printk: add console_suspend module parameter
authorYanmin Zhang <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com>
Tue, 1 Nov 2011 00:11:27 +0000 (17:11 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Tue, 1 Nov 2011 00:30:53 +0000 (17:30 -0700)
We are enabling some power features on medfield.  To test suspend-2-RAM
conveniently, we need turn on/off console_suspend_enabled frequently.

Add a module parameter, so users could change it by:
/sys/module/printk/parameters/console_suspend

Signed-off-by: Yanmin Zhang <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
kernel/printk.c

index 106efe1e2bab21b062757bdb0ea06d8fca306456..c2efe285396c4afbbb245f1cdccfd86479ce6956 100644 (file)
@@ -1669,6 +1669,11 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
                        debugging driver suspend/resume hooks).  This may
                        not work reliably with all consoles, but is known
                        to work with serial and VGA consoles.
+                       To facilitate more flexible debugging, we also add
+                       console_suspend, a printk module parameter to control
+                       it. Users could use console_suspend (usually
+                       /sys/module/printk/parameters/console_suspend) to
+                       turn on/off it dynamically.
 
        noaliencache    [MM, NUMA, SLAB] Disables the allocation of alien
                        caches in the slab allocator.  Saves per-node memory,
index e62f949ec14075fd11c0517c9f20514b8a4bc2d0..6d9dedd1145067c5dddcd376ff75d08d16464e8d 100644 (file)
@@ -1111,6 +1111,10 @@ static int __init console_suspend_disable(char *str)
        return 1;
 }
 __setup("no_console_suspend", console_suspend_disable);
+module_param_named(console_suspend, console_suspend_enabled,
+               bool, S_IRUGO | S_IWUSR);
+MODULE_PARM_DESC(console_suspend, "suspend console during suspend"
+       " and hibernate operations");
 
 /**
  * suspend_console - suspend the console subsystem