While trying to debug a cpu-hotplug issue I noticed printk() stopped working once the cpu got marked offline, since the 8250 serial console doesn't have any per-cpu resources the CON_ANYTIME bit is the safe and documented way to make it work again. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/serial/8250.c | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/serial/8250.c b/drivers/serial/8250.c index 4d8e14b..09a5508 100644 --- a/drivers/serial/8250.c +++ b/drivers/serial/8250.c @@ -2872,7 +2872,7 @@ static struct console serial8250_console = { .device = uart_console_device, .setup = serial8250_console_setup, .early_setup = serial8250_console_early_setup, - .flags = CON_PRINTBUFFER, + .flags = CON_PRINTBUFFER | CON_ANYTIME, .index = -1, .data = &serial8250_reg, }; -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-serial" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html