linux-stable/kernel/printk
Petr Mladek ab4af56ae2 printk/console: Allow to disable console output by using console="" or console=null
commit 3cffa06aee upstream.

The commit 48021f9813 ("printk: handle blank console arguments
passed in.") prevented crash caused by empty console= parameter value.

Unfortunately, this value is widely used on Chromebooks to disable
the console output. The above commit caused performance regression
because the messages were pushed on slow console even though nobody
was watching it.

Use ttynull driver explicitly for console="" and console=null
parameters. It has been created for exactly this purpose.

It causes that preferred_console is set. As a result, ttySX and ttyX
are not used as a fallback. And only ttynull console gets registered by
default.

It still allows to register other consoles either by additional console=
parameters or SPCR. It prevents regression because it worked this way even
before. Also it is a sane semantic. Preventing output on all consoles
should be done another way, for example, by introducing mute_console
parameter.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201006025935.GA597@jagdpanzerIV.localdomain
Suggested-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Tested-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Acked-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201111135450.11214-3-pmladek@suse.com
Cc: Yi Fan <yfa@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2021-11-12 14:58:33 +01:00
..
braille.c printk: Replace strncmp() with str_has_prefix() 2019-08-16 09:54:08 +02:00
braille.h License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
console_cmdline.h printk: Fix preferred console selection with multiple matches 2020-02-18 09:34:42 +01:00
internal.h printk: move dictionary keys to dev_printk_info 2020-09-22 11:27:48 +02:00
Makefile printk: add lockless ringbuffer 2020-07-10 08:48:19 +02:00
printk.c printk/console: Allow to disable console output by using console="" or console=null 2021-11-12 14:58:33 +01:00
printk_ringbuffer.c printk: ringbuffer: fix line counting 2021-01-27 11:55:08 +01:00
printk_ringbuffer.h printk: avoid and/or handle record truncation 2020-09-30 13:30:28 +02:00
printk_safe.c printk: fix deadlock when kernel panic 2021-03-04 11:38:41 +01:00