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<title>printk: use rcuidle console tracepoint</title>
<updated>2017-03-01T09:38:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sergey Senozhatsky</name>
<email>sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-02-18T11:42:54+00:00</published>
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commit fc98c3c8c9dcafd67adcce69e6ce3191d5306c9c upstream.

Use rcuidle console tracepoint because, apparently, it may be issued
from an idle CPU:

  hw-breakpoint: Failed to enable monitor mode on CPU 0.
  hw-breakpoint: CPU 0 failed to disable vector catch

  ===============================
  [ ERR: suspicious RCU usage.  ]
  4.10.0-rc8-next-20170215+ #119 Not tainted
  -------------------------------
  ./include/trace/events/printk.h:32 suspicious rcu_dereference_check() usage!

  other info that might help us debug this:

  RCU used illegally from idle CPU!
  rcu_scheduler_active = 2, debug_locks = 0
  RCU used illegally from extended quiescent state!
  2 locks held by swapper/0/0:
   #0:  (cpu_pm_notifier_lock){......}, at: [&lt;c0237e2c&gt;] cpu_pm_exit+0x10/0x54
   #1:  (console_lock){+.+.+.}, at: [&lt;c01ab350&gt;] vprintk_emit+0x264/0x474

  stack backtrace:
  CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 4.10.0-rc8-next-20170215+ #119
  Hardware name: Generic OMAP4 (Flattened Device Tree)
    console_unlock
    vprintk_emit
    vprintk_default
    printk
    reset_ctrl_regs
    dbg_cpu_pm_notify
    notifier_call_chain
    cpu_pm_exit
    omap_enter_idle_coupled
    cpuidle_enter_state
    cpuidle_enter_state_coupled
    do_idle
    cpu_startup_entry
    start_kernel

This RCU warning, however, is suppressed by lockdep_off() in printk().
lockdep_off() increments the -&gt;lockdep_recursion counter and thus
disables RCU_LOCKDEP_WARN() and debug_lockdep_rcu_enabled(), which want
lockdep to be enabled "current-&gt;lockdep_recursion == 0".

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170217015932.11898-1-sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky &lt;sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com&gt;
Reported-by: Tony Lindgren &lt;tony@atomide.com&gt;
Tested-by: Tony Lindgren &lt;tony@atomide.com&gt;
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Tony Lindgren &lt;tony@atomide.com&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;rmk@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby &lt;jslaby@suse.cz&gt;

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commit fc98c3c8c9dcafd67adcce69e6ce3191d5306c9c upstream.

Use rcuidle console tracepoint because, apparently, it may be issued
from an idle CPU:

  hw-breakpoint: Failed to enable monitor mode on CPU 0.
  hw-breakpoint: CPU 0 failed to disable vector catch

  ===============================
  [ ERR: suspicious RCU usage.  ]
  4.10.0-rc8-next-20170215+ #119 Not tainted
  -------------------------------
  ./include/trace/events/printk.h:32 suspicious rcu_dereference_check() usage!

  other info that might help us debug this:

  RCU used illegally from idle CPU!
  rcu_scheduler_active = 2, debug_locks = 0
  RCU used illegally from extended quiescent state!
  2 locks held by swapper/0/0:
   #0:  (cpu_pm_notifier_lock){......}, at: [&lt;c0237e2c&gt;] cpu_pm_exit+0x10/0x54
   #1:  (console_lock){+.+.+.}, at: [&lt;c01ab350&gt;] vprintk_emit+0x264/0x474

  stack backtrace:
  CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 4.10.0-rc8-next-20170215+ #119
  Hardware name: Generic OMAP4 (Flattened Device Tree)
    console_unlock
    vprintk_emit
    vprintk_default
    printk
    reset_ctrl_regs
    dbg_cpu_pm_notify
    notifier_call_chain
    cpu_pm_exit
    omap_enter_idle_coupled
    cpuidle_enter_state
    cpuidle_enter_state_coupled
    do_idle
    cpu_startup_entry
    start_kernel

This RCU warning, however, is suppressed by lockdep_off() in printk().
lockdep_off() increments the -&gt;lockdep_recursion counter and thus
disables RCU_LOCKDEP_WARN() and debug_lockdep_rcu_enabled(), which want
lockdep to be enabled "current-&gt;lockdep_recursion == 0".

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170217015932.11898-1-sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky &lt;sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com&gt;
Reported-by: Tony Lindgren &lt;tony@atomide.com&gt;
Tested-by: Tony Lindgren &lt;tony@atomide.com&gt;
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Tony Lindgren &lt;tony@atomide.com&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;rmk@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby &lt;jslaby@suse.cz&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>printk: do cond_resched() between lines while outputting to consoles</title>
<updated>2016-07-21T06:36:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tejun Heo</name>
<email>tj@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-01-16T00:58:24+00:00</published>
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commit 8d91f8b15361dfb438ab6eb3b319e2ded43458ff upstream.

