[PATCH] Fix failure of simpledrm probe when trying to grab FB from the EFI-based Framebuffer

From: Andrew Worsley
Date: Fri Nov 10 2023 - 23:30:46 EST


The simpledrm.c does not call aperture_remove_conflicting_devices() in it's probe
function as the drivers/video/aperture.c documentation says it should. Consequently
it's request for the FB memory fails.

...
[ 3.085302] simple-framebuffer bd58dc000.framebuffer: [drm] *ERROR* could not acquire memory range [??? 0xffff6e1d8629d580-0x2a5000001a7 flags 0x0]: -16
[ 3.086433] simple-framebuffer: probe of bd58dc000.framebuffer failed with error -16
...

In my case no driver provided /dev/dri/card0 device is available on boot up and X
fails to start as per this from X start up log.

...
[ 5.616] (WW) Falling back to old probe method for modesetting
[ 5.616] (EE) open /dev/dri/card0: No such file or directory
...

Fault confirmed and fixed on Asahi 6.5.0 kernel with both CONFIG_FB_EFI and
CONFIG_DRM_SIMPLEDRM config options set.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Worsley <amworsley@xxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/gpu/drm/tiny/simpledrm.c | 15 +++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 15 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/tiny/simpledrm.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/tiny/simpledrm.c
index 5fefc895bca2..e55a536b04cf 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/tiny/simpledrm.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/tiny/simpledrm.c
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
#include <linux/platform_device.h>
#include <linux/pm_domain.h>
#include <linux/regulator/consumer.h>
+#include <linux/aperture.h>

#include <drm/drm_aperture.h>
#include <drm/drm_atomic.h>
@@ -828,6 +829,13 @@ static struct simpledrm_device *simpledrm_device_create(struct drm_driver *drv,
if (mem) {
void *screen_base;

+ ret = aperture_remove_conflicting_devices(mem->start, resource_size(mem),
+ DRIVER_NAME);
+ if (ret) {
+ drm_err(dev, "aperture_remove_conflicting_devices: failed:%d\n",
+ __func__, ret);
+ return ERR_PTR(ret);
+ }
ret = devm_aperture_acquire_from_firmware(dev, mem->start, resource_size(mem));
if (ret) {
drm_err(dev, "could not acquire memory range %pr: %d\n", mem, ret);
@@ -848,6 +856,13 @@ static struct simpledrm_device *simpledrm_device_create(struct drm_driver *drv,
if (!res)
return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);

+ ret = aperture_remove_conflicting_devices(res->start, resource_size(res),
+ DRIVER_NAME);
+ if (ret) {
+ drm_err(dev, "aperture_remove_conflicting_devices: failed:%d\n",
+ __func__, ret);
+ return ERR_PTR(ret);
+ }
ret = devm_aperture_acquire_from_firmware(dev, res->start, resource_size(res));
if (ret) {
drm_err(dev, "could not acquire memory range %pr: %d\n", res, ret);
--
2.42.0