When a break-to-debugger is triggered, kdb will grab the console and vt(4)
will generally switch back to ttyv0. If one issues a continue from the
debugger, then kdb will ungrab the console and the system rolls on.
This change adds a perhaps minor feature: when we're down to grab == 0 and
if vt actually switched away to ttyv0, switch back to the tty it was
previously on before the console was grabbed.
The justification behind this is that a typical flow is to work in
!ttyv0 to avoid console spam while occasionally dropping to ddb to inspect
system state before returning. This could easily enough be tossed behind
a sysctl or something if it's not generally appreciated, but I anticipate
indifference.
Reviewed by: ray
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D27110
vt_allocate_keyboard only needs to unwind the effects of keyboard-grabbing,
rather than any associated vt window action that may have also happened.
Split out the bits that do the keyboard work into *_noswitch equivalents,
and use those in keyboard allocation. This will be less error-prone when a
later change will offer up different window state behavior when the console
is ungrabbed.
Reviewed by: ray
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D27110
Implement vt_vbefb to support Vesa Bios Extensions (VBE) framebuffer with VT.
vt_vbefb is built based on vt_efifb and is assuming similar data for
initialization, use MODINFOMD_VBE_FB to identify the structure vbe_fb
in kernel metadata.
struct vbe_fb, is populated by boot loader, and is passed to kernel via
metadata payload.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D27373
When using the ALT+CTRL+ESC sequence to break into kdb, the keyboard is
completely borked when you return. watch(8) shows that it's working, but
it's inserting escape sequences.
Further investigation revealed that VT_ALT_TO_ESC_HACK is the default and
directly conflicts with this sequence, so upon return from the debugger
ALKED is set.
If they triggered the break to debugger, it's safe to assume they didn't
mean to use VT_ALT_TO_ESC_HACK, so just unset it to reduce the surprise when
the keyboard seems non-functional upon return.
Reviewed by: tsoome
MFC after: 1 week
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D27109
vt_generate_cons_palette() does take max values of RGB component colours, not
mask. Also we need to set info->fb_cmsize, or vt_fb_init() will re-initialize
the info->fb_cmap.
vm_ooffset_t is now unsigned. Remove some tests for negative values,
or make other adjustments accordingly.
Reported by: Coverity
Reviewed by: kib markj
Sponsored by: Dell EMC Isilon
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D26214
Currently the CONS_HISTORY and CONS_CLRHIST ioctls modify the state of the
active terminal instead of the terminal against which the ioctl was issued.
Because of the way vidcontrol(1) works, these are the same in most cases.
But a poorly-timed window switch can make them differ. This is reproducible
by issuing e.g. 'vidcontrol -s 2 && vidcontrol -C' to switch from vty 1 to
vty 2; teken will reset the cursor position on vty 1 but vt(4) will clear
the history buffer of vty 2, producing an interesting state of affairs.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D25564
Prepare support to be able to handle font data in loader, consolidate
data structures to sys/font.h and update vtfontcvt.
vtfontcvt update is about to output set of glyphs in form of C source,
the implementation does allow to output compressed or uncompressed font
bitmaps.
Reviewed by: bcr
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D24189
r361601 implemented basic support for cleaing the console history buffer.
But after clearing the history buffer, it's not especially useful to be
able to scroll back through that buffer, or for the cursor position to
remain at (very likely) the bottom of the screen.
PR: 224436
Reviewed by: emaste
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D25079
Extract scrollback buffer initialization into a common routine, used both
during vt(4) init and in handling the CONS_CLRHIST ioctl.
PR: 224436
Reviewed by: emaste
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D24815
The reporter is developing a frame buffer driver for hardware using
3 bytes per pixel, but a stride that's a multiple of 256. Previously
this resulted in writing beyond the end of each stride. On the last
row this attempted to write past the end of the frame buffer, triggering
the assertion in vt_fb_mem_wr1().
PR: 243533
MFC after: 2 weeks
Submitted by: Thomas Skibo
r357614 added CTLFLAG_NEEDGIANT to make it easier to find nodes that are
still not MPSAFE (or already are but aren’t properly marked).
Use it in preparation for a general review of all nodes.
This is non-functional change that adds annotations to SYSCTL_NODE and
SYSCTL_PROC nodes using one of the soon-to-be-required flags.
