Hello,
The patches in this series are mostly changes suggested by Daniel Vetter to fix some race conditions that exists between the fbdev core (fbmem) and sysfb with regard to device registration and removal.
For example, it is currently possible for sysfb to register a platform device after a real DRM driver was registered and requested to remove the conflicting framebuffers.
A symptom of this issue, was worked around with by commit fb561bf9abde ("fbdev: Prevent probing generic drivers if a FB is already registered") but that's really a hack and should be reverted.
This series attempt to fix it more properly and reverted the mentioned hack. This will also unblock a pending patch to not make num_registered_fb visible to drivers anymore, since that's really internal to fbdev core.
Patch #1 is just a trivial preparatory change.
Patch #2 add sysfb_disable() and sysfb_try_unregister() helpers for fbmem to use them.
Patch #3 changes how is dealt with conflicting framebuffers unregistering, rather than having a variable to determine if a lock should be take, it just drops the lock before unregistering the platform device.
Patch #4 fixes the mentioned race conditions and finally patch #5 is the revert patch that was posted by Daniel before but he dropped from his set.
The patches were tested on a rpi4 using different video configurations: (simpledrm -> vc4 both builtin, only vc4 builtin, only simpledrm builtin and simpledrm builtin with vc4 built as a module).
I'm sending as an RFC since there are many changes to the locking scheme and that is always tricky to get right. Please let me know what you think.
Best regards, Javier
Daniel Vetter (1): Revert "fbdev: Prevent probing generic drivers if a FB is already registered"
Javier Martinez Canillas (4): firmware: sysfb: Make sysfb_create_simplefb() return a pdev pointer firmware: sysfb: Add helpers to unregister a pdev and disable registration fbdev: Restart conflicting fb removal loop when unregistering devices fbdev: Fix some race conditions between fbmem and sysfb
drivers/firmware/sysfb.c | 51 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++----- drivers/firmware/sysfb_simplefb.c | 24 +++++++++------ drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbmem.c | 38 ++++++++++++++++++----- drivers/video/fbdev/efifb.c | 11 ------- drivers/video/fbdev/simplefb.c | 11 ------- include/linux/fb.h | 1 - include/linux/sysfb.h | 27 +++++++++++++--- 7 files changed, 111 insertions(+), 52 deletions(-)