[PATCH v4 0/4] drm/panic: Add a QR code panic screen

Mitchell Levy levymitchell0 at gmail.com
Fri Jul 19 18:50:55 UTC 2024


I am trying to test this patchset on my setup, but I cannot get it 
working. In case it's relevant, I'm running under HyperV. Any 
troubleshooting steps/suggestions would definitely be appreciated.

Thanks!
Mitchell

On 7/17/2024 7:24 AM, Jocelyn Falempe wrote:
> This series adds a new panic screen, with the kmsg data embedded in a QR code.
>
> The main advantage of QR code, is that you can copy/paste the debug data to a bug report.
>
> The QR code encoder is written in rust, and is very specific to drm panic.
> The reason is that it is called in a panic handler, and thus can't allocate memory, or use locking.
> The rust code uses a few rust core API, and provides only two C entry points.
> There is no particular reason to do it in rust, I just wanted to learn rust, and see if it can work in the kernel.
>
> If you want to see what it looks like, I've put a few screenshots here:
> https://github.com/kdj0c/panic_report/issues/1
>
> v2:
>   * Rewrite the rust comments with Markdown (Alice Ryhl)
>   * Mark drm_panic_qr_generate() as unsafe (Alice Ryhl)
>   * Use CStr directly, and remove the call to as_str_unchecked()
>     (Alice Ryhl)
>   * Add a check for data_len <= data_size (Greg KH)
>
> v3:
>   * Fix all rust comments (typo, punctuation) (Miguel Ojeda)
>   * Change the wording of safety comments (Alice Ryhl)
>   * Add a link to the javascript decoder in the Kconfig (Greg KH)
>   * Fix data_size and tmp_size check in drm_panic_qr_generate()
>   
>   v4:
>   * Fix the logic to find next line and skip the '\n' (Alice Ryhl)
>   * Remove __LOG_PREFIX as it's not used (Alice Ryhl)
>
> Jocelyn Falempe (4):
>    drm/panic: Add integer scaling to blit()
>    drm/rect: Add drm_rect_overlap()
>    drm/panic: Simplify logo handling
>    drm/panic: Add a QR code panic screen
>
>   drivers/gpu/drm/Kconfig         |   31 +
>   drivers/gpu/drm/Makefile        |    1 +
>   drivers/gpu/drm/drm_drv.c       |    3 +
>   drivers/gpu/drm/drm_panic.c     |  340 +++++++++--
>   drivers/gpu/drm/drm_panic_qr.rs | 1003 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>   include/drm/drm_panic.h         |    4 +
>   include/drm/drm_rect.h          |   15 +
>   7 files changed, 1358 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-)
>   create mode 100644 drivers/gpu/drm/drm_panic_qr.rs
>
>
> base-commit: e1a261ba599eec97e1c5c7760d5c3698fc24e6a6


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