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Thu, 22 Oct 2020 07:15:29 -0700 (PDT) Sender: Guenter Roeck Subject: Re: [RFC 1/2] printk: Add kernel parameter: mute_console To: John Ogness , Petr Mladek , Sergey Senozhatsky , Steven Rostedt Cc: Linus Torvalds , Shreyas Joshi , shreyasjoshi15@gmail.com, Greg Kroah-Hartman , Sergey Senozhatsky , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20201022114228.9098-1-pmladek@suse.com> <20201022114228.9098-2-pmladek@suse.com> <87a6wez9s4.fsf@jogness.linutronix.de> From: Guenter Roeck Autocrypt: addr=linux@roeck-us.net; keydata= xsFNBE6H1WcBEACu6jIcw5kZ5dGeJ7E7B2uweQR/4FGxH10/H1O1+ApmcQ9i87XdZQiB9cpN RYHA7RCEK2dh6dDccykQk3bC90xXMPg+O3R+C/SkwcnUak1UZaeK/SwQbq/t0tkMzYDRxfJ7 nyFiKxUehbNF3r9qlJgPqONwX5vJy4/GvDHdddSCxV41P/ejsZ8PykxyJs98UWhF54tGRWFl 7i1xvaDB9lN5WTLRKSO7wICuLiSz5WZHXMkyF4d+/O5ll7yz/o/JxK5vO/sduYDIlFTvBZDh gzaEtNf5tQjsjG4io8E0Yq0ViobLkS2RTNZT8ICq/Jmvl0SpbHRvYwa2DhNsK0YjHFQBB0FX IdhdUEzNefcNcYvqigJpdICoP2e4yJSyflHFO4dr0OrdnGLe1Zi/8Xo/2+M1dSSEt196rXaC kwu2KgIgmkRBb3cp2vIBBIIowU8W3qC1+w+RdMUrZxKGWJ3juwcgveJlzMpMZNyM1jobSXZ0 VHGMNJ3MwXlrEFPXaYJgibcg6brM6wGfX/LBvc/haWw4yO24lT5eitm4UBdIy9pKkKmHHh7s jfZJkB5fWKVdoCv/omy6UyH6ykLOPFugl+hVL2Prf8xrXuZe1CMS7ID9Lc8FaL1ROIN/W8Vk BIsJMaWOhks//7d92Uf3EArDlDShwR2+D+AMon8NULuLBHiEUQARAQABzTJHdWVudGVyIFJv ZWNrIChMaW51eCBhY2NvdW50KSA8bGludXhAcm9lY2stdXMubmV0PsLBgQQTAQIAKwIbAwYL CQgHAwIGFQgCCQoLBBYCAwECHgECF4ACGQEFAlVcphcFCRmg06EACgkQyx8mb86fmYFg0RAA nzXJzuPkLJaOmSIzPAqqnutACchT/meCOgMEpS5oLf6xn5ySZkl23OxuhpMZTVX+49c9pvBx hpvl5bCWFu5qC1jC2eWRYU+aZZE4sxMaAGeWenQJsiG9lP8wkfCJP3ockNu0ZXXAXwIbY1O1 c+l11zQkZw89zNgWgKobKzrDMBFOYtAh0pAInZ9TSn7oA4Ctejouo5wUugmk8MrDtUVXmEA9 7f9fgKYSwl/H7dfKKsS1bDOpyJlqhEAH94BHJdK/b1tzwJCFAXFhMlmlbYEk8kWjcxQgDWMu GAthQzSuAyhqyZwFcOlMCNbAcTSQawSo3B9yM9mHJne5RrAbVz4TWLnEaX8gA5xK3uCNCeyI sqYuzA4OzcMwnnTASvzsGZoYHTFP3DQwf2nzxD6yBGCfwNGIYfS0i8YN8XcBgEcDFMWpOQhT Pu3HeztMnF3HXrc0t7e5rDW9zCh3k2PA6D2NV4fews9KDFhLlTfCVzf0PS1dRVVWM+4jVl6l HRIAgWp+2/f8dx5vPc4Ycp4IsZN0l1h9uT7qm1KTwz+sSl1zOqKD/BpfGNZfLRRxrXthvvY8 BltcuZ4+PGFTcRkMytUbMDFMF9Cjd2W9dXD35PEtvj8wnEyzIos8bbgtLrGTv/SYhmPpahJA l8hPhYvmAvpOmusUUyB30StsHIU2LLccUPPOwU0ETofVZwEQALlLbQeBDTDbwQYrj0gbx3bq 7kpKABxN2MqeuqGr02DpS9883d/t7ontxasXoEz2GTioevvRmllJlPQERVxM8gQoNg22twF7 pB/zsrIjxkE9heE4wYfN1AyzT+AxgYN6f8hVQ7Nrc9XgZZe+8IkuW/Nf64KzNJXnSH4u6nJM J2+Dt274YoFcXR1nG76Q259mKwzbCukKbd6piL+VsT/qBrLhZe9Ivbjq5WMdkQKnP7gYKCAi pNVJC4enWfivZsYupMd9qn7Uv/oCZDYoBTdMSBUblaLMwlcjnPpOYK5rfHvC4opxl+P/Vzyz 6WC2TLkPtKvYvXmdsI6rnEI4Uucg0Au/Ulg7aqqKhzGPIbVaL+U0Wk82nz6hz+WP2ggTrY1w ZlPlRt8WM9w6WfLf2j+PuGklj37m+KvaOEfLsF1v464dSpy1tQVHhhp8LFTxh/6RWkRIR2uF I4v3Xu/k5D0LhaZHpQ4C+xKsQxpTGuYh2tnRaRL14YMW1dlI3HfeB2gj7Yc8XdHh9vkpPyuT