linux-kernel - [PATCH v2 0/2] Fix __earlycon

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Date:   Tue, 20 Mar 2018 11:57:10 -0600
From:   Daniel Kurtz <djkurtz@...omium.org>
To:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Matthias Kaehlcke <mka@...omium.org>,
        Guenter Roeck <groeck@...omium.org>
Cc:     adurbin@...omium.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Daniel Kurtz <djkurtz@...omium.org>
Subject: [PATCH v2 0/2] Fix __earlycon_table stride... again

The __earlycon_table lives in a special "__earlycon_table" section.  The
contents of this table are added using some macros that deposit individual
struct earlycon_id entries into this section.  The linker then defines a symbol
__earlycon_table that is supposed to contain the addresss of the first of these
entries.  The code in earlycon.c and fdt.c then tries to access the memory
pointed to by __earlycon_table as an array of struct earlycon_id entries.

Unfortunately, the compiler doesn't always place the entries such that they
are an array.  Let's fix that.

Patch 1 of the series is a fix that should hopefully fix a kbuild error that
seems to be triggered by Patch 2.

Daniel Kurtz (2):
  serial: sh-sci: Remove __initdata attribute for struct 'port_cfg'
  earlycon: Use a pointer table to fix __earlycon_table stride

 drivers/of/fdt.c                  |  7 +++++--
 drivers/tty/serial/earlycon.c     |  6 ++++--
 drivers/tty/serial/sh-sci.c       |  2 +-
 include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h |  2 +-
 include/linux/serial_core.h       | 21 ++++++++++++++-------
 5 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)

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