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authorDaniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org>2014-11-07 18:37:57 +0000
committerJason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>2015-02-19 12:39:02 -0600
commitf7d4ca8bbfda23b4f1eae9b6757ff64166b093d5 (patch)
tree86344cfa2840a6401e62628e92a7591678c5150d /kernel/printk
parentdf0036d117e6c9df36324e517728e33543065f9a (diff)
kdb: Avoid printing KERN_ levels to consoles
Currently when kdb traps printk messages then the raw log level prefix (consisting of '\001' followed by a numeral) does not get stripped off before the message is issued to the various I/O handlers supported by kdb. This causes annoying visual noise as well as causing problems grepping for ^. It is also a change of behaviour compared to normal usage of printk() usage. For example <SysRq>-h ends up with different output to that of kdb's "sr h". This patch addresses the problem by stripping log levels from messages before they are issued to the I/O handlers. printk() which can also act as an i/o handler in some cases is special cased; if the caller provided a log level then the prefix will be preserved when sent to printk(). The addition of non-printable characters to the output of kdb commands is a regression, albeit and extremely elderly one, introduced by commit 04d2c8c83d0e ("printk: convert the format for KERN_<LEVEL> to a 2 byte pattern"). Note also that this patch does *not* restore the original behaviour from v3.5. Instead it makes printk() from within a kdb command display the message without any prefix (i.e. like printk() normally does). Signed-off-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org> Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/printk')
-rw-r--r--kernel/printk/printk.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/printk/printk.c b/kernel/printk/printk.c
index 02d6b6d28796..fae29e3ffbf0 100644
--- a/kernel/printk/printk.c
+++ b/kernel/printk/printk.c
@@ -1811,7 +1811,7 @@ int vprintk_default(const char *fmt, va_list args)
#ifdef CONFIG_KGDB_KDB
if (unlikely(kdb_trap_printk)) {
- r = vkdb_printf(fmt, args);
+ r = vkdb_printf(KDB_MSGSRC_PRINTK, fmt, args);
return r;
}
#endif