So in a lot of modern systems, a GPU will always be below a parent bridge that won't share with any other GPUs. This means VGA arbitration on those GPUs can be controlled by using the bridge routing instead of io/mem decodes.
The problem is locating which GPUs share which upstream bridges. This patch attempts to identify all the GPUs which can be controlled via bridges, and ones that can't. This patch endeavours to work out the bridge sharing semantics.
When disabling GPUs via a bridge, it doesn't do irq callbacks or touch the io/mem decodes for the gpu.
Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
This is unbalanced and probably more fitting for the client
to take care of. Remove it.
Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
Merge with Linus to resolve conflicting fixes for the reusing the stale
HEAD value during intel_ring_wait().
Conflicts:
drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_ringbuffer.c
Starting with SandyBridge (though possible with earlier hacked BIOSes),
the BIOS may initialise the IGFX as secondary to a discrete GPU. Prior,
it would simply disable the integrated GPU. So we adjust our PCI class
mask to match any DISPLAY_CLASS device.
In such a configuration, the IGFX is not a primary VGA controller and
so should not take part in VGA arbitration, and the error return from
vga_client_register() is expected.
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
The meaning of CONFIG_EMBEDDED has long since been obsoleted; the option
is used to configure any non-standard kernel with a much larger scope than
only small devices.
This patch renames the option to CONFIG_EXPERT in init/Kconfig and fixes
references to the option throughout the kernel. A new CONFIG_EMBEDDED
option is added that automatically selects CONFIG_EXPERT when enabled and
can be used in the future to isolate options that should only be
considered for embedded systems (RISC architectures, SLOB, etc).
Calling the option "EXPERT" more accurately represents its intention: only
expert users who understand the impact of the configuration changes they
are making should enable it.
Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: David Woodhouse <david.woodhouse@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This is a copy-and-paste bug. We should be comparing 4 characters here
instead of 3.
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
stage 1: turn card on, switch boot vga pointer.
stage 2: switch fbs, switch mux and power off old card.
Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
At least on the nvidia mux the power switch seems to be executed
by the ACPI PS0/PS3 methods so need to do it explicitly.
Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
* 'llseek' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/bkl:
vfs: make no_llseek the default
vfs: don't use BKL in default_llseek
llseek: automatically add .llseek fop
libfs: use generic_file_llseek for simple_attr
mac80211: disallow seeks in minstrel debug code
lirc: make chardev nonseekable
viotape: use noop_llseek
raw: use explicit llseek file operations
ibmasmfs: use generic_file_llseek
spufs: use llseek in all file operations
arm/omap: use generic_file_llseek in iommu_debug
lkdtm: use generic_file_llseek in debugfs
net/wireless: use generic_file_llseek in debugfs
drm: use noop_llseek
All file_operations should get a .llseek operation so we can make
nonseekable_open the default for future file operations without a
.llseek pointer.
The three cases that we can automatically detect are no_llseek, seq_lseek
and default_llseek. For cases where we can we can automatically prove that
the file offset is always ignored, we use noop_llseek, which maintains
the current behavior of not returning an error from a seek.
New drivers should normally not use noop_llseek but instead use no_llseek
and call nonseekable_open at open time. Existing drivers can be converted
to do the same when the maintainer knows for certain that no user code
relies on calling seek on the device file.
The generated code is often incorrectly indented and right now contains
comments that clarify for each added line why a specific variant was
chosen. In the version that gets submitted upstream, the comments will
be gone and I will manually fix the indentation, because there does not
seem to be a way to do that using coccinelle.
Some amount of new code is currently sitting in linux-next that should get
the same modifications, which I will do at the end of the merge window.
Many thanks to Julia Lawall for helping me learn to write a semantic
patch that does all this.
===== begin semantic patch =====
// This adds an llseek= method to all file operations,
// as a preparation for making no_llseek the default.
//
// The rules are
// - use no_llseek explicitly if we do nonseekable_open
// - use seq_lseek for sequential files
// - use default_llseek if we know we access f_pos
// - use noop_llseek if we know we don't access f_pos,
// but we still want to allow users to call lseek
//
@ open1 exists @
identifier nested_open;
@@
nested_open(...)
{
<+...
nonseekable_open(...)
