Tabi <timur@tabi.org>
Cc: Tony Prisk <linux@prisktech.co.nz>
Cc: Michal Simek <michal.simek@xilinx.com>
Cc: "Sören Brinkmann" <soren.brinkmann@xilinx.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Kate Stewart <kstewart@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@nexb.com>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
In con_font_set(), when we need to guess font height (for
compat reasons?), the current approach uses multiple userspace
fetches, i.e., get_user(tmp, &charmap[32*i+h-1]), to derive
the height. This has two drawbacks:
1. performance: accessing userspace memory is less efficient than
directly de-reference the byte
2. security: a more critical problem is that the height derived
might not match with the actual font.data. This is because a user
thread might race condition to change the memory of op->data after
the op->height guessing but before the second fetch: font.data =
memdup_user(op->data, size). Leaving font.height = 32 while the
actual height is 1 or vice-versa.
This patch tries to resolve both issues by re-locating the height
guessing part after the font.data is fetched in. In this way, the
userspace data is fetched in one shot and we directly dereference
the font.data in kernel space to probe for the height.
Signed-off-by: Meng Xu <mengxu.gatech@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
vt has a mixture of pr_<level> and printk.
Convert to using only pr_<level>.
Miscellanea:
o Coalesce formats
o Realign arguments
o Add missing braces around an if/else with the printk conversion
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Use bsearch library function instead of duplicated functionality.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Meyer <thomas@m3y3r.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Only vgacon and sisusbcon did it right, the rest (via generic code) tried
underline (usually cyan).
Signed-off-by: Adam Borowski <kilobyte@angband.pl>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Only read access is checked before this call.
Actually, at the moment this is not an issue, as every in-tree arch does
the same manual checks for VERIFY_READ vs VERIFY_WRITE, relying on the MMU
to tell them apart, but this wasn't the case in the past and may happen
again on some odd arch in the future.
If anyone cares about 3.7 and earlier, this is a security hole (untested)
on real 80386 CPUs.
Signed-off-by: Adam Borowski <kilobyte@angband.pl>
CC: stable@vger.kernel.org # v3.7-
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/869017
Console blanking is not enabling DPMS power saving (thereby negating any
power-saving benefit), and is simply turning the screen content blank. This
means that any crash output is invisible which is unhelpful on a server
(virtual or otherwise).
Furthermore, CRT burn in concerns should no longer govern the default case.
Affected users could always set consoleblank on the kernel command line.
Signed-off-by: Tim Gardner <tim.gardner@canonical.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.com>
Cc: Adam Borowski <kilobyte@angband.pl>
Cc: Scot Doyle <lkml14@scotdoyle.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
We are going to split <linux/sched/signal.h> out of <linux/sched.h>, which
will have to be picked up from other headers and a couple of .c files.
Create a trivial placeholder <linux/sched/signal.h> file that just
maps to <linux/sched.h> to make this patch obviously correct and
bisectable.
Include the new header in the files that are going to need it.
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
This new callback is in preparation for persistent scrollback buffer
support for VGA consoles.
With a single scrollback buffer for all consoles, we could flush the
buffer just by invocating consw->con_switch(). But when each VGA console
has its own scrollback buffer, we need a new callback to tell the
video console driver which buffer to flush.
Signed-off-by: Manuel Schölling <manuel.schoelling@gmx.de>
Reviewed-by: Andrey Utkin <andrey_utkin@fastmail.com>
Tested-by: Andrey Utkin <andrey_utkin@fastmail.com>
Tested-by: Adam Borowski <kilobyte@angband.pl>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Pull workqueue updates from Tejun Heo:
"Mostly patches to initialize workqueue subsystem earlier and get rid
of keventd_up().
The patches were headed for the last merge cycle but got delayed due
to a bug found late minute, which is fixed now.
Also, to help debugging, destroy_workqueue() is more chatty now on a
sanity check failure."
* 'for-4.10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq:
workqueue: move wq_numa_init() to workqueue_init()
workqueue: remove keventd_up()
debugobj, workqueue: remove keventd_up() usage
slab, workqueue: remove keventd_up() usage
power, workqueue: remove keventd_up() usage
tty, workqueue: remove keventd_up() usage
mce, workqueue: remove keventd_up() usage
workqueue: make workqueue available early during boot
workqueue: dump workqueue state on sanity check failures in destroy_workqueue()
When resizing a vt its selection may exceed the new size, resulting in
an invalid memory access [1]. Clear the selection before resizing.
