Merge branch 'perf/urgent' into perf/core

Merge reason: We are going to queue up a dependent patch.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/printk.c b/kernel/printk.c
index cb8a6bd697c..0b3ea2cbd5f 100644
--- a/kernel/printk.c
+++ b/kernel/printk.c
@@ -707,6 +707,9 @@ static bool printk_time = 0;
 #endif
 module_param_named(time, printk_time, bool, S_IRUGO | S_IWUSR);
 
+static bool always_kmsg_dump;
+module_param_named(always_kmsg_dump, always_kmsg_dump, bool, S_IRUGO | S_IWUSR);
+
 /* Check if we have any console registered that can be called early in boot. */
 static int have_callable_console(void)
 {
@@ -1737,6 +1740,9 @@ void kmsg_dump(enum kmsg_dump_reason reason)
         unsigned long l1, l2;
         unsigned long flags;
 
+        if ((reason > KMSG_DUMP_OOPS) && !always_kmsg_dump)
+                return;
+
         /* Theoretically, the log could move on after we do this, but
            there's not a lot we can do about that. The new messages
            will overwrite the start of what we dump. */