...+>
}
@ open exists@
identifier open_f;
identifier i, f;
identifier open1.nested_open;
@@
int open_f(struct inode *i, struct file *f)
{
<+...
(
nonseekable_open(...)
|
nested_open(...)
)
...+>
}
@ read disable optional_qualifier exists @
identifier read_f;
identifier f, p, s, off;
type ssize_t, size_t, loff_t;
expression E;
identifier func;
@@
ssize_t read_f(struct file *f, char *p, size_t s, loff_t *off)
{
<+...
(
*off = E
|
*off += E
|
func(..., off, ...)
|
E = *off
)
...+>
}
@ read_no_fpos disable optional_qualifier exists @
identifier read_f;
identifier f, p, s, off;
type ssize_t, size_t, loff_t;
@@
ssize_t read_f(struct file *f, char *p, size_t s, loff_t *off)
{
... when != off
}
@ write @
identifier write_f;
identifier f, p, s, off;
type ssize_t, size_t, loff_t;
expression E;
identifier func;
@@
ssize_t write_f(struct file *f, const char *p, size_t s, loff_t *off)
{
<+...
(
*off = E
|
*off += E
|
func(..., off, ...)
|
E = *off
)
...+>
}
@ write_no_fpos @
identifier write_f;
identifier f, p, s, off;
type ssize_t, size_t, loff_t;
@@
ssize_t write_f(struct file *f, const char *p, size_t s, loff_t *off)
{
... when != off
}
@ fops0 @
identifier fops;
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
...
};
@ has_llseek depends on fops0 @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier llseek_f;
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
...
.llseek = llseek_f,
...
};
@ has_read depends on fops0 @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier read_f;
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
...
.read = read_f,
...
};
@ has_write depends on fops0 @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier write_f;
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
...
.write = write_f,
...
};
@ has_open depends on fops0 @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier open_f;
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
...
.open = open_f,
...
};
// use no_llseek if we call nonseekable_open
////////////////////////////////////////////
@ nonseekable1 depends on !has_llseek && has_open @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier nso ~= "nonseekable_open";
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
... .open = nso, ...
+.llseek = no_llseek, /* nonseekable */
};
@ nonseekable2 depends on !has_llseek @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier open.open_f;
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
... .open = open_f, ...
+.llseek = no_llseek, /* open uses nonseekable */
};
// use seq_lseek for sequential files
/////////////////////////////////////
@ seq depends on !has_llseek @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier sr ~= "seq_read";
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
... .read = sr, ...
+.llseek = seq_lseek, /* we have seq_read */
};
// use default_llseek if there is a readdir
///////////////////////////////////////////
@ fops1 depends on !has_llseek && !nonseekable1 && !nonseekable2 && !seq @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier readdir_e;
@@
// any other fop is used that changes pos
struct file_operations fops = {
... .readdir = readdir_e, ...
+.llseek = default_llseek, /* readdir is present */
};
// use default_llseek if at least one of read/write touches f_pos
/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
@ fops2 depends on !fops1 && !has_llseek && !nonseekable1 && !nonseekable2 && !seq @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier read.read_f;
@@
// read fops use offset
struct file_operations fops = {
... .read = read_f, ...
+.llseek = default_llseek, /* read accesses f_pos */
};
@ fops3 depends on !fops1 && !fops2 && !has_llseek && !nonseekable1 && !nonseekable2 && !seq @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier write.write_f;
@@
// write fops use offset
struct file_operations fops = {
... .write = write_f, ...
+ .llseek = default_llseek, /* write accesses f_pos */
};
// Use noop_llseek if neither read nor write accesses f_pos
///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
@ fops4 depends on !fops1 && !fops2 && !fops3 && !has_llseek && !nonseekable1 && !nonseekable2 && !seq @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier read_no_fpos.read_f;
identifier write_no_fpos.write_f;
@@
// write fops use offset
struct file_operations fops = {
...
.write = write_f,
.read = read_f,
...
+.llseek = noop_llseek, /* read and write both use no f_pos */
};
@ depends on has_write && !has_read && !fops1 && !fops2 && !has_llseek && !nonseekable1 && !nonseekable2 && !seq @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier write_no_fpos.write_f;
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
... .write = write_f, ...
