[PATCH 15/88] doc, xen: Mention 'earlyprintk=xen' in the documentation.
Luis Henriques
luis.henriques at canonical.com
Thu Mar 14 10:35:08 UTC 2013
3.5.7.8 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk at oracle.com>
commit 2482a92e7d17187301d7313cfe5021b13393a0b4 upstream.
The earlyprintk for Xen PV guests utilizes a simple hypercall
(console_io) to provide output to Xen emergency console.
Note that the Xen hypervisor should be booted with 'loglevel=all'
to output said information.
Reported-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa at zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk at oracle.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1361825650-14031-2-git-send-email-konrad.wilk@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa at linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
index a92c5eb..65f25d7 100644
--- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -760,6 +760,7 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
earlyprintk= [X86,SH,BLACKFIN]
earlyprintk=vga
+ earlyprintk=xen
earlyprintk=serial[,ttySn[,baudrate]]
earlyprintk=ttySn[,baudrate]
earlyprintk=dbgp[debugController#]
@@ -777,6 +778,8 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
The VGA output is eventually overwritten by the real
console.
+ The xen output can only be used by Xen PV guests.
+
ekgdboc= [X86,KGDB] Allow early kernel console debugging
ekgdboc=kbd
--
1.8.1.2
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