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<updated>2018-03-29T02:50:57Z</updated>
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<title>Revert r330897:</title>
<updated>2018-03-29T02:50:57Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Eitan Adler</name>
<email>eadler@FreeBSD.org</email>
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<published>2018-03-29T02:50:57Z</published>
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This was intended to be a non-functional change. It wasn't. The commit
message was thus wrong. In addition it broke arm, and merged crypto
related code.

Revert with prejudice.

This revert skips files touched in r316370 since that commit was since
MFCed. This revert also skips files that require $FreeBSD$ property
changes.

Thank you to those who helped me get out of this mess including but not
limited to gonzo, kevans, rgrimes.

Requested by: gjb (re)
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<entry>
<title>MFC r316136:</title>
<updated>2018-03-14T07:58:11Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Eitan Adler</name>
<email>eadler@FreeBSD.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-03-14T07:58:11Z</published>
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The switch to kernel terminal context needs to update more than the cursor
position.  Especially the screen size, and potentially everything except
the input state and attributes.  Do this by changing the cursor position
setting method to a general syncing method.

Use proper constructors instead of copying to create kernel terminal
contexts.  We really want clones and not new instances, but there is
no method for cloning and there is nothing in the active instance that
needs to be cloned exactly.

Add proper destructors for kernel terminal contexts.  I doubt that the
destructor code has every been reached, but if it was then it leaked the
memory of the clones.

Remove freeing of statically allocated memory for the non-kernel terminal
context for the same terminal as the kernel.  This is in the nearly
unreachable code.  This used to not happen because delicate context
swapping made the user context use the dynamic memory and kernel
context the static memory.  I didn't restore this swapping since it
would have been unnatural to have all kernel contexts except 1 dynamic.

The constructor for terminal context has bad layering for reasons
related to the bug.  It has to return static memory early before
malloc() works.  Callers also can't allocate memory until after the
first constructor selects an emulator and tells upper layers the size
of its context.  After that, the cloning hack required the cloning
code to allocate the memory, but for all other constructors it would
be better for the terminal layer to allocate and deallocate the
memory in all cases.

Zero the memory when allocating terminal contexts dynamically.
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<entry>
<title>MFC r315984:</title>
<updated>2018-03-14T07:55:29Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Eitan Adler</name>
<email>eadler@FreeBSD.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-03-14T07:55:29Z</published>
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Restore switching to a separate kernel terminal "input" state and extend
it to a separate state for each CPU.

Terminal "input" is user or kernel output.  Its state includes the current
parser state for escape sequences and multi-byte characters, and some
results of previous parsing (mainly attributes), and in teken the cursor
position, but not completed output.  This state must be switched for kernel
output since the kernel can preempt anything, including itself, and this
must not affect the preempted state more than necessary.  Since vty0 is
shared, it is necessary to affect the frame buffer and cursor position and
history, but escape sequences must not be affected and attributes for
further output must not be affected.

This used to work.  The syscons terminal state contained mainly the parser
state for escape sequences and attributes, but not the cursor position,
and was switched.  This was first broken by SMP and/or preemptive kernels.
Then there should really be a separate state for each thread, and one more
for ddb, or locking to prevent preemption.  Serialization of printf() helps.
But it is arcane that full syscons escape sequences mostly work in kernel
printf(), and I have never seen them used except by me to test this fix.
They worked perfectly except for the races, since "input" from the kernel
was not special in any way.

This was broken to use teken.  The general switch was removed, and the
kernel normal attribute was switched specially.  The kernel reverse
attribute (config option SC_CONS_REVERSE_ATTR) became unused, and is
still unusable because teken doesn't support default reverse attributes
(it used to only be used via the ANSI escape sequence to set reverse
video).

The only new difficulty for using teken seems to be that the cursor
position is in the "input" state, so it must be updated in the active
input state for each half of the switch.  Do this to complete the
restoration.