Mark all obvious cases as MPSAFE. All entries that haven't been marked
as MPSAFE before are by default marked as NEEDGIANT
Approved by: kib (mentor, blanket)
Commented by: kib, gallatin, melifaro
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D23718
This effectively reverts r355935, but is functionally equivalent. We gain no
benefit from storing the index and repeatedly fetching the keyboard with
`kbd_get_keyboard` when we need it. We'll be notified when it's going away
so we can clean up the pointer.
All existing references were trivially converted. Only once instance
actually needed the index.
With absolutely no keyboards attached and no kbdmux in kernel, we descend
down this error path. 0 is a valid keyboard index, so leaving
vd->vd_keyboard at 0 when there's no keyboard found is objectively wrong as
later attachment of a keyboard will fail -- it gets index 0, and vt thinks
it's already using that keyboard.
This is decidedly the corniest of corner cases, but it's easy enough to get
correct that we should do so.
Tested in a kernel without atkbdc, atkbd, psm, kbdmux, ukbd, hyperv then
loading ukbd post-boot and attaching a usb keyboard.
This change enables the use of OpenFirmware Console (ofwcons), even when VGA is
available, allowing early kernel messages to be seen, that is important in case
of crashes before VGA console initialization.
This is specially useful in virtualized environments, where the user/developer
doesn't have full control of the virtualization engine (e.g. OpenStack).
The old behavior is preserved by default and, in order to use ofwcons, a few
tunables that have been introduced need to be set:
- hw.ofwfb.disable=1 - disable OFW FrameBuffer device
- machdep.ofw.mtx_spin=1 - change PPC OFW mutex to SPIN type, to match kernel
console's mutex type
- debug.quiesce_ofw=0 - don't call OFW quiesce, needed to keep ofwcons I/O
working
More details can be found at differential revision D20640.
Reviewed by: jhibbits
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D20640
r259680 added support to vt(4) for printing double-width characters.
Remove the comment that claims no support.
MFC after: 3 days
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
The TUNABLE_INT_FETCH is macro around getenv_int() and we will get
return value 0 or 1 for failure or success, we can use it to decide
which background color to use.
If there is an attempt to switch from a process-owned VT to a closed VT,
then vt(4) first requests the process to release its VT and only then
realizes that the target VT is closed and, so, the switch is not
possible. So, the driver does not actually do any switch, but at the
same time the owning process is not notified about that and it does not
re-acquire the VT.
This change adds an early check for the target VT state, so that the
switch can be refused before the process coordination dance.
On top of that, the code now checks for a failure of vt_window_switch()
and calls vt_window_postswitch() for the current VT if it is in the
process mode.
Test Plan:
- configure VT1 - VT8 (ttyv0 - ttyv7) to be text consoles (run getty)
- configure VT9 (ttyv8) to rn X server
- make sure that the X server configuration allows VT switching
- leave VT10 - VT12 unconfigured
- while in the X server press Ctrl+Alt+F10
- without the patch, observe strange screen content and problems with
keyboard input
- with the patch, observe that nothing happens
The problem has been observed and the fix has been tested with an nVidia
graphics card and the proprietary nvidia driver.
Not sure if that matters.
Reviewed by: ray
MFC after: 2 weeks
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D21704
When the system has no graphical console, such as bhyve in common
configurations, ignore kern.vt.splash_cpu, instead of panicking
on INVARIANTS kernels.
Reviewed by: cem dumbbell
MFC after: 1 week
Sponsored by: Dell EMC Isilon
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D20877
Using the latest NVIDIA driver, upon resuming from suspend with X
running the display remained blank. Additionally OpenGL applications
that were running triggered a number of error messages from the NVIDIA
driver.
This occurred because the vt efifb back-end did not signal the X server
to release the display before suspending (or to re-acquire it after
resuming). The NVIDIA driver includes code for smoothly shutting down
and re-initializing the GPU, which was not getting called.
Since the NVIDIA driver doesn't currently support framebuffer devices
and vt is forced to fall back to the efifb back-end, add vd_suspend and
vd_resume members to connect the suspend/resume path. This ensures the
X server is properly able to re-initialize the display.
PR: 237050
Submitted by: Erik Kurzinger <ekurzinger@nvidia.com>
Reviewed by: markj
MFC after: 2 weeks
Event: Waterloo Hackathon 2019
This allows replacing "sys/eventfilter.h" includes with "sys/_eventfilter.h"
in other header files (e.g., sys/{bus,conf,cpu}.h) and reduces header
pollution substantially.
