Re: [PATCH 0/5] earlycon hang under some conditions

[Brian Norris]

Hi Jeffy,

On Tue, Jul 18, 2017 at 02:02:53PM +0800, Jeffy Chen wrote:
> I was testing earlycon with 8250 dw serial console. And it hangs in
> these cases:
> 1/ kernel hang when calling early write function after free_initmem:
> a) the earlycon not disabled after the init code(due to keep_bootcon or
>    not specify a real console to switch to)
> b) the early write func is marked as __init, for example 8250_early.

FWIW, I tested 8250_early with "keep_bootcon", and this fixes that:

Tested-by: Brian Norris <briannorris@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

But then I get double console, if I have both a "real" and "early"
console.

If I were to *only* have the early console, then I might hit the
problems you mention:

> 2/ kernel hang when calling early write function after disable unused
> clks/pm domain:
> a) the earlycon not disabled after the init code
> b) the disable unused clks/pm domain kill the requiered clks/pm
>    domain, since they are not referenced by the earlycon.
> 
> 3/ kernel hang when calling early write function after the serial
>    console driver runtime suspended:
> a) the earlycon not disabled after the init code
> b) the serial console driver's runtime suspend kills the requiered
>    clks/pm domain, since they are not referenced by the earlycon.
> 
> This serial fix 1/ case only.

Problems 2 and 3 look like something that's not really in scope for
early consoles. There's a reason they are mainly supported for early
boot, and we try to switch off of them. There isn't really a good way to
handle all the clock and PM infrastructure without...switching off the
earlycon and using the real one :)

So, I guess this patchset has value for systems where the clock/PM
requirements are simple enough, and the earlycon can actually be useful
beyond early init.

Brian

> 
> 
> Jeffy Chen (5):
>   serial: arc: Remove __init marking from early write
>   serial: omap: Remove __init marking from early write
>   serial: xuartps: Remove __init marking from early write
>   serial: 8250_ingenic: Remove __init marking from early write
>   serial: 8250_early: Remove __init marking from early write
> 
>  drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_early.c   |  8 ++++----
>  drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_ingenic.c |  8 ++++----
>  drivers/tty/serial/arc_uart.c          |  4 ++--
>  drivers/tty/serial/omap-serial.c       | 13 ++++++-------
>  drivers/tty/serial/xilinx_uartps.c     |  2 +-
>  5 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)
> 
> -- 
> 2.1.4
> 
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