Re: [RFC] printk/sysrq: Don't play with console_loglevel

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Fri Jun 07 2019 - 17:14:39 EST


On Tue 2019-05-28 19:15:43, Tetsuo Handa wrote:
> On 2019/05/28 17:51, Sergey Senozhatsky wrote:
> >> You are trying to omit passing KERN_UNSUPPRESSED by utilizing implicit printk
> >> context information. But doesn't such attempt resemble find_printk_buffer() ?
> >
> > Adding KERN_UNSUPPRESSED to all printks down the op_p->handler()
> > line is hardly possible. At the same time I'd really prefer not
> > to have buffering for sysrq.
>
> I don't think it is hardly possible. And I really prefer having
> deferred printing for SysRq.

Well, magic SysRq was meant for situation where system is in weird/broken state.
"Give me backtrace where it is hung", etc. Direct printing is more likely to work
in that cases.
Pavel