Re: [PATCH] x86: Setup early console as early as possible

[Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 08:47:03AM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> On 07/12/2010 01:58 AM, Pekka Enberg wrote:
> > Hi Yinghai,
> > 
> > Yinghai Lu wrote:
> >> Analyze "console=uart8250,io,0x3f8,115200n8" in
> >> i386_start_kernel/x86_64_start_kernel,
> >> and call setup_early_serial8250_console() to init early serial console.
> >>
> >> only can handle io port kind of 8250. because mmio need ioremap.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
> > 
> > What's the purpose of this patch? Does it make my early boot I/O patch
> > obsolete?
> > 
> >             Pekka
> 
> No, they're complementary.  Your patch serial-port enables the RM
> kernel, whereas Yinghai pushes the initialization earlier in the PM kernel.
> 
> Incidentally, Yinghai: it would be possible to push even an MMIO
> reference earlier by reserving a fixmap slot for the early console.  I'm
> not sure if it's worth it, though.
> 
> 	-hpa
>

Peter, while reviewing this patch I found another nit in
context of early_param usage, so the patch is below. It's
completely trivial. Actually I thought I've already fixed
all early_param cases long ago but this one somehow sneaked ;)

Anyway, Yinghai, Peter,

I'm not sure but can't we use some boot_param "pad" field for
"being copied" flag instead of new variable? There is a case
when boot_param is used as __initdata and I'm not sure we clear
this section explicitly.

	-- Cyrill
---
From: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Subject: [PATCH] early console: Prevent early_param null dereference

In case if user passes "earlycon" without args there will
be null dereference.

Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
---
 drivers/serial/8250_early.c |    3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

Index: linux-2.6.git/drivers/serial/8250_early.c
=====================================================================
--- linux-2.6.git.orig/drivers/serial/8250_early.c
+++ linux-2.6.git/drivers/serial/8250_early.c
@@ -217,6 +217,9 @@ int __init setup_early_serial8250_consol
 	char *options;
 	int err;
 
+	if (!cmdline)
+		return 0;
+
 	options = strstr(cmdline, "uart8250,");
 	if (!options) {
 		options = strstr(cmdline, "uart,");