x86: usb debug port early console, v4

based on work from Eric, and add some timeout so don't dead loop when debug
device is not installed

v2: fix checkpatch warning
v3: move ehci struct def to linux/usrb/ehci_def.h from host/ehci.h
    also add CONFIG_EARLY_PRINTK_DBGP to disable it by default
v4: address comments from Ingo, seperate ehci reg def moving to another patch
    also add auto detect port that connect to debug device for Nvidia
    southbridge

Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: "Arjan van de Ven" <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: "Greg KH" <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

1 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig.debug b/arch/x86/Kconfig.debug
index 092f019e033a..93422d2ecf61 100644
--- a/arch/x86/Kconfig.debug
+++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig.debug
@@ -43,6 +43,19 @@ config EARLY_PRINTK
 	  with klogd/syslogd or the X server. You should normally N here,
 	  unless you want to debug such a crash.
 
+config EARLY_PRINTK_DBGP
+	bool "Early printk via EHCI debug port"
+	default n
+	depends on EARLY_PRINTK
+	help
+	  Write kernel log output directly into the EHCI debug port.
+
+	  This is useful for kernel debugging when your machine crashes very
+	  early before the console code is initialized. For normal operation
+	  it is not recommended because it looks ugly and doesn't cooperate
+	  with klogd/syslogd or the X server. You should normally N here,
+	  unless you want to debug such a crash. You need usb debug device.
+
 config DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW
 	bool "Check for stack overflows"
 	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL