From b2bb65f680a7b2faa5d6332c02752dca83a49cd6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michael Ellerman Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2012 04:20:47 +0000 Subject: powerpc/xmon: Fallback to printk() in xmon_printf() if udbg is not setup It is possible to configure a kernel which has xmon enabled, but has no udbg backend to provide IO. This can make xmon rather confusing, as it produces no output, blocks for two seconds, and then returns. As a last resort we can instead try to printk(), which may deadlock or otherwise crash, but tries quite hard not to. Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt --- arch/powerpc/xmon/nonstdio.c | 10 ++++++++-- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/powerpc/xmon/nonstdio.c b/arch/powerpc/xmon/nonstdio.c index 942d0f6b187..bce3dcfe505 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/xmon/nonstdio.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/xmon/nonstdio.c @@ -111,13 +111,19 @@ char *xmon_gets(char *str, int nb) void xmon_printf(const char *format, ...) { va_list args; - int n; static char xmon_outbuf[1024]; + int rc, n; va_start(args, format); n = vsnprintf(xmon_outbuf, sizeof(xmon_outbuf), format, args); va_end(args); - xmon_write(xmon_outbuf, n); + + rc = xmon_write(xmon_outbuf, n); + + if (n && rc == 0) { + /* No udbg hooks, fallback to printk() - dangerous */ + printk(xmon_outbuf); + } } void xmon_puts(const char *str) -- cgit v1.2.3