[PATCH] x86_64: Add compat_printk and sysctl to turn off compat layer warnings

Sometimes e.g. with crashme the compat layer warnings can be noisy.
Add a way to turn them off by gating all output through compat_printk
that checks a global sysctl. The default is not changed.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/compat.h b/include/linux/compat.h
index dda1697ec753..9760753e662b 100644
--- a/include/linux/compat.h
+++ b/include/linux/compat.h
@@ -226,5 +226,7 @@ static inline int compat_timespec_compare(struct compat_timespec *lhs,
 
 asmlinkage long compat_sys_adjtimex(struct compat_timex __user *utp);
 
+extern int compat_printk(const char *fmt, ...);
+
 #endif /* CONFIG_COMPAT */
 #endif /* _LINUX_COMPAT_H */