Re: [PATCH 18/56] microblaze_v2: early_printk support

John Williams
2008-05-05T23:23:40Z

On Sun, 2008-05-04 at 13:41 +0200, monstr@seznam.cz wrote:

> +++ b/arch/microblaze/kernel/early_printk.c

> +static void early_printk_putc(char c)
> +{
> + while (ioread32(STATUS) & (1<<3));
> + iowrite32((c & 0xff), TX_FIFO);
> +}

The while() loop needs a retry counter - if you configure
EARLY_PRINTK_BASE_ADDRESS wrongly and it points to memory or anything
that is not a uartlite, the loop spins forever and you get silent
lockup. Not nice behaviour from debug code :)

Here's my current implementation:

static void early_printk_putc(char c)
{
/* Limit how many times we'll spin waiting for TX FIFO status.
This will prevent lockups if the base address is incorrectly
set, or
any other issue on the UARTLITE.

This limit is pretty arbitrary, unless we are at about 10
baud
we'll never timeout on a working UART. */

unsigned retries=10000;
while (retries-- && (ioread32(STATUS) & (1<<3)))
;

/* Only attempt the iowrite if we didn't timeout */
if(retries)
iowrite32((c & 0xff), TX_FIFO);
}

Cheers

John