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Fabio M. Di Nitto 7bf693951a console: allow to retain boot console via boot option keep_bootcon
On some architectures, the boot process involves de-registering the boot
console (early boot), initialize drivers and then re-register the console.

This mechanism introduces a window in which no printk can happen on the
console and messages are buffered and then printed once the new console is
available.

If a kernel crashes during this window, all it's left on the boot console
is "console [foo] enabled, bootconsole disabled" making debug of the crash
rather 'interesting'.

By adding "keep_bootcon" option, do not unregister the boot console, that
will allow to printk everything that is happening up to the crash.

The option is clearly meant only for debugging purposes as it introduces
lots of duplicated info printed on console, but will make bug report from
users easier as it doesn't require a kernel build just to figure out where
we crash.

Signed-off-by: Fabio M. Di Nitto <fabbione@fabbione.net>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-03-22 17:44:12 -07:00
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ABI ST SPEAr: PCIE gadget suppport 2011-03-22 17:44:10 -07:00
DocBook Docbook: add fs/eventfd.c and fix typos in it 2011-02-21 15:07:04 -08:00
PCI Documentation: pci.txt: fix typo 2010-07-11 22:17:45 +02:00
RCU rcu: add documentation saying which RCU flavor to choose 2011-03-04 08:05:25 -08:00
accounting taskstats: pad taskstats netlink response for aligment issues on ia64 2010-12-22 19:43:34 -08:00
acpi ACPI, APEI, Add APEI generic error status printing support 2010-12-13 23:42:12 -05:00
aoe Documentation: update broken web addresses. 2010-08-04 15:21:40 +02:00
arm Merge branch 'remove' of master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm 2011-03-16 19:05:40 -07:00
auxdisplay includecheck fix: Documentation, cfag12864b-example.c 2009-09-24 07:20:57 -07:00
blackfin Blackfin: document SPI CS limitations with CPHA=0 2010-08-06 12:55:52 -04:00
block Documentation: remove anticipatory scheduler info 2010-11-11 12:09:59 +01:00
blockdev Documentation: update broken web addresses. 2010-08-04 15:21:40 +02:00
cdrom Documentation: update broken web addresses. 2010-08-04 15:21:40 +02:00
cgroups Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial 2011-03-18 10:37:40 -07:00
connector Documentation/: it's -> its where appropriate 2010-04-23 02:09:52 +02:00
console doc: fix console doc typo 2010-02-24 13:51:32 +01:00
cpu-freq [CPUFREQ] Add documentation for sampling_down_factor 2011-03-16 17:54:31 -04:00
cpuidle
cris
crypto async_tx: add support for asynchronous RAID6 recovery operations 2009-08-29 19:09:27 -07:00
development-process Documentation/development-process: more staging info 2010-11-18 15:00:47 -08:00
device-mapper Merge branch 'master' into for-next 2011-02-15 10:24:31 +01:00
devicetree Merge branch 'hwmon-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jdelvare/staging 2011-03-21 14:02:55 -07:00
driver-model driver core: prune docs about device_interface 2010-11-10 16:57:11 -08:00
dvb [media] Documentation/lmedm04: Fix firmware extract information 2010-12-29 08:16:30 -02:00
early-userspace
fault-injection lkdtm: add debugfs access and loosen KPROBE ties 2010-03-06 11:26:32 -08:00
fb Merge branch 'fbdev/udlfb' 2011-01-06 18:10:09 +09:00
filesystems Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://oss.sgi.com/xfs/xfs 2011-03-21 14:24:56 -07:00