+.llseek = noop_llseek, /* write uses no f_pos */
};
@ depends on has_read && !has_write && !fops1 && !fops2 && !has_llseek && !nonseekable1 && !nonseekable2 && !seq @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier read_no_fpos.read_f;
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
... .read = read_f, ...
+.llseek = noop_llseek, /* read uses no f_pos */
};
@ depends on !has_read && !has_write && !fops1 && !fops2 && !has_llseek && !nonseekable1 && !nonseekable2 && !seq @
identifier fops0.fops;
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
...
+.llseek = noop_llseek, /* no read or write fn */
};
===== End semantic patch =====
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Correct function being needlessly visible outside compilation unit
when the only users are internal.
Signed-off-by: Daniel J Blueman <daniel.blueman@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Alex Deucher <alexdeucher@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
We want to be able to use CONFIG_DYNAMIC_DEBUG in arbiter code, switch
the few existing pr_devel() calls to pr_debug().
Also, add one more debug information regarding decoding count.
Signed-off-by: Tiago Vignatti <tiago.vignatti@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
* anholt/drm-intel-next: (515 commits)
drm/i915: Fix out of tree builds
drm/i915: move fence lru to struct drm_i915_fence_reg
drm/i915: don't allow tiling changes on pinned buffers v2
drm/i915: Be extra careful about A/D matching for multifunction SDVO
drm/i915: Fix DDC bus selection for multifunction SDVO
drm/i915: cleanup mode setting before unmapping registers
drm/i915: Make fbc control wrapper functions
drm/i915: Wait for the GPU whilst shrinking, if truly desperate.
drm/i915: Use spatio-temporal dithering on PCH
[MTD] Remove zero-length files mtdbdi.c and internal.ho
pata_pcmcia / ide-cs: Fix bad hashes for Transcend and kingston IDs
libata: Fix several inaccuracies in developer's guide
slub: Fix bad boundary check in init_kmem_cache_nodes()
raid6: fix recovery performance regression
KEYS: call_sbin_request_key() must write lock keyrings before modifying them
KEYS: Use RCU dereference wrappers in keyring key type code
KEYS: find_keyring_by_name() can gain access to a freed keyring
ALSA: hda: Fix 0 dB for Packard Bell models using Conexant CX20549 (Venice)
ALSA: hda - Add quirk for Dell Inspiron 19T using a Conexant CX20582
ALSA: take tu->qlock with irqs disabled
...
Fix typos in vga/Kconfig file
and use GPU (upper case) consistently.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org
Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
* 'drm-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/airlied/drm-2.6:
drm/radeon/kms/legacy: only enable load detection property on DVI-I
drm/radeon/kms: fix panel scaling adjusted mode setup
drivers/gpu/drm/drm_sysfs.c: sysfs files error handling
drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_atombios.c: range check issues
gpu: vga_switcheroo, fix lock imbalance
drivers/gpu/drm/drm_memory.c: fix check for end of loop
drivers/gpu/drm/via/via_video.c: fix off by one issue
drm/radeon/kms/agp The wrong AGP chipset can cause a NULL pointer dereference
drm/radeon/kms: r300 fix CS checker to allow zbuffer-only fastfill
Stanse found that one error path in vga_switcheroo_debugfs_write omits to
unlock vgasr_mutex. Fix that.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
percpu.h is included by sched.h and module.h and thus ends up being
included when building most .c files. percpu.h includes slab.h which
in turn includes gfp.h making everything defined by the two files
universally available and complicating inclusion dependencies.
percpu.h -> slab.h dependency is about to be removed. Prepare for
this change by updating users of gfp and slab facilities include those
headers directly instead of assuming availability. As this conversion
needs to touch large number of source files, the following script is
used as the basis of conversion.
http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/misc/slabh-sweep.py
The script does the followings.
* Scan files for gfp and slab usages and update includes such that
only the necessary includes are there. ie. if only gfp is used,
gfp.h, if slab is used, slab.h.
* When the script inserts a new include, it looks at the include
blocks and try to put the new include such that its order conforms
to its surrounding. It's put in the include block which contains
core kernel includes, in the same order that the rest are ordered -
alphabetical, Christmas tree, rev-Xmas-tree or at the end if there
doesn't seem to be any matching order.
* If the script can't find a place to put a new include (mostly
because the file doesn't have fitting include block), it prints out
an error message indicating which .h file needs to be added to the
file.