The per-CPU state is mainly to make per-CPU coloring work cleanly, at
a cost of some space.  Each CPU gets its own full set of attribute
(not just the current attribute) maintained in the usual way.  This
also reduces races from unserialized printf()s.  However, this gives
races for serialized printf()s that otherwise have none.  Nothing
prevents the CPU doing the a printf() changing in the middle of an
escape sequence.
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<entry>
<title>MFC r315003,r315065,r315066:</title>
<updated>2018-03-14T07:39:28Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Eitan Adler</name>
<email>eadler@FreeBSD.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-03-14T07:39:28Z</published>
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Rename scteken_revattr() to scteken_sc_to_te_attr().  scteken_revattr()
looked like it might handle reverse attributes, but it actually handles
conversion of attributes in the direction indicated by the new name.
Reverse attributes are just broken.

Rename scteken_attr() to scteken_te_to_sc_attr().  scteken_attr() looked
like it might give teken attributes, but it actually gives sc attributes.

Change scteken_te_to_sc_attr() to return int instead of unsigned int.
u_char would be enough, and it promotes to int, and syscons uses int
or u_short for its attributes everywhere else (u_short holds a shifted
form and it promotes to int too).

Add a scteken_set_cursor() (sc to teken) method and use it to fix
some cases of initialization and resetting of the teken cursor position.
(This bad name is consistent with others, but it is too easy to confuse
with scteken_cursor() which goes in the opposite direction.)

The following cases were broken:
- for booting without a syscons console, the teken and sc positions for
  ttyv0 were (0, 0), but are supposed to be somewhere in the middle of
  the screen (after carefully preserved BIOS and loader messages) (at
  least if there is no mode switch that loses the messages).
- after mode switches, the screen is cleared and the cursor is supposed to
  be moved to (0, 0), but it was only moved there for sc.

The following case was hacked to work:
- for booting with a syscons console, it was arranged that scteken_init()
  for the console could see a nonzero cursor position and adjust, although
  this broke the sc seeing it in the non-console case above.

Fix the attribute for scteken_clear() (change it back from the user
user default normal attribute to the current attribute).

This change only fixes a logic error.  scterm_clear() used to be
used for terminal reset, but teken uses a general fill function for
that, leaving scterm_clear() only used for initialization and mode
change, when using the user default attribute is correct.  It is not
really a terminal function, but needs to sync its changes with the
terminal layer.  Syncing of the attribute is currently broken for
terminal reset, but works for initialization and mode change.
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<entry>
<title>MFC r315000:</title>
<updated>2018-03-14T07:32:48Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Eitan Adler</name>
<email>eadler@FreeBSD.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-03-14T07:32:48Z</published>
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Start fixing some bugs in attribute handling.

This change just does cleanups missed in r56043 17 years ago.  The
default attributes were still stored in structs for the purpose of
changing them and passing around pointers to the defaults, but r56043
added another layer that made the defaults invariant and only used for
initialization and reset.  Just use the defaults directly.  This was
already done for the kernel defaults.  The defaults for reverse
attributes aren't actually used, but are ignored in layers that no
longer support them.
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<title>MFC r314641,r314646,r314997,r315390:</title>
<updated>2018-03-14T07:30:58Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Eitan Adler</name>
<email>eadler@FreeBSD.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-03-14T07:30:58Z</published>
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Colorize syscons kernel console output according to a table indexed
by the CPU number.

This was originally for debugging near-deadlock conditions where
multiple CPUs either deadlock or scramble each other's output trying
to report the problem, but I found it interesting and sometimes
useful for ordinary kernel messages.  Ordinary kernel messages
shouldn't be interleaved, but if they are then the colorization
makes them readable even if the interleaving is for every character
(provided the CPU printing each message doesn't change).

