linux-kernel - [PATCH] kexec: quiet down kexec reboot

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Message-Id: <20190423204154.3085-1-pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>
Date:   Tue, 23 Apr 2019 16:41:54 -0400
From:   Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@...een.com>
To:     pasha.tatashin@...een.com, jmorris@...ei.org, sashal@...nel.org,
        ebiederm@...ssion.com, kexec@...ts.infradead.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] kexec: quiet down kexec reboot

Here is a regular kexec command sequence and output:
=====
$ kexec --reuse-cmdline -i --load Image
$ kexec -e
[  161.342002] kexec_core: Starting new kernel

Welcome to Buildroot
buildroot login:
=====

Even when "quiet" kernel parameter is specified, "kexec_core: Starting
new kernel" is printed.

This message has  KERN_EMERG level, but there is no emergency, it is
a normal kexec operation, so quiet it down to appropriate KERN_NOTICE.

Machines that have slow console baud rate benefit from less output.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@...een.com>
---
 kernel/kexec_core.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/kexec_core.c b/kernel/kexec_core.c
index d7140447be75..fe13e86984ec 100644
--- a/kernel/kexec_core.c
+++ b/kernel/kexec_core.c
@@ -1171,7 +1171,7 @@ int kernel_kexec(void)
 		 * CPU hotplug again; so re-enable it here.
 		 */
 		cpu_hotplug_enable();
-		pr_emerg("Starting new kernel\n");
+		pr_notice("Starting new kernel\n");
 		machine_shutdown();
 	}
 
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