@console_may_schedule tracks whether console_sem was acquired through
lock or trylock.  If the former, we're inside a sleepable context and
console_conditional_schedule() performs cond_resched().  This allows
console drivers which use console_lock for synchronization to yield
while performing time-consuming operations such as scrolling.

However, the actual console outputting is performed while holding
irq-safe logbuf_lock, so console_unlock() clears @console_may_schedule
before starting outputting lines.  Also, only a few drivers call
console_conditional_schedule() to begin with.  This means that when a
lot of lines need to be output by console_unlock(), for example on a
console registration, the task doing console_unlock() may not yield for
a long time on a non-preemptible kernel.

If this happens with a slow console devices, for example a serial
console, the outputting task may occupy the cpu for a very long time.
Long enough to trigger softlockup and/or RCU stall warnings, which in
turn pile more messages, sometimes enough to trigger the next cycle of
warnings incapacitating the system.

Fix it by making console_unlock() insert cond_resched() between lines if
@console_may_schedule.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Reported-by: Calvin Owens &lt;calvinowens@fb.com&gt;
Acked-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Jones &lt;davej@codemonkey.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Kyle McMartin &lt;kyle@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Charles (Chas) Williams &lt;ciwillia@brocade.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby &lt;jslaby@suse.cz&gt;
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commit 8d91f8b15361dfb438ab6eb3b319e2ded43458ff upstream.

@console_may_schedule tracks whether console_sem was acquired through
lock or trylock.  If the former, we're inside a sleepable context and
console_conditional_schedule() performs cond_resched().  This allows
console drivers which use console_lock for synchronization to yield
while performing time-consuming operations such as scrolling.

However, the actual console outputting is performed while holding
irq-safe logbuf_lock, so console_unlock() clears @console_may_schedule
before starting outputting lines.  Also, only a few drivers call
console_conditional_schedule() to begin with.  This means that when a
lot of lines need to be output by console_unlock(), for example on a
console registration, the task doing console_unlock() may not yield for
a long time on a non-preemptible kernel.

If this happens with a slow console devices, for example a serial
console, the outputting task may occupy the cpu for a very long time.
Long enough to trigger softlockup and/or RCU stall warnings, which in
turn pile more messages, sometimes enough to trigger the next cycle of
warnings incapacitating the system.

Fix it by making console_unlock() insert cond_resched() between lines if
@console_may_schedule.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Reported-by: Calvin Owens &lt;calvinowens@fb.com&gt;
Acked-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Jones &lt;davej@codemonkey.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Kyle McMartin &lt;kyle@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Charles (Chas) Williams &lt;ciwillia@brocade.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby &lt;jslaby@suse.cz&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>security_syslog() should be called once only</title>
<updated>2015-08-04T14:52:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vasily Averin</name>
<email>vvs@virtuozzo.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-06-25T22:01:44+00:00</published>
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commit d194e5d666225b04c7754471df0948f645b6ab3a upstream.

The final version of commit 637241a900cb ("kmsg: honor dmesg_restrict
sysctl on /dev/kmsg") lost few hooks, as result security_syslog() are
processed incorrectly:

- open of /dev/kmsg checks syslog access permissions by using
  check_syslog_permissions() where security_syslog() is not called if
  dmesg_restrict is set.

- syslog syscall and /proc/kmsg calls do_syslog() where security_syslog
  can be executed twice (inside check_syslog_permissions() and then
  directly in do_syslog())

With this patch security_syslog() is called once only in all
syslog-related operations regardless of dmesg_restrict value.

Fixes: 637241a900cb ("kmsg: honor dmesg_restrict sysctl on /dev/kmsg")
Signed-off-by: Vasily Averin &lt;vvs@virtuozzo.com&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Josh Boyer &lt;jwboyer@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Eric Paris &lt;eparis@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby &lt;jslaby@suse.cz&gt;

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commit d194e5d666225b04c7754471df0948f645b6ab3a upstream.

The final version of commit 637241a900cb ("kmsg: honor dmesg_restrict
sysctl on /dev/kmsg") lost few hooks, as result security_syslog() are
processed incorrectly:

- open of /dev/kmsg checks syslog access permissions by using
  check_syslog_permissions() where security_syslog() is not called if
  dmesg_restrict is set.

- syslog syscall and /proc/kmsg calls do_syslog() where security_syslog
  can be executed twice (inside check_syslog_permissions() and then
  directly in do_syslog())

With this patch security_syslog() is called once only in all
syslog-related operations regardless of dmesg_restrict value.

