linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] s390/console: enable dummy console for vt

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Message-Id: <13a674d4-68d5-6fb4-5902-26c6b631b596@de.ibm.com>
Date:   Thu, 15 Feb 2018 12:56:44 +0100
From:   Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@...ibm.com>
To:     Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
Cc:     Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@...sung.com>,
        Farhan Ali <alifm@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Fbdev development list <linux-fbdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-s390 <linux-s390@...r.kernel.org>,
        Stefan Kristiansson <stefan.kristiansson@...nalahti.fi>,
        Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@...com>,
        Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@...ibm.com>,
        DRI Development <dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org>,
        Chen Liqin <liqin.linux@...il.com>,
        Lennox Wu <lennox.wu@...il.com>, Jeff Dike <jdike@...toit.com>,
        Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>,
        uml-devel <user-mode-linux-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net>,
        Thomas Huth <thuth@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] s390/console: enable dummy console for vt

On 02/15/2018 12:26 PM, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> Hi Christian,
> 
> On Thu, Feb 15, 2018 at 12:14 PM, Christian Borntraeger
> <borntraeger@...ibm.com> wrote:
>> To enable the virtual terminal layer with virtio-gpu, we need to
>> provide the dummy console. This console is hidden behind CONFIG_IOMEM
>> via the graphics support. Instead of fully enabling the graphic
>> drivers lets just provide a Kconfig option for the dummy console.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@...ibm.com>
>> ---
>> New version: instead of moving around the graphic and console stuff,
>> let's just keep an s390 specific variant of CONFIG_DUMMY_CONSOLE
>>  arch/s390/Kconfig | 5 +++++
>>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/s390/Kconfig b/arch/s390/Kconfig
>> index cbe1d978693a..a69690f616f3 100644
>> --- a/arch/s390/Kconfig
>> +++ b/arch/s390/Kconfig
>> @@ -952,6 +952,11 @@ config S390_HYPFS_FS
>>
>>  source "arch/s390/kvm/Kconfig"
>>
>> +config DUMMY_CONSOLE
>> +       bool
>> +       depends on VT
>> +       default y
>> +
>>  config S390_GUEST
>>         def_bool y
>>         prompt "s390 support for virtio devices"
> 
> Really?
> 
> You already have your own copy of HAS_IOMEM, which makes it hard for
> people to track which one applies where.
> 

I am open for better suggestions. One idea that I had was to reverse
the logic in s390 (and use the common code HAS_IOMEM)

like


diff --git a/arch/s390/Kconfig b/arch/s390/Kconfig
index cbe1d978693a..123dd593ea20 100644
--- a/arch/s390/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/s390/Kconfig
@@ -715,8 +715,8 @@ endif       # PCI
 config PCI_DOMAINS
        def_bool PCI
 
-config HAS_IOMEM
-       def_bool PCI
+config NO_IOMEM
+       def_bool y if !PCI
 
 config IOMMU_HELPER
        def_bool PCI


This would enable CONFIG_VT and also CONFIG_DUMMY_CONSOLE as long as
PCI is enabled. If DUMMY_CONSOLE is not enabled (e.g. due to missing PCI),
we get a crash in the VT layer as conswitchp is then null.

Somewhat tricky.