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If you build CONFIG_KGDB_SERIAL_CONSOLE into the kernel then you should be able to have KGDB init itself at bootup by specifying the "kgdboc=..." kernel command line parameter. This has worked OK for me for many years, but on a new device I switched to it stopped working. The problem is that on this new device the serial driver gets its probe deferred. Now when kgdb initializes it can't find the tty driver and when it gives up it never tries again. We could try to find ways to move up the initialization of the serial driver and such a thing might be worthwhile, but it's nice to be robust against serial drivers that load late. We could move kgdb to init itself later but that penalizes our ability to debug early boot code on systems where the driver inits early. We could roll our own system of detecting when new tty drivers get loaded and then use that to figure out when kgdb can init, but that's ugly. Instead, let's jump on the -EPROBE_DEFER bandwagon. We'll create a singleton instance of a "kgdboc" platform device. If we can't find our tty device when the singleton "kgdboc" probes we'll return -EPROBE_DEFER which means that the system will call us back later to try again when the tty device might be there. We won't fully transition all of the kgdboc to a platform device because early kgdb initialization (via the "ekgdboc" kernel command line parameter) still runs before the platform device has been created. The kgdb platform device is merely used as a convenient way to hook into the system's normal probe deferral mechanisms. As part of this, we'll ever-so-slightly change how the "kgdboc=..." kernel command line parameter works. Previously if you booted up and kgdb couldn't find the tty driver then later reading '/sys/module/kgdboc/parameters/kgdboc' would return a blank string. Now kgdb will keep track of the string that came as part of the command line and give it back to you. It's expected that this should be an OK change. Signed-off-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders@chromium.org> Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Reviewed-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200507130644.v4.3.I4a493cfb0f9f740ce8fd2ab58e62dc92d18fed30@changeid [daniel.thompson@linaro.org: Make config_mutex static] Signed-off-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org> |
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Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.