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Helge Deller 87ab9f6b74 Revert "fbcon: Disable accelerated scrolling" 
This reverts commit 39aead8373.

Revert the first (of 2) commits which disabled scrolling acceleration in
fbcon/fbdev.  It introduced a regression for fbdev-supported graphic cards
because of the performance penalty by doing screen scrolling by software
instead of using the existing graphic card 2D hardware acceleration.

Console scrolling acceleration was disabled by dropping code which
checked at runtime the driver hardware capabilities for the
BINFO_HWACCEL_COPYAREA or FBINFO_HWACCEL_FILLRECT flags and if set, it
enabled scrollmode SCROLL_MOVE which uses hardware acceleration to move
screen contents.  After dropping those checks scrollmode was hard-wired
to SCROLL_REDRAW instead, which forces all graphic cards to redraw every
character at the new screen position when scrolling.

This change effectively disabled all hardware-based scrolling acceleration for
ALL drivers, because now all kind of 2D hardware acceleration (bitblt,
fillrect) in the drivers isn't used any longer.

The original commit message mentions that only 3 DRM drivers (nouveau, omapdrm
and gma500) used hardware acceleration in the past and thus code for checking
and using scrolling acceleration is obsolete.

This statement is NOT TRUE, because beside the DRM drivers there are around 35
other fbdev drivers which depend on fbdev/fbcon and still provide hardware
acceleration for fbdev/fbcon.

The original commit message also states that syzbot found lots of bugs in fbcon
and thus it's "often the solution to just delete code and remove features".
This is true, and the bugs - which actually affected all users of fbcon,
including DRM - were fixed, or code was dropped like e.g. the support for
software scrollback in vgacon (commit 973c096f6a).

So to further analyze which bugs were found by syzbot, I've looked through all
patches in drivers/video which were tagged with syzbot or syzkaller back to
year 2005. The vast majority fixed the reported issues on a higher level, e.g.
when screen is to be resized, or when font size is to be changed. The few ones
which touched driver code fixed a real driver bug, e.g. by adding a check.

But NONE of those patches touched code of either the SCROLL_MOVE or the
SCROLL_REDRAW case.

That means, there was no real reason why SCROLL_MOVE had to be ripped-out and
just SCROLL_REDRAW had to be used instead. The only reason I can imagine so far
was that SCROLL_MOVE wasn't used by DRM and as such it was assumed that it
could go away. That argument completely missed the fact that SCROLL_MOVE is
still heavily used by fbdev (non-DRM) drivers.

Some people mention that using memcpy() instead of the hardware acceleration is
pretty much the same speed. But that's not true, at least not for older graphic
cards and machines where we see speed decreases by factor 10 and more and thus
this change leads to console responsiveness way worse than before.

That's why the original commit is to be reverted. By reverting we
reintroduce hardware-based scrolling acceleration and fix the
performance regression for fbdev drivers.

There isn't any impact on DRM when reverting those patches.

Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Acked-by: Sven Schnelle <svens@stackframe.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v5.10+
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20220202135531.92183-3-deller@gmx.de
 		2022-02-02 15:15:11 +01:00
Documentation Revert "fbcon: Disable accelerated scrolling" 2022-02-02 15:15:11 +01:00
LICENSES LICENSES/LGPL-2.1: Add LGPL-2.1-or-later as valid identifiers 2021-12-16 14:33:10 +01:00
arch bitmap patches for 5.17-rc1 2022-01-23 06:20:44 +02:00
block bitmap patches for 5.17-rc1 2022-01-23 06:20:44 +02:00
certs certs: Fix build error when CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_KEY is empty 2022-01-23 00:08:44 +09:00
crypto lib/crypto: add prompts back to crypto libraries 2022-01-18 13:03:55 +01:00
drivers Revert "fbcon: Disable accelerated scrolling" 2022-02-02 15:15:11 +01:00
fs bitmap patches for 5.17-rc1 2022-01-23 06:20:44 +02:00
include Revert "fbdev: Garbage collect fbdev scrolling acceleration, part 1 (from TODO list)" 2022-02-02 15:14:56 +01:00
init lib/stackdepot: allow optional init and stack_table allocation by kvmalloc() 2022-01-22 08:33:37 +02:00
ipc proc: remove PDE_DATA() completely 2022-01-22 08:33:37 +02:00
kernel ftrace: Fix s390 breakage from sorting mcount tables 2022-01-23 08:07:02 +02:00
lib bitmap patches for 5.17-rc1 2022-01-23 06:20:44 +02:00
mm bitmap patches for 5.17-rc1 2022-01-23 06:20:44 +02:00
net bitmap patches for 5.17-rc1 2022-01-23 06:20:44 +02:00
samples Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2022-01-20 10:41:01 +02:00
scripts Devicetree fixes for v5.17, take 1: 2022-01-22 09:52:17 +02:00
security fs.idmapped.v5.17 2022-01-11 14:26:55 -08:00
sound proc: remove PDE_DATA() completely 2022-01-22 08:33:37 +02:00
tools perf tools changes for v5.17: 2nd batch 2022-01-23 08:14:21 +02:00
usr usr/include/Makefile: add linux/nfc.h to the compile-test coverage 2022-01-22 21:48:45 +09:00
virt Generic: 2022-01-22 09:40:01 +02:00
.clang-format genirq/msi: Make interrupt allocation less convoluted 2021-12-16 22:22:20 +01:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore Opt out of scripts/get_maintainer.pl 2019-05-16 10:53:40 -07:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: use 'dts' diff driver for dts files 2019-12-04 19:44:11 -08:00
.gitignore .gitignore: ignore only top-level modules.builtin 2021-05-02 00:43:35 +09:00
.mailmap RISCV: 2022-01-16 16:15:14 +02:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS MAINTAINERS: Removing Ohad from remoteproc/rpmsg maintenance 2021-12-08 10:09:40 -07:00
Kbuild kbuild: rename hostprogs-y/always to hostprogs/always-y 2020-02-04 01:53:07 +09:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
MAINTAINERS bitmap patches for 5.17-rc1 2022-01-23 06:20:44 +02:00
Makefile Linux 5.17-rc1 2022-01-23 10:12:53 +02:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

README 

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.