By using bitmaps we actually support whatever size we would want, but
the console currently limits fonts to 64x128 (which gives 60x16 text on
4k screens), so we don't need more for now, and we can easily increase
later.
Signed-off-by: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Commit 732ea9db9d ("efi: libstub: Move screen_info handling to common
code") reorganized the earlycon handling so that all architectures pass
the screen_info data via a EFI config table instead of populating struct
screen_info directly, as the latter is only possible when the EFI stub
is baked into the kernel (and not into the decompressor).
However, this means that struct screen_info may not have been populated
yet by the time the earlycon probe takes place, and this results in a
non-functional early console.
So let's probe again right after parsing the config tables and
populating struct screen_info. Note that this means that earlycon output
starts a bit later than before, and so it may fail to capture issues
that occur while doing the early EFI initialization.
Fixes: 732ea9db9d ("efi: libstub: Move screen_info handling to common code")
Reported-by: Shawn Guo <shawn.guo@linaro.org>
Tested-by: Shawn Guo <shawn.guo@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Currently the scroll copies the full screen which is slow on high
resolution displays. At the same time, most of the screen is an empty
space which has no need to be copied over and over.
Optimize the scrolling algorithm by caching the x coordinates of the
last printed lines and scroll in accordance with the maximum x in that
cache.
On my Microsoft Surface Book (the first version) this produces a
significant speedup of the console 90 seconds vs. 168 seconds with the
kernel command line having
ignore_loglevel earlycon=efifb keep_bootcon
Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
strnchrnul() can be called in the early stages. Replace
open coded variant in the EFI early console driver.
Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
The CON_ENABLED status of a console is a runtime setting that does not
involve the console driver. Drivers must not assume that if the console
is disabled then proper hardware management is not needed. For the EFI
earlycon case, it is about remapping/unmapping memory for the
framebuffer.
Use console_is_registered() instead of checking CON_ENABLED.
Signed-off-by: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221116162152.193147-25-john.ogness@linutronix.de
When I play with terminus fonts I noticed the efi early printk does
not work because the earlycon code assumes font width is 8.
Here add the code to adapt with larger fonts. Tested with all kinds
of kernel built-in fonts on my laptop. Also tested with a local draft
patch for 14x28 !bold terminus font.
Signed-off-by: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200412024927.GA6884@dhcp-128-65.nay.redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
On x86, until PAT is initialized, WC translates into UC-. Since we
calculate and store pgprot_writecombine(PAGE_KERNEL) when earlycon is
initialized, this means we actually use UC- mappings instead of WC
mappings, which makes scrolling very slow.
Instead store a boolean flag to indicate whether we want to use
writeback or write-combine mappings, and recalculate the actual pgprot_t
we need on every mapping. Once PAT is initialized, we will start using
write-combine mappings, which speeds up the scrolling considerably.
Signed-off-by: Arvind Sankar <nivedita@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Cc: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-efi@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 69c1f396f2 ("efi/x86: Convert x86 EFI earlyprintk into generic earlycon implementation")
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191224132909.102540-2-ardb@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
When commit:
69c1f396f2 ("efi/x86: Convert x86 EFI earlyprintk into generic earlycon implementation")
moved the x86 specific EFI earlyprintk implementation to a shared location,
it also tweaked the behaviour. In particular, it dropped a trick with full
framebuffer remapping after page initialization, leading to two regressions:
1) very slow scrolling after page initialization,
2) kernel hang when the 'keep_bootcon' command line argument is passed.
Putting the tweak back fixes#2 and mitigates #1, i.e., it limits the slow
behavior to the early boot stages, presumably due to eliminating heavy
map()/unmap() operations per each pixel line on the screen.
[ ardb: ensure efifb is unmapped again unless keep_bootcon is in effect. ]
[ mingo: speling fixes. ]
Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Cc: Arvind Sankar <nivedita@alum.mit.edu>
Cc: Bhupesh Sharma <bhsharma@redhat.com>
Cc: Masayoshi Mizuma <m.mizuma@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: linux-efi@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 69c1f396f2 ("efi/x86: Convert x86 EFI earlyprintk into generic earlycon implementation")
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191206165542.31469-7-ardb@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Move the x86 EFI earlyprintk implementation to a shared location under
drivers/firmware and tweak it slightly so we can expose it as an earlycon
implementation (which is generic) rather than earlyprintk (which is only
implemented for a few architectures)
This also involves switching to write-combine mappings by default (which
is required on ARM since device mappings lack memory semantics, and so
memcpy/memset may not be used on them), and adding support for shared
memory framebuffers on cache coherent non-x86 systems (which do not
tolerate mismatched attributes).
Note that 32-bit ARM does not populate its struct screen_info early
enough for earlycon=efifb to work, so it is disabled there.
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Cc: AKASHI Takahiro <takahiro.akashi@linaro.org>
Cc: Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@linaro.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@gmx.de>
Cc: Jeffrey Hugo <jhugo@codeaurora.org>
Cc: Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>
Cc: Leif Lindholm <leif.lindholm@linaro.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Matt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk>
Cc: Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Sai Praneeth Prakhya <sai.praneeth.prakhya@intel.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-efi@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190202094119.13230-10-ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Samuel Thibault