Fixes: 637241a900cb ("kmsg: honor dmesg_restrict sysctl on /dev/kmsg")
Signed-off-by: Vasily Averin &lt;vvs@virtuozzo.com&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Josh Boyer &lt;jwboyer@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Eric Paris &lt;eparis@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby &lt;jslaby@suse.cz&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>console: Fix console name size mismatch</title>
<updated>2015-04-09T11:14:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Hurley</name>
<email>peter@hurleysoftware.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-03-01T15:11:05+00:00</published>
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commit 30a22c215a0007603ffc08021f2e8b64018517dd upstream.

commit 6ae9200f2cab7 ("enlarge console.name") increased the storage
for the console name to 16 bytes, but not the corresponding
struct console_cmdline::name storage. Console names longer than
8 bytes cause read beyond end-of-string and failure to match
console; I'm not sure if there are other unexpected consequences.

Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley &lt;peter@hurleysoftware.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby &lt;jslaby@suse.cz&gt;
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commit 30a22c215a0007603ffc08021f2e8b64018517dd upstream.

commit 6ae9200f2cab7 ("enlarge console.name") increased the storage
for the console name to 16 bytes, but not the corresponding
struct console_cmdline::name storage. Console names longer than
8 bytes cause read beyond end-of-string and failure to match
console; I'm not sure if there are other unexpected consequences.

Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley &lt;peter@hurleysoftware.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby &lt;jslaby@suse.cz&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>printk: rename printk_sched to printk_deferred</title>
<updated>2014-08-19T12:23:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>John Stultz</name>
<email>john.stultz@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-06-04T23:11:40+00:00</published>
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commit aac74dc495456412c4130a1167ce4beb6c1f0b38 upstream.

After learning we'll need some sort of deferred printk functionality in
the timekeeping core, Peter suggested we rename the printk_sched function
so it can be reused by needed subsystems.

This only changes the function name. No logic changes.

Signed-off-by: John Stultz &lt;john.stultz@linaro.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Jiri Bohac &lt;jbohac@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby &lt;jslaby@suse.cz&gt;

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commit aac74dc495456412c4130a1167ce4beb6c1f0b38 upstream.

After learning we'll need some sort of deferred printk functionality in
the timekeeping core, Peter suggested we rename the printk_sched function
so it can be reused by needed subsystems.

This only changes the function name. No logic changes.

Signed-off-by: John Stultz &lt;john.stultz@linaro.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Jiri Bohac &lt;jbohac@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby &lt;jslaby@suse.cz&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>printk: fix syslog() overflowing user buffer</title>
<updated>2014-03-31T12:22:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-02-17T20:24:45+00:00</published>
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commit e4178d809fdaee32a56833fff1f5056c99e90a1a upstream.

This is not a buffer overflow in the traditional sense: we don't
overflow any *kernel* buffers, but we do mis-count the amount of data we
copy back to user space for the SYSLOG_ACTION_READ_ALL case.

In particular, if the user buffer is too small to hold everything, and
*if* there is a continuation line at just the right place, we can end up
giving the user more data than he asked for.

The reason is that we first count up the number of bytes all the log
records contains, then we walk the records again until we've skipped the
records at the beginning that won't fit, and then we walk the rest of
the records and copy them to the user space buffer.

And in between that "skip the initial records that won't fit" and the
"copy the records that *will* fit to user space", we reset the 'prev'
variable that contained the record information for the last record not
copied.  That meant that when we started copying to user space, we now
had a different character count than what we had originally calculated
in the first record walk-through.

The fix is to simply not clear the 'prev' flags value (in both cases
where we had the same logic: syslog_print_all and kmsg_dump_get_buffer:
the latter is used for pstore-like dumping)

Reported-and-tested-by: Debabrata Banerjee &lt;dbanerje@akamai.com&gt;
Acked-by: Kay Sievers &lt;kay@vrfy.org&gt;
Cc: Jeff Mahoney &lt;jeffm@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Josh Hunt &lt;joshhunt00@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby &lt;jslaby@suse.cz&gt;
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commit e4178d809fdaee32a56833fff1f5056c99e90a1a upstream.

This is not a buffer overflow in the traditional sense: we don't
overflow any *kernel* buffers, but we do mis-count the amount of data we
copy back to user space for the SYSLOG_ACTION_READ_ALL case.

In particular, if the user buffer is too small to hold everything, and
*if* there is a continuation line at just the right place, we can end up
giving the user more data than he asked for.

The reason is that we first count up the number of bytes all the log
records contains, then we walk the records again until we've skipped the
records at the beginning that won't fit, and then we walk the rest of
the records and copy them to the user space buffer.