firmware_class firmware: Update hotplug script 2010-08-05 13:53:34 -07:00
frv
hwmon hwmon: (ads1015) Make gain and datarate configurable 2011-03-21 17:59:37 +01:00
i2c Merge branch 'for-linus/2639/i2c-2' of git://git.fluff.org/bjdooks/linux 2011-03-22 10:05:27 -07:00
i2o
ia64 Documentation: update broken web addresses. 2010-08-04 15:21:40 +02:00
ide ide: preserve Host Protected Area by default (v2) 2009-06-07 13:52:52 +02:00
infiniband Documentation: update broken web addresses. 2010-08-04 15:21:40 +02:00
input Input: fix force feedback capability query example 2011-01-11 01:07:55 -08:00
ioctl HID: roccat: Rename header roccat.h -> hid-roccat.h 2011-02-03 16:37:28 +01:00
isdn Merge branch 'for-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial 2010-08-04 15:31:02 -07:00
ja_JP Documentation: update broken web addresses. 2010-08-04 15:21:40 +02:00
kbuild Merge branch 'kbuild' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild-2.6 2011-03-21 15:55:26 -07:00
kdump kdump: update kexec-tools URL and Vivek's email 2010-11-25 14:36:38 +01:00
ko_KR Docs/Kconfig: Update: osdl.org -> linuxfoundation.org 2010-11-15 23:50:13 +01:00
kvm Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial 2011-03-18 10:37:40 -07:00
laptops Move hp_accel to drivers/platform/x86 2011-03-21 17:59:36 +01:00
leds Documentation: led drivers lp5521 and lp5523 2010-11-12 07:55:32 -08:00
lguest lguest: document --rng in example Launcher 2011-01-20 21:37:29 +10:30
m68k
make kbuild: introduce HDR_ARCH_LIST for headers_install_all 2010-12-14 22:16:19 +01:00
mips ide: remove unused CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE_AU1XXX_SEQTS_PER_RQ 2009-01-14 19:19:03 +01:00
misc-devices ST SPEAr: PCIE gadget suppport 2011-03-22 17:44:10 -07:00
mmc mmc: add erase, secure erase, trim and secure trim operations 2010-08-12 08:43:30 -07:00
mn10300 trivial: Miscellaneous documentation typo fixes 2009-06-12 18:01:47 +02:00
mtd Documentation: update broken web addresses. 2010-08-04 15:21:40 +02:00
namespaces
netlabel Documentation/: it's -> its where appropriate 2010-04-23 02:09:52 +02:00
networking Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 2011-03-15 15:15:17 -07:00
nfc NFC: Driver for NXP Semiconductors PN544 NFC chip. 2011-01-13 08:03:19 -08:00
parisc
pcmcia pcmcia: use autoconfiguration feature for ioports and iomem 2010-09-29 17:20:24 +02:00
power PM: Documentation/power/states.txt: fix repetition 2011-03-15 00:43:17 +01:00
powerpc Documentation: add devicetree docs index file 2011-03-16 10:47:03 -07:00
pps pps: add parallel port PPS signal generator 2011-01-13 08:03:21 -08:00
prctl
s390 Documentation: update broken web addresses. 2010-08-04 15:21:40 +02:00
scheduler sched, docs: Update schedstats documentation to version 15 2011-02-01 09:07:13 +01:00
scsi [SCSI] hpsa: export resettable host attribute 2011-03-14 18:44:41 -05:00
serial n_gsm: add a documentation 2011-03-09 15:43:38 -08:00
sh sh: clkfwk: Kill off unused clk_set_rate_ex(). 2010-11-15 18:25:12 +09:00
sound ALSA: HDA: Add a new model "asus" for Conexant 5066/205xx 2011-01-22 17:29:22 +01:00
sparc
spi arm/pxa2xx: reorgazine SSP and SPI header files 2010-12-01 12:18:33 +01:00
sysctl Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial 2011-03-18 10:37:40 -07:00
target [SCSI] target: Add LIO target core v4.0.0-rc6 2011-01-14 10:12:29 -06:00
