linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4.19 regression fix] printk: For early boot messages check loglevel when flushing the buffer

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Message-ID: <20180905055159.GB19936@jagdpanzerIV>
Date:   Wed, 5 Sep 2018 14:51:59 +0900
From:   Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@...il.com>
To:     Hans de Goede <hdegoede@...hat.com>
Cc:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        "H . Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
        Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@...il.com>,
        x86@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>,
        Maninder Singh <maninder1.s@...sung.com>,
        Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4.19 regression fix] printk: For early boot messages
 check loglevel when flushing the buffer

On (09/05/18 14:36), Sergey Senozhatsky wrote:
> 
> OK, thanks for the report!
> So I think that your case is CON_PRINTBUFFER related as well. We have
> a number of logbuf messages before we parse quiet and console_loglevel.
> Those messages pass the suppress_message() test. Then when we finally
> register a CON_PRINTBUFFER console we update console_loglevel and flush
> all logbuf messages, but console_loglevel does not matter anymore.
> 

Hmm, earlycon can also be affected, probably. But I'm not sure if people
do "earlycon" and "quiet" at the same time. May be, who knows...

	-ss