This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
earlycon: add reg-offset to physical address before mapping
to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git%3Ba=su...
The filename of the patch is: earlycon-add-reg-offset-to-physical-address-before-mapping.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let stable@vger.kernel.org know about it.
From 1f66dd36bb18437397ea0d7882c52f7e3c476e15 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Greentime Hu green.hu@gmail.com Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2018 17:09:08 +0800 Subject: earlycon: add reg-offset to physical address before mapping
From: Greentime Hu green.hu@gmail.com
commit 1f66dd36bb18437397ea0d7882c52f7e3c476e15 upstream.
It will get the wrong virtual address because port->mapbase is not added the correct reg-offset yet. We have to update it before earlycon_map() is called
Signed-off-by: Greentime Hu greentime@andestech.com Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann arnd@arndb.de Cc: Peter Hurley peter@hurleysoftware.com Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: 088da2a17619 ("of: earlycon: Initialize port fields from DT properties") Acked-by: Rob Herring robh@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
--- drivers/tty/serial/earlycon.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/drivers/tty/serial/earlycon.c +++ b/drivers/tty/serial/earlycon.c @@ -253,11 +253,12 @@ int __init of_setup_earlycon(const struc } port->mapbase = addr; port->uartclk = BASE_BAUD * 16; - port->membase = earlycon_map(port->mapbase, SZ_4K);
val = of_get_flat_dt_prop(node, "reg-offset", NULL); if (val) port->mapbase += be32_to_cpu(*val); + port->membase = earlycon_map(port->mapbase, SZ_4K); + val = of_get_flat_dt_prop(node, "reg-shift", NULL); if (val) port->regshift = be32_to_cpu(*val);
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from green.hu@gmail.com are
queue-4.9/earlycon-add-reg-offset-to-physical-address-before-mapping.patch