linux-kernel - [RFC PATCH 5/5] serial: 8250_early: Remove _

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Date:   Tue, 18 Jul 2017 12:30:03 +0800
From:   Jeffy Chen <jeffy.chen@...k-chips.com>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, briannorris@...omium.org,
        dianders@...omium.org, peter@...leysoftware.com,
        Jeffy Chen <jeffy.chen@...k-chips.com>,
        Marc Gonzalez <marc_gonzalez@...madesigns.com>,
        Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.com>, linux-serial@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [RFC PATCH 5/5] serial: 8250_early: Remove __init marking from early write

The earlycon would be alive outside the init code in these cases:
1/ we have keep_bootcon in cmdline.
2/ we don't have a real console to switch to.

So remove the __init marking to avoid invalid memory access.

Signed-off-by: Jeffy Chen <jeffy.chen@...k-chips.com>
---

 drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_early.c | 8 ++++----
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_early.c b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_early.c
index 82fc48e..af72ec3 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_early.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_early.c
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@
 #include <asm/io.h>
 #include <asm/serial.h>
 
-static unsigned int __init serial8250_early_in(struct uart_port *port, int offset)
+static unsigned int serial8250_early_in(struct uart_port *port, int offset)
 {
 	int reg_offset = offset;
 	offset <<= port->regshift;
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ static unsigned int __init serial8250_early_in(struct uart_port *port, int offse
 	}
 }
 
-static void __init serial8250_early_out(struct uart_port *port, int offset, int value)
+static void serial8250_early_out(struct uart_port *port, int offset, int value)
 {
 	int reg_offset = offset;
 	offset <<= port->regshift;
@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ static void __init serial8250_early_out(struct uart_port *port, int offset, int
 
 #define BOTH_EMPTY (UART_LSR_TEMT | UART_LSR_THRE)
 
-static void __init serial_putc(struct uart_port *port, int c)
+static void serial_putc(struct uart_port *port, int c)
 {
 	unsigned int status;
 
@@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ static void __init serial_putc(struct uart_port *port, int c)
 	}
 }
 
-static void __init early_serial8250_write(struct console *console,
+static void early_serial8250_write(struct console *console,
 					const char *s, unsigned int count)
 {
 	struct earlycon_device *device = console->data;
-- 
2.1.4