The default colors are 8-15 starting at 15 (bright white on black)
for CPU 0 and repeating every 8 CPUs.  This works best with 8 CPUs.
Non-bright colors and nonzero background colors need special
configuration to avoid unreadable and ugly combinations so are not
configured by default.  The next bright color after 15 is 8 (bright
black = dark gray) is not very readable but is the only other color
used with 2 CPUs.  After that the next bright color is 9 (bright
blue) which is not much brighter than bright black, but is used with
3+ CPUs.  Other bright colors are brighter.

Colorization is configured by default so that it gets tested.  It can
only be turned off by configuring SC_KERNEL_CONS_ATTR to anything other
than FG_WHITE.  After booting, all colors can be changed using the
syscons.kattr sysctl.  This is a SYSCTL_OPAQUE, and no utility is
provided to change it (sysctl only displays it).

The default colors work in all VGA modes that I could test.  In 2-color
graphics modes, all 8 bright colors are displayed as bright white, so
the colorization has no effect, but anything with a nonzero background
gives white on white unless the foreground is zero.  I don't have an
mono or VGA grayscale hardware to test on.  Support for mono mode seems
to have never worked right in syscons (I think bright white gives white
underline with either bold or bright), but VGA grayscale should work
better than 2-color graphics.

Implement ec_putc() (emergency kernel [syscons] console putc()) and use
it in emergency in sc_cnputc().

Locking fixes in sc_cnputc() previously turned off normal output in
near-deadlock conditions and added deferred output which might never
be completed.  Emergency output goes to the frame buffer using
sufficiently atomic non-blocking writes if the console is in text
mode (in graphics mode, nothing is done, modulo races setting the
graphics mode bit).  Screen updates overwrite the emergency output
if the emergency condition clears enough to reach them.

ec_putc() also works for "early" console output in normal x86 text
mode as soon as this mode is initialized (if ever).  This uses a
hard-coded x86 frame buffer address before cninit() and a hopefully
MI address after cninit().  But non-x86 is more likely to not support
text mode, when ec_putc() will be null.  ec_putc() has no dependencies
of syscons before cninit(), and only has them later to track syscons'
mode changes.  This commit doesn't attach ec_putc() for early use.

To test emergency use, put a breakpoint in central syscons output code
like sc_puts() and do some user output.  The system used to race or
deadlock in ddb output soon after entry to ddb.  The locking fixes
deferred the output until after leaving ddb, so ddb was unusable and
you had to try typing c[ontinue] blindly until it exited, or better use
a serial console in parallel.  Now the output goes to a window in the
middle 2/3 of the screen.  Scrolling is circular and there is no cursor,
but otherwise ec_putc() provides full dumb terminal functionality and
very fast output that hides artificates from dumb overwrites.
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<entry>
<title>MFC r305121,r305231:</title>
<updated>2018-03-14T07:16:29Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Eitan Adler</name>
<email>eadler@FreeBSD.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-03-14T07:16:29Z</published>
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Add some locking to sc_cngetc().

Keyboard input needs Giant locking, and that is not possible to do
correctly here.  Use mtx_trylock() and proceed unlocked as before if
we can't acquire Giant (non-recursively), except in kdb mode don't
even try to acquire Giant.  Everything here is a hack, but it often
works.  Even if mtx_trylock() succeeds, this might be a LOR.

Keyboard input also needs screen locking, to handle screen updates
and switches.  Add this, using the same simplistic screen locking
as for sc_cnputc().

Giant must be acquired before the screen lock, and the screen lock
must be dropped when calling the keyboard driver (else it would get a
harmless LOR if it tries to acquire Giant).  It was intended that sc
cn open/close hide the locking calls, and they do for i/o functions
functions except for this complication.

Non-console keyboard input is still only Giant-locked, with screen
locking in some called functions.  This is correct for the keyboard
parts only.

When Giant cannot be acquired properly, atkbd and kbdmux tend to race
and work (they assume that the caller acquired Giant properly and don't
try to acquire it again or check that it has been acquired, and the
races rarely matter), while ukbd tends to deadlock or panic (since it
does the opposite, and has other usb threads to deadlock with).

