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dummycon: Trigger redraw when switching consoles with deferred takeover
authorThomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
Tue, 20 May 2025 07:14:00 +0000 (09:14 +0200)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Sun, 6 Jul 2025 08:57:59 +0000 (10:57 +0200)
commit35e0a4d1d8380654284b7e48cbc297b00b1409ec
tree16aa85d6876cac7fec69f19b04f095c3bcc5fd29
parenta81bfb86d1d2ada4f6cbb833fd7291695623afb6
dummycon: Trigger redraw when switching consoles with deferred takeover

[ Upstream commit 03bcbbb3995ba5df43af9aba45334e35f2dfe27b ]

Signal vt subsystem to redraw console when switching to dummycon
with deferred takeover enabled. Makes the console switch to fbcon
and displays the available output.

With deferred takeover enabled, dummycon acts as the placeholder
until the first output to the console happens. At that point, fbcon
takes over. If the output happens while dummycon is not active, it
cannot inform fbcon. This is the case if the vt subsystem runs in
graphics mode.

A typical graphical boot starts plymouth, a display manager and a
compositor; all while leaving out dummycon. Switching to a text-mode
console leaves the console with dummycon even if a getty terminal
has been started.

Returning true from dummycon's con_switch helper signals the vt
subsystem to redraw the screen. If there's output available dummycon's
con_putc{s} helpers trigger deferred takeover of fbcon, which sets a
display mode and displays the output. If no output is available,
dummycon remains active.

v2:
- make the comment slightly more verbose (Javier)

Signed-off-by: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
Reported-by: Andrei Borzenkov <arvidjaar@gmail.com>
Closes: https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1242191
Tested-by: Andrei Borzenkov <arvidjaar@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javierm@redhat.com>
Fixes: 83d83bebf401 ("console/fbcon: Add support for deferred console takeover")
Cc: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v4.19+
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250520071418.8462-1-tzimmermann@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
drivers/video/console/dummycon.c