And in between that "skip the initial records that won't fit" and the
"copy the records that *will* fit to user space", we reset the 'prev'
variable that contained the record information for the last record not
copied.  That meant that when we started copying to user space, we now
had a different character count than what we had originally calculated
in the first record walk-through.

The fix is to simply not clear the 'prev' flags value (in both cases
where we had the same logic: syslog_print_all and kmsg_dump_get_buffer:
the latter is used for pstore-like dumping)

Reported-and-tested-by: Debabrata Banerjee &lt;dbanerje@akamai.com&gt;
Acked-by: Kay Sievers &lt;kay@vrfy.org&gt;
Cc: Jeff Mahoney &lt;jeffm@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Josh Hunt &lt;joshhunt00@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby &lt;jslaby@suse.cz&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>register_console: prevent adding the same console twice</title>
<updated>2013-08-05T07:06:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andreas Bießmann</name>
<email>andreas@biessmann.de</email>
</author>
<published>2013-08-02T10:23:34+00:00</published>
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This patch guards the console_drivers list to be corrupted. The
for_each_console() macro insist on a strictly forward list ended by NULL:

 con0-&gt;next-&gt;con1-&gt;next-&gt;NULL

Without this patch it may happen easily to destroy this list for example by
adding 'earlyprintk' twice, especially on embedded devices where the early
console is often a single static instance.  This will result in the following
list:

 con0-&gt;next-&gt;con0

This in turn will result in an endless loop in console_unlock() later on by
printing the first __log_buf line endlessly.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Bießmann &lt;andreas@biessmann.de&gt;
Cc: Kay Sievers &lt;kay@vrfy.org&gt;
Cc: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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This patch guards the console_drivers list to be corrupted. The
for_each_console() macro insist on a strictly forward list ended by NULL:

 con0-&gt;next-&gt;con1-&gt;next-&gt;NULL

Without this patch it may happen easily to destroy this list for example by
adding 'earlyprintk' twice, especially on embedded devices where the early
console is often a single static instance.  This will result in the following
list:

 con0-&gt;next-&gt;con0

This in turn will result in an endless loop in console_unlock() later on by
printing the first __log_buf line endlessly.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Bießmann &lt;andreas@biessmann.de&gt;
Cc: Kay Sievers &lt;kay@vrfy.org&gt;
Cc: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>printk: rename struct log to struct printk_log</title>
<updated>2013-07-31T21:41:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Joe Perches</name>
<email>joe@perches.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-07-31T20:53:47+00:00</published>
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Rename the struct to enable moving portions of
printk.c to separate files.

The rename changes output of /proc/vmcoreinfo.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches &lt;joe@perches.com&gt;
Cc: Samuel Thibault &lt;samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org&gt;
Cc: Ming Lei &lt;ming.lei@canonical.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Rename the struct to enable moving portions of
printk.c to separate files.

The rename changes output of /proc/vmcoreinfo.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches &lt;joe@perches.com&gt;
Cc: Samuel Thibault &lt;samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org&gt;
Cc: Ming Lei &lt;ming.lei@canonical.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>printk: use pointer for console_cmdline indexing</title>
<updated>2013-07-31T21:41:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Joe Perches</name>
<email>joe@perches.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-07-31T20:53:46+00:00</published>
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Make the code a bit more compact by always using a pointer for the active
console_cmdline.

Move overly indented code to correct indent level.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches &lt;joe@perches.com&gt;
Cc: Samuel Thibault &lt;samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org&gt;
Cc: Ming Lei &lt;ming.lei@canonical.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Make the code a bit more compact by always using a pointer for the active
console_cmdline.

Move overly indented code to correct indent level.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches &lt;joe@perches.com&gt;
Cc: Samuel Thibault &lt;samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org&gt;
Cc: Ming Lei &lt;ming.lei@canonical.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>printk: move braille console support into separate braille.[ch] files</title>
<updated>2013-07-31T21:41:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Joe Perches</name>
<email>joe@perches.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-07-31T20:53:45+00:00</published>
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Create files with prototypes and static inlines for braille support.  Make
braille_console functions return 1 on success.

Corrected CONFIG_A11Y_BRAILLE_CONSOLE=n _braille_console_setup
return value to NULL.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches &lt;joe@perches.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Samuel Thibault &lt;samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org&gt;
Cc: Ming Lei &lt;ming.lei@canonical.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Create files with prototypes and static inlines for braille support.  Make
braille_console functions return 1 on success.

Corrected CONFIG_A11Y_BRAILLE_CONSOLE=n _braille_console_setup
return value to NULL.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches &lt;joe@perches.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Samuel Thibault &lt;samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org&gt;
Cc: Ming Lei &lt;ming.lei@canonical.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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