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Michael Ellerman 76a8ad2939 [PATCH] Make printk work for really early debugging
Currently printk is no use for early debugging because it refuses to
actually print anything to the console unless
cpu_online(smp_processor_id()) is true.

The stated explanation is that console drivers may require per-cpu
resources, or otherwise barf, because the system is not yet setup
correctly.  Fair enough.

However some console drivers might be quite happy running early during
boot, in fact we have one, and so it'd be nice if printk understood that.

So I added a flag (which I would have called CON_BOOT, but that's taken)
called CON_ANYTIME, which indicates that a console is happy to be called
anytime, even if the cpu is not yet online.

Tested on a Power 5 machine, with both a CON_ANYTIME driver and a bogus
console driver that BUG()s if called while offline.  No problems AFAICT.
Built for i386 UP & SMP.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-25 10:01:05 -07:00
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acpi Merge branch 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6 2006-06-23 07:52:36 -07:00
asm-alpha [PATCH] random: remove SA_SAMPLE_RANDOM from floppy driver 2006-06-25 10:01:00 -07:00
asm-arm [PATCH] random: remove SA_SAMPLE_RANDOM from floppy driver 2006-06-25 10:01:00 -07:00
asm-arm26 [PATCH] random: remove SA_SAMPLE_RANDOM from floppy driver 2006-06-25 10:01:00 -07:00
asm-cris
asm-frv [PATCH] frv: clean frv unistd.h 2006-06-23 07:42:55 -07:00
asm-generic [PATCH] Define __raw_get_cpu_var and use it 2006-06-25 10:01:01 -07:00
asm-h8300 [PATCH] adjust handle_IRR_event() return type 2006-06-23 07:43:08 -07:00
asm-i386 [PATCH] random: remove SA_SAMPLE_RANDOM from floppy driver 2006-06-25 10:01:00 -07:00
asm-ia64 [PATCH] Define __raw_get_cpu_var and use it 2006-06-25 10:01:01 -07:00
asm-m32r [PATCH] vgacon: make VGA_MAP_MEM take size, remove extra use 2006-06-22 15:05:58 -07:00
asm-m68k [PATCH] m68k: convert VME irq code 2006-06-25 10:00:58 -07:00
asm-m68knommu [PATCH] adjust handle_IRR_event() return type 2006-06-23 07:43:08 -07:00
asm-mips [PATCH] random: remove SA_SAMPLE_RANDOM from floppy driver 2006-06-25 10:01:00 -07:00
asm-parisc [PATCH] random: remove SA_SAMPLE_RANDOM from floppy driver 2006-06-25 10:01:00 -07:00
asm-powerpc [PATCH] Define __raw_get_cpu_var and use it 2006-06-25 10:01:01 -07:00
asm-ppc [PATCH] random: remove SA_SAMPLE_RANDOM from floppy driver 2006-06-25 10:01:00 -07:00
asm-s390 [PATCH] Define __raw_get_cpu_var and use it 2006-06-25 10:01:01 -07:00
asm-sh [PATCH] random: remove SA_SAMPLE_RANDOM from floppy driver 2006-06-25 10:01:00 -07:00
asm-sh64
asm-sparc [SBUS]: Rewrite and plug into of_device framework. 2006-06-23 23:15:50 -07:00
asm-sparc64 [PATCH] Define __raw_get_cpu_var and use it 2006-06-25 10:01:01 -07:00
asm-um Merge git://git.infradead.org/hdrcleanup-2.6 2006-06-20 15:10:08 -07:00
asm-v850 [PATCH] adjust handle_IRR_event() return type 2006-06-23 07:43:08 -07:00
asm-x86_64 [PATCH] Define __raw_get_cpu_var and use it 2006-06-25 10:01:01 -07:00
asm-xtensa [PATCH] xtensa: remove verify_area macros 2006-06-23 07:43:02 -07:00
keys
linux [PATCH] Make printk work for really early debugging 2006-06-25 10:01:05 -07:00
math-emu
media
mtd Merge git://git.infradead.org/hdrcleanup-2.6 2006-06-20 15:10:08 -07:00
net [NET]: fix net-core kernel-doc 2006-06-23 02:07:42 -07:00
pcmcia
rdma IB/uverbs: Don't serialize with ib_uverbs_idr_mutex 2006-06-17 20:44:49 -07:00
rxrpc
scsi Merge branch 'master' into upstream 2006-06-22 22:11:56 -04:00
sound [ALSA] version 1.0.12rc1 2006-06-22 21:35:11 +02:00
video