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authorDave Kleikamp <shaggy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2009-02-02 13:40:55 -0600
committerDave Kleikamp <shaggy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2009-02-02 13:40:55 -0600
commit8db0c5d5ef3ab99fe9e5151872b75f45c4282e3c (patch)
treeda9759151e00221c58cdd9f4de893c0b08753670 /drivers/char/sysrq.c
parent1ad53a98c927a9b5b1b57288ac0edec562fbcf8d (diff)
parent45c82b5a770be66845687a7d027c8b52946d59af (diff)
Merge branch 'master' of /home/shaggy/git/linus-clean/
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/char/sysrq.c')
-rw-r--r--drivers/char/sysrq.c6
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/char/sysrq.c b/drivers/char/sysrq.c
index d41b9f6f790..33a9351c896 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 : ");