Re: wrong number of serial port detected

From: Dave Jones
Date: Wed Dec 07 2005 - 19:50:03 EST


On Wed, Dec 07, 2005 at 11:46:04PM +0000, Russell King wrote:

> > Would something like this be acceptable ?
> Sure, looks fine. The new parameter should probably be documented
> though, so folk know about it.

Where to? Looks like the other 8250 params aren't documented
in Documentation/ either.
If there's another good place for it already, I'll add it there.
Shall I just add it to kernel-parameters.txt ?

> > @@ -2653,6 +2657,9 @@ module_param(share_irqs, uint, 0644);
> > MODULE_PARM_DESC(share_irqs, "Share IRQs with other non-8250/16x50 devices"
> > " (unsafe)");
> >
> > +module_param(nr_uarts, uint, 0644);
> > +MODULE_PARM_DESC(nr_uarts, "Maximum number of UARTs supported.");
>
> Should this help string include the compile-time maximum somehow?

Done.

> What limits it to the compile-time maximum?

Hey, this was a rough & ready implementation ;)
I wanted to be sure you were ok with the principle of it first.
It now clips it to NR_UARTS.

> > +config SERIAL_8250_RUNTIME_UARTS
> > + int "Number of 8250/16550 serial ports to register at runtime"
> > + depends on SERIAL_8250
> > + default "4"
>
> Can this be restricted to a range of 1 to SERIAL_8250_UARTS ?

Heh, Seems not.
menuconfig gets very confused by range 1 CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_NR_UARTS
and won't let me set it to anything.
We can always add that later though if Kconfig gets fixed.

> > + help
> > + Set this to the maximum number of serial ports you want
> > + the kernel to register at boot time. This can be overriden
> > + with the parameter "nr_uarts".
>
> And should we also give a pointer to the boot-time parameter (which
> I think will be 8250.nr_uarts ?)

Done.

Here's another iteration. I'll boot test this in a bit, and if it
does the right thing, I'll add the documenation and a sign-off
and send it your way.

Dave


diff -urpN --exclude-from=/home/davej/.exclude vanilla/drivers/serial/8250.c serial/drivers/serial/8250.c
--- vanilla/drivers/serial/8250.c 2005-10-27 20:02:08.000000000 -0400
+++ serial/drivers/serial/8250.c 2005-12-07 19:33:33.000000000 -0500
@@ -53,6 +53,8 @@
*/
static unsigned int share_irqs = SERIAL8250_SHARE_IRQS;

+static unsigned int nr_uarts = CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_RUNTIME_UARTS;
+
/*
* Debugging.
*/
@@ -2047,7 +2049,7 @@ static void __init serial8250_isa_init_p
return;
first = 0;

- for (i = 0; i < UART_NR; i++) {
+ for (i = 0; i < nr_uarts; i++) {
struct uart_8250_port *up = &serial8250_ports[i];

up->port.line = i;
@@ -2066,7 +2068,7 @@ static void __init serial8250_isa_init_p
}

for (i = 0, up = serial8250_ports;
- i < ARRAY_SIZE(old_serial_port) && i < UART_NR;
+ i < ARRAY_SIZE(old_serial_port) && i < nr_uarts;
i++, up++) {
up->port.iobase = old_serial_port[i].port;
up->port.irq = irq_canonicalize(old_serial_port[i].irq);
@@ -2088,7 +2090,7 @@ serial8250_register_ports(struct uart_dr

serial8250_isa_init_ports();

- for (i = 0; i < UART_NR; i++) {
+ for (i = 0; i < nr_uarts; i++) {
struct uart_8250_port *up = &serial8250_ports[i];

up->port.dev = dev;
@@ -2189,7 +2191,7 @@ static int serial8250_console_setup(stru
* if so, search for the first available port that does have
* console support.
*/
- if (co->index >= UART_NR)
+ if (co->index >= nr_uarts)
co->index = 0;
port = &serial8250_ports[co->index].port;
if (!port->iobase && !port->membase)
@@ -2225,7 +2227,7 @@ static int __init find_port(struct uart_
int line;
struct uart_port *port;

- for (line = 0; line < UART_NR; line++) {
+ for (line = 0; line < nr_uarts; line++) {
port = &serial8250_ports[line].port;
if (p->iotype == port->iotype &&
p->iobase == port->iobase &&
@@ -2349,7 +2351,7 @@ static int __devexit serial8250_remove(s
{
int i;

