On Mon, 19 May 2014 20:27:32 +0200, Borislav Petkov said: > From: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]> > > ... instead of naked numbers. > > Stuff in sysrq.c used to set it to 8 which is supposed to mean above > default level so set it to DEBUG instead as we're terminating/killing > all tasks and we want to be verbose there. > > There should be no functionality change resulting from this patch.
After a quick eyeballing, looks like it, except for:
> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/head64.c
> @@ -172,7 +172,7 @@ asmlinkage __visible void __init x86_64_start_kernel(char
* real_mode_data)
> */
> load_ucode_bsp();
>
> - if (console_loglevel == 10)
> + if (console_loglevel >= CONSOLE_LOGLEVEL_DEBUG)
> early_printk("Kernel alive\n");
But this looks like a bugfix that changes the behavior for loglevels > 11.
Having said that, it's probably OK to not split the bugfix out to
a separate patch....
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