x86/earlyprintk: Add a force option for pciserial device
authorFeng Tang <feng.tang@intel.com>
Tue, 2 Oct 2018 16:49:21 +0000 (00:49 +0800)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Tue, 27 Nov 2018 15:13:00 +0000 (16:13 +0100)
commit9f0e46bf5559897f724d940e39e4ffc230413325
tree1a1647fc8d174bad1fdd579178b9c965764ada69
parentc8a1685aa3cb6209c26da50f10364a9842fe2fda
x86/earlyprintk: Add a force option for pciserial device

[ Upstream commit d2266bbfa9e3e32e3b642965088ca461bd24a94f ]

The "pciserial" earlyprintk variant helps much on many modern x86
platforms, but unfortunately there are still some platforms with PCI
UART devices which have the wrong PCI class code. In that case, the
current class code check does not allow for them to be used for logging.

Add a sub-option "force" which overrides the class code check and thus
the use of such device can be enforced.

 [ bp: massage formulations. ]

Suggested-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Signed-off-by: Feng Tang <feng.tang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: "Stuart R . Anderson" <stuart.r.anderson@intel.com>
Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Feng Tang <feng.tang@intel.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: H Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Kai-Heng Feng <kai.heng.feng@canonical.com>
Cc: Kate Stewart <kstewart@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@nexb.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Thymo van Beers <thymovanbeers@gmail.com>
Cc: alan@linux.intel.com
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181002164921.25833-1-feng.tang@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
arch/x86/kernel/early_printk.c