- for (i = 0; i < UART_NR; i++) {
+ for (i = 0; i < nr_uarts; i++) {
struct uart_8250_port *up = &serial8250_ports[i];

if (up->port.dev == dev)
@@ -2365,7 +2367,7 @@ static int serial8250_suspend(struct dev
if (level != SUSPEND_DISABLE)
return 0;

- for (i = 0; i < UART_NR; i++) {
+ for (i = 0; i < nr_uarts; i++) {
struct uart_8250_port *up = &serial8250_ports[i];

if (up->port.type != PORT_UNKNOWN && up->port.dev == dev)
@@ -2382,7 +2384,7 @@ static int serial8250_resume(struct devi
if (level != RESUME_ENABLE)
return 0;

- for (i = 0; i < UART_NR; i++) {
+ for (i = 0; i < nr_uarts; i++) {
struct uart_8250_port *up = &serial8250_ports[i];

if (up->port.type != PORT_UNKNOWN && up->port.dev == dev)
@@ -2421,7 +2423,7 @@ static struct uart_8250_port *serial8250
/*
* First, find a port entry which matches.
*/
- for (i = 0; i < UART_NR; i++)
+ for (i = 0; i < nr_uarts; i++)
if (uart_match_port(&serial8250_ports[i].port, port))
return &serial8250_ports[i];

@@ -2430,7 +2432,7 @@ static struct uart_8250_port *serial8250
* free entry. We look for one which hasn't been previously
* used (indicated by zero iobase).
*/
- for (i = 0; i < UART_NR; i++)
+ for (i = 0; i < nr_uarts; i++)
if (serial8250_ports[i].port.type == PORT_UNKNOWN &&
serial8250_ports[i].port.iobase == 0)
return &serial8250_ports[i];
@@ -2439,7 +2441,7 @@ static struct uart_8250_port *serial8250
* That also failed. Last resort is to find any entry which
* doesn't have a real port associated with it.
*/
- for (i = 0; i < UART_NR; i++)
+ for (i = 0; i < nr_uarts; i++)
if (serial8250_ports[i].port.type == PORT_UNKNOWN)
return &serial8250_ports[i];

@@ -2524,8 +2526,11 @@ static int __init serial8250_init(void)
{
int ret, i;

+ if (nr_uarts > UART_NR)
+ nr_uarts = UART_NR;
+
printk(KERN_INFO "Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ "
- "%d ports, IRQ sharing %sabled\n", (int) UART_NR,
+ "%d ports, IRQ sharing %sabled\n", nr_uarts,
share_irqs ? "en" : "dis");

for (i = 0; i < NR_IRQS; i++)
@@ -2585,6 +2590,9 @@ module_param(share_irqs, uint, 0644);
MODULE_PARM_DESC(share_irqs, "Share IRQs with other non-8250/16x50 devices"
" (unsafe)");

+module_param(nr_uarts, uint, 0644);
+MODULE_PARM_DESC(nr_uarts, "Maximum number of UARTs supported. (1-" __MODULE_STRING(CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_RUNTIME_UARTS) ")");
+
#ifdef CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_RSA
module_param_array(probe_rsa, ulong, &probe_rsa_count, 0444);
MODULE_PARM_DESC(probe_rsa, "Probe I/O ports for RSA");
diff -urpN --exclude-from=/home/davej/.exclude vanilla/drivers/serial/Kconfig serial/drivers/serial/Kconfig
--- vanilla/drivers/serial/Kconfig 2005-10-27 20:02:08.000000000 -0400
+++ serial/drivers/serial/Kconfig 2005-12-07 19:24:11.000000000 -0500
@@ -95,6 +95,16 @@ config SERIAL_8250_NR_UARTS
PCI enumeration and any ports that may be added at run-time
via hot-plug, or any ISA multi-port serial cards.

+config SERIAL_8250_RUNTIME_UARTS
+ int "Number of 8250/16550 serial ports to register at runtime"
+ depends on SERIAL_8250
+ default "4"
+ help
+ Set this to the maximum number of serial ports you want
+ the kernel to register at boot time. This can be overriden
+ with the module parameter "nr_uarts", or boot-time parameter
+ 8250.nr_uarts
+
config SERIAL_8250_EXTENDED
bool "Extended 8250/16550 serial driver options"
depends on SERIAL_8250
-
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