The conversion was done in the following steps.
1. The initial automatic conversion of all .c files updated slightly
over 4000 files, deleting around 700 includes and adding ~480 gfp.h
and ~3000 slab.h inclusions. The script emitted errors for ~400
files.
2. Each error was manually checked. Some didn't need the inclusion,
some needed manual addition while adding it to implementation .h or
embedding .c file was more appropriate for others. This step added
inclusions to around 150 files.
3. The script was run again and the output was compared to the edits
from #2 to make sure no file was left behind.
4. Several build tests were done and a couple of problems were fixed.
e.g. lib/decompress_*.c used malloc/free() wrappers around slab
APIs requiring slab.h to be added manually.
5. The script was run on all .h files but without automatically
editing them as sprinkling gfp.h and slab.h inclusions around .h
files could easily lead to inclusion dependency hell. Most gfp.h
inclusion directives were ignored as stuff from gfp.h was usually
wildly available and often used in preprocessor macros. Each
slab.h inclusion directive was examined and added manually as
necessary.
6. percpu.h was updated not to include slab.h.
7. Build test were done on the following configurations and failures
were fixed. CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL was turned off for all tests (as my
distributed build env didn't work with gcov compiles) and a few
more options had to be turned off depending on archs to make things
build (like ipr on powerpc/64 which failed due to missing writeq).
* x86 and x86_64 UP and SMP allmodconfig and a custom test config.
* powerpc and powerpc64 SMP allmodconfig
* sparc and sparc64 SMP allmodconfig
* ia64 SMP allmodconfig
* s390 SMP allmodconfig
* alpha SMP allmodconfig
* um on x86_64 SMP allmodconfig
8. percpu.h modifications were reverted so that it could be applied as
a separate patch and serve as bisection point.
Given the fact that I had only a couple of failures from tests on step
6, I'm fairly confident about the coverage of this conversion patch.
If there is a breakage, it's likely to be something in one of the arch
headers which should be easily discoverable easily on most builds of
the specific arch.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Guess-its-ok-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>
* 'drm-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/airlied/drm-2.6: (151 commits)
vga_switcheroo: disable default y by new rules.
drm/nouveau: fix *staging* driver build with switcheroo off.
drm/radeon: fix typo in Makefile
vga_switcheroo: fix build on platforms with no ACPI
drm/radeon: Fix printf type warning in 64bit system.
drm/radeon/kms: bump the KMS version number for square tiling support.
vga_switcheroo: initial implementation (v15)
drm/radeon/kms: do not disable audio engine twice
Revert "drm/radeon/kms: disable HDMI audio for now on rv710/rv730"
drm/radeon/kms: do not preset audio stuff and start timer when not using audio
drm/radeon: r100/r200 ums: block ability for userspace app to trash 0 page and beyond
drm/ttm: fix function prototype to match implementation
drm/radeon: use ALIGN instead of open coding it
drm/radeon/kms: initialize set_surface_reg reg for rs600 asic
drm/i915: Use a dmi quirk to skip a broken SDVO TV output.
drm/i915: enable/disable LVDS port at DPMS time
drm/i915: check for multiple write domains in pin_and_relocate
drm/i915: clean-up i915_gem_flush_gpu_write_domain
drm/i915: reuse i915_gpu_idle helper
drm/i915: ensure lru ordering of fence_list
...
Fixed trivial conflicts in drivers/gpu/vga/Kconfig
Another undocumented rule of kernel folklore, no default y
config options anymore, apparantly hinting to distros they might
want something isn't preferred anymore.
Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
radeon was always including the atpx code unnecessarily, also core
switcheroo was including acpi headers.
Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
Many new laptops now come with 2 gpus, one to be used for low power
modes and one for gaming/on-ac applications. These GPUs are typically
wired to the laptop panel and VGA ports via a multiplexer unit which
is controlled via ACPI methods.
4 combinations of systems typically exist - with 2 ACPI methods.
Intel/ATI - Lenovo W500/T500 - use ATPX ACPI method
ATI/ATI - some ASUS - use ATPX ACPI Method
Intel/Nvidia - - use _DSM ACPI method
Nvidia/Nvidia - - use _DSM ACPI method.
TODO:
This patch adds support for the ATPX method and initial bits
for the _DSM methods that need to written by someone with
access to the hardware.
