Re: [PATCH v3] early_printk: consolidate random copies of identicalcode

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Fri Mar 08 2013 - 16:46:31 EST


On Fri, 8 Mar 2013 11:11:20 -0500 Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> The early console implementations are the same all over the place. Move
> the print function to kernel/printk and get rid of the copies.
>
> ...
>
> [v3: drop sparc bits as suggested by tglx, redo build tests on sparc
> sparc32, Randy's randconfig, ppc, mips, arm...]
>
> [v2: essentially unchanged since v1, so I've left the acked/reviewed
> tags. There was a compile fail[1] for a randconfig with EARLY_PRINTK=y
> and PRINTK=n, because the early_console struct and early_printk calls
> were nested within an #ifdef CONFIG_PRINTK -- moving that whole block
> exactly as-is to be outside the #ifdef CONFIG_PRINTK fixes the randconfig
> and still works for everyday sane configs too.]
> [1] http://marc.info/?l=linux-next&m=136219350914998&w=2

I queued the below delta.

I suspect arch/powerpc/kernel/udbg.c is still broken with
CONFIG_EARLY_PRINTK=n? My powerpc crosscompiler broke and I need to
buy a new one :(

arch/sparc/kernel/setup_32.c | 1
arch/sparc/kernel/setup_64.c | 8 -----
kernel/printk.c | 46 ++++++++++++++++-----------------
3 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 31 deletions(-)

diff -puN arch/sparc/kernel/setup_32.c~early_printk-consolidate-random-copies-of-identical-code-v3 arch/sparc/kernel/setup_32.c
--- a/arch/sparc/kernel/setup_32.c~early_printk-consolidate-random-copies-of-identical-code-v3
+++ a/arch/sparc/kernel/setup_32.c
@@ -309,7 +309,6 @@ void __init setup_arch(char **cmdline_p)

boot_flags_init(*cmdline_p);

- early_console = &prom_early_console;
register_console(&prom_early_console);

printk("ARCH: ");
diff -puN arch/sparc/kernel/setup_64.c~early_printk-consolidate-random-copies-of-identical-code-v3 arch/sparc/kernel/setup_64.c
--- a/arch/sparc/kernel/setup_64.c~early_printk-consolidate-random-copies-of-identical-code-v3
+++ a/arch/sparc/kernel/setup_64.c
@@ -551,12 +551,6 @@ static void __init init_sparc64_elf_hwca
pause_patch();
}

-static inline void register_prom_console(void)
-{
- early_console = &prom_early_console;
- register_console(&prom_early_console);
-}
-
void __init setup_arch(char **cmdline_p)
{
/* Initialize PROM console and command line. */
@@ -568,7 +562,7 @@ void __init setup_arch(char **cmdline_p)
#ifdef CONFIG_EARLYFB
if (btext_find_display())
#endif
- register_prom_console();
+ register_console(&prom_early_console);

if (tlb_type == hypervisor)
printk("ARCH: SUN4V\n");
diff -puN kernel/printk.c~early_printk-consolidate-random-copies-of-identical-code-v3 kernel/printk.c
--- a/kernel/printk.c~early_printk-consolidate-random-copies-of-identical-code-v3
+++ a/kernel/printk.c
@@ -759,29 +759,6 @@ module_param(ignore_loglevel, bool, S_IR
MODULE_PARM_DESC(ignore_loglevel, "ignore loglevel setting, to"
"print all kernel messages to the console.");

-#ifdef CONFIG_EARLY_PRINTK
-struct console *early_console;
-
-void early_vprintk(const char *fmt, va_list ap)
-{
- if (early_console) {
- char buf[512];
- int n = vscnprintf(buf, sizeof(buf), fmt, ap);
-
- early_console->write(early_console, buf, n);
- }
-}
-
-asmlinkage void early_printk(const char *fmt, ...)
-{
- va_list ap;
-
- va_start(ap, fmt);
- early_vprintk(fmt, ap);
- va_end(ap);
-}
-#endif
-
#ifdef CONFIG_BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY

static int boot_delay; /* msecs delay after each printk during bootup */
@@ -1743,6 +1720,29 @@ static size_t cont_print_text(char *text

#endif /* CONFIG_PRINTK */

+#ifdef CONFIG_EARLY_PRINTK
+struct console *early_console;
+
+void early_vprintk(const char *fmt, va_list ap)
+{
+ if (early_console) {
+ char buf[512];
+ int n = vscnprintf(buf, sizeof(buf), fmt, ap);
+
+ early_console->write(early_console, buf, n);
+ }
+}
+
+asmlinkage void early_printk(const char *fmt, ...)
+{
+ va_list ap;
+
+ va_start(ap, fmt);
+ early_vprintk(fmt, ap);
+ va_end(ap);
+}
+#endif
+
static int __add_preferred_console(char *name, int idx, char *options,
char *brl_options)
{
_

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