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printk: add console_suspend module parameter
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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>
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Yanmin Zhang authored and Linus Torvalds committed Nov 1, 2011
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5 changes: 5 additions & 0 deletions Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
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Expand Up @@ -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,
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4 changes: 4 additions & 0 deletions kernel/printk.c
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Expand Up @@ -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
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