[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/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c
index 2c0e658..f1a4eb1 100644
--- a/kernel/sysctl.c
+++ b/kernel/sysctl.c
@@ -73,6 +73,7 @@
extern int pid_max_min, pid_max_max;
extern int sysctl_drop_caches;
extern int percpu_pagelist_fraction;
+extern int compat_log;
#if defined(CONFIG_X86_LOCAL_APIC) && defined(CONFIG_X86)
int unknown_nmi_panic;
@@ -677,6 +678,16 @@
.proc_handler = &proc_dointvec,
},
#endif
+#ifdef CONFIG_COMPAT
+ {
+ .ctl_name = KERN_COMPAT_LOG,
+ .procname = "compat-log",
+ .data = &compat_log,
+ .maxlen = sizeof (int),
+ .mode = 0644,
+ .proc_handler = &proc_dointvec,
+ },
+#endif
{ .ctl_name = 0 }
};