nY/ZsFbnvBtiw7GchKKri2gDhRb2QNNDyBnQn5mRFw7CyuFclAksOdV/sdpQnYlYcRQWOUGY HhQ5eqTRZjm9z+qQe/T0HQpmiPTqQcIaG/edgKVTUjITfA7AJMKLQHgp04Vylb+G6jocnQQX JqvvP09whbqrABEBAAHCwWUEGAECAA8CGwwFAlVcpi8FCRmg08MACgkQyx8mb86fmYHNRQ/+ J0OZsBYP4leJvQF8lx9zif+v4ZY/6C9tTcUv/KNAE5leyrD4IKbnV4PnbrVhjq861it/zRQW cFpWQszZyWRwNPWUUz7ejmm9lAwPbr8xWT4qMSA43VKQ7ZCeTQJ4TC8kjqtcbw41SjkjrcTG wF52zFO4bOWyovVAPncvV9eGA/vtnd3xEZXQiSt91kBSqK28yjxAqK/c3G6i7IX2rg6pzgqh hiH3/1qM2M/LSuqAv0Rwrt/k+pZXE+B4Ud42hwmMr0TfhNxG+X7YKvjKC+SjPjqp0CaztQ0H nsDLSLElVROxCd9m8CAUuHplgmR3seYCOrT4jriMFBtKNPtj2EE4DNV4s7k0Zy+6iRQ8G8ng QjsSqYJx8iAR8JRB7Gm2rQOMv8lSRdjva++GT0VLXtHULdlzg8VjDnFZ3lfz5PWEOeIMk7Rj trjv82EZtrhLuLjHRCaG50OOm0hwPSk1J64R8O3HjSLdertmw7eyAYOo4RuWJguYMg5DRnBk WkRwrSuCn7UG+qVWZeKEsFKFOkynOs3pVbcbq1pxbhk3TRWCGRU5JolI4ohy/7JV1TVbjiDI HP/aVnm6NC8of26P40Pg8EdAhajZnHHjA7FrJXsy3cyIGqvg9os4rNkUWmrCfLLsZDHD8FnU mDW4+i+XlNFUPUYMrIKi9joBhu18ssf5i5Q= Message-ID: <5a30b3e8-c2c3-ceae-517e-c93fb2c3118f@roeck-us.net> Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2020 07:15:27 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.10.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <87a6wez9s4.fsf@jogness.linutronix.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 10/22/20 6:10 AM, John Ogness wrote: > On 2020-10-22, Petr Mladek wrote: >> diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt >> index 02d4adbf98d2..52b9e7f5468d 100644 >> --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt >> +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt >> @@ -2974,6 +2974,12 @@ >> Used for mtrr cleanup. It is spare mtrr entries number. >> Set to 2 or more if your graphical card needs more. >> >> + mute_console [KNL] >> + Completely disable printing of kernel messages to >> + the console. It can still be used as stdin, stdout, "to all consoles" >> + and stderr for the init process. Also it can be used >> + for login. > > IMHO it would make more sense for this to be a console option: > > console=ttyS0,115200,mute > > Then other consoles could still exist that are not muted. > Then why specify this console in the first place ? > On a side note, I am considering proposing something similar for my > printk-rework efforts. Once console printers are moved to kthreads, some > users may not care about latencies and instead prefer synchronous > printing. My idea for this is to provide a "sync" option for the > console: > > console=ttyS0,115200,sync > The whole point of the exercise is to disable all consoles, including default ones which are not explicitly specified on the command line. The above would mean that each potential console would have to be muted. That isn't really scalable for a build system which has to handle many different console devices. Guenter