From: Mike Travis Date: Wed, 25 May 2011 00:13:20 +0000 (-0700) Subject: printk: allocate kernel log buffer earlier X-Git-Tag: v3.0-rc1~189 X-Git-Url: http://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=162a7e7500f9664636e649ba59defe541b7c2c60;p=pandora-kernel.git printk: allocate kernel log buffer earlier On larger systems, because of the numerous ACPI, Bootmem and EFI messages, the static log buffer overflows before the larger one specified by the log_buf_len param is allocated. Minimize the overflow by allocating the new log buffer as soon as possible. On kernels without memblock, a later call to setup_log_buf from kernel/init.c is the fallback. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix CONFIG_PRINTK=n build] Signed-off-by: Mike Travis Cc: Yinghai Lu Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: Jack Steiner Cc: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Reading git-diff-tree failed