[PATCH 1/2] vgaarb: Select a default VGA device even if there's no legacy VGA

Bjorn Helgaas helgaas at kernel.org
Thu Oct 12 20:44:06 PDT 2017


On Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 12:24:10PM +0100, Julien Thierry wrote:
> Hi Bjorn,
> 
> On 06/10/17 23:24, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> >From: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas at google.com>
> >
> >Daniel Axtens reported that on the HiSilicon D05 board, the VGA device is
> >behind a bridge that doesn't support PCI_BRIDGE_CTL_VGA, so the VGA arbiter
> >never selects it as the default, which means Xorg auto-detection doesn't
> >work.
> >
> >VGA is a legacy PCI feature: a VGA device can respond to addresses, e.g.,
> >[mem 0xa0000-0xbffff], [io 0x3b0-0x3bb], [io 0x3c0-0x3df], etc., that are
> >not configurable by BARs.  Consequently, multiple VGA devices can conflict
> >with each other.  The VGA arbiter avoids conflicts by ensuring that those
> >legacy resources are only routed to one VGA device at a time.
> >
> >The arbiter identifies the "default VGA" device, i.e., a legacy VGA device
> >that was used by boot firmware.  It selects the first device that:
> >
> >   - is of PCI_CLASS_DISPLAY_VGA,
> >   - has both PCI_COMMAND_IO and PCI_COMMAND_MEMORY enabled, and
> >   - has PCI_BRIDGE_CTL_VGA set in all upstream bridges.
> >
> >Some systems don't have such a device.  For example, if a host bridge
> >doesn't support I/O space, PCI_COMMAND_IO probably won't be enabled for any
> >devices below it.  Or, as on the HiSilicon D05, the VGA device may be
> >behind a bridge that doesn't support PCI_BRIDGE_CTL_VGA, so accesses to the
> >legacy VGA resources will never reach the device.
> >
> >This patch extends the arbiter so that if it doesn't find a device that
> >meets all the above criteria, it selects the first device that:
> >
> >   - is of PCI_CLASS_DISPLAY_VGA and
> >   - has PCI_COMMAND_IO or PCI_COMMAND_MEMORY enabled
> >
> >If it doesn't find even that, it selects the first device that:
> >
> >   - is of class PCI_CLASS_DISPLAY_VGA.
> >
> >Such a device may not be able to use the legacy VGA resources, but most
> >drivers can operate the device without those.  Setting it as the default
> >device means its "boot_vga" sysfs file will contain "1", which Xorg (via
> >libpciaccess) uses to help select its default output device.
> >
> >This fixes Xorg auto-detection on some arm64 systems (HiSilicon D05 in
> >particular; see the link below).
> >
> >It also replaces the powerpc fixup_vga() quirk, albeit with slightly
> >different semantics: the quirk selected the first VGA device we found, and
> >overrode that selection with any enabled VGA device we found.  If there
> >were several enabled VGA devices, the *last* one we found would become the
> >default.
> >
> >The code here instead selects the *first* enabled VGA device we find, and
> >if none are enabled, the first VGA device we find.
> >
> >Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170901072744.2409-1-dja@axtens.net
> >Tested-by: Daniel Axtens <dja at axtens.net>    # arm64, ppc64-qemu-tcg
> >Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas at google.com>
> >---
> >  arch/powerpc/kernel/pci-common.c |   12 ------------
> >  drivers/gpu/vga/vgaarb.c         |   25 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >  2 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
> >
> >diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/pci-common.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/pci-common.c
> >index 02831a396419..0ac7aa346c69 100644
> >--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/pci-common.c
> >+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/pci-common.c
> >@@ -1740,15 +1740,3 @@ static void fixup_hide_host_resource_fsl(struct pci_dev *dev)
> >  }
> >  DECLARE_PCI_FIXUP_HEADER(PCI_VENDOR_ID_MOTOROLA, PCI_ANY_ID, fixup_hide_host_resource_fsl);
> >  DECLARE_PCI_FIXUP_HEADER(PCI_VENDOR_ID_FREESCALE, PCI_ANY_ID, fixup_hide_host_resource_fsl);
> >-
> >-static void fixup_vga(struct pci_dev *pdev)
> >-{
> >-	u16 cmd;
> >-
> >-	pci_read_config_word(pdev, PCI_COMMAND, &cmd);
> >-	if ((cmd & (PCI_COMMAND_IO | PCI_COMMAND_MEMORY)) || !vga_default_device())
> >-		vga_set_default_device(pdev);
> >-
> >-}
> >-DECLARE_PCI_FIXUP_CLASS_FINAL(PCI_ANY_ID, PCI_ANY_ID,
> >-			      PCI_CLASS_DISPLAY_VGA, 8, fixup_vga);
> >diff --git a/drivers/gpu/vga/vgaarb.c b/drivers/gpu/vga/vgaarb.c
> >index 76875f6299b8..aeb41f793ed4 100644
> >--- a/drivers/gpu/vga/vgaarb.c
> >+++ b/drivers/gpu/vga/vgaarb.c
> >@@ -1468,6 +1468,31 @@ static int __init vga_arb_device_init(void)
> >  			vgaarb_info(dev, "no bridge control possible\n");
> >  	}
> >+	if (!vga_default_device()) {
> >+		list_for_each_entry(vgadev, &vga_list, list) {
> >+			struct device *dev = &vgadev->pdev->dev;
> >+			u16 cmd;
> >+
> >+			pdev = vgadev->pdev;
> >+			pci_read_config_word(pdev, PCI_COMMAND, &cmd);
> >+			if (cmd & (PCI_COMMAND_IO | PCI_COMMAND_MEMORY)) {
> >+				vgaarb_info(dev, "setting as boot device (VGA legacy resources not available)\n");
> >+				vga_set_default_device(pdev);
> >+				break;
> >+			}
> >+		}
> >+	}
> >+
> >+	if (!vga_default_device()) {
> >+		vgadev = list_first_entry_or_null(&vga_list,
> >+						  struct vga_device, list);
> >+		if (vgadev) {
> >+			struct device *dev = &vgadev->pdev->dev;
> >+			vgaarb_info(dev, "setting as boot device (VGA legacy resources not available)\n");
> >+			vga_set_default_device(pdev);
> 
> Isn't 'pdev' NULL here? shouldn't it be vgadev->pdev instead?

Yes, vgadev->pdev is what I intended, thanks a lot for pointing that out!

Bjorn



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