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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>
Thu, 10 Jul 2025 13:57:37 +0000 (15:57 +0200)
commitd0537c51b4a1bb7cb57e8c9e75aee0d047e0a77d
tree9946e1f339f780bd3933339c46f6ae2ac900ffec
parentacd41ac591b7ca097ada35e247b37c6989ce18aa
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