[PATCH 0/2] printk: fix double printing with earlycon

From: Aleksey Makarov
Date: Wed Mar 01 2017 - 11:18:09 EST


If a console was specified by ACPI SPCR table _and_ command line parameters like
"console=ttyAMA0" _and_ "earlycon" were specified, then log messages
appears twice.

This issue was addressed in the patch [1] but the approach was wrong and
a revert [2] was suggested.

First patch "printk: fix name and type of some variables" was sent some time
ago [3]. It fixes name/type/scope of some variables without changing the logic.

The real fix is in the second patch. The root cause is that the code traverse
the list of specified consoles (the `console_cmdline` array) and stops at the
first match. But it may happen that the same console is referred by
the elements of this array twice:

ttyAMA0 -- from command line
pl011,mmio,0x87e024000000,115200 -- from SPCR

but in this case `preferred_console` points to the second entry and
the flag CON_CONSDEV is not set, so bootconsole is not deregistered.

To fix that, match the console against the `console_cmdline` entry
pointed by `preferred_console` instead of the first match.

[1] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1485963998-921-1-git-send-email-sudeep.holla@xxxxxxx
commit aea9a80ba98a ("tty: serial: pl011: add ttyAMA for matching pl011 console")
[2] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170301152304.29635-1-aleksey.makarov@xxxxxxxxxx
[3] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1455299022-11641-2-git-send-email-aleksey.makarov@xxxxxxxxxx

Aleksey Makarov (2):
printk: fix name and type of some variables
printk: fix double printing with earlycon

kernel/printk/printk.c | 66 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------------
1 file changed, 38 insertions(+), 28 deletions(-)

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