telephony Documentation: update broken web addresses. 2010-08-04 15:21:40 +02:00
thermal thermal: Add event notification to thermal framework 2011-01-12 00:08:35 -05:00
timers tree-wide: fix comment/printk typos 2010-11-01 15:38:34 -04:00
trace tracing: Add an 'overwrite' trace_option. 2011-03-09 13:52:27 -05:00
uml Documentation: update broken web addresses. 2010-08-04 15:21:40 +02:00
usb USB: usbmon: fix-up docs and text API for sparse ISO 2011-02-04 11:46:57 -08:00
video4linux i2c: Get rid of <linux/i2c-id.h> 2011-03-20 14:50:52 +01:00
vm doc: CONFIG_UNEVICTABLE_LRU doesn't exist anymore 2011-03-17 00:37:19 +01:00
w1 w1: DS2423 counter driver and documentation 2011-01-13 08:03:22 -08:00
watchdog watchdog: docs: add an entry for imx2_wdt 2010-07-01 16:02:55 +00:00
wimax i2400m: documentation and instructions for usage 2009-01-07 10:00:18 -08:00
x86 move x86 specific oops=panic to generic code 2011-03-22 17:44:11 -07:00
zh_CN Fix spelling mistakes in Documentation/zh_CN/SubmittingPatches 2011-02-28 19:30:48 -08:00
.gitignore add random binaries to .gitignore 2010-04-08 11:34:34 +02:00
00-INDEX Documentation: remove obsolete files from 00-INDEX 2011-03-16 10:47:03 -07:00
BUG-HUNTING
Changes Documentation update broken web addresses 2010-07-11 21:55:42 +02:00
CodingStyle Documentation: update header filename in CodingStyle 2011-03-16 10:47:03 -07:00
DMA-API-HOWTO.txt Documentation: DMA-API-HOWTO.txt: rename ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN to ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN 2010-08-14 11:56:46 -07:00
DMA-API.txt dma-mapping: remove dma_is_consistent API 2010-08-11 08:59:21 -07:00
DMA-ISA-LPC.txt
DMA-attributes.txt
HOWTO Documentation: update broken web addresses. 2010-08-04 15:21:40 +02:00
IPMI.txt IPMI: Add the document description of ipmi_get_smi_info 2010-12-14 00:22:00 -05:00
IRQ-affinity.txt
IRQ.txt
Intel-IOMMU.txt intel-iommu: Kill DMAR_BROKEN_GFX_WA option. 2009-09-19 09:37:23 -07:00
Makefile [media] Remove the old V4L1 v4lgrab.c file 2010-12-29 08:17:12 -02:00
ManagementStyle docs: fix ManagementStyle book name 2008-10-30 11:38:46 -07:00
SAK.txt
SELinux.txt
SM501.txt trivial: Miscellaneous documentation typo fixes 2009-06-12 18:01:47 +02:00
SecurityBugs
Smack.txt Documentation/: it's -> its where appropriate 2010-04-23 02:09:52 +02:00
SubmitChecklist Documentation: update SubmitChecklist for O=objdir and kconfig testing 2010-05-24 07:31:20 -07:00
SubmittingDrivers Documentation: update broken web addresses. 2010-08-04 15:21:40 +02:00
SubmittingPatches SubmittingPatches: add more about patch descriptions 2010-08-09 20:45:05 -07:00
VGA-softcursor.txt
apparmor.txt AppArmor: update Maintainer and Documentation 2010-08-02 15:35:15 +10:00
applying-patches.txt
atomic_ops.txt Documentation/: it's -> its where appropriate 2010-04-23 02:09:52 +02:00
bad_memory.txt Document handling of bad memory 2008-12-03 16:09:53 -07:00
basic_profiling.txt
binfmt_misc.txt Documentation: update broken web addresses. 2010-08-04 15:21:40 +02:00
braille-console.txt trivial: Miscellaneous documentation typo fixes 2009-06-12 18:01:47 +02:00
bt8xxgpio.txt
btmrvl.txt Bluetooth: Add documentation for Marvell Bluetooth driver 2009-08-22 14:25:32 -07:00
bus-virt-phys-mapping.txt documentation: fix almost duplicate filenames (IO/io-mapping.txt) 2010-07-20 17:49:30 +00:00
cachetlb.txt Documentation/: it's -> its where appropriate 2010-04-23 02:09:52 +02:00
