From: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org>
To: Douglas Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>
Cc: jason.wessel@windriver.com, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org,
kgdb-bugreport@lists.sourceforge.net, mingo@redhat.com,
hpa@zytor.com, bp@alien8.de, linux-serial@vger.kernel.org,
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Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>, Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>,
Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>,
Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com>,
linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 7/9] Documentation: kgdboc: Document new earlycon_kgdboc parameter
Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2020 17:46:19 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200427164619.kw4mihmoxmxzjk66@holly.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200421141234.v2.7.I7d5eb42c6180c831d47aef1af44d0b8be3fac559@changeid>
On Tue, Apr 21, 2020 at 02:14:45PM -0700, Douglas Anderson wrote:
> The recent patch ("kgdboc: Add earlycon_kgdboc to support early kgdb
> using boot consoles") adds a new kernel command line parameter.
> Document it.
>
> Note that the patch adding the feature does some comparing/contrasting
> of "earlycon_kgdboc" vs. the existing "ekgdboc". See that patch for
> more details, but briefly "ekgdboc" can be used _instead_ of "kgdboc"
> and just makes "kgdboc" do its normal initialization early (only works
> if your tty driver is already ready). The new "earlycon_kgdboc" works
> in combination with "kgdboc" and is backed by boot consoles.
>
> Signed-off-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>
> ---
>
> Changes in v2: None
>
> .../admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 20 +++++++++++++++++++
> Documentation/dev-tools/kgdb.rst | 14 +++++++++++++
> 2 files changed, 34 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
> index f2a93c8679e8..588625ec2993 100644
> --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
> @@ -1132,6 +1132,22 @@
> address must be provided, and the serial port must
> already be setup and configured.
>
> + earlycon_kgdboc= [KGDB,HW]
> + If the boot console provides the ability to read
> + characters and can work in polling mode, you can use
> + this parameter to tell kgdb to use it as a backend
> + until the normal console is registered. Intended to
> + be used together with the kgdboc parameter which
> + specifies the normal console to transition to.
> +
> + The the name of the early console should be specified
> + as the value of this parameter. Note that the name of
> + the early console might be different than the tty
> + name passed to kgdboc. If only one boot console with
> + a read() function is enabled it's OK to leave the
> + value blank and the first boot console that implements
> + read() will be picked.
There's no need for the "If only one boot console with a read()
funcuiton is enabled" here,
Seeing this in alphabetic order in this patch it also crosses my mind
that kgdboc_earlycon might be a better name so that is sorts closer
to the other kgdb options. This is a kgdboc feature that uses earlycon
not an earlycon feature that uses kgdboc.
> +
> earlyprintk= [X86,SH,ARM,M68k,S390]
> earlyprintk=vga
> earlyprintk=sclp
> @@ -1190,6 +1206,10 @@
> This is designed to be used in conjunction with
> the boot argument: earlyprintk=vga
>
> + This parameter works in place of the kgdboc parameter
> + but can only be used if the backing tty is available
> + very early in the boot process.
> +
I wonder if pragmatic advice is more useful:
For early debugging via a serial port see earlycon_kgdboc instead.
> edd= [EDD]
> Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"}
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/dev-tools/kgdb.rst b/Documentation/dev-tools/kgdb.rst
> index d38be58f872a..c0b321403d9a 100644
> --- a/Documentation/dev-tools/kgdb.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/dev-tools/kgdb.rst
> @@ -274,6 +274,20 @@ don't like this are to hack gdb to send the :kbd:`SysRq-G` for you as well as
> on the initial connect, or to use a debugger proxy that allows an
> unmodified gdb to do the debugging.
>
> +Kernel parameter: ``earlycon_kgdboc``
> +-------------------------------------
> +
> +If you specify the kernel parameter ``earlycon_kgdboc`` and your serial
> +driver registers a boot console that supports polling (doesn't need
> +interrupts and implements a nonblocking read() function) kgdb will attempt
> +to work using the boot console until it can transition to the regular
> +tty driver specified by the ``kgdboc`` parameter.
> +
> +Normally there is only one boot console (especially that implements the
> +read() function) so just adding ``earlycon_kgdboc`` on its own is
> +sufficient to make this work. If you have more than one boot console you
> +can add the boot console's name to differentiate.
> +
I think we need an example here. The example in the patch header for
the previous patch was useful (at least for me).
Daniel.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-04-27 16:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-04-21 21:14 [PATCH v2 0/9] kgdb: Support late serial drivers; enable early debug w/ boot consoles Douglas Anderson
2020-04-21 21:14 ` [PATCH v2 1/9] kgdb: Disable WARN_CONSOLE_UNLOCKED for all kgdb Douglas Anderson
2020-04-27 13:40 ` Daniel Thompson
2020-04-21 21:14 ` [PATCH v2 2/9] Revert "kgdboc: disable the console lock when in kgdb" Douglas Anderson
2020-04-27 13:41 ` Daniel Thompson
2020-04-21 21:14 ` [PATCH v2 3/9] kgdboc: Use a platform device to handle tty drivers showing up late Douglas Anderson
2020-04-27 14:19 ` Daniel Thompson
2020-04-21 21:14 ` [PATCH v2 4/9] kgdb: Delay "kgdbwait" to dbg_late_init() by default Douglas Anderson
2020-04-27 15:42 ` Daniel Thompson
2020-04-21 21:14 ` [PATCH v2 5/9] arm64: Add call_break_hook() to early_brk64() for early kgdb Douglas Anderson
2020-04-27 16:52 ` Daniel Thompson
2020-04-21 21:14 ` [PATCH v2 6/9] kgdboc: Add earlycon_kgdboc to support early kgdb using boot consoles Douglas Anderson
2020-04-27 16:36 ` Daniel Thompson
2020-04-28 21:32 ` Doug Anderson
2020-04-21 21:14 ` [PATCH v2 7/9] Documentation: kgdboc: Document new earlycon_kgdboc parameter Douglas Anderson
2020-04-27 16:46 ` Daniel Thompson [this message]
2020-04-28 21:32 ` Doug Anderson
2020-04-21 21:14 ` [PATCH v2 8/9] serial: qcom_geni_serial: Support earlycon_kgdboc Douglas Anderson
2020-04-27 16:48 ` Daniel Thompson
2020-04-21 21:14 ` [PATCH v2 9/9] serial: 8250_early: " Douglas Anderson
2020-04-27 16:50 ` Daniel Thompson
2020-04-23 13:50 ` [PATCH v2 0/9] kgdb: Support late serial drivers; enable early debug w/ boot consoles Greg KH
2020-04-24 8:32 ` Sumit Garg
2020-04-24 10:13 ` Daniel Thompson
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