From 27599aacbaefcbf2af7b06b0029459bbf682000d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thomas Zimmermann Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2022 10:12:18 +0100 Subject: fbdev: Hot-unplug firmware fb devices on forced removal Hot-unplug all firmware-framebuffer devices as part of removing them via remove_conflicting_framebuffers() et al. Releases all memory regions to be acquired by native drivers. Firmware, such as EFI, install a framebuffer while posting the computer. After removing the firmware-framebuffer device from fbdev, a native driver takes over the hardware and the firmware framebuffer becomes invalid. Firmware-framebuffer drivers, specifically simplefb, don't release their device from Linux' device hierarchy. It still owns the firmware framebuffer and blocks the native drivers from loading. This has been observed in the vmwgfx driver. [1] Initiating a device removal (i.e., hot unplug) as part of remove_conflicting_framebuffers() removes the underlying device and returns the memory range to the system. [1] https://lore.kernel.org/dri-devel/20220117180359.18114-1-zack@kde.org/ v2: * rename variable 'dev' to 'device' (Javier) Signed-off-by: Thomas Zimmermann Reported-by: Zack Rusin Reviewed-by: Javier Martinez Canillas Reviewed-by: Zack Rusin Reviewed-by: Hans de Goede CC: stable@vger.kernel.org # v5.11+ Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20220125091222.21457-2-tzimmermann@suse.de --- include/linux/fb.h | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'include') diff --git a/include/linux/fb.h b/include/linux/fb.h index 6f3db99ab990..ac294fc4c07b 100644 --- a/include/linux/fb.h +++ b/include/linux/fb.h @@ -502,6 +502,7 @@ struct fb_info { } *apertures; bool skip_vt_switch; /* no VT switch on suspend/resume required */ + bool forced_out; /* set when being removed by another driver */ }; static inline struct apertures_struct *alloc_apertures(unsigned int max_num) { -- cgit v1.2.3