circular-buffers.txt Document Linux's circular buffering capabilities 2010-03-24 16:31:22 -07:00
coccinelle.txt scripts/coccinelle: update for compatability with Coccinelle 0.2.4 2010-12-03 12:27:01 +01:00
cpu-hotplug.txt documentation: fix erroneous email address. 2010-08-11 23:04:10 +09:30
cpu-load.txt
cputopology.txt topology/sysfs: Provide book id and siblings attributes 2010-09-09 20:41:25 +02:00
credentials.txt CRED: Fix __task_cred()'s lockdep check and banner comment 2010-07-29 15:16:18 -07:00
dcdbas.txt
debugging-modules.txt
debugging-via-ohci1394.txt ieee1394: update URLs in debugging-via-ohci1394.txt 2009-10-03 09:28:11 +02:00
dell_rbu.txt trivial: Documentation/dell_rbu.txt: fix typos 2009-06-12 18:01:50 +02:00
devices.txt Merge branch 'v4l_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/linux-2.6 2010-10-28 09:35:11 -07:00
dmaengine.txt async_tx, dmaengine: document channel allocation and api rework 2009-01-05 18:10:19 -07:00
dontdiff Documentation/dontdiff: add further autogenerated files to ignore list 2011-01-06 09:59:37 -08:00
dynamic-debug-howto.txt Dynamic debug: Add more flags 2011-02-03 15:39:16 -08:00
edac.txt EDAC: Fix typos in Documentation/edac.txt 2010-11-25 17:32:47 +01:00
eisa.txt doc: fix Defaultd -> Defaults typo in EISA doc 2010-02-05 12:22:39 +01:00
email-clients.txt Documentation/email-clients.txt: update Thunderbird docs with wordwrap plugin 2011-01-13 08:03:15 -08:00
feature-removal-schedule.txt i2c: Drop i2c_adapter.id 2011-03-20 14:50:53 +01:00
flexible-arrays.txt Update flex_arrays.txt 2009-10-15 07:25:20 -06:00
futex-requeue-pi.txt futex: add requeue-pi documentation 2009-05-09 07:12:50 +02:00
gcov.txt trivial: fix typo in CONFIG_DEBUG_FS in gcov doc 2009-09-21 15:14:56 +02:00
gpio.txt Revert "gpiolib: annotate gpio-intialization with __must_check" 2011-01-13 17:26:46 -08:00
highuid.txt
hw_random.txt
hwspinlock.txt drivers: hwspinlock: add framework 2011-02-17 09:52:03 -08:00
init.txt init/main.c: improve usability in case of init binary failure 2010-03-06 11:26:29 -08:00
initrd.txt
intel_txt.txt Documentation: update broken web addresses. 2010-08-04 15:21:40 +02:00
io-mapping.txt io mapping: improve documentation 2008-11-03 18:21:44 +01:00
io_ordering.txt
iostats.txt remove extraneous 'is' from Documentation/iostats.txt 2011-01-03 14:00:28 +01:00
irqflags-tracing.txt
isapnp.txt
java.txt
kernel-doc-nano-HOWTO.txt docbook: warn on unused doc entries 2010-09-11 16:49:21 -07:00
kernel-docs.txt Documentation: update kernel-docs.txt 2011-01-06 09:59:38 -08:00
kernel-parameters.txt console: allow to retain boot console via boot option keep_bootcon 2011-03-22 17:44:12 -07:00
keys-request-key.txt KEYS: Add a new keyctl op to reject a key with a specified error code 2011-03-08 11:17:18 +11:00
keys-trusted-encrypted.txt keys: add new trusted key-type 2010-11-29 08:55:25 +11:00
keys.txt KEYS: Add an iovec version of KEYCTL_INSTANTIATE 2011-03-08 11:17:22 +11:00
kmemcheck.txt kmemcheck: update documentation 2009-07-01 22:36:22 +02:00
kmemleak.txt kmemleak: add clear command support 2009-09-08 16:36:08 +01:00
kobject.txt kobject: documentation: Update to refer to kset-example.c. 2010-03-19 07:12:20 -07:00
kprobes.txt tree-wide: fix comment/printk typos 2010-11-01 15:38:34 -04:00
kref.txt kref: Fix typo in kref documentation 2011-03-07 13:20:05 -08:00
ldm.txt Documentation: update broken web addresses. 2010-08-04 15:21:40 +02:00
leds-class.txt led-class: always implement blinking 2010-11-12 07:55:32 -08:00
