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Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/char')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/char/sysrq.c | 6 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/char/sysrq.c b/drivers/char/sysrq.c index d41b9f6f7903..33a9351c896d 100644 --- a/drivers/char/sysrq.c +++ b/drivers/char/sysrq.c @@ -473,6 +473,12 @@ 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 : "); |