EVENTHANDLER_DECLARE and EVENTHANDLER_LIST_DECLAREs were moved out of .c
files into appropriate headers (e.g., sys/proc.h, powernv/opal.h).
As a side effect of reduced header pollution, many .c files and headers no
longer contain needed definitions. The remainder of the patch addresses
adding appropriate includes to fix those files.
LOCK_DEBUG and LOCK_FILE_LINE_ARG are moved to sys/_lock.h, as required by
sys/mutex.h since r326106 (but silently protected by header pollution prior
to this change).
No functional change (intended). Of course, any out of tree modules that
relied on header pollution for sys/eventhandler.h, sys/lock.h, or
sys/mutex.h inclusion need to be fixed. __FreeBSD_version has been bumped.
done on the old keyboard and then do the corresponding number of grabs
on the new keyboard.
This fixes a race that can leave the system with a non-functioning
keyboard. It goes like this...
- The bios claims there is an AT keyboard, atkbd attaches.
- SI_SUB_INT_CONFIG_HOOKS runs.
- USB probes devices. Devices begin attaching, including disks.
- GELI prompts for a password for a just-attached disk, which results
in a cngrab() while atkbd is the keyboard.
- A USB keyboard attaches.
- vt_upgrade() runs and switches the keyboard to the new USB keyboard,
but because cngrab was never called for it, it's not activated and
keystrokes are ignored.
- Now there is no functional keyboard and no way to get one; even
plugging in a different USB keyboard doesn't help, because the console
is still grabbed, still waiting for a GELI pw.
Discussed with: ray@
given in random(4).
This includes updating of the relevant man pages, and no-longer-used
harvesting parameters.
Ensure that the pseudo-unit-test still does something useful, now also
with the "other" algorithm instead of Yarrow.
PR: 230870
Reviewed by: cem
Approved by: so(delphij,gtetlow)
Approved by: re(marius)
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D16898
the foreground and background colours. In bitblt_text functions, compare
values to this cache and don't re-draw the characters if they haven't changed.
When invalidating the display, clear this cache in order to force characters
to be redrawn; also force full redraws between suspend/resume pairs since odd
artifacts can otherwise result.
When scrolling the display (which is where most time is spent within the vt
driver) this yields a significant performance improvement if most lines are
less than the width of the terminal, since this avoids re-drawing blanks on
top of blanks.
(Note that "re-drawing" here includes writing to the VGA text mode buffer; on
virtualized systems this can be extremely slow since it triggers a glyph
being rendered onto a 640x480 screen).
On a c5.4xlarge EC2 instance (with emulated text mode VGA) this cuts the time
spent in vt(4) during the kernel boot from 1200 ms to 700ms; on my laptop
(with a 3200x1800 display) the corresponding time is reduced from 970 ms down
to 155 ms.
Reviewed by: imp, cem
Approved by: re (gjb)
Relnotes: Significant speedup in vt(4) and the system boot generally.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D16723
The VGA "text mode" buffer has a pair of bytes for each character: One
byte for the character symbol, and an "attribute" byte encoding the
foreground and background colours. When updating the screen, we were
writing these two bytes separately.
On some virtualized systems, every write results in a glyph being redrawn
into a (graphical) virtual screen; writing these two bytes separately
results in twice as much work being done to draw characters, whereas if
we perform a single 16-bit write instead, the character only needs to be
redrawn once.
On an EC2 c5.4xlarge instance, this change cuts 1.30s from the kernel boot,
speeding it up from 8.90s to 7.60s.
MFC after: 1 week
/chosen/stdout-path is a string, not ihandle. Treat it as such.
With this, ofwfb now starts correctly on a POWER9 system when launched from
the local console (not serial).
The FDT implementation of OF_instance_to_package() backend checks the
cross-reference to get the node. On failure, this returns the input handle
unchanged. In the case of ofwfb attachment, if /chosen/stdout property does not
exist, sc->sc_handle is either garbage or 0, which then gets propagated to node.
This will prevent "screen" from being used, resulting in not properly attaching.
Correct this by matching the code in ofwfb_probe().
To workaround buggy firmware that sets this flag when there's actually
a VGA present.
Reported and tested by: Yasuhiro KIMURA <yasu@utahime.org>
Sponsored by: Citrix Systems R&D
Reviewed by: kib
Differential revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D16003
overscan and synthesize it from the display depth and screen width.
