[patch 22/26] Xen-paravirt_ops: Add early printk support via hvc console

From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge
Date: Tue Feb 27 2007 - 03:46:22 EST


Add early printk support via hvc console, enable using
"earlyprintk=xen" on the kernel command line.

From: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

---
arch/x86_64/kernel/early_printk.c | 8 ++++++++
drivers/xen/hvc-console.c | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
2 files changed, 32 insertions(+)

===================================================================
--- a/arch/x86_64/kernel/early_printk.c
+++ b/arch/x86_64/kernel/early_printk.c
@@ -196,6 +196,10 @@ static struct console simnow_console = {
.flags = CON_PRINTBUFFER,
.index = -1,
};
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_XEN
+extern struct console xenboot_console;
+#endif

/* Direct interface for emergencies */
struct console *early_console = &early_vga_console;
@@ -243,6 +247,10 @@ static int __init setup_early_printk(cha
simnow_init(buf + 6);
early_console = &simnow_console;
keep_early = 1;
+#ifdef CONFIG_XEN
+ } else if (!strncmp(buf, "xen", 3)) {
+ early_console = &xenboot_console;
+#endif
}

if (keep_early)
===================================================================
--- a/drivers/xen/hvc-console.c
+++ b/drivers/xen/hvc-console.c
@@ -133,3 +133,27 @@ module_init(xen_init);
module_init(xen_init);
module_exit(xen_fini);
console_initcall(xen_cons_init);
+
+static void xenboot_write_console(struct console *console, const char *string,
+ unsigned len)
+{
+ unsigned int linelen, off = 0;
+ const char *pos;
+
+ while (off < len && NULL != (pos = strchr(string+off, '\n'))) {
+ linelen = pos-string+off;
+ if (off + linelen > len)
+ break;
+ write_console(0, string+off, linelen);
+ write_console(0, "\r\n", 2);
+ off += linelen + 1;
+ }
+ if (off < len)
+ write_console(0, string+off, len-off);
+}
+
+struct console xenboot_console = {
+ .name = "xenboot",
+ .write = xenboot_write_console,
+ .flags = CON_PRINTBUFFER | CON_BOOT,
+};

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