riscv: Add SOC early init support

Add a mechanism for early SoC initialization for platforms that need
additional hardware initialization not possible through the regular
device tree and drivers mechanism. With this, a SoC specific
initialization function can be called very early, before DTB parsing
is done by parse_dtb() in Linux RISC-V kernel setup code.

This can be very useful for early hardware initialization for No-MMU
kernels booted directly in M-mode because it is quite likely that no
other booting stage exist prior to the No-MMU kernel.

Example use of a SoC early initialization is as follows:

static void vendor_abc_early_init(const void *fdt)
{
	/*
	 * some early init code here that can use simple matches
	 * against the flat device tree file.
	 */
}
SOC_EARLY_INIT_DECLARE("vendor,abc", abc_early_init);

This early initialization function is executed only if the flat device
tree for the board has a 'compatible = "vendor,abc"' entry;

Signed-off-by: Damien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@wdc.com>
Signed-off-by: Anup Patel <anup.patel@wdc.com>
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmerdabbelt@google.com>

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/arch/riscv/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/riscv/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
index 435cd60dca04..0339b6bbe11a 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
+++ b/arch/riscv/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
@@ -28,6 +28,12 @@ SECTIONS
 	__init_begin = .;
 	INIT_TEXT_SECTION(PAGE_SIZE)
 	INIT_DATA_SECTION(16)
+	. = ALIGN(8);
+	__soc_early_init_table : {
+		__soc_early_init_table_start = .;
+		KEEP(*(__soc_early_init_table))
+		__soc_early_init_table_end = .;
+	}
 	/* we have to discard exit text and such at runtime, not link time */
 	.exit.text :
 	{