Alan Cox wrote:
>> The basic reason for all this is to eventually allow the low-level
>> serial drivers to function without a uart_info structure being
>> allocated. This will allow the serial console, debuggers like kgdb,
>> and the IPMI serial driver to use one interface to the uart code and
>>
>
> Its cheaper to allocate a uart_info that keep doing all the checks, at
> least for port->info. I can see why you want to avoid port->info->tty as
> a debugger can end up running before the tty layer and that would be hard
> to work around.
>
Currently the uart_info structure is allocated on an open, so it's not
available until that point in time. The trouble is that console_init() is
called before memory is set up, so you can't allocate the uart_info
until it's too late for the console or a debugger that wants to work
early, though it's ok for IPMI.
> For the other macros - the macros are more efficient than the equivalent
> inline code generation at least for some gccs.
>
I thought that inlines were preferred, but I can do macros.
> Do you really need any of this change but to check info->tty ?
>
I'm not really sure. For IPMI I could do without it, but I'm not
sure about consoles or debuggers.
I have a patch that does consoles over this. Part of that is moving
the transmit (circ) buffer to the port, so that port->info is not required
at all for console I/O and the console code can supply its own transmit
buffer. This allows the polled I/O code to reuse all the standard uart
operations for the low-level driver and for the user code, just having
to add a function to call the interrupt handlers properly.
The uart_info struct is not very big, maybe it would be best to pull that
into uart_port? But the circ buffer might still be a problem, since it
would need to be dynamically allocated and it might need to be
checked instead.
-corey
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