From ff61f0791ce969d2db6c9f3b71d74ceec0a2e958 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jonathan Corbet Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2023 17:06:44 -0600 Subject: docs: move x86 documentation into Documentation/arch/ Move the x86 documentation under Documentation/arch/ as a way of cleaning up the top-level directory and making the structure of our docs more closely match the structure of the source directories it describes. All in-kernel references to the old paths have been updated. Acked-by: Dave Hansen Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org Cc: x86@kernel.org Cc: Borislav Petkov Cc: Thomas Gleixner Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20230315211523.108836-1-corbet@lwn.net/ Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet --- Documentation/x86/earlyprintk.rst | 151 -------------------------------------- 1 file changed, 151 deletions(-) delete mode 100644 Documentation/x86/earlyprintk.rst (limited to 'Documentation/x86/earlyprintk.rst') diff --git a/Documentation/x86/earlyprintk.rst b/Documentation/x86/earlyprintk.rst deleted file mode 100644 index 51ef11e8f725..000000000000 --- a/Documentation/x86/earlyprintk.rst +++ /dev/null @@ -1,151 +0,0 @@ -.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 - -============ -Early Printk -============ - -Mini-HOWTO for using the earlyprintk=dbgp boot option with a -USB2 Debug port key and a debug cable, on x86 systems. - -You need two computers, the 'USB debug key' special gadget and -two USB cables, connected like this:: - - [host/target] <-------> [USB debug key] <-------> [client/console] - -Hardware requirements -===================== - - a) Host/target system needs to have USB debug port capability. - - You can check this capability by looking at a 'Debug port' bit in - the lspci -vvv output:: - - # lspci -vvv - ... - 00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 (rev 03) (prog-if 20 [EHCI]) - Subsystem: Lenovo ThinkPad T61 - Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B- DisINTx- - Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- SERR- /grub.cfg. - - On systems with more than one EHCI debug controller you must - specify the correct EHCI debug controller number. The ordering - comes from the PCI bus enumeration of the EHCI controllers. The - default with no number argument is "0" or the first EHCI debug - controller. To use the second EHCI debug controller, you would - use the command line: "earlyprintk=dbgp1" - - .. note:: - normally earlyprintk console gets turned off once the - regular console is alive - use "earlyprintk=dbgp,keep" to keep - this channel open beyond early bootup. This can be useful for - debugging crashes under Xorg, etc. - - b) On the client/console system: - - You should enable the following kernel config option:: - - CONFIG_USB_SERIAL_DEBUG=y - - On the next bootup with the modified kernel you should - get a /dev/ttyUSBx device(s). - - Now this channel of kernel messages is ready to be used: start - your favorite terminal emulator (minicom, etc.) and set - it up to use /dev/ttyUSB0 - or use a raw 'cat /dev/ttyUSBx' to - see the raw output. - - c) On Nvidia Southbridge based systems: the kernel will try to probe - and find out which port has a debug device connected. - -Testing -======= - -You can test the output by using earlyprintk=dbgp,keep and provoking -kernel messages on the host/target system. You can provoke a harmless -kernel message by for example doing:: - - echo h > /proc/sysrq-trigger - -On the host/target system you should see this help line in "dmesg" output:: - - SysRq : HELP : loglevel(0-9) reBoot Crashdump terminate-all-tasks(E) memory-full-oom-kill(F) kill-all-tasks(I) saK show-backtrace-all-active-cpus(L) show-memory-usage(M) nice-all-RT-tasks(N) powerOff show-registers(P) show-all-timers(Q) unRaw Sync show-task-states(T) Unmount show-blocked-tasks(W) dump-ftrace-buffer(Z) - -On the client/console system do:: - - cat /dev/ttyUSB0 - -And you should see the help line above displayed shortly after you've -provoked it on the host system. - -If it does not work then please ask about it on the linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org -mailing list or contact the x86 maintainers. -- cgit v1.2.3