Re: [PATCH v2 23/25] tty: serial: samsung_tty: Add earlycon support for Apple UARTs

From: Krzysztof Kozlowski
Date: Mon Feb 15 2021 - 14:18:42 EST


On Mon, Feb 15, 2021 at 09:17:11PM +0900, Hector Martin wrote:
> Earlycon support is identical to S3C2410, but Apple SoCs also need
> MMIO mapped as nGnRnE. This is handled generically for normal drivers
> including the normal UART path here, but earlycon uses fixmap and
> runs before that scaffolding is ready.
>
> Since this is the only case where we need this fix, it makes more
> sense to do it here in the UART driver instead of introducing a
> whole fdt nonposted-mmio resolver just for earlycon/fixmap.
>
> Suggested-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Hector Martin <marcan@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/tty/serial/samsung_tty.c | 17 +++++++++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/samsung_tty.c b/drivers/tty/serial/samsung_tty.c
> index e7ab0b9d89a7..00262f0e704b 100644
> --- a/drivers/tty/serial/samsung_tty.c
> +++ b/drivers/tty/serial/samsung_tty.c
> @@ -2988,6 +2988,23 @@ OF_EARLYCON_DECLARE(s5pv210, "samsung,s5pv210-uart",
> s5pv210_early_console_setup);
> OF_EARLYCON_DECLARE(exynos4210, "samsung,exynos4210-uart",
> s5pv210_early_console_setup);
> +
> +/* Apple S5L */
> +static int __init apple_s5l_early_console_setup(struct earlycon_device *device,
> + const char *opt)
> +{
> + /* Close enough to S3C2410 for earlycon... */
> + device->port.private_data = &s3c2410_early_console_data;
> +
> +#ifdef CONFIG_ARM64

if IS_ENABLED()
(unless it cannot be used due to missing symbol?)

> + /* ... but we need to override the existing fixmap entry as nGnRnE */
> + __set_fixmap(FIX_EARLYCON_MEM_BASE, device->port.mapbase,
> + __pgprot(PROT_DEVICE_nGnRnE));
> +#endif
> + return samsung_early_console_setup(device, opt);

Don't you need to handle the error code - set PROT_DEFAULT() or whatever
was there before?

Best regards,
Krzysztof