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Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2008 09:23:59 -0400 From: "Jon Smirl" <jonsmirl@...il.com> To: "Jeff Moyer" <jmoyer@...hat.com> Cc: lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, dhowells@...hat.com Subject: Re: netconsole and a serial one On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 9:19 AM, Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@...hat.com> wrote: > "Jon Smirl" <jonsmirl@...il.com> writes: > >> I have both netconsole and a serial console setup on an embedded >> system. This is what I need for the boot process. >> >> After I'm booted I want to turn off printk() output to the serial >> console but keep it going to netconsole. >> I've been googling for an hour, how do I do this? >> >> I need to turn off the serial output after boot because serial >> printk() disables interrupts for up to 1ms which is enough to cause me >> to lose a lot of other interrupts. > > There's no way (that I know of) to do this presently. However, I think > David Howells has been working on a patch that reduces the amount of > time printk spends with IRQs disabled. I looked into interrupts and printk several years ago. If I recall correctly printk() prints with interrupts off to ensure stability in an OOPS situation. Could serial printk() be changed to disable interrupts only in the OOPS situation? It's all of the other non-critical printks that are impacting my system. -- Jon Smirl jonsmirl@...il.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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