It was noticed that polling drivers (like KGDB) are not able to use serial ports if the ports were not previously initialized via console. I.e. when booting with console=ttyAMA0 kgdboc=ttyAMA0, everything works fine, but with console=ttyFOO kgdboc=ttyAMA0, the kgdboc doesn't work.
This is because we don't initialize the hardware. Calling ->startup() is not an option, because drivers request interrupts there, and drivers fail to handle situations when tty isn't opened with interrupts enabled. So, we have to implement a new callback (actually, tty_ops already have a similar callback), which does everything needed to initialize just the hardware. Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <anton.voront...@linaro.org> Acked-by: Alan Cox <a...@linux.intel.com> --- drivers/tty/serial/serial_core.c | 17 +++++++++++++++++ include/linux/serial_core.h | 1 + 2 files changed, 18 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/serial_core.c b/drivers/tty/serial/serial_core.c index 78036c5..0fcfd98a 100644 --- a/drivers/tty/serial/serial_core.c +++ b/drivers/tty/serial/serial_core.c @@ -2129,6 +2129,7 @@ static int uart_poll_init(struct tty_driver *driver, int line, char *options) int bits = 8; int parity = 'n'; int flow = 'n'; + int ret; if (!state || !state->uart_port) return -1; @@ -2137,6 +2138,22 @@ static int uart_poll_init(struct tty_driver *driver, int line, char *options) if (!(port->ops->poll_get_char && port->ops->poll_put_char)) return -1; + if (port->ops->poll_init) { + struct tty_port *tport = &state->port; + + ret = 0; + mutex_lock(&tport->mutex); + /* + * We don't set ASYNCB_INITIALIZED as we only initialized the + * hw, e.g. state->xmit is still uninitialized. + */ + if (!test_bit(ASYNCB_INITIALIZED, &tport->flags)) + ret = port->ops->poll_init(port); + mutex_unlock(&tport->mutex); + if (ret) + return ret; + } + if (options) { uart_parse_options(options, &baud, &parity, &bits, &flow); return uart_set_options(port, NULL, baud, parity, bits, flow); diff --git a/include/linux/serial_core.h b/include/linux/serial_core.h index 7cf0b68..822c887 100644 --- a/include/linux/serial_core.h +++ b/include/linux/serial_core.h @@ -274,6 +274,7 @@ struct uart_ops { int (*verify_port)(struct uart_port *, struct serial_struct *); int (*ioctl)(struct uart_port *, unsigned int, unsigned long); #ifdef CONFIG_CONSOLE_POLL + int (*poll_init)(struct uart_port *); void (*poll_put_char)(struct uart_port *, unsigned char); int (*poll_get_char)(struct uart_port *); #endif -- 1.7.12 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/