fbdev: Refactoring the fbcon packed pixel drawing routines

The original version duplicated more or less the same algorithms for
both system and i/o memory.

In this version the drawing algorithms (c

fbdev: Refactoring the fbcon packed pixel drawing routines

The original version duplicated more or less the same algorithms for
both system and i/o memory.

In this version the drawing algorithms (copy/fill/blit) are separate
from the memory access (system and i/o). The two parts are getting
combined in the loadable module sources. This also makes it more robust
against wrong memory access type or alignment mistakes as there's no
direct pointer access or arithmetic in the algorithm sources anymore.

Due to liberal use of inlining the compiled result is a single function
in all 6 cases, without unnecessary function calls. Unlike earlier the
use of macros could be minimized as apparently both gcc and clang is
capable now to do the same with inline functions just as well.

What wasn't quite the same in the two variants is the support for pixel
order reversing. This version is capable to do that for both system and
I/O memory, and not only for the latter. As demand for low bits per
pixel modes isn't high there's a configuration option to enable this
separately for the CFB and SYS modules.

The pixel reversing algorithm is different than earlier and was designed
so that it can take advantage of bit order reversing instructions on
architectures which have them. And even for higher bits per pixel modes
like four bpp.

One of the shortcomings of the earlier version was the incomplete
support for foreign endian framebuffers. Now all three drawing
algorithms produce correct output on both endians with native and
foreign framebuffers. This is one of the important differences even if
otherwise the algorithms don't look too different than before.

All three routines work now with aligned native word accesses. As a
consequence blitting isn't limited to 32 bits on 64 bit architectures as
it was before.

The old routines silently assumed that rows are a multiple of the word
size. Due to how the new routines function this isn't a requirement any
more and access will be done aligned regardless. However if the
framebuffer is configured like that then some of the fast paths won't be
available.

As this code is supposed to be running on all supported architectures it
wasn't optimized for a particular one. That doesn't mean I haven't
looked at the disassembly. That's where I noticed that it isn't a good
idea to use the fallback bitreversing code for example.

The low bits per pixel modes should be faster than before as the new
routines can blit 4 pixels at a time.

On the higher bits per pixel modes I retained the specialized aligned
routines so it should be more or less the same, except on 64 bit
architectures. There the blitting word size is double now which means 32
BPP isn't done a single pixel a time now.

The code was tested on x86, amd64, mips32 and mips64. The latter two in
big endian configuration. Originally thought I can get away with the
first two, but with such bit twisting code byte ordering is tricky and
not really possible to get right without actually verifying it.

While writing such routines isn't rocket science a lot of time was spent
on making sure that pixel ordering, foreign byte order, various bits per
pixels, cpu endianness and word size will give the expected result in
all sorts of combinations without making it overly complicated or full
with special cases.

Signed-off-by: Zsolt Kajtar <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <[email protected]>

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License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license

Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which
makes it harder for compliance tools to determine

License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license

Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which
makes it harder for compliance tools to determine the correct license.

By default all files without license information are under the default
license of the kernel, which is GPL version 2.

Update the files which contain no license information with the 'GPL-2.0'
SPDX license identifier. The SPDX identifier is a legally binding
shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text.

This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and
Philippe Ombredanne.

How this work was done:

Patches were generated and checked against linux-4.14-rc6 for a subset of
the use cases:
- file had no licensing information it it.
- file was a */uapi/* one with no licensing information in it,
- file was a */uapi/* one with existing licensing information,

Further patches will be generated in subsequent months to fix up cases
where non-standard license headers were used, and references to license
had to be inferred by heuristics based on keywords.

The analysis to determine which SPDX License Identifier to be applied to
a file was done in a spreadsheet of side by side results from of the
output of two independent scanners (ScanCode & Windriver) producing SPDX
tag:value files created by Philippe Ombredanne. Philippe prepared the
base worksheet, and did an initial spot review of a few 1000 files.

The 4.13 kernel was the starting point of the analysis with 60,537 files
assessed. Kate Stewart did a file by file comparison of the scanner
results in the spreadsheet to determine which SPDX license identifier(s)
to be applied to the file. She confirmed any determination that was not
immediately clear with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

Criteria used to select files for SPDX license identifier tagging was:
- Files considered eligible had to be source code files.
- Make and config files were included as candidates if they contained >5
lines of source
- File already had some variant of a license header in it (even if <5
lines).

