um: add earlyprintk support

User Mode Linux can also benefit from earlyprintk. UML's earlyprintk
writes kernel messages directly to stdout.

Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <[e-mail]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[e-mail]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[e-mail]>

arch/um/Kconfig.debug

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 	  stack seen so far.
 
 	  This option will slow down process creation and destruction somewhat.
+
+config EARLY_PRINTK
+	bool "Early printk"
+	default y
+	---help---
+	  Write kernel log output directly to stdout.
+
+	  This is useful for kernel debugging when your machine crashes very
+	  early before the console code is initialized.
+
 endmenu

arch/um/include/shared/os.h

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 extern void setup_machinename(char *machine_out);
 extern void setup_hostinfo(char *buf, int len);
 extern void os_dump_core(void) __attribute__ ((noreturn));
+extern void um_early_printk(const char *s, unsigned int n);
 
 /* time.c */
 extern void idle_sleep(unsigned long long nsecs);

arch/um/kernel/Makefile

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 obj-$(CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD) += initrd.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_GPROF)	+= gprof_syms.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_GCOV)	+= gmon_syms.o
+obj-$(CONFIG_EARLY_PRINTK) += early_printk.o
 
 USER_OBJS := config.o
 

arch/um/kernel/early_printk.c

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+/*
+ * Copyright (C) 2011 Richard Weinberger <[e-mail]>
+ *
+ * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 as
+ * published by the Free Software Foundation.
+ */
+
+#include <linux/kernel.h>
+#include <linux/console.h>
+#include <linux/init.h>
+#include "os.h"
+
+static void early_console_write(struct console *con, const char *s, unsigned int n)
+{
+	um_early_printk(s, n);
+}
+
+static struct console early_console = {
+	.name = "earlycon",
+	.write = early_console_write,
+	.flags = CON_BOOT,
+	.index = -1,
+};
+
+static int __init setup_early_printk(char *buf)
+{
+	register_console(&early_console);
+
+	return 0;
+}
+
+early_param("earlyprintk", setup_early_printk);

arch/um/os-Linux/util.c

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 	uml_abort();
 }
+
+void um_early_printk(const char *s, unsigned int n)
+{
+	printf("%.*s", n, s);
+}