Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] xen/hvc: Fix polling mode to work with kdb/kgdb

[Ben Guthro <ben@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 12:40 PM, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
<konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 07, 2012 at 09:30:06AM -0400, Ben Guthro wrote:
>> Fix the polling section of the hvc driver to use the global "last_hvc"
>> variable, rather than the ttys.
>
> Could you just do:
>
>       struct tty_struct *tty = driver->ttys[last_hvc];
>
> as well?

No. I tried this, and never got to the kdb prompt.
It seems that the problem is that you need to use the cons_ops variable

My efforts to fully understand the inner-workings of the console code
were thwarted by time. Its a twisty bunch of code.
If I used the cons_ops variable static to the module, it was OK.
If I used driver->ttys - {get,put}_chars() never got called.


> So how come the '0' one did not work? Is that b/c
> of console=tty becoming '0' instead of hvc0? Is there a crash
> involved with this? Or is that it just is listening on the
> wrong console (and which one is that?)

See above.

>>
>> With this change debugging a xen dom0 kernel is possible via the
>> following kernel parameter:
>> kgdboc=hvc0
>
> Hm, if that is the problem then this should also be a problem on
> IBM Power boxes I would think?

Not sure...but I think the original submitter of this code was

commit 762e77ae7dd055d0b77e0ad34d87db7416df109e
Author: Anton Blanchard <anton@xxxxxxxxx>
Date:   Tue Jul 12 19:44:05 2011 +0000

    hvc_console: Add kdb support


Was that for IBM?

>
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Ben Guthro <Benjamin.Guthro@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/tty/hvc/hvc_console.c b/drivers/tty/hvc/hvc_console.c
>> index 2d691eb..3750e74 100644
>> --- a/drivers/tty/hvc/hvc_console.c
>> +++ b/drivers/tty/hvc/hvc_console.c
>> @@ -766,12 +766,10 @@ int hvc_poll_init(struct tty_driver *driver, int
>> line, char *options)
>>
>>  static int hvc_poll_get_char(struct tty_driver *driver, int line)
>>  {
>> -       struct tty_struct *tty = driver->ttys[0];
>> -       struct hvc_struct *hp = tty->driver_data;
>>         int n;
>>         char ch;
>>
>> -       n = hp->ops->get_chars(hp->vtermno, &ch, 1);
>> +       n = cons_ops[last_hvc]->get_chars(vtermnos[last_hvc], &ch, 1);
>>
>>         if (n == 0)
>>                 return NO_POLL_CHAR;
>> @@ -781,12 +779,10 @@ static int hvc_poll_get_char(struct tty_driver
>> *driver, int line)
>>
>>  static void hvc_poll_put_char(struct tty_driver *driver, int line, char ch)
>>  {
>> -       struct tty_struct *tty = driver->ttys[0];
>> -       struct hvc_struct *hp = tty->driver_data;
>>         int n;
>>
>>         do {
>> -               n = hp->ops->put_chars(hp->vtermno, &ch, 1);
>> +               n = cons_ops[last_hvc]->put_chars(vtermnos[last_hvc], &ch, 
>> 1);
>>         } while (n <= 0);
>>  }
>>  #endif
>>
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