The keyboard (Giant) locking here does very little, but the screen
locking completes screen locking for console mode except for not
detecting or handling deadlock.

The log message for the previous commit didn't mention the most the
important detail that sc_cngetc() now opens and closes the keyboard
on every call again.  This was moved from sc_cngetc() to scn_cngrab/
ungrab() in r228644, but the change wasn't quite complete.  After
fixes for nesting in kbdd_poll() in ukbd and kbdmux, these opens
and closes should have no significant effect if done while grabbed.
They fix unusual cases when cngetc() is called while not grabbed.

This commit is the main fix for screen locking in sc_cnputc():
detect deadlock or likely-deadlock and handle it by buffering the
output atomically and printing it later if the deadlock condition
clears (and sc_cnputc() is called).

The most common deadlock is when the screen lock is held by ourself.
Then it would be safe to acquire the lock recursively if the console
driver is calling printf() in a safe context, but we don't know when
that is.  It is not safe to ignore the lock even in kdb or panic mode.
But ignore it in panic mode.  The only other known case of deadlock
is when another thread holds the lock but is running on a stopped CPU.
Detect that case approximately by using trylock and retrying for 1000
usec.  On a 4 GHz CPU, 100 usec is almost long enough -- screen switches
take slightly longer than that.  Not retrying at all is good enough
except for stress tests, and planned future versions will extend the
timeout so that the stress tests work better.

To see the behaviour when deadlock is detected, single step through
sctty_outwakeup() (or sc_puts() to start with deadlock).  Another
(serial) console is needed to the buffered-only output, but the
keyboard works in this context to continue or step out of the
deadlocked region.  The buffer is not large enough to hold all the
output for this.
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<entry>
<title>MFC r305059:</title>
<updated>2018-03-14T07:08:46Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Eitan Adler</name>
<email>eadler@FreeBSD.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-03-14T07:08:46Z</published>
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Start adding locking to sc_cngetc().

Restore an splx() lost in r228644.  We aren't nearly ready to remove
spl's.  They give hints about missing locking.  This lost one was
misplaced.  Dropping it early for convenience gave race windows for
accesses to the fkey buffer.  Giant locking accidentally fixed this
for non-console cases.

Put the spl's around the whole function.  Since there are many returns
that would need splx() just before them for a direct fix, split the
function into a wrapper that does the spl's and a "locked" function
that does the work.

Return earlier when no keyboard is attached to match the ordering in a
planned version.  This breaks the dubious feature of returning keys
from the fkey buffer after the keyboard has gone away.  Losing the keys
wouldn't matter, but we keep them too long now.
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<entry>
<title>MFC r305010:</title>
<updated>2018-03-14T07:08:02Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Eitan Adler</name>
<email>eadler@FreeBSD.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-03-14T07:08:02Z</published>
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Add screen locking calls to sc cn grab and ungrab.  The locking functions
just use the same mutex locking as sc cn putc so they have the same
defects.

The locking calls to acquire the lock are actually in sc cn open and close.
Ungrab has to unlock, although this opens a race window.

Change the direct mutex lock calls in sc cn putc to the new locking
functions via the open and close functions.  Putc also has to unlock, but
doesn't keep the screen open like grab.  Screen open and close reduce to
locking, except screen open for grab also attempts to switch the screen.

Keyboard locking is more difficult and still null, even when keyboard
input calls screen functions, except some of the functions have locks
too deep to work right.

This organization gives a single place to fix some of the locking.
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<entry>
<title>Partial merge of the SPDX changes</title>
<updated>2018-03-14T03:19:51Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Eitan Adler</name>
<email>eadler@FreeBSD.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-03-14T03:19:51Z</published>
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These changes are incomplete but are making it difficult
to determine what other changes can/should be merged.

No objections from:	pfg
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