[PATCH v6 3/3] x86/earlyprintk: setup earlyprintk as early as possible

[Alexander Kuleshov]

The early_printk function is usable only after the setup_early_printk will
be executed. We pass 'earlyprintk' through the kernel command line, so it
will be usable only after the 'parse_early_param' will be executed. This means
that we have usable earlyprintk only during early boot, kernel decompression
and after call of the 'parse_early_param'. This patchset makes earlyprintk
usable before the call of the 'parse_early_param'.

This patch makes the setup_early_printk visible for head{32,64}.c. So the
'early_printk' function will be usabable after decompression of the
kernel and before parse_early_param will be called. It also must be
safe if CONFIG_CMDLINE_BOOL and CONFIG_CMDLINE_OVERRIDE are set, because
setup_cmdline function will be called before setup_early_printk.

It provides earlyprintk only for serial console, because other needs in
ioremap which is not initialized yet.

Tested it with qemu, so early_printk() is usable and prints to serial
console right after setup_early_printk function called.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Kuleshov <kuleshovmail@xxxxxxxxx>
---
 arch/x86/include/asm/setup.h   |  7 +++++++
 arch/x86/kernel/early_printk.c | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
 arch/x86/kernel/head32.c       |  6 ++++++
 arch/x86/kernel/head64.c       |  5 +++++
 4 files changed, 42 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/setup.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/setup.h
index 59efd0d..4234ada 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/setup.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/setup.h
@@ -120,6 +120,13 @@ asmlinkage void __init x86_64_start_reservations(char *real_mode_data);
 
 #endif /* __i386__ */
 void __init setup_builtin_cmdline(void);
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_EARLY_PRINTK
+/* used by arch/x86/kernel/head{32,64}.c */
+int __init setup_early_serial_console(void);
+#else
+int __init setup_early_serial_console(void) { }
+#endif /* CONFIG_EARLY_PRINTK */
 #endif /* _SETUP */
 #else
 #define RESERVE_BRK(name,sz)				\
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/early_printk.c b/arch/x86/kernel/early_printk.c
index 89427d8..0b2a626 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/early_printk.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/early_printk.c
@@ -385,4 +385,28 @@ static int __init setup_early_printk(char *buf)
 	return 0;
 }
 
+int __init setup_early_serial_console(void)
+{
+	char *arg;
+
+	/*
+	 * make sure that we have:
+	 *      "serial,0x3f8,115200"
+	 *      "serial,ttyS0,115200"
+	 *      "ttyS0,115200"
+	 */
+	arg = strstr(boot_command_line, "earlyprintk=serial");
+	if (!arg)
+		arg = strstr(boot_command_line, "earlyprintk=ttyS");
+	if (!arg)
+		return -1;
+
+	arg = strstr(boot_command_line, "earlyprintk=");
+
+	/* += strlen("earlyprintk"); */
+	arg += 12;
+
+	return setup_early_printk(arg);
+}
+
 early_param("earlyprintk", setup_early_printk);
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/head32.c b/arch/x86/kernel/head32.c
index 92e8b5f..759d115 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/head32.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/head32.c
@@ -32,6 +32,12 @@ static void __init i386_default_early_setup(void)
 asmlinkage __visible void __init i386_start_kernel(void)
 {
 	setup_builtin_cmdline();
+
+	setup_early_serial_console();
+
+	if (console_loglevel >= CONSOLE_LOGLEVEL_DEBUG)
+		early_printk("Early printk is initialized\n");
+
 	cr4_init_shadow();
 	sanitize_boot_params(&boot_params);
 
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/head64.c b/arch/x86/kernel/head64.c
index 346a042..6b7529a 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/head64.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/head64.c
@@ -174,7 +174,11 @@ asmlinkage __visible void __init x86_64_start_kernel(char * real_mode_data)
 
 	setup_builtin_cmdline();
 
+	setup_early_serial_console();
+
+	if (console_loglevel >= CONSOLE_LOGLEVEL_DEBUG)
+		early_printk("Early printk is initialized\n");
+
 	/*
 	 * Load microcode early on BSP.
 	 */
--
2.4.0

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