x86/earlyprintk: Add support for earlyprintk via USB3 debug port
authorLu Baolu <baolu.lu@linux.intel.com>
Tue, 21 Mar 2017 08:01:31 +0000 (16:01 +0800)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Tue, 21 Mar 2017 11:30:16 +0000 (12:30 +0100)
commit1b5aeebf3a92273b4d85aeff37a16037bc3c3abf
tree5e53cbb34ebef264bceb394985b2ad0b6a60e52f
parentaeb9dd1de98c1a5f2007ea5d2a154c1244caf8a0
x86/earlyprintk: Add support for earlyprintk via USB3 debug port

Add support for earlyprintk by writing debug messages to the
USB3 debug port. Users can use this type of early printk by
specifying the kernel parameter of "earlyprintk=xdbc". This
gives users a chance of providing debugging 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.

Signed-off-by: Lu Baolu <baolu.lu@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mathias Nyman <mathias.nyman@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: linux-usb@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1490083293-3792-4-git-send-email-baolu.lu@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
arch/x86/kernel/early_printk.c
arch/x86/kernel/setup.c