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

From: Lu Baolu
Date: Tue Nov 01 2016 - 01:00:19 EST


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@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: x86@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Lu Baolu <baolu.lu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
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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