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

[Sergey Senozhatsky]

Hi,

On (09/04/18 20:01), Hans de Goede wrote:
> Commit 375899cddcbb ("printk: make sure to print log on console."), moved
> the checking of the loglevel of messages from flush time to the actual
> log time.
> 
> This introduces one problem, some early boot messages are printed before
> parse_early_param() gets called and thus before kernel commandline options
> such as quiet, loglevel and ignore_loglevel are parsed.

Do you use earlycon?

> This causes e.g. the following messages to get printed on x86 systems,
> despite the presence of the "quiet" option:
> 
> [    0.000000] BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
> [    0.000000] BIOS-e820: [mem 0x0000000000000000-0x0000000000057fff] usable
> ...
> [    0.000000] BIOS-e820: [mem 0x0000000100000000-0x0000000874ffffff] usable
> 
> This commit fixes this by setting a new LOG_CHK_LEVEL on early boot
> messages and doing the loglevel check for these while flushing as before.
> 

Hmm, OK, chances are we need to re-think 375899cddcbb. It might be
the case that we sort of broke CON_PRINTBUFFER handling.

	console_loglevel = CONSOLE_LOGLEVEL_MOTORMOUTH
	register CON_PRINTBUFFER console
		-> no debug output

So I think that when console_unlock() re-flushes already seen logbuf
messages to a newly registered exclusive [CON_PRINTBUFFER] console we
probably need to look at the current console_loglevel in console_unlock()
loop.

	-ss