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vt(4): New bitblt_text variant making a copy before unlocking vt_buf
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Authored by dumbbell on Oct 2 2023, 10:20 PM.
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Why

In the DRM drivers and the integration with vt(4), we need to execute DRM code outside of the vtbuf_lock. The reason is that this DRM code acquires locks which can't be acquired when vtbuf_lock, an MTX_SPIN mutex, is already held.

How

A vt(4) backend can now set the vd_bitblt_after_vtbuf_unlock flag to true if it wants to be called outside of vt_buf_lock.

In this case, vt(4) uses an internal version of bitblt_text that uses the vd_drawn arrays, plus a new vd_pos_to_flush array, to track characters to draw/refresh. This internal version then uses the backend's bitblt_bmp callback to draw the characters after vt_buf has been unlocked.

Drawing borders and CPU logos is also deferred after the vt_buf lock is released for the same reason.

We introduce another lock (a default mutex), only used when the vd_bitblt_after_vtbuf_unlock flag is set, to replace part the role of the vt_buf lock and manage concurrent calls to vt_flush().

The SC_NO_CONSDRAWN define is dropped because we now always need the vd_drawn arrays.

This is required by the proposed new DRM/vt(4) integration (https://github.com/freebsd/drm-kmod/pull/243).

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