Add a proper non-debugfs interface - need to get some proper
testing first.
v2: add power up/down support for both devices
on W500 puts i915/radeon into D3 and cuts power to radeon.
v3: redo probing methods, no DMI list, drm devices call to
register with switcheroo, it tries to find an ATPX method on
any device and once there is two devices + ATPX it inits the
switcher.
v4: ATPX msg handling using buffers - should work on more machines
v5: rearchitect after more mjg59 discussion - move ATPX handling to
radeon driver.
v6: add file headers + initial nouveau bits (to be filled out).
v7: merge delayed switcher code.
v8: avoid suspend/resume of gpu that is off
v9: rearchitect - mjg59 is always right. - move all ATPX code to
radeon, should allow simpler DSM also proper ATRM handling
v10: add ATRM support for radeon BIOS, add mutex to lock vgasr_priv
v11: fix bug in resuming Intel for 2nd time.
v12: start fixing up nvidia code blindly.
v13: blindly guess at finishing nvidia code
v14: remove radeon audio hacks - fix up intel resume more like upstream
v15: clean up printks + remove unnecessary igd/dis pointers
mount debugfs
/sys/kernel/debug/vgaswitcheroo/switch - should exist if ATPX detected
+ 2 cards.
DIS - immediate change to discrete
IGD - immediate change to IGD
DDIS - delayed change to discrete
DIGD - delayed change to IGD
ON - turn on not in use
OFF - turn off not in use
Tested on W500 (Intel/ATI) and T500 (Intel/ATI)
Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
* 'x86-pci-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86: Enable NMI on all cpus on UV
vgaarb: Add user selectability of the number of GPUS in a system
vgaarb: Fix VGA arbiter to accept PCI domains other than 0
x86, uv: Update UV arch to target Legacy VGA I/O correctly.
pci: Update pci_set_vga_state() to call arch functions
Commit 77c1ff3982 fixed the userspace
pointer dereference, but introduced another bug pointed out by Eugene Teo
in RH bug #564264. Instead of comparing the point we were at in the string,
we instead compared the beginning of the string to "default".
Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@redhat.com>
Reported-by: Eugene Teo <eteo@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
This patch corrects a userspace pointer dereference in the VGA arbiter
in 2.6.32.1.
copy_from_user() is used at line 822 to copy the contents of buf into
kbuf, but a call to strncmp() on line 964 uses buf rather than kbuf. This
problem led to a GPF in strncmp() when X was started on my x86_32 systems.
X triggered the behavior with a write of "target PCI:0000:01:00.0" to
/dev/vga_arbiter.
The patch has been tested against 2.6.32.1 and observed to correct the GPF
observed when starting X or manually writing the string "target
PCI:0000:01:00.0" to /dev/vga_arbiter.
Signed-off-by: Andy Getzendanner <james.getzendanner@students.olin.edu>
Cc: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
Update the VGA Arbiter to allow the user to select the number
of GPU's supported in a system.
v2: simplify setting of MAX_USER_CARDS, revert back to original default of 16
Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
LKML-Reference: <4B68D51D.6090401@sgi.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>
Cc: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
Cc: David Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Update the VGA Arbiter to accept PCI Domains other than 0.
Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
LKML-Reference: <201002022238.o12McFe8018730@imap1.linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>
Cc: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
Cc: David Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Fix some warnings reported in linux-next + also cleanup some
comment errors noticed by Pekka Paalanen.
Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
Background:
Graphic devices are accessed through ranges in I/O or memory space. While most
modern devices allow relocation of such ranges, some "Legacy" VGA devices
implemented on PCI will typically have the same "hard-decoded" addresses as
they did on ISA. For more details see "PCI Bus Binding to IEEE Std 1275-1994
Standard for Boot (Initialization Configuration) Firmware Revision 2.1"
Section 7, Legacy Devices.
The Resource Access Control (RAC) module inside the X server currently does
the task of arbitration when more than one legacy device co-exists on the same
machine. But the problem happens when these devices are trying to be accessed
by different userspace clients (e.g. two server in parallel). Their address
assignments conflict. Therefore an arbitration scheme _outside_ of the X
server is needed to control the sharing of these resources. This document
introduces the operation of the VGA arbiter implemented for Linux kernel.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Tiago Vignatti <tiago.vignatti@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
Dave Airlie