The recent printk rework introduced a new type of console NBCON that will perform printing via a dedicated kthread during normal operation. For times when the kthread is not available (early boot, panic, reboot/shutdown) the NBCON console will print directly from the printk() calling context (even if from NMI). Futher details about NBCON consoles are in the cover letter of v1 of the NBCON series [0]. (Note that they were originally named NOBKL consoles, but were later renamed to NBCON.) This is v2 of a series to convert the 8250 driver to an NBCON console, providing both threaded and atomic printing implementations. v1 of this series is here [1]. Users can verify the UART console is an NBCON console via the proc filesystem. For example: $ cat /proc/consoles ttyS0 -W- (EC N a) 4:64 The 'N' shows that it is an NBCON console. There will also be a dedicated printing kthread. For example: $ ps ax | grep pr/ 16 root 0:00 [pr/ttyS0] Derek Barbosa performed extensive tests [2] using this driver and encountered no issues. On the contrary, his tests showed the improved reliability and non-interference features of the NBCON-based driver. Since this is the first console driver to be converted to an NBCON console, it may include variables and functions that could be abstracted to all UART consoles (such as the @console_line_ended field). However, we can abstract such things later as more consoles are converted to NBCON. Here are the changes since v1: - Remove legacy write() code rather than hide it under the macro USE_SERIAL_8250_LEGACY_CONSOLE. - Implement write_atomic() support for RS485 by splitting out the IER register modifications into separate wrapper functions. - Update the RS485 call sites to use the new wrapper functions. - Implement write_atomic() support for modem control by deferring to a new dedicated irq_work. - Rename @console_newline_needed to @console_line_ended and invert the logic. Note that this series is based on the "for-next" branch of the printk git [3]. This is because the tty-next tree does not have the NBCON series and thus causes problems for the kbuild robots. However, this series does apply cleanly on the tty-next tree (it just will not build). John Ogness [0] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20230302195618.156940-1-john.ogness@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20240905134719.142554-1-john.ogness@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [2] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/ZsdoD6PomBRsB-ow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [3] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/printk/linux.git John Ogness (4): serial: 8250: Split out IER from rs485_start_tx() serial: 8250: Split out IER from rs485_stop_tx() serial: 8250: Switch to nbcon console serial: 8250: Revert "drop lockdep annotation from serial8250_clear_IER()" drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250.h | 3 + drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_core.c | 35 +++- drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_omap.c | 2 +- drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c | 248 ++++++++++++++++++---------- include/linux/serial_8250.h | 9 +- 5 files changed, 200 insertions(+), 97 deletions(-) base-commit: b794563ea12fb46d9499da9e30c33d9607e33697 -- 2.39.2
