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authorIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2009-01-21 16:37:27 +0100
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2009-01-21 16:37:27 +0100
commit77835492ed489c0b870f82f4c50687bd267acc0a (patch)
treed80903ce1b8dd30aa44ccfc756616ad4d6c74d63 /drivers/char/sysrq.c
parentMerge branch 'core/percpu' into perfcounters/core (diff)
parentLinux 2.6.29-rc2 (diff)
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Merge commit 'v2.6.29-rc2' into perfcounters/core
Conflicts: include/linux/syscalls.h
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/char/sysrq.c')
-rw-r--r--drivers/char/sysrq.c6
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/char/sysrq.c b/drivers/char/sysrq.c
index 5a3eab0882a0..fa71b84f217b 100644
--- a/drivers/char/sysrq.c
+++ b/drivers/char/sysrq.c
@@ -475,6 +475,12 @@ void __handle_sysrq(int key, struct tty_struct *tty, int check_mask)
unsigned long flags;
spin_lock_irqsave(&sysrq_key_table_lock, flags);
+ /*
+ * Raise the apparent loglevel to maximum so that the sysrq header
+ * is shown to provide the user with positive feedback. We do not
+ * simply emit this at KERN_EMERG as that would change message
+ * routing in the consumers of /proc/kmsg.
+ */
orig_log_level = console_loglevel;
console_loglevel = 7;
printk(KERN_INFO "SysRq : ");