[PATCH V2 3/3] arm64: earlyprintk support for virtio-mmio console.

Pranavkumar Sawargaonkar pranavkumar at linaro.org
Mon May 6 08:19:51 EDT 2013


This patch implements earlyprintk based on virtio console
using emerg_wr config register.

Kernel args for using this will be:
earlyprintk=virtio-console,<phys_address>

Signed-off-by: Pranavkumar Sawargaonkar <pranavkumar at linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Anup Patel <anup.patel at linaro.org>
---
 arch/arm64/kernel/early_printk.c |   35 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 35 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/early_printk.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/early_printk.c
index ac974f4..ea3d2f5 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/early_printk.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/early_printk.c
@@ -25,6 +25,9 @@
 
 #include <linux/amba/serial.h>
 #include <linux/serial_reg.h>
+#include <linux/virtio_ids.h>
+#include <linux/virtio_mmio.h>
+#include <linux/virtio_console.h>
 
 static void __iomem *early_base;
 static void (*printch)(char ch);
@@ -53,6 +56,37 @@ static void smh_printch(char ch)
 }
 
 /*
+ * VIRTIO MMIO console single character Tx.
+ */
+static void virtio_console_printch(char ch)
+{
+	u32 tmp;
+	static u32 init_done;
+	static u32 can_write;
+	struct virtio_console_config *p = early_base + VIRTIO_MMIO_CONFIG;
+
+	if (!init_done) {
+		tmp = readl_relaxed(early_base + VIRTIO_MMIO_DEVICE_ID);
+		if (tmp != VIRTIO_ID_CONSOLE) {
+			init_done = 1;
+			return;
+		}
+
+		tmp = readl_relaxed(early_base + VIRTIO_MMIO_HOST_FEATURES);
+		if (!(tmp & (1 << VIRTIO_CONSOLE_F_EMERG_WRITE))) {
+			init_done = 1;
+			return;
+		}
+
+		init_done = 1;
+		can_write = 1;
+	}
+
+	if (can_write)
+		writeb_relaxed(ch, &p->emerg_wr);
+}
+
+/*
  * 8250/16550 (8-bit aligned registers) single character TX.
  */
 static void uart8250_8bit_printch(char ch)
@@ -82,6 +116,7 @@ static const struct earlycon_match earlycon_match[] __initconst = {
 	{ .name = "smh", .printch = smh_printch, },
 	{ .name = "uart8250-8bit", .printch = uart8250_8bit_printch, },
 	{ .name = "uart8250-32bit", .printch = uart8250_32bit_printch, },
+	{ .name = "virtio-console", .printch = virtio_console_printch, },
 	{}
 };
 
-- 
1.7.9.5




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