linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/2] x86/earlyprintk: setup earlyprintk as early as possible

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Date:	Mon, 11 May 2015 15:56:07 +0600
From:	Alexander Kuleshov <kuleshovmail@...il.com>
To:	Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>,
	Mark Rustad <mark.d.rustad@...el.com>,
	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] x86/earlyprintk: setup earlyprintk as early as possible

Hello Andy,

Thank you for feedback. Will fix and resend.

2015-05-11 13:27 GMT+06:00 Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>:
> On Mon, 2015-05-11 at 01:13 +0600, Alexander Kuleshov wrote:
>> As setup_early_printk passed to the early_param, it will be usable only after
>> 'parse_early_param' function will be called from the 'setup_arch'. So we have
>> earlyprintk during early boot and decompression. Next point after decompression
>> of the kernel where we can use early_printk is after call of the
>> 'parse_early_param'.
>
> From this description is hard to understand what is rationale of the
> proposed changes. Can you rephrase it?
>
>>
>> These patchset provides two patches where:
>>
>> 1. Move handling of the builtin command line to the separate function
>> from the setup_arch. Now we can call it from the arch/x86/kernel/head{32,64}.c,
>> and find 'earlyprintk' kernel command line paramter there.
>>
>> 2. Provide setup_serial_console function to setup serial earlyprintk in the
>> arch/x86/kernel/head{32,64}.c
>>
>> Alexander Kuleshov (2):
>>   x86/setup: update boot_command_line with builtin_cmdline in separate
>>     function
>>   x86/earlyprintk: setup earlyprintk as early as possible
>>
>>  arch/x86/include/asm/serial.h  |  2 ++
>>  arch/x86/include/asm/setup.h   |  3 ++-
>>  arch/x86/kernel/early_printk.c | 25 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>  arch/x86/kernel/head32.c       |  6 ++++++
>>  arch/x86/kernel/head64.c       |  7 +++++++
>>  arch/x86/kernel/setup.c        | 28 +++++++++++++++-------------
>>  6 files changed, 57 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
>>
>
>
> --
> Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...el.com>
> Intel Finland Oy
>



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