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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 2/2] xen: make opt_xen_console true before console initialisation



On Fri, Sep 28, 2018 at 09:08:34AM -0600, Jan Beulich wrote:
> >>> On 28.09.18 at 10:24, <wei.liu2@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > --- a/xen/drivers/char/console.c
> > +++ b/xen/drivers/char/console.c
> > @@ -91,7 +91,8 @@ static uint32_t conringc, conringp;
> >  static int __read_mostly sercon_handle = -1;
> >  
> >  #ifdef CONFIG_X86
> > -static bool __read_mostly opt_console_xen; /* console=xen */
> > +/* Set to true at start of day to catch early boot issues */
> > +static bool __read_mostly opt_console_xen = true; /* console=xen */
> 
> When Andrew suggested this, iirc he said to make the variable
> tristate. Otherwise ...

I figure it doesn't need to be tristate.

> 
> > @@ -821,6 +822,10 @@ void __init console_init_preirq(void)
> >  
> >      serial_init_preirq();
> >  
> > +#ifdef CONFIG_X86
> > +    opt_console_xen = false;
> > +#endif
> 
> ... you possibly override a user specified "true" here.

Do I? This is right before option parsing, during which opt_console_xen
is set.

Wei.

> 
> Jan
> 
> 

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