From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@au1.ibm.com>
To: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: linuxppc-dev list <linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org>
Subject: [PATCH] powerpc: Add udbg-immortal kernel option
Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2006 12:06:20 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1149645981.27572.96.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
When debugging early kernel crashes that happen after console_init() and
before a proper console driver takes over, we often have to go hack into
udbg.c to prevent it from unregistering so we can "see" what is
happening. This patch adds a kernel command line option "udbg-immortal"
instead to avoid having to modify the kernel.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
---
Paul: this is not 2.6.17 material
Index: linux-work/arch/powerpc/kernel/udbg.c
===================================================================
--- linux-work.orig/arch/powerpc/kernel/udbg.c 2006-05-31 14:13:59.000000000 +1000
+++ linux-work/arch/powerpc/kernel/udbg.c 2006-05-31 14:48:07.000000000 +1000
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@
#include <linux/types.h>
#include <linux/sched.h>
#include <linux/console.h>
+#include <linux/init.h>
#include <asm/processor.h>
#include <asm/udbg.h>
@@ -141,12 +142,14 @@ static int early_console_initialized;
void __init disable_early_printk(void)
{
-#if 1
if (!early_console_initialized)
return;
+ if (strstr(saved_command_line, "udbg-immortal")) {
+ printk(KERN_INFO "early console immortal !\n");
+ return;
+ }
unregister_console(&udbg_console);
early_console_initialized = 0;
-#endif
}
/* called by setup_system */
next reply other threads:[~2006-06-07 2:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-06-07 2:06 Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2006-06-07 2:24 ` [PATCH] powerpc: Add udbg-immortal kernel option Olof Johansson
2006-06-07 4:19 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-06-07 9:31 ` Arnd Bergmann
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