This may not be right, but it sometimes right and is better than
returning CN_DEAD.
MMU is disabled.
This expands some earlier logic and avoids a number of potential problems:
1. The CPU may not be able to access the framebuffer in real mode (real
mode does not necessarily encompass all available memory, especially
under a hypervisor).
2. Real mode accesses generally assume cacheability, so it might not
even have worked.
3. The difference in cacheability between real mode and later (and
potentially earlier) points in the boot with the MMU on may cause
ERAT parity problems, resulting in a machine check.
This fixes real-mode (usefdt=1) early boot on the G5 iMac, which was
previously broken as a result of issue #3. Late boot will require some
other fixups.
In UTF-8 locales mandoc uses a number of characters outside of the Basic
Latin group, e.g. from general punctuation or miscellaneous mathematical
symbols, and these rendered as ? in text mode.
This change adds (char, replacement, code point, description):
¦ | U+00A6 Broken bar
✓ √ U+2713 Checkmark
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
There is no need to try to resume it after each smaller operations
(putchar, cursor_position, copy, fill).
The resume function already checks if the timer is armed before doing
anything, but it uses an atomic cmpset which is expensive. And resuming
the timer at the end of input processing is enough.
While here, we also skip timer resume if the input is for another
windows than the currently displayed one. I.e. if `ttyv0` is currently
displayed, any changes to `ttyv1` shouldn't resume the timer (which
would refresh `ttyv0`).
By doing the same benchmark as r333669, I get:
* vt(4), before r333669: 1500 ms
* vt(4), with this patch: 760 ms
* syscons(4): 700 ms
... to process input, instead of inside each smaller operations such as
appending a character or moving the cursor forward.
In other words, before we were doing (oversimplified):
teken_input()
<for each input character>
vtterm_putchar()
VTBUF_LOCK()
VTBUF_UNLOCK()
vtterm_cursor_position()
VTBUF_LOCK()
VTBUF_UNLOCK()
Now, we are doing:
vtterm_pre_input()
VTBUF_LOCK()
teken_input()
<for each input character>
vtterm_putchar()
vtterm_cursor_position()
vtterm_post_input()
VTBUF_UNLOCK()
The situation was even worse when the vtterm_copy() and vtterm_fill()
callbacks were involved.
The new callbacks are:
* struct terminal_class->tc_pre_input()
* struct terminal_class->tc_post_input()
They are called in teken_input(), surrounding the while() loop.
The goal is to improve input processing speed of vt(4). As a benchmark,
here is the time taken to write a text file of 360 000 lines (26 MiB) on
`ttyv0`:
* vt(4), unmodified: 1500 ms
* vt(4), with this patch: 1200 ms
* syscons(4): 700 ms
This is on a Haswell laptop with a GENERIC-NODEBUG kernel.
At the same time, the locking is changed in the vt_flush() function
which is responsible to draw the text on screen. So instead of
(indirectly) using VTBUF_LOCK() just to read and reset the dirty area
of the internal buffer, the lock is held for about the entire function,
including the drawing part.
The change is mostly visible while content is scrolling fast: before,
lines could appear garbled while scrolling because the internal buffer
was accessed without locks (once the scrolling was finished, the output
was correct). Now, the scrolling appears correct.
In the end, the locking model is closer to what syscons(4) does.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D15302
Before this change, the VGA palette was configured to match the shell
palette (e.g. color #1 was red). There was one glitch early in boot when
the vt(4)'s VGA palette was loaded: the loader's logo would switch from
red to blue. Likewise for the "Booting..." message switching from blue
to red. That's because the loader's logo was drawed with the default VGA
palette where a few colors are swapped compared to the shell palette
(e.g. blue <-> red).
This change configures the default VGA palette during initialization and
converts input's colors from shell to VGA palette index.
There should be no visible changes, except the loader's logo which will
keep its original color.
Reviewed by: eadler
This makes it more logical:
1. It checks the requested color format
2. It fills the palette accordingly
Also vt_palette_init() is only called when needed (i.e. when the format
is `COLOR_FORMAT_RGB`).
"Terminus BSD Console" is a derivative of Terminus that is provided
by Mr. Dimitar Zhekov under the 2-clause BSD license for use by the
FreeBSD vt(4) console and other BSDs.
PR: 227409
MFC after: 1 week
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
