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printk: report console names during cut-over

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This reports the names of consoles as they're being disabled to help
identify which is which during cut-over.  Helps answer the question
"which boot console actually got activated?" once the regular console is
running, mostly when debugging boot console failures.

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Kees Cook 2013-11-12 15:08:49 -08:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 8f6b2ae49a
commit 6b80239447
1 changed files with 9 additions and 10 deletions
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kernel/printk/printk.c
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@ -2358,21 +2358,18 @@ void register_console(struct console *newcon)
* users know there might be something in the kernel's log buffer that
* went to the bootconsole (that they do not see on the real console)
*/
printk(KERN_INFO "%sconsole [%s%d] enabled\n",
(newcon->flags & CON_BOOT) ? "boot" : "" ,
newcon->name, newcon->index);
if (bcon &&
((newcon->flags & (CON_CONSDEV | CON_BOOT)) == CON_CONSDEV) &&
!keep_bootcon) {
/* we need to iterate through twice, to make sure we print
* everything out, before we unregister the console(s)
/* We need to iterate through all boot consoles, to make
* sure we print everything out, before we unregister them.
*/
printk(KERN_INFO "console [%s%d] enabled, bootconsole disabled\n",
newcon->name, newcon->index);
for_each_console(bcon)
if (bcon->flags & CON_BOOT)
unregister_console(bcon);
} else {
printk(KERN_INFO "%sconsole [%s%d] enabled\n",
(newcon->flags & CON_BOOT) ? "boot" : "" ,
newcon->name, newcon->index);
}
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(register_console);
@ -2382,6 +2379,10 @@ int unregister_console(struct console *console)
struct console *a, *b;
int res;
printk(KERN_INFO "%sconsole [%s%d] disabled\n",
(console->flags & CON_BOOT) ? "boot" : "" ,
console->name, console->index);
res = _braille_unregister_console(console);
if (res)
return res;
@ -2421,8 +2422,6 @@ static int __init printk_late_init(void)
for_each_console(con) {
if (!keep_bootcon && con->flags & CON_BOOT) {
printk(KERN_INFO "turn off boot console %s%d\n",
con->name, con->index);
unregister_console(con);
}
}