um: add earlyprintk support

User Mode Linux can also benefit from earlyprintk.  UML's earlyprintk
writes kernel messages directly to stdout.

Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

diff --git a/arch/um/Kconfig.debug b/arch/um/Kconfig.debug
index 8fce5e536b0fa7a268fb59657c7ddc3f99e5d568..85c86edd1e678a2d1f399076a3234efe749b314d 100644 (file)
--- a/arch/um/Kconfig.debug
+++ b/arch/um/Kconfig.debug
@@ -37,4 +37,14 @@ config DEBUG_STACK_USAGE
          stack seen so far.
 
          This option will slow down process creation and destruction somewhat.
+
+config EARLY_PRINTK
+       bool "Early printk"
+       default y
+       ---help---
+         Write kernel log output directly to stdout.
+
+         This is useful for kernel debugging when your machine crashes very
+         early before the console code is initialized.
+
 endmenu

diff --git a/arch/um/include/shared/os.h b/arch/um/include/shared/os.h
index f06a5da71a8fe2123f27423c0e0cecd46cb6cb57..83c7c2ecd61422b7fccd054e79597bad10d4f9a7 100644 (file)
--- a/arch/um/include/shared/os.h
+++ b/arch/um/include/shared/os.h
@@ -244,6 +244,7 @@ extern int raw(int fd);
 extern void setup_machinename(char *machine_out);
 extern void setup_hostinfo(char *buf, int len);
 extern void os_dump_core(void) __attribute__ ((noreturn));
+extern void um_early_printk(const char *s, unsigned int n);
 
 /* time.c */
 extern void idle_sleep(unsigned long long nsecs);

diff --git a/arch/um/kernel/Makefile b/arch/um/kernel/Makefile
index 1119233597a1eb2f3ac26a22bb4a05183f32b9d9..c4491c15afb213064995f3aa490d2a749a39f8d3 100644 (file)
--- a/arch/um/kernel/Makefile
+++ b/arch/um/kernel/Makefile
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ obj-y = config.o exec.o exitcode.o init_task.o irq.o ksyms.o mem.o \
 obj-$(CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD) += initrd.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_GPROF)    += gprof_syms.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_GCOV)     += gmon_syms.o
+obj-$(CONFIG_EARLY_PRINTK) += early_printk.o
 
 USER_OBJS := config.o
 

diff --git a/arch/um/kernel/early_printk.c b/arch/um/kernel/early_printk.c
new file mode 100644 (file)
index 0000000..ec649bf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/arch/um/kernel/early_printk.c
@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright (C) 2011 Richard Weinberger <richrd@nod.at>
+ *
+ * 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.
+ */
+
+#include <linux/kernel.h>
+#include <linux/console.h>
+#include <linux/init.h>
+#include "os.h"
+
+static void early_console_write(struct console *con, const char *s, unsigned int n)
+{
+       um_early_printk(s, n);
+}
+
+static struct console early_console = {
+       .name = "earlycon",
+       .write = early_console_write,
+       .flags = CON_BOOT,
+       .index = -1,
+};
+
+static int __init setup_early_printk(char *buf)
+{
+       register_console(&early_console);
+
+       return 0;
+}
+
+early_param("earlyprintk", setup_early_printk);

diff --git a/arch/um/os-Linux/util.c b/arch/um/os-Linux/util.c
index 42827cafa6af3ac72f4c57d62e08968b81360faa..5803b188767213eb1a60399c594677a661547287 100644 (file)
--- a/arch/um/os-Linux/util.c
+++ b/arch/um/os-Linux/util.c
@@ -139,3 +139,8 @@ void os_dump_core(void)
 
        uml_abort();
 }
+
+void um_early_printk(const char *s, unsigned int n)
+{
+       printf("%.*s", n, s);
+}