On Thu, May 16, 2019 at 05:19:13PM +0800, Weijie Gao wrote:

> The initr_watchdog is currently placed before initr_serial. The
> initr_watchdog calls printf and printf finally calls ops->putc of a serial
> driver.
> 
> However, gd->cur_serial_dev points to a udevice allocated in board_f. The
> gd->cur_serial_dev->driver->ops->putc points the the code region before
> relocation.
> 
> Some serial drivers call WATCHDOG_RESET() in ops->putc. When DM is enabled
> for watchdog, watchdog_reset() is called. watchdog_reset() calls get_timer
> to get current timer.
> 
> On some platforms the timer driver is also a DM driver. initr_watchdog is
> placed right after initr_dm, which means the timer driver hasn't been
> initialized. So dm_timer_init() is called. To create a new udevice, calloc
> is called.
> 
> However start from ops->putc, u-boot execution flow is redirected into the
> memory region before relocation (board_f). In board_f, dlmalloc hasn't
> been initialized. The call to calloc will fail, and this will cause DM to
> print out an error message, and it will call printf again, causing
> recursive error outputs.
> 
> This patch places initr_watchdog after initr_serial to solve this issue.
> 
> Cc: Stefan Roese <s...@denx.de>
> Reviewed-by: Ryder Lee <ryder....@mediatek.com>
> Signed-off-by: Weijie Gao <weijie....@mediatek.com>
> Reviewed-by: Stefan Roese <s...@denx.de>
> Tested-by: Frank Wunderlich <fran...@public-files.de>
> Tested-by: Suniel Mahesh <suni...@techveda.org>

Applied to u-boot/master, thanks!

-- 
Tom

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