Re: [PATCH v3] printk: Have printk() never buffer its data

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-06-26T18:38:34Z

On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 11:34:05AM -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 07:00:38PM +0200, Kay Sievers wrote:
> > > Hm, this doesn't boot for me, just hangs at startup :(
>
> Booting in a qemu image I get the following, it just hangs here:
>
> [ 2.683675] BIOS EDD facility v0.16 2004-Jun-25, 1 devices found
> Started File System Check on Root Device [ OK ]
> Starting LSB: setup hostname and yp...
> [ 2.732973] systemd-fsck[108]: root: clean, 244481/1313280 files, 2189115/5242880 blocks
> Starting Remount Root FS...
> systemd-fsck[107]: root: clean, 244481/1313280 files, 2189115/5242880 blocks
> [ 2.746312] EXT4-fs (sda2): re-mounted. Opts: acl,user_xattr
> Started Remount Root FS [ OK ]
> Starting Load Random Seed...
> Started Load Random Seed [ OK ]
> [ 2.797945] boot.localnet[133]: Using boot-specified hostname 'pistachio.kroah.org'
> boot.localnet[133]: Using boot-specified hostname 'pistachio.kroah.org'
> [ 2.898718] boot.localnet[133]: Setting up hostname 'pistachio'..done
> boot.localnet[133]: Setting up hostname 'pistachio'..done
> boot.localnet[ 2.973681] boot.localnet[133]: Setting up loopback interface RTNETLINK answers: File exists
> [133]: Setting up loopback interface RTNETLINK answers: File exists
> boot.localnet[133]: ..done
> [ 2.979959] boot.localnet[108]: ..done
> Started LSB: setup hostname and yp [ OK ]
> Started Setup Virtual Console [ OK ]
> [ 3.056710] input: PC Speaker as /devices/platform/pcspkr/input/input3

Ok, without your patch I get the same hang within qemu, so odds are it's
not your fault here, but booting still fails. I wonder if it's due to
whatever oddness suse does with it's initrd, let me go try to get a
initrd-free boot and see if that works...

greg k-h