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authorYanmin Zhang <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com>2011-10-31 17:11:27 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2011-10-31 17:30:53 -0700
commit134620f7a865b3bc9e3d56d460603592b70ede21 (patch)
tree82d455ffba5417b731d0283c6593e101dfb625ac
parent0eca6b7c78fd997e02bd9850e608102382b7822e (diff)
printk: add console_suspend module parameter
We are enabling some power features on medfield. To test suspend-2-RAM conveniently, we need turn on/off console_suspend_enabled frequently. Add a module parameter, so users could change it by: /sys/module/printk/parameters/console_suspend Signed-off-by: Yanmin Zhang <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
-rw-r--r--Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt5
-rw-r--r--kernel/printk.c4
2 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
index 106efe1e2ba..c2efe285396 100644
--- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -1669,6 +1669,11 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
debugging driver suspend/resume hooks). This may
not work reliably with all consoles, but is known
to work with serial and VGA consoles.
+ To facilitate more flexible debugging, we also add
+ console_suspend, a printk module parameter to control
+ it. Users could use console_suspend (usually
+ /sys/module/printk/parameters/console_suspend) to
+ turn on/off it dynamically.
noaliencache [MM, NUMA, SLAB] Disables the allocation of alien
caches in the slab allocator. Saves per-node memory,
diff --git a/kernel/printk.c b/kernel/printk.c
index e62f949ec14..6d9dedd1145 100644
--- a/kernel/printk.c
+++ b/kernel/printk.c
@@ -1111,6 +1111,10 @@ static int __init console_suspend_disable(char *str)
return 1;
}
__setup("no_console_suspend", console_suspend_disable);
+module_param_named(console_suspend, console_suspend_enabled,
+ bool, S_IRUGO | S_IWUSR);
+MODULE_PARM_DESC(console_suspend, "suspend console during suspend"
+ " and hibernate operations");
/**
* suspend_console - suspend the console subsystem