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From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, hpa@zytor.com,
	gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, x86@kernel.org
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Subject: [PATCH 1/3] xen/documentation: Mention 'earlyprintk=xen' in the documentation.
Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2013 15:54:08 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1361825650-14031-2-git-send-email-konrad.wilk@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1361825650-14031-1-git-send-email-konrad.wilk@oracle.com>

The earlyprintk for Xen PV guests utilizes a simple hypercall
(console_io) to provide output to Xen emergency console.

Note that the Xen hypervisor should be booted with 'loglevel=all'
to output said information.

Reported-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
---
 Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
index 7660877..73d51ed 100644
--- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -757,6 +757,7 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
 
 	earlyprintk=	[X86,SH,BLACKFIN]
 			earlyprintk=vga
+			earlyprintk=xen
 			earlyprintk=serial[,ttySn[,baudrate]]
 			earlyprintk=ttySn[,baudrate]
 			earlyprintk=dbgp[debugController#]
@@ -774,6 +775,8 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
 			The VGA output is eventually overwritten by the real
 			console.
 
+			The xen output can only be used by Xen PV guests.
+
 	ekgdboc=	[X86,KGDB] Allow early kernel console debugging
 			ekgdboc=kbd
 
-- 
1.8.0.2


  reply	other threads:[~2013-02-25 20:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-02-25 20:54 [PATCH] Documentation and source code comments updates (v1) Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2013-02-25 20:54 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk [this message]
2013-02-25 22:13   ` [tip:x86/urgent] doc, xen: Mention 'earlyprintk=xen' in the documentation tip-bot for Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2013-02-25 20:54 ` [PATCH 2/3] kernel-parameters: Document 'console=hvc<n>' Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2013-02-25 22:14   ` [tip:x86/urgent] doc, kernel-parameters: Document 'console=hvc<n> ' tip-bot for Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2013-02-25 20:54 ` [PATCH 3/3] docs: Fix incorrect comment about 64-bit code segment descriptors Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2013-02-25 22:15   ` [tip:x86/urgent] x86, doc: " tip-bot for Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2013-02-26  5:08 ` [PATCH] Documentation and source code comments updates (v1) Rob Landley
2013-02-26 16:40   ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk

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