[1] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/CACT4Y+acDTwy4umEvf5ROBGiRJNrxHN4Cn5szCXE5Jw-d1B=Xw@mail.gmail.com
Reported-and-tested-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Scot Doyle <lkml14@scotdoyle.com>
Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Size of kmalloc() in vc_do_resize() is controlled by user.
Too large kmalloc() size triggers WARNING message on console.
Put a reasonable upper bound on terminal size to prevent WARNINGs.
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
CC: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.com>
Cc: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: syzkaller@googlegroups.com
Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
This makes the code understandable at least. No functional changes.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
The code is mirrorred in scrolldelta implementations of both vgacon
and sisusb. Let's move the code to a separate helper where we will
perform a common cleanup and further changes.
While we are moving the code, make it linear and save one indentation
level. This is done by returning from the "!lines" then-branch
immediatelly. This allows flushing the else-branch 1 level to the
left, obviously.
Few more new lines and comments were added too.
And do not forget to export the helper function given sisusb can be
built as module.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Cc: Thomas Winischhofer <thomas@winischhofer.net>
Cc: Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@ti.com>
Cc: <linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: <linux-usb@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Both scrup and scrdown are copies of the same code except source and
destination pointers computation. Unify those functions into a single
one named con_scroll.
Note that scrdown used step to compute the destination, while scrup
did the computation explicitly. We sticked to the latter here.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Scrolling helpers scrup and scrdown both accept 'top' and 'bottom' as
unsigned int. Number of lines 'nr' is accepted as int, but all callers
pass down unsigned too. So change the type of 'nr' to unsigned too.
Now, promote unsigned int from the helpers up to the con_scroll
hook which actually accepted all those as signed int.
Next, the 'dir' parameter can have only two values and we define
constants for that: SM_UP and SM_DOWN. Switch them to enum and do
proper type checking on 'dir' too.
Finally, document the behaviour of the hook.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Cc: Thomas Winischhofer <thomas@winischhofer.net>
Cc: Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@ti.com>
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <jejb@parisc-linux.org>
Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Cc: <linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: <linux-usb@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: <linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
In csi_J(3), the third parameter of scr_memsetw (vc_screenbuf_size) is
divided by 2 inappropriatelly. But scr_memsetw expects size, not
count, because it divides the size by 2 on its own before doing actual
memset-by-words.
So remove the bogus division.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Cc: Petr Písař <ppisar@redhat.com>
Fixes: f8df13e0a9 (tty: Clean console safely)
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Merge my system logging cleanups, triggered by the broken '\n' patches.
The line continuation handling has been broken basically forever, and
the code to handle the system log records was both confusing and
dubious. And it would do entirely the wrong thing unless you always had
a terminating newline, partly because it couldn't actually see whether a
message was marked KERN_CONT or not (but partly because the LOG_CONT
handling in the recording code was rather confusing too).
This re-introduces a real semantically meaningful KERN_CONT, and fixes
the few places I noticed where it was missing. There are probably more
missing cases, since KERN_CONT hasn't actually had any semantic meaning
for at least four years (other than the checkpatch meaning of "no log
level necessary, this is a continuation line").
This also allows the combination of KERN_CONT and a log level. In that
case the log level will be ignored if the merging with a previous line
is successful, but if a new record is needed, that new record will now
get the right log level.
That also means that you can at least in theory combine KERN_CONT with
the "pr_info()" style helpers, although any use of pr_fmt() prefixing
would make that just result in a mess, of course (the prefix would end
up in the middle of a continuing line).
* printk-cleanups:
printk: make reading the kernel log flush pending lines
printk: re-organize log_output() to be more legible
printk: split out core logging code into helper function
printk: reinstate KERN_CONT for printing continuation lines
Long long ago the kernel log buffer was a buffered stream of bytes, very
much like stdio in user space. It supported log levels by scanning the
stream and noticing the log level markers at the beginning of each line,
but if you wanted to print a partial line in multiple chunks, you just
did multiple printk() calls, and it just automatically worked.
Except when it didn't, and you had very confusing output when different
lines got all mixed up with each other. Then you got fragment lines
mixing with each other, or with non-fragment lines, because it was
traditionally impossible to tell whether a printk() call was a
continuation or not.
