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kgdboc: Add ekgdboc for early use of the kernel debugger

The ekgdboc= differs from kgdboc= in that you can begin debuggin as
soon as the exceptions are setup and the kgdb I/O driver is available,
instead of waiting until the tty subsystem is available.

CC: kgdb-bugreport@lists.sourceforge.net
Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Jason Wessel il y a 15 ans
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  1. 6 0
      Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
  2. 19 0
      drivers/serial/kgdboc.c

+ 6 - 0
Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt

@@ -713,6 +713,12 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
 			The VGA output is eventually overwritten by the real
 			console.
 
+	ekgdboc=	[X86,KGDB] Allow early kernel console debugging
+			ekgdboc=kbd
+
+			This is desgined to be used in conjunction with
+			the boot argument: earlyprintk=vga
+
 	eata=		[HW,SCSI]
 
 	edd=		[EDD]

+ 19 - 0
drivers/serial/kgdboc.c

@@ -223,6 +223,25 @@ static struct kgdb_io kgdboc_io_ops = {
 	.post_exception		= kgdboc_post_exp_handler,
 };
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_KGDB_SERIAL_CONSOLE
+/* This is only available if kgdboc is a built in for early debugging */
+int __init kgdboc_early_init(char *opt)
+{
+	/* save the first character of the config string because the
+	 * init routine can destroy it.
+	 */
+	char save_ch;
+
+	kgdboc_option_setup(opt);
+	save_ch = config[0];
+	init_kgdboc();
+	config[0] = save_ch;
+	return 0;
+}
+
+early_param("ekgdboc", kgdboc_early_init);
+#endif /* CONFIG_KGDB_SERIAL_CONSOLE */
+
 module_init(init_kgdboc);
 module_exit(cleanup_kgdboc);
 module_param_call(kgdboc, param_set_kgdboc_var, param_get_string, &kps, 0644);