History log of /linux-master/arch/arm/boot/compressed/debug.S
Revision Date Author Comments
# 4df24fef 27-Aug-2020 Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>

ARM: 9005/1: debug: Select flow control for all debug UARTs

Instead of a flow control selection mechanism specifically for
8250, make this available for all debug UARTs. If the debug
UART supports waiting for CTS to be asserted, then this code
can be activated for terminals that need it.

We keep the defaults for EBSA110, Footbridge, Gemini and RPC
so that this still works as expected for these older platforms:
they assume that flow control shall be enabled for debug
prints.

I switch the location of the check for
ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_UART_FLOW_CONTROL from the actual debug
UART drivers: the code would get compiled-out for 8250 and
Tegra unless their custom config (or passing -DFLOW_CONTROL
in the Tegra case) was not set. Instead this is conditional
at the three places where we print debug messages. The idea
is that debug UARTs can be implemented without this ifdef
boilerplate so they look cleaner, alas the ifdef has to be
somewhere.

Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>


# 2c50a570 27-Aug-2020 Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>

ARM: 9004/1: debug: Split waituart to CTS and TXRDY

This patch was triggered by a remark from Russell that
introducing a call to the waituart (needed to fix debug prints
on the Qualcomm platforms) was dangerous because in some cases
this will involve waiting for a modem CTS (clear to send)
signal, and debug messages would maybe not work on platforms
with no modem connected to the UART port: they will just
hang waiting for the modem to assert CTS and this might never
happen.

Looking through all UART debug drivers implementing the waituart
macro I discovered that all users except two actually use this
macro to check if the UART is ready for TX, let's call this
TXRDY.

Only two debug UART drivers actually check for CTS:
- arch/arm/include/debug/8250.S
- arch/arm/include/debug/tegra.S

The former is very significant since the 8250 is possibly
the most common UART on the planet.

We have the following problem: the semantics of waituart are
ambiguous making it dangerous to introduce the macro to debug
code fixing debug prints for Qualcomm. To start to pry this
problem apart, this patch does the following:

- Convert all debug UART drivers to define two macros:

- waituartcts with the clear semantic to wait for CTS
to be asserted

- waituarttxrdy with the clear semantic to wait for the TX
capability of the UART to be ready

- When doing this take care to assign the right function to
each drivers macro, so they now do exactly the above.

- Update the three sites in the kernel invoking the waituart
macro to call waituartcts/waituarttxrdy in sequence, so that
the functional impact on the kernel should be zero.

After this we can start to change the code sites using this
code to do the right thing.

Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>


# b2441318 01-Nov-2017 Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license

Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which
makes it harder for compliance tools to determine the correct license.

By default all files without license information are under the default
license of the kernel, which is GPL version 2.

Update the files which contain no license information with the 'GPL-2.0'
SPDX license identifier. The SPDX identifier is a legally binding
shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text.

This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and
Philippe Ombredanne.

How this work was done:

Patches were generated and checked against linux-4.14-rc6 for a subset of
the use cases:
- file had no licensing information it it.
- file was a */uapi/* one with no licensing information in it,
- file was a */uapi/* one with existing licensing information,

Further patches will be generated in subsequent months to fix up cases
where non-standard license headers were used, and references to license
had to be inferred by heuristics based on keywords.

The analysis to determine which SPDX License Identifier to be applied to
a file was done in a spreadsheet of side by side results from of the
output of two independent scanners (ScanCode & Windriver) producing SPDX
tag:value files created by Philippe Ombredanne. Philippe prepared the
base worksheet, and did an initial spot review of a few 1000 files.

The 4.13 kernel was the starting point of the analysis with 60,537 files
assessed. Kate Stewart did a file by file comparison of the scanner
results in the spreadsheet to determine which SPDX license identifier(s)
to be applied to the file. She confirmed any determination that was not
immediately clear with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

Criteria used to select files for SPDX license identifier tagging was:
- Files considered eligible had to be source code files.
- Make and config files were included as candidates if they contained >5
lines of source
- File already had some variant of a license header in it (even if <5
lines).

All documentation files were explicitly excluded.

The following heuristics were used to determine which SPDX license
identifiers to apply.

- when both scanners couldn't find any license traces, file was
considered to have no license information in it, and the top level
COPYING file license applied.

For non */uapi/* files that summary was:

SPDX license identifier # files
---------------------------------------------------|-------
GPL-2.0 11139

and resulted in the first patch in this series.

If that file was a */uapi/* path one, it was "GPL-2.0 WITH
Linux-syscall-note" otherwise it was "GPL-2.0". Results of that was:

SPDX license identifier # files
---------------------------------------------------|-------
GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 930

and resulted in the second patch in this series.

