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 <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Dave Young 2009-09-22 16:43:33 -07:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 3a3b6ed223
commit af91322ef3
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@ -106,6 +106,9 @@ static int __maybe_unused one = 1;
static int __maybe_unused two = 2;
static unsigned long one_ul = 1;
static int one_hundred = 100;
#ifdef CONFIG_PRINTK
static int ten_thousand = 10000;
#endif
/* this is needed for the proc_doulongvec_minmax of vm_dirty_bytes */
static unsigned long dirty_bytes_min = 2 * PAGE_SIZE;
@ -722,6 +725,17 @@ static struct ctl_table kern_table[] = {
.mode = 0644,
.proc_handler = &proc_dointvec,
},
{
.ctl_name = CTL_UNNUMBERED,
.procname = "printk_delay",
.data = &printk_delay_msec,
.maxlen = sizeof(int),
.mode = 0644,
.proc_handler = &proc_dointvec_minmax,
.strategy = &sysctl_intvec,
.extra1 = &zero,
.extra2 = &ten_thousand,
},
#endif
{
.ctl_name = KERN_NGROUPS_MAX,