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| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/printk/nbcon.c | 8 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/printk/printk_ringbuffer.h | 2 |
2 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/printk/nbcon.c b/kernel/printk/nbcon.c index 88db24f9a8de..bc684ff5028a 100644 --- a/kernel/printk/nbcon.c +++ b/kernel/printk/nbcon.c @@ -1397,7 +1397,13 @@ bool nbcon_alloc(struct console *con) struct nbcon_state state = { }; nbcon_state_set(con, &state); - atomic_long_set(&ACCESS_PRIVATE(con, nbcon_seq), 0); + + /* + * Initialize @nbcon_seq to the highest possible sequence number so + * that practically speaking it will have nothing to print until a + * desired initial sequence number has been set via nbcon_seq_force(). + */ + atomic_long_set(&ACCESS_PRIVATE(con, nbcon_seq), ULSEQ_MAX(prb)); if (con->flags & CON_BOOT) { /* diff --git a/kernel/printk/printk_ringbuffer.h b/kernel/printk/printk_ringbuffer.h index 8de6c495cf2b..4ef81349d9fb 100644 --- a/kernel/printk/printk_ringbuffer.h +++ b/kernel/printk/printk_ringbuffer.h @@ -404,10 +404,12 @@ u64 prb_next_reserve_seq(struct printk_ringbuffer *rb); #define __u64seq_to_ulseq(u64seq) (u64seq) #define __ulseq_to_u64seq(rb, ulseq) (ulseq) +#define ULSEQ_MAX(rb) (-1) #else /* CONFIG_64BIT */ #define __u64seq_to_ulseq(u64seq) ((u32)u64seq) +#define ULSEQ_MAX(rb) __u64seq_to_ulseq(prb_first_seq(rb) + 0x80000000UL) static inline u64 __ulseq_to_u64seq(struct printk_ringbuffer *rb, u32 ulseq) { |