[GIT PULL] printk for 7.4

From: Petr Mladek

Date: Thu Oct 22 2026 - 07:21:44 EST


Hi Linus,

please pull the latest printk changes from

git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/printk/linux.git tags/printk-for-7.4

================================================================

- John Ogness became PRINTK co-maintainer.

- Unregister boot consoles when any proper console is registered at the end
of the boot phase. Before they were removed only when the so-called
preferred console, usually set via the last console= parameter, got
registered.

- Fix computation for increasing the printk ringbuffer on systems
with many CPUs and possibly long backtraces from all CPUs.

- Cleaned up irq_works handling for deferred printk operations.

- Use acquire/release semantic for filled_random_ptr_key.

- Allow to use ':' in console options.

- More code clean up.

----------------------------------------------------------------
Andy Shevchenko (1):
lib/vsprintf: Use EXPORT_SYMBOL_IF_KUNIT() to export symbols

David Engraf (1):
printk: Remove console options before decoding the name

Jinjie Ruan (1):
lib/vsprintf: Use acquire/release for ptr_key publication

Petr Mladek (3):
MAINTAINERS: Make John PRINTK co-maintainer
Merge branch 'for-7.4' into for-linus
Merge branch 'for-7.4-console-registration' into for-linus

Sang-Heon Jeon (1):
printk: increase the ring buffer for more than 16 CPUs by default

Sebastian Andrzej Siewior (1):
printk: Use two irq_works instead per-CPU

Wang Wensheng (1):
printk_ringbuffer: Avoid needless read of prb_desc

Xiaochun Li (1):
printk: Remove remaining boot consoles when a real console exists

MAINTAINERS | 2 +-
kernel/printk/printk.c | 130 ++++++++++++++++++++------------------
kernel/printk/printk_ringbuffer.c | 17 ++---
lib/tests/printf_kunit.c | 1 +
lib/vsprintf.c | 19 +++---
5 files changed, 88 insertions(+), 81 deletions(-)