All documentation files were explicitly excluded.

The following heuristics were used to determine which SPDX license
identifiers to apply.

- when both scanners couldn't find any license traces, file was
considered to have no license information in it, and the top level
COPYING file license applied.

For non */uapi/* files that summary was:

SPDX license identifier # files
---------------------------------------------------|-------
GPL-2.0 11139

and resulted in the first patch in this series.

If that file was a */uapi/* path one, it was "GPL-2.0 WITH
Linux-syscall-note" otherwise it was "GPL-2.0". Results of that was:

SPDX license identifier # files
---------------------------------------------------|-------
GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 930

and resulted in the second patch in this series.

- if a file had some form of licensing information in it, and was one
of the */uapi/* ones, it was denoted with the Linux-syscall-note if
any GPL family license was found in the file or had no licensing in
it (per prior point). Results summary:

SPDX license identifier # files
---------------------------------------------------|------
GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 270
GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 169
((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-2-Clause) 21
((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 17
LGPL-2.1+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 15
GPL-1.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 14
((GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 5
LGPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 4
LGPL-2.1 WITH Linux-syscall-note 3
((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR MIT) 3
((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND MIT) 1

and that resulted in the third patch in this series.

- when the two scanners agreed on the detected license(s), that became
the concluded license(s).

- when there was disagreement between the two scanners (one detected a
license but the other didn't, or they both detected different
licenses) a manual inspection of the file occurred.

- In most cases a manual inspection of the information in the file
resulted in a clear resolution of the license that should apply (and
which scanner probably needed to revisit its heuristics).

- When it was not immediately clear, the license identifier was
confirmed with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

- If there was any question as to the appropriate license identifier,
the file was flagged for further research and to be revisited later
in time.

In total, over 70 hours of logged manual review was done on the
spreadsheet to determine the SPDX license identifiers to apply to the
source files by Kate, Philippe, Thomas and, in some cases, confirmation
by lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

Kate also obtained a third independent scan of the 4.13 code base from
FOSSology, and compared selected files where the other two scanners
disagreed against that SPDX file, to see if there was new insights. The
Windriver scanner is based on an older version of FOSSology in part, so
they are related.

Thomas did random spot checks in about 500 files from the spreadsheets
for the uapi headers and agreed with SPDX license identifier in the
files he inspected. For the non-uapi files Thomas did random spot checks
in about 15000 files.

In initial set of patches against 4.14-rc6, 3 files were found to have
copy/paste license identifier errors, and have been fixed to reflect the
correct identifier.

Additionally Philippe spent 10 hours this week doing a detailed manual
inspection and review of the 12,461 patched files from the initial patch
version early this week with:
- a full scancode scan run, collecting the matched texts, detected
license ids and scores
- reviewing anything where there was a license detected (about 500+
files) to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct
- reviewing anything where there was no detection but the patch license
was not GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note to ensure that the applied
SPDX license was correct

This produced a worksheet with 20 files needing minor correction. This
worksheet was then exported into 3 different .csv files for the
different types of files to be modified.

These .csv files were then reviewed by Greg. Thomas wrote a script to
parse the csv files and add the proper SPDX tag to the file, in the
format that the file expected. This script was further refined by Greg
based on the output to detect more types of files automatically and to
distinguish between header and source .c files (which need different
comment types.) Finally Greg ran the script using the .csv files to
generate the patches.

Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>

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fbdev: move fbdev core files to separate directory

Instead of having fbdev framework core files at the root fbdev
directory, mixed with random fbdev device drivers, move the fbdev core
files to a se

fbdev: move fbdev core files to separate directory

Instead of having fbdev framework core files at the root fbdev
directory, mixed with random fbdev device drivers, move the fbdev core
files to a separate core directory. This makes it much clearer which of
the files are actually part of the fbdev framework, and which are part
of device drivers.

Signed-off-by: Tomi Valkeinen <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Laurent Pinchart <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Rob Clark <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Jingoo Han <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Daniel Vetter <[email protected]>

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