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| author | Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com> | 2009-09-22 16:43:33 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2009-09-23 07:39:28 -0700 |
| commit | af91322ef3f29ae4114e736e2a72e28b4d619cf9 (patch) | |
| tree | debba08531c7dd78b90b5d8f2c03f6bf7c9e7877 /include/linux | |
| parent | 3a3b6ed2235f2f619889dd6096e24b6d93bf3339 (diff) | |
printk: add printk_delay to make messages readable for some scenarios
When syslog is not possible, at the same time there's no serial/net
console available, it will be hard to read the printk messages. For
example oops/panic/warning messages in shutdown phase.
Add a printk delay feature, we can make each printk message delay some
milliseconds.
Setting the delay by proc/sysctl interface: /proc/sys/kernel/printk_delay
The value range from 0 - 10000, default value is 0
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix a few things]
Signed-off-by: Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/kernel.h | 2 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/kernel.h b/include/linux/kernel.h index 2b5b1e0899a8..0a2a19087863 100644 --- a/include/linux/kernel.h +++ b/include/linux/kernel.h @@ -246,6 +246,8 @@ extern int printk_ratelimit(void); extern bool printk_timed_ratelimit(unsigned long *caller_jiffies, unsigned int interval_msec); +extern int printk_delay_msec; + /* * Print a one-time message (analogous to WARN_ONCE() et al): */ |