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-rw-r--r--Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt14
-rw-r--r--kernel/printk/printk.c23
2 files changed, 36 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
index 62436bd5f34a..af614995b71d 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -640,6 +640,20 @@
console=brl,ttyS0
For now, only VisioBraille is supported.
+ console_msg_format=
+ [KNL] Change console messages format
+ default
+ By default we print messages on consoles in
+ "[time stamp] text\n" format (time stamp may not be
+ printed, depending on CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME or
+ `printk_time' param).
+ syslog
+ Switch to syslog format: "<%u>[time stamp] text\n"
+ IOW, each message will have a facility and loglevel
+ prefix. The format is similar to one used by syslog()
+ syscall, or to executing "dmesg -S --raw" or to reading
+ from /proc/kmsg.
+
consoleblank= [KNL] The console blank (screen saver) timeout in
seconds. A value of 0 disables the blank timer.
Defaults to 0.
diff --git a/kernel/printk/printk.c b/kernel/printk/printk.c
index 5d81206a572d..568729e0dc2c 100644
--- a/kernel/printk/printk.c
+++ b/kernel/printk/printk.c
@@ -277,6 +277,13 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(console_set_on_cmdline);
/* Flag: console code may call schedule() */
static int console_may_schedule;
+enum con_msg_format_flags {
+ MSG_FORMAT_DEFAULT = 0,
+ MSG_FORMAT_SYSLOG = (1 << 0),
+};
+
+static int console_msg_format = MSG_FORMAT_DEFAULT;
+
/*
* The printk log buffer consists of a chain of concatenated variable
* length records. Every record starts with a record header, containing
@@ -1913,6 +1920,17 @@ static int __add_preferred_console(char *name, int idx, char *options,
c->index = idx;
return 0;
}
+
+static int __init console_msg_format_setup(char *str)
+{
+ if (!strcmp(str, "syslog"))
+ console_msg_format = MSG_FORMAT_SYSLOG;
+ if (!strcmp(str, "default"))
+ console_msg_format = MSG_FORMAT_DEFAULT;
+ return 1;
+}
+__setup("console_msg_format=", console_msg_format_setup);
+
/*
* Set up a console. Called via do_early_param() in init/main.c
* for each "console=" parameter in the boot command line.
@@ -2215,7 +2233,10 @@ skip:
goto skip;
}
- len += msg_print_text(msg, false, text + len, sizeof(text) - len);
+ len += msg_print_text(msg,
+ console_msg_format & MSG_FORMAT_SYSLOG,
+ text + len,
+ sizeof(text) - len);
if (nr_ext_console_drivers) {
ext_len = msg_print_ext_header(ext_text,
sizeof(ext_text),