From c0cdf1935cf328730fa068e0f39a22e6149555aa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ingo Molnar Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2006 17:55:56 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] [PATCH] x86: print out early faults via early_printk() Lost a few hours debugging an early-bootup fault within printk itself, which manifested itself as a hard to debug early hang. This patch makes it much easier by printing out early faults via early_printk(), which function is a lot simpler than a full printk, and hence more likely to succeed in emergencies. (We do not recover from early faults anyway, so there's no loss from not having these messages in the normal printk buffer.) Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- arch/i386/kernel/head.S | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/arch/i386/kernel/head.S b/arch/i386/kernel/head.S index 5884469f6bfe..2bee6499edd9 100644 --- a/arch/i386/kernel/head.S +++ b/arch/i386/kernel/head.S @@ -398,7 +398,11 @@ ignore_int: pushl 32(%esp) pushl 40(%esp) pushl $int_msg +#ifdef CONFIG_EARLY_PRINTK + call early_printk +#else call printk +#endif addl $(5*4),%esp popl %ds popl %es -- 2.20.1