Use late_initcall_sync insted of module init to be sure that serial driver is really probed and get take handover from early driver. The 8250 register the platform driver after the 8250 core is initialized. As shown by kdbg Thread 2 received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. [Switching to Thread 1] _outb (addr=<optimized out>, value=<optimized out>) at ./include/asm-generic/io.h:584 584 __raw_writeb(value, PCI_IOBASE + addr); (gdb) bt This section of the code is too early because in this case the omap serial is not probed Thread 2 received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. [Switching to Thread 1] _outb (addr=<optimized out>, value=<optimized out>) at ./include/asm-generic/io.h:584 584 __raw_writeb(value, PCI_IOBASE + addr); (gdb) bt Thread 2 received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. [Switching to Thread 1] _outb (addr=<optimized out>, value=<optimized out>) at ./include/asm-generic/io.h:584 584 __raw_writeb(value, PCI_IOBASE + addr); (gdb) bt 0 _outb (addr=<optimized out>, value=<optimized out>) at ./include/asm-generic/io.h:584 1 logic_outb (value=0 '\000', addr=18446739675637874689) at lib/logic_pio.c:299 2 0xffff80008082dfcc in io_serial_out (p=0x0, offset=16760830, value=0) at drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c:416 3 0xffff80008082fe34 in serial_port_out (value=<optimized out>, offset=<optimized out>, up=<optimized out>) at ./include/linux/serial_core.h:677 4 serial8250_do_set_termios (port=0xffff8000828ee940 <serial8250_ports+1568>, termios=0xffff80008292b93c, old=0x0) at drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c:2860 5 0xffff800080830064 in serial8250_set_termios (port=0xfffffbfffe800000, termios=0xffbffe, old=0x0) at drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c:2912 6 0xffff80008082571c in uart_set_options (port=0xffff8000828ee940 <serial8250_ports+1568>, co=0x0, baud=115200, parity=110, bits=8, flow=110) at drivers/tty/serial/serial_core.c:2285 7 0xffff800080828434 in uart_poll_init (driver=0xfffffbfffe800000, line=16760830, options=0xffff8000828f7506 <config+6> "115200n8") at drivers/tty/serial/serial_core.c:2656 8 0xffff800080801690 in tty_find_polling_driver (name=0xffff8000828f7500 <config> "ttyS2,115200n8", line=0xffff80008292ba90) at drivers/tty/tty_io.c:410 9 0xffff80008086c0b0 in configure_kgdboc () at drivers/tty/serial/kgdboc.c:194 10 0xffff80008086c1ec in kgdboc_probe (pdev=0xfffffbfffe800000) at drivers/tty/serial/kgdboc.c:249 11 0xffff8000808b399c in platform_probe (_dev=0xffff000000ebb810) at drivers/base/platform.c:1404 12 0xffff8000808b0b44 in call_driver_probe (drv=<optimized out>, dev=<optimized out>) at drivers/base/dd.c:579 13 really_probe (dev=0xffff000000ebb810, drv=0xffff80008277f138 <kgdboc_platform_driver+48>) at drivers/base/dd.c:658 14 0xffff8000808b0d2c in __driver_probe_device (drv=0xffff80008277f138 <kgdboc_platform_driver+48>, dev=0xffff000000ebb810) at drivers/base/dd.c:800 15 0xffff8000808b0eb8 in driver_probe_device (drv=0xfffffbfffe800000, dev=0xffff000000ebb810) at drivers/base/dd.c:830 16 0xffff8000808b0ff4 in __device_attach_driver (drv=0xffff80008277f138 <kgdboc_platform_driver+48>, _data=0xffff80008292bc48) at drivers/base/dd.c:958 17 0xffff8000808ae970 in bus_for_each_drv (bus=0xfffffbfffe800000, start=0x0, data=0xffff80008292bc48, fn=0xffff8000808b0f3c <__device_attach_driver>) at drivers/base/bus.c:457 18 0xffff8000808b1408 in __device_attach (dev=0xffff000000ebb810, allow_async=true) at drivers/base/dd.c:1030 19 0xffff8000808b16d8 in device_initial_probe (dev=0xfffffbfffe800000) at drivers/base/dd.c:1079 20 0xffff8000808af9f4 in bus_probe_device (dev=0xffff000000ebb810) at drivers/base/bus.c:532 21 0xffff8000808ac77c in device_add (dev=0xfffffbfffe800000) at drivers/base/core.c:3625 22 0xffff8000808b3428 in platform_device_add (pdev=0xffff000000ebb800) at drivers/base/platform.c:716 23 0xffff800081b5dc0c in init_kgdboc () at drivers/tty/serial/kgdboc.c:292 24 0xffff800080014db0 in do_one_initcall (fn=0xffff800081b5dba4 <init_kgdboc>) at init/main.c:1236 25 0xffff800081b0114c in do_initcall_level (command_line=<optimized out>, level=<optimized out>) at init/main.c:1298 26 do_initcalls () at init/main.c:1314 27 do_basic_setup () at init/main.c:1333 28 kernel_init_freeable () at init/main.c:1551 29 0xffff8000810271ec in kernel_init (unused=0xfffffbfffe800000) at init/main.c:1441 30 0xffff800080015e80 in ret_from_fork () at arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S:857 Signed-off-by: Michael Trimarchi <michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/tty/serial/kgdboc.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/kgdboc.c b/drivers/tty/serial/kgdboc.c index 7ce7bb164005..7f8364507f55 100644 --- a/drivers/tty/serial/kgdboc.c +++ b/drivers/tty/serial/kgdboc.c @@ -622,7 +622,7 @@ console_initcall(kgdboc_earlycon_late_init); #endif /* IS_BUILTIN(CONFIG_KGDB_SERIAL_CONSOLE) */ -module_init(init_kgdboc); +late_initcall_sync(init_kgdboc); module_exit(exit_kgdboc); module_param_call(kgdboc, param_set_kgdboc_var, param_get_string, &kps, 0644); MODULE_PARM_DESC(kgdboc, "<serial_device>[,baud]"); -- 2.40.1