To at least help clarify the issue of continuation lines, we added a
KERN_CONT marker back in 2007 to mark continuation lines:
4749252776 ("printk: add KERN_CONT annotation").
That continuation marker was initially an empty string, and didn't
actuall make any semantic difference. But it at least made it possible
to annotate the source code, and have check-patch notice that a printk()
didn't need or want a log level marker, because it was a continuation of
a previous line.
To avoid the ambiguity between a continuation line that had that
KERN_CONT marker, and a printk with no level information at all, we then
in 2009 made KERN_CONT be a real log level marker which meant that we
could now reliably tell the difference between the two cases.
5fd29d6ccb ("printk: clean up handling of log-levels and newlines")
and we could take advantage of that to make sure we didn't mix up
continuation lines with lines that just didn't have any loglevel at all.
Then, in 2012, the kernel log buffer was changed to be a "record" based
log, where each line was a record that has a loglevel and a timestamp.
You can see the beginning of that conversion in commits
e11fea92e1 ("kmsg: export printk records to the /dev/kmsg interface")
7ff9554bb5 ("printk: convert byte-buffer to variable-length record buffer")
with a number of follow-up commits to fix some painful fallout from that
conversion. Over all, it took a couple of months to sort out most of
it. But the upside was that you could have concurrent readers (and
writers) of the kernel log and not have lines with mixed output in them.
And one particular pain-point for the record-based kernel logging was
exactly the fragmentary lines that are generated in smaller chunks. In
order to still log them as one recrod, the continuation lines need to be
attached to the previous record properly.
However the explicit continuation record marker that is actually useful
for this exact case was actually removed in aroundm the same time by commit
61e99ab8e3 ("printk: remove the now unnecessary "C" annotation for KERN_CONT")
due to the incorrect belief that KERN_CONT wasn't meaningful. The
ambiguity between "is this a continuation line" or "is this a plain
printk with no log level information" was reintroduced, and in fact
became an even bigger pain point because there was now the whole
record-level merging of kernel messages going on.
This patch reinstates the KERN_CONT as a real non-empty string marker,
so that the ambiguity is fixed once again.
But it's not a plain revert of that original removal: in the four years
since we made KERN_CONT an empty string again, not only has the format
of the log level markers changed, we've also had some usage changes in
this area.
For example, some ACPI code seems to use KERN_CONT _together_ with a log
level, and now uses both the KERN_CONT marker and (for example) a
KERN_INFO marker to show that it's an informational continuation of a
line.
Which is actually not a bad idea - if the continuation line cannot be
attached to its predecessor, without the log level information we don't
know what log level to assign to it (and we traditionally just assigned
it the default loglevel). So having both a log level and the KERN_CONT
marker is not necessarily a bad idea, but it does mean that we need to
actually iterate over potentially multiple markers, rather than just a
single one.
Also, since KERN_CONT was still conceptually needed, and encouraged, but
didn't actually _do_ anything, we've also had the reverse problem:
rather than having too many annotations it has too few, and there is bit
rot with code that no longer marks the continuation lines with the
KERN_CONT marker.
So this patch not only re-instates the non-empty KERN_CONT marker, it
also fixes up the cases of bit-rot I noticed in my own logs.
There are probably other cases where KERN_CONT will be needed to be
added, either because it is new code that never dealt with the need for
KERN_CONT, or old code that has bitrotted without anybody noticing.
That said, we should strive to avoid the need for KERN_CONT. It does
result in real problems for logging, and should generally not be seen as
a good feature. If we some day can get rid of the feature entirely,
because nobody does any fragmented printk calls, that would be lovely.
But until that point, let's at mark the code that relies on the hacky
multi-fragment kernel printk's. Not only does it avoid the ambiguity,
it also annotates code as "maybe this would be good to fix some day".
(That said, particularly during single-threaded bootup, the downsides of
KERN_CONT are very limited. Things get much hairier when you have
multiple threads going on and user level reading and writing logs too).
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
For now, these fall back to regular (dark) colors.
It'd be tempting to replace blink with bright backgrounds, as permitted by
CGA/VGA -- we already muck with the other programmable bit (foreground
brightness vs 512 character font). This would bring vgacon in line with
fbcon, which doesn't support blink anywhere but on some drivers renders
that bit as bright background. If that is done, this commit should be
amended to be one of ways of setting that bit.
