The earlycon would be alive outside the init code in these cases: 1/ we have keep_bootcon in cmdline. 2/ we don't have a real console to switch to. So remove the __init marking to avoid invalid memory access. Signed-off-by: Jeffy Chen <jeffy.chen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/tty/serial/arc_uart.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/arc_uart.c b/drivers/tty/serial/arc_uart.c index 5ac06fc..77fe306 100644 --- a/drivers/tty/serial/arc_uart.c +++ b/drivers/tty/serial/arc_uart.c @@ -549,8 +549,8 @@ static struct console arc_console = { .data = &arc_uart_driver }; -static __init void arc_early_serial_write(struct console *con, const char *s, - unsigned int n) +static void arc_early_serial_write(struct console *con, const char *s, + unsigned int n) { struct earlycon_device *dev = con->data; -- 2.1.4 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-serial" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html