Re: [PATCH 11/12] efi/libstub: arm/arm64: Disable debug prints on 'quiet' cmdline arg

From: Jon Masters
Date: Tue Apr 11 2017 - 00:09:12 EST


On 04/04/2017 12:09 PM, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> The EFI stub currently prints a number of diagnostic messages that do
> not carry a lot of information. Since these prints are not controlled
> by 'loglevel' or other command line parameters, and since they appear on
> the EFI framebuffer as well (if enabled), it would be nice if we could
> turn them off.
>
> So let's add support for the 'quiet' command line parameter in the stub,
> and disable the non-error prints if it is passed.

> +extern int __pure is_quiet(void);
> +
> +#define pr_efi(sys_table, msg) do { \
> + if (!is_quiet()) efi_printk(sys_table, "EFI stub: "msg); \
> +} while (0)
> +
> +#define pr_efi_err(sys_table, msg) efi_printk(sys_table, "EFI stub: ERROR: "msg)

Thanks for this one :)

Jon.