tty/serial: add arm/arm64 semihosting earlycon
authorRob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
Fri, 18 Apr 2014 22:19:58 +0000 (17:19 -0500)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Thu, 24 Apr 2014 23:32:27 +0000 (16:32 -0700)
Add earlycon support for the arm/arm64 semihosting debug serial
interface. This allows enabling a debug console when early_params are
processed. This is based on the arm64 earlyprintk smh support and is
intended to replace it.

Signed-off-by: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
drivers/tty/serial/Kconfig
drivers/tty/serial/Makefile
drivers/tty/serial/earlycon-arm-semihost.c [new file with mode: 0644]

index 2609ead7ff55230caa19d9d2832d4d797e0b2b1e..4946d8e58d53433ac776f6ccf8c2fdccbc097c25 100644 (file)
@@ -899,6 +899,8 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
                        must already be setup and configured. Options are not
                        yet supported.
 
+               smh     Use ARM semihosting calls for early console.
+
        earlyprintk=    [X86,SH,BLACKFIN,ARM]
                        earlyprintk=vga
                        earlyprintk=efi
index 4290d05875b12d343cb38e7c2d14c75060d2fc51..988fa2b6243b3d5245629dc3c27a158ef91ceaf3 100644 (file)
@@ -73,6 +73,16 @@ config SERIAL_AMBA_PL011_CONSOLE
          your boot loader (lilo or loadlin) about how to pass options to the
          kernel at boot time.)
 
+config SERIAL_EARLYCON_ARM_SEMIHOST
+       bool "Early console using ARM semihosting"
+       depends on ARM64 || ARM
+       select SERIAL_EARLYCON
+       help
+         Support for early debug console using ARM semihosting. This enables
+         the console before standard serial driver is probed. This is enabled
+         with "earlycon=smh" on the kernel command line. The console is
+         enabled when early_param is processed.
+
 config SERIAL_SB1250_DUART
        tristate "BCM1xxx on-chip DUART serial support"
        depends on SIBYTE_SB1xxx_SOC=y
index 28048178f308e8fa967f35693aa8220dd7d96ea9..3a5be4633333fb0a508ce072a5e949cef097e962 100644 (file)
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_SERIAL_CORE) += serial_core.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_SERIAL_21285) += 21285.o
 
 obj-$(CONFIG_SERIAL_EARLYCON) += earlycon.o
+obj-$(CONFIG_SERIAL_EARLYCON_ARM_SEMIHOST) += earlycon-arm-semihost.o
 
 # These Sparc drivers have to appear before others such as 8250
 # which share ttySx minor node space.  Otherwise console device
diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/earlycon-arm-semihost.c b/drivers/tty/serial/earlycon-arm-semihost.c
new file mode 100644 (file)
index 0000000..383db10
--- /dev/null
@@ -0,0 +1,61 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright (C) 2012 ARM Ltd.
+ * Author: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
+ *
+ * Adapted for ARM and earlycon:
+ * Copyright (C) 2014 Linaro Ltd.
+ * Author: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
+ *
+ * This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 as
+ * published by the Free Software Foundation.
+ *
+ * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+ * GNU General Public License for more details.
+ *
+ * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+ * along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+ */
+#include <linux/kernel.h>
+#include <linux/console.h>
+#include <linux/init.h>
+#include <linux/serial_core.h>
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_THUMB2_KERNEL
+#define SEMIHOST_SWI   "0xab"
+#else
+#define SEMIHOST_SWI   "0x123456"
+#endif
+
+/*
+ * Semihosting-based debug console
+ */
+static void smh_putc(struct uart_port *port, int c)
+{
+#ifdef CONFIG_ARM64
+       asm volatile("mov  x1, %0\n"
+                    "mov  x0, #3\n"
+                    "hlt  0xf000\n"
+                    : : "r" (&c) : "x0", "x1", "memory");
+#else
+       asm volatile("mov  r1, %0\n"
+                    "mov  r0, #3\n"
+                    "svc  " SEMIHOST_SWI "\n"
+                    : : "r" (&c) : "r0", "r1", "memory");
+#endif
+}
+
+static void smh_write(struct console *con, const char *s, unsigned n)
+{
+       struct earlycon_device *dev = con->data;
+       uart_console_write(&dev->port, s, n, smh_putc);
+}
+
+int __init early_smh_setup(struct earlycon_device *device, const char *opt)
+{
+       device->con->write = smh_write;
+       return 0;
+}
+EARLYCON_DECLARE(smh, early_smh_setup);