Signed-off-by: Adam Borowski <kilobyte@angband.pl>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
These codes are supported by all major terminals, thus they occasionally see
some use despite being redundant with \e[38;5;(x+8)m or (less exactly)
\e[1;3(x)m.
Signed-off-by: Adam Borowski <kilobyte@angband.pl>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Some guy went on a patching spree, adding 24-bit colour support all around:
https://gist.github.com/XVilka/8346728
Signed-off-by: Adam Borowski <kilobyte@angband.pl>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
All other uses of vc_npar are inclusive (save for < NPAR) which raises
eyebrows, so let's at least do so consistently.
Signed-off-by: Adam Borowski <kilobyte@angband.pl>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
This makes it show up on UBSAN:
perl -e 'for (0..15) {my @x=("0")x$_;push @x,qw(38 2 64 128 192 4);printf
"\e[%smAfter %d zeroes.\e[0m\n", join(";",@x[0..($_+5<15?$_+5:15)]), $_}'
Seems harmless: if you can programmatically read attributes of a vt
character (/dev/vcsa*), multiple probes can obtain parts of vt_mode then
lowest byte (5th on 64-bit big-endian) of a pointer.
Signed-off-by: Adam Borowski <kilobyte@angband.pl>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Now that workqueue can handle work item queueing from very early
during boot, there is no need to delay schedule_work() while
!keventd_up(). Remove it.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
We are getting somewhat random soft lockups with this signature:
[ 86.992215] [<fffffc00080935e0>] el1_irq+0xa0/0x10c
[ 86.997082] [<fffffc000841822c>] cursor_timer_handler+0x30/0x54
[ 87.002991] [<fffffc000810ec44>] call_timer_fn+0x54/0x1a8
[ 87.008378] [<fffffc000810ef88>] run_timer_softirq+0x1c4/0x2bc
[ 87.014200] [<fffffc000809077c>] __do_softirq+0x114/0x344
[ 87.019590] [<fffffc00080af45c>] irq_exit+0x74/0x98
[ 87.024458] [<fffffc00080fac20>] __handle_domain_irq+0x98/0xfc
[ 87.030278] [<fffffc000809056c>] gic_handle_irq+0x94/0x190
This is caused by the vt visual_init() function calling into
fbcon_init() with a vc_cur_blink_ms value of zero. This is a
transient condition, as it is later set to a non-zero value. But, if
the timer happens to expire while the blink rate is zero, it goes into
an endless loop, and we get soft lockup.
The fix is to initialize vc_cur_blink_ms before calling the con_init()
function.
Signed-off-by: David Daney <david.daney@cavium.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Tested-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>
Acked-by: Scot Doyle <lkml14@scotdoyle.com>
Tested-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
vc_deccolm is only set and never read, remove the member from vc_data.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Namely convert:
* IS_FG -> con_is_fg
* DO_UPDATE -> con_should_update
* CON_IS_VISIBLE -> con_is_visible
DO_UPDATE was a weird name for a yes/no answer, so the new name is
con_should_update.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Cc: Thomas Winischhofer <thomas@winischhofer.net>
Cc: Jean-Christophe Plagniol-Villard <plagnioj@jcrosoft.com>
Cc: linux-usb@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Flush the switch cases to be aligned with the switch. Mostly
everything can now fit to the 80-chars terminal.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Do not opencode max3, use the macro.
Separate commands. Until now, I have not noticed the comma. Make it
one line, one command. And make the code obvious.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
The compiler noticed passing structure over stack. Even though rgb is
a small structure, let us define one and pass that over all the
functions wherever needed.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
The code with T.416 high colors handling is flushed to the right and
hard to read. Move the code to a separate function and remove code
duplication for foreground & background colors.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
It's a macro accessing and changing some local variables. And the code
uses it without appending semicolon which confuses everybody too.
Switch from this bad guy to a sane standard function.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
It is never defined. And I spent quite some time looking into the
history and cannot find how this was ever used. Given it was not used
in the history, I doubt it currently works as expected after the years
of changes all over the code.
So kill it.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
It is always called with 0, so remove the parameter and pass the
default down to scrolldelta without checking.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Nicolas Pitre
Linus Torvalds
Mike Frysinger
Kees Cook
Greg Kroah-Hartman
Meng Xu
Joe Perches
Thomas Meyer
Adam Borowski
Tim Gardner
Ingo Molnar
Manuel Schölling
Scot Doyle
Dmitry Vyukov
Jiri Slaby
Tejun Heo
David Daney