On Thu, Nov 14, 2019 at 8:33 PM Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Gosh, that part of printk is really complex. > > On (19/11/14 10:57), Petr Mladek wrote: > > For a proper solution we would need to match boot and real > > consoles that write messages into the physical device. > > But I am afraid that there is no support for this. > > Wouldn't those have same tty driver? > > --- > > kernel/printk/printk.c | 16 ++++++++++++++++ > 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/kernel/printk/printk.c b/kernel/printk/printk.c > index f1b08015d3fa..a84cb20acf42 100644 > --- a/kernel/printk/printk.c > +++ b/kernel/printk/printk.c > @@ -2690,6 +2690,19 @@ static int __init keep_bootcon_setup(char *str) > > early_param("keep_bootcon", keep_bootcon_setup); > > +static bool known_console_driver(struct console *newcon) > +{ > + struct console *con; > + > + for_each_console(con) { > + if (!(con->flags & CON_ENABLED)) > + continue; > + if (con->device && con->device == newcon->device) > + return true; > + } > + return false; > +} > + > /* > * The console driver calls this routine during kernel initialization > * to register the console printing procedure with printk() and to > @@ -2828,6 +2841,9 @@ void register_console(struct console *newcon) > if (newcon->flags & CON_EXTENDED) > nr_ext_console_drivers++; > > + if (known_console_driver(newcon)) > + newcon->flags &= ~CON_PRINTBUFFER; > + > if (newcon->flags & CON_PRINTBUFFER) { > /* > * console_unlock(); will print out the buffered messages Thanks. It also needs to be cleared when the second console driver is registered (of the same type, boot or normal), not just when a normal con replaces a bootconsole. A simple way of avoiding the problem I'm seeing is to not even set the CON_PRINTBUFFER flag on my consoles. It skips the replay and the output on all consoles looks fine. The flag is only used by register_console(), although I don't think that is the intended usage? There are no console drivers that do this.