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authorAndy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>2009-01-15 13:50:52 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2009-01-15 16:39:36 -0800
commitfb144adc517d9ebe8fd8d98a5696fb68ec91e1f5 (patch)
tree1e7adf4da0fdaef9ffaeff07cc7727b9561261e4 /drivers/char
parent47c33d9c1984ae4c5bd1f144024eacc14c5bc0c0 (diff)
sysrq: add commentary on why we use the console loglevel over using KERN_EMERG
Add an explanitory comment as to why we modify the kernel console loglevel rather than simply moving sysrq messages to KERN_EMERG level. Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com> Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/char')
-rw-r--r--drivers/char/sysrq.c6
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/char/sysrq.c b/drivers/char/sysrq.c
index d41b9f6f7903..33a9351c896d 100644
--- a/drivers/char/sysrq.c
+++ b/drivers/char/sysrq.c
@@ -473,6 +473,12 @@ void __handle_sysrq(int key, struct tty_struct *tty, int check_mask)
unsigned long flags;
spin_lock_irqsave(&sysrq_key_table_lock, flags);
+ /*
+ * Raise the apparent loglevel to maximum so that the sysrq header
+ * is shown to provide the user with positive feedback. We do not
+ * simply emit this at KERN_EMERG as that would change message
+ * routing in the consumers of /proc/kmsg.
+ */
orig_log_level = console_loglevel;
console_loglevel = 7;
printk(KERN_INFO "SysRq : ");