From af91322ef3f29ae4114e736e2a72e28b4d619cf9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dave Young Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2009 16:43:33 -0700 Subject: printk: add printk_delay to make messages readable for some scenarios When syslog is not possible, at the same time there's no serial/net console available, it will be hard to read the printk messages. For example oops/panic/warning messages in shutdown phase. Add a printk delay feature, we can make each printk message delay some milliseconds. Setting the delay by proc/sysctl interface: /proc/sys/kernel/printk_delay The value range from 0 - 10000, default value is 0 [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix a few things] Signed-off-by: Dave Young Acked-by: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- include/linux/kernel.h | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) (limited to 'include/linux') diff --git a/include/linux/kernel.h b/include/linux/kernel.h index 2b5b1e0899a8..0a2a19087863 100644 --- a/include/linux/kernel.h +++ b/include/linux/kernel.h @@ -246,6 +246,8 @@ extern int printk_ratelimit(void); extern bool printk_timed_ratelimit(unsigned long *caller_jiffies, unsigned int interval_msec); +extern int printk_delay_msec; + /* * Print a one-time message (analogous to WARN_ONCE() et al): */ -- cgit v1.2.2