leds-lp3944.txt leds: LED driver for National Semiconductor LP3944 Funlight Chip 2009-06-23 20:21:38 +01:00
local_ops.txt trivial: Miscellaneous documentation typo fixes 2009-06-12 18:01:47 +02:00
lockdep-design.txt lockdep: Fix typos in documentation 2009-08-07 12:03:46 +02:00
lockstat.txt lockstat: Add usage info to Documentation/lockstat.txt 2009-12-06 13:20:02 +01:00
logo.gif Revert "linux.conf.au 2009: Tuz" 2009-04-27 12:00:27 -07:00
logo.txt Revert "linux.conf.au 2009: Tuz" 2009-04-27 12:00:27 -07:00
magic-number.txt take coda-private headers out of include/linux 2011-01-12 20:02:48 -05:00
mca.txt
md.txt Documentation: update broken web addresses. 2010-08-04 15:21:40 +02:00
memory-barriers.txt smp: Document transitivity for memory barriers. 2011-03-04 08:05:49 -08:00
memory-hotplug.txt memory hotplug: Allow memory blocks to span multiple memory sections 2011-02-03 16:08:57 -08:00
memory.txt Documentation/memory.txt: remove some very outdated recommendations 2009-09-22 07:17:26 -07:00
mono.txt
mutex-design.txt mutex: Fix annotations to include it in kernel-locking docbook 2010-09-03 08:19:51 +02:00
nmi_watchdog.txt x86, nmi-watchdog: update procfs nmi_watchdog file documentation v2 2008-10-30 19:07:04 +01:00
nommu-mmap.txt nommu: fix malloc performance by adding uninitialized flag 2009-12-15 08:53:24 -08:00
numastat.txt mm: fix NUMA accounting in numastat.txt 2009-09-22 07:17:39 -07:00
oops-tracing.txt panic: Add taint flag TAINT_FIRMWARE_WORKAROUND ('I') 2010-05-19 08:37:43 +01:00
padata.txt Documentation/padata.txt: fix typos etc. 2010-08-11 08:59:18 -07:00
parport-lowlevel.txt
parport.txt
pi-futex.txt
pnp.txt doc: capitalization and other minor fixes in pnp doc 2010-02-05 12:22:44 +01:00
preempt-locking.txt
printk-formats.txt DOC: add printk-formats.txt 2008-11-12 17:17:17 -08:00
prio_tree.txt
rbtree.txt Documentation: remove anticipatory scheduler info 2010-11-11 12:09:59 +01:00
rfkill.txt Document the rfkill sysfs ABI 2010-03-10 17:09:33 -05:00
robust-futex-ABI.txt futex: documentation: fix inconsistent description of futex list_op_pending 2009-06-18 13:03:56 -07:00
robust-futexes.txt
rt-mutex-design.txt variable name fix to Documentation/rt-mutex-design.txt 2010-06-05 17:39:09 +02:00
rt-mutex.txt
rtc.txt RTC: Fix up rtc.txt documentation to reflect changes to generic rtc layer 2011-03-09 11:25:10 -08:00
serial-console.txt
sgi-ioc4.txt
sgi-visws.txt
sparse.txt update email address 2010-07-19 10:56:54 +02:00
spinlocks.txt locking: Remove deprecated lock initializers 2011-01-27 12:30:38 +01:00
stable_api_nonsense.txt
stable_kernel_rules.txt Documentation: -stable rules: upstream commit ID requirement reworded 2010-04-22 15:24:56 -07:00
svga.txt
sysfs-rules.txt Fix typos in comments 2010-03-16 11:47:56 +01:00
sysrq.txt documentation: update sysrq.txt magic sysrq keys 2010-10-26 17:32:41 -07:00
tomoyo.txt TOMOYO: Update version to 2.3.0 2010-08-02 15:35:10 +10:00
unaligned-memory-access.txt
unicode.txt
unshare.txt
vgaarbiter.txt vgaarbiter: fix a typo in the vgaarbiter Documentation 2009-12-16 11:28:58 -08:00
video-output.txt
volatile-considered-harmful.txt Documentation/volatile-considered-harmful.txt: correct cpu_relax() documentation 2010-03-24 16:31:20 -07:00
workqueue.txt workqueue, freezer: unify spelling of 'freeze' + 'able' to 'freezable' 2011-02-16 17:48:59 +01:00
xz.txt decompressors: add XZ decompressor module 2011-01-13 08:03:24 -08:00
zorro.txt