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

From: Sergey Senozhatsky
Date: Wed Sep 05 2018 - 01:52:10 EST


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