- if a file had some form of licensing information in it, and was one
of the */uapi/* ones, it was denoted with the Linux-syscall-note if
any GPL family license was found in the file or had no licensing in
it (per prior point). Results summary:

SPDX license identifier # files
---------------------------------------------------|------
GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 270
GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 169
((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-2-Clause) 21
((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 17
LGPL-2.1+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 15
GPL-1.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 14
((GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 5
LGPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 4
LGPL-2.1 WITH Linux-syscall-note 3
((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR MIT) 3
((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND MIT) 1

and that resulted in the third patch in this series.

- when the two scanners agreed on the detected license(s), that became
the concluded license(s).

- when there was disagreement between the two scanners (one detected a
license but the other didn't, or they both detected different
licenses) a manual inspection of the file occurred.

- In most cases a manual inspection of the information in the file
resulted in a clear resolution of the license that should apply (and
which scanner probably needed to revisit its heuristics).

- When it was not immediately clear, the license identifier was
confirmed with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

- If there was any question as to the appropriate license identifier,
the file was flagged for further research and to be revisited later
in time.

In total, over 70 hours of logged manual review was done on the
spreadsheet to determine the SPDX license identifiers to apply to the
source files by Kate, Philippe, Thomas and, in some cases, confirmation
by lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

Kate also obtained a third independent scan of the 4.13 code base from
FOSSology, and compared selected files where the other two scanners
disagreed against that SPDX file, to see if there was new insights. The
Windriver scanner is based on an older version of FOSSology in part, so
they are related.

Thomas did random spot checks in about 500 files from the spreadsheets
for the uapi headers and agreed with SPDX license identifier in the
files he inspected. For the non-uapi files Thomas did random spot checks
in about 15000 files.

In initial set of patches against 4.14-rc6, 3 files were found to have
copy/paste license identifier errors, and have been fixed to reflect the
correct identifier.

Additionally Philippe spent 10 hours this week doing a detailed manual
inspection and review of the 12,461 patched files from the initial patch
version early this week with:
- a full scancode scan run, collecting the matched texts, detected
license ids and scores
- reviewing anything where there was a license detected (about 500+
files) to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct
- reviewing anything where there was no detection but the patch license
was not GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note to ensure that the applied
SPDX license was correct

This produced a worksheet with 20 files needing minor correction. This
worksheet was then exported into 3 different .csv files for the
different types of files to be modified.

These .csv files were then reviewed by Greg. Thomas wrote a script to
parse the csv files and add the proper SPDX tag to the file, in the
format that the file expected. This script was further refined by Greg
based on the output to detect more types of files automatically and to
distinguish between header and source .c files (which need different
comment types.) Finally Greg ran the script using the .csv files to
generate the patches.

Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart <kstewart@linuxfoundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@nexb.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>


# ee3eaee6 06-Oct-2017 Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>

ARM: 8704/1: semihosting: use proper instruction on v7m processors

The svc instruction doesn't exist on v7m processors. Semihosting ops are
invoked with the bkpt instruction instead.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>


# 27523679 29-May-2013 Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>

ARM: 7737/1: fix kernel decompressor compilation error with CONFIG_DEBUG_SEMIHOSTING

Selecting this option produces:

AS arch/arm/boot/compressed/debug.o
arch/arm/boot/compressed/debug.S:4:33: fatal error: mach/debug-macro.S: No such file or directory
compilation terminated.
make[3]: *** [arch/arm/boot/compressed/debug.o] Error 1

The semihosting support cannot be modelled into a senduart macro as
it requires memory space for argument passing. So the
CONFIG_DEBUG_LL_INCLUDE may not have any sensible value and the include
directive should be omitted.

While at it, let's add proper semihosting output support to the
decompressor.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Shawn Guo <shawn.guo@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>


# 3b4af9bc 14-Mar-2013 Shawn Guo <shawn.guo@linaro.org>

ARM: 7672/1: uncompress debug support for multiplatform build

Instead of giving zero support of uncompress debug for multiplatform
build, the patch turns uncompress debug into one part of DEBUG_LL
support. When DEBUG_LL is turned on for a particular platform,
uncompress debug works too for that platform.

OMAP and Tegra are exceptions here. OMAP low-level debug code places
data in the .data section, and that is not allowed in decompressor.
And Tegra code has reference to variable that's unavailable in
decompressor but only in kernel. That's why Kconfig symbol
DEBUG_UNCOMPRESS controlling multiplatform uncompress debug support is
defined with !DEBUG_OMAP2PLUS_UART && !DEBUG_TEGRA_UART.

It creates arch/arm/boot/compressed/debug.S with CONFIG_DEBUG_LL_INCLUDE
included there, implements a generic putc() using those macros, which
will be built when DEBUG_UNCOMPRESS is defined.

Signed-off-by: Shawn Guo <shawn.guo@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>