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[PATCH v4 2/4] x86: add support for earlyprintk via USB3 debug port

From Lu Baolu <baolu.lu@linux.intel.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject [PATCH v4 2/4] x86: add support for earlyprintk via USB3 debug port
Date 2016-11-01 06:10 +0100
Message-ID <syzuG-4cJ-9@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink)
References <syzuG-4cJ-7@gated-at.bofh.it>
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Add support for early printk by writing debug messages to the
USB3 debug port.   Users can use this type of early printk by
specifying kernel parameter of "earlyprintk=xdbc". This gives
users a chance of providing debug output.

The hardware for USB3 debug port requires DMA memory blocks.
This requires to delay setting up debugging hardware and
registering boot console until the memblocks are filled.

Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: x86@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Lu Baolu <baolu.lu@linux.intel.com>
---
 Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 1 +
 arch/x86/kernel/early_printk.c      | 5 +++++
 arch/x86/kernel/setup.c             | 7 +++++++
 3 files changed, 13 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
index 37babf9..99b64b3 100644
--- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -1178,6 +1178,7 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
 			earlyprintk=ttySn[,baudrate]
 			earlyprintk=dbgp[debugController#]
 			earlyprintk=pciserial,bus:device.function[,baudrate]
+			earlyprintk=xdbc[xhciController#]
 
 			earlyprintk is useful when the kernel crashes before
 			the normal console is initialized. It is not enabled by
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/early_printk.c b/arch/x86/kernel/early_printk.c
index 8a12199..c4031b9 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/early_printk.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/early_printk.c
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@
 #include <asm/intel-mid.h>
 #include <asm/pgtable.h>
 #include <linux/usb/ehci_def.h>
+#include <linux/usb/xhci-dbgp.h>
 #include <linux/efi.h>
 #include <asm/efi.h>
 #include <asm/pci_x86.h>
@@ -381,6 +382,10 @@ static int __init setup_early_printk(char *buf)
 		if (!strncmp(buf, "efi", 3))
 			early_console_register(&early_efi_console, keep);
 #endif
+#ifdef CONFIG_EARLY_PRINTK_XDBC
+		if (!strncmp(buf, "xdbc", 4))
+			early_xdbc_parse_parameter(buf + 4);
+#endif
 
 		buf++;
 	}
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c b/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c
index 9c337b0..09d4a56 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c
@@ -70,6 +70,8 @@
 #include <linux/tboot.h>
 #include <linux/jiffies.h>
 
+#include <linux/usb/xhci-dbgp.h>
+
 #include <video/edid.h>
 
 #include <asm/mtrr.h>
@@ -1096,6 +1098,11 @@ void __init setup_arch(char **cmdline_p)
 	memblock_set_current_limit(ISA_END_ADDRESS);
 	memblock_x86_fill();
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_EARLY_PRINTK_XDBC
+	if (!early_xdbc_setup_hardware())
+		early_xdbc_register_console();
+#endif
+
 	reserve_bios_regions();
 
 	if (efi_enabled(EFI_MEMMAP)) {
-- 
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[PATCH v4 0/4] usb: early: add support for early printk through USB3 debug port Lu Baolu <baolu.lu@linux.intel.com> - 2016-11-01 06:10 +0100
  [PATCH v4 4/4] usb: doc: add document for USB3 debug port usage Lu Baolu <baolu.lu@linux.intel.com> - 2016-11-01 06:10 +0100
  [PATCH v4 1/4] usb: dbc: early driver for xhci debug capability Lu Baolu <baolu.lu@linux.intel.com> - 2016-11-01 06:10 +0100
    Re: [PATCH v4 1/4] usb: dbc: early driver for xhci debug  capability Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> - 2016-11-09 10:30 +0100
      Re: [PATCH v4 1/4] usb: dbc: early driver for xhci debug capability Lu Baolu <baolu.lu@linux.intel.com> - 2016-11-10 02:20 +0100
    Re: [PATCH v4 1/4] usb: dbc: early driver for xhci debug  capability Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> - 2016-11-09 10:40 +0100
      Re: [PATCH v4 1/4] usb: dbc: early driver for xhci debug capability Lu Baolu <baolu.lu@linux.intel.com> - 2016-11-10 02:30 +0100
        Re: [PATCH v4 1/4] usb: dbc: early driver for xhci debug  capability Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> - 2016-11-10 10:00 +0100
          Re: [PATCH v4 1/4] usb: dbc: early driver for xhci debug capability Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2016-11-10 12:50 +0100
            Re: [PATCH v4 1/4] usb: dbc: early driver for xhci debug capability Lu Baolu <baolu.lu@linux.intel.com> - 2016-11-11 05:40 +0100
              Re: [PATCH v4 1/4] usb: dbc: early driver for xhci debug capability Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2016-11-11 13:30 +0100
          Re: [PATCH v4 1/4] usb: dbc: early driver for xhci debug capability Lu Baolu <baolu.lu@linux.intel.com> - 2016-11-11 03:30 +0100
            Re: [PATCH v4 1/4] usb: dbc: early driver for xhci debug capability Lu Baolu <baolu.lu@linux.intel.com> - 2016-11-11 03:50 +0100
  [PATCH v4 2/4] x86: add support for earlyprintk via USB3 debug port Lu Baolu <baolu.lu@linux.intel.com> - 2016-11-01 06:10 +0100

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