3.0-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.w...@oracle.com>

commit 2482a92e7d17187301d7313cfe5021b13393a0b4 upstream.

The earlyprintk for Xen PV guests utilizes a simple hypercall
(console_io) to provide output to Xen emergency console.

Note that the Xen hypervisor should be booted with 'loglevel=all'
to output said information.

Reported-by: H. Peter Anvin <h...@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.w...@oracle.com>
Link: 
http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1361825650-14031-2-git-send-email-konrad.w...@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <h...@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt |    3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

--- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -679,6 +679,7 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes
 
        earlyprintk=    [X86,SH,BLACKFIN]
                        earlyprintk=vga
+                       earlyprintk=xen
                        earlyprintk=serial[,ttySn[,baudrate]]
                        earlyprintk=ttySn[,baudrate]
                        earlyprintk=dbgp[debugController#]
@@ -696,6 +697,8 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes
                        The VGA output is eventually overwritten by the real
                        console.
 
+                       The xen output can only be used by Xen PV guests.
+
        ekgdboc=        [X86,KGDB] Allow early kernel console debugging
                        ekgdboc=kbd
 


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