Add a callback for drivers to provide framebuffer pages to fbdev's
deferred-I/O helpers. Implementations need to acquire a reference on
the page before returning it. Returning NULL generates a SIGBUS
signal.

This will be useful for DRM's fbdev emulation with GEM-shmem buffer
objects.

v2:
- fix typo in commit message (Javier)

Signed-off-by: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmerm...@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javi...@redhat.com>
---
 drivers/video/fbdev/core/fb_defio.c | 4 ++++
 include/linux/fb.h                  | 1 +
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/video/fbdev/core/fb_defio.c 
b/drivers/video/fbdev/core/fb_defio.c
index 6e0bbcfdb01b5..51928ff7961a5 100644
--- a/drivers/video/fbdev/core/fb_defio.c
+++ b/drivers/video/fbdev/core/fb_defio.c
@@ -25,9 +25,13 @@
 
 static struct page *fb_deferred_io_get_page(struct fb_info *info, unsigned 
long offs)
 {
+       struct fb_deferred_io *fbdefio = info->fbdefio;
        const void *screen_buffer = info->screen_buffer;
        struct page *page = NULL;
 
+       if (fbdefio->get_page)
+               return fbdefio->get_page(info, offs);
+
        if (is_vmalloc_addr(screen_buffer + offs))
                page = vmalloc_to_page(screen_buffer + offs);
        else if (info->fix.smem_start)
diff --git a/include/linux/fb.h b/include/linux/fb.h
index 3417103885e27..4eb6afa93737c 100644
--- a/include/linux/fb.h
+++ b/include/linux/fb.h
@@ -225,6 +225,7 @@ struct fb_deferred_io {
        struct mutex lock; /* mutex that protects the pageref list */
        struct list_head pagereflist; /* list of pagerefs for touched pages */
        /* callback */
+       struct page *(*get_page)(struct fb_info *info, unsigned long offset);
        void (*deferred_io)(struct fb_info *info, struct list_head *pagelist);
 };
 #endif
-- 
2.44.0

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