linux/kernel
Petr Mladek ab4af56ae2 printk/console: Allow to disable console output by using console="" or console=null
commit 3cffa06aee upstream.

The commit 48021f9813 ("printk: handle blank console arguments
passed in.") prevented crash caused by empty console= parameter value.

Unfortunately, this value is widely used on Chromebooks to disable
the console output. The above commit caused performance regression
because the messages were pushed on slow console even though nobody
was watching it.

Use ttynull driver explicitly for console="" and console=null
parameters. It has been created for exactly this purpose.

It causes that preferred_console is set. As a result, ttySX and ttyX
are not used as a fallback. And only ttynull console gets registered by
default.

It still allows to register other consoles either by additional console=
parameters or SPCR. It prevents regression because it worked this way even
before. Also it is a sane semantic. Preventing output on all consoles
should be done another way, for example, by introducing mute_console
parameter.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201006025935.GA597@jagdpanzerIV.localdomain
Suggested-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Tested-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Acked-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201111135450.11214-3-pmladek@suse.com
Cc: Yi Fan <yfa@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2021-11-12 14:58:33 +01:00
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bpf bpf: Fix error usage of map_fd and fdget() in generic_map_update_batch() 2021-11-02 19:48:21 +01:00
cgroup cgroup: Fix memory leak caused by missing cgroup_bpf_offline 2021-11-02 19:48:21 +01:00
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dma dma-debug: fix sg checks in debug_dma_map_sg() 2021-10-27 09:56:47 +02:00
entry KVM: rseq: Update rseq when processing NOTIFY_RESUME on xfer to KVM guest 2021-10-06 15:55:49 +02:00
events perf/core: fix userpage->time_enabled of inactive events 2021-10-17 10:43:33 +02:00
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printk printk/console: Allow to disable console output by using console="" or console=null 2021-11-12 14:58:33 +01:00
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sched sched/scs: Reset the shadow stack when idle_task_exit 2021-10-27 09:56:55 +02:00
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trace tracing: Have all levels of checks prevent recursion 2021-10-27 09:56:56 +02:00
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