[PATCH] x86_64: Add compat_printk and sysctl to turn off compat layer warnings
Sometimes e.g. with crashme the compat layer warnings can be noisy.
Add a way to turn them off by gating all output through compat_printk
that checks a global sysctl. The default is not changed.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
diff --git a/fs/compat.c b/fs/compat.c
index 7e7e5bc..e31e9cf 100644
--- a/fs/compat.c
+++ b/fs/compat.c
@@ -55,6 +55,20 @@
extern void sigset_from_compat(sigset_t *set, compat_sigset_t *compat);
+int compat_log = 1;
+
+int compat_printk(const char *fmt, ...)
+{
+ va_list ap;
+ int ret;
+ if (!compat_log)
+ return 0;
+ va_start(ap, fmt);
+ ret = vprintk(fmt, ap);
+ va_end(ap);
+ return ret;
+}
+
/*
* Not all architectures have sys_utime, so implement this in terms
* of sys_utimes.
@@ -359,7 +373,7 @@
sprintf(buf,"'%c'", (cmd>>24) & 0x3f);
if (!isprint(buf[1]))
sprintf(buf, "%02x", buf[1]);
- printk("ioctl32(%s:%d): Unknown cmd fd(%d) "
+ compat_printk("ioctl32(%s:%d): Unknown cmd fd(%d) "
"cmd(%08x){%s} arg(%08x) on %s\n",
current->comm, current->pid,
(int)fd, (unsigned int)cmd, buf,
