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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: [patch] Generic way to control display of debug printk's
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Followup to:  <20030321223717.GA1241@bork.org>
By author:    Martin Hicks <mort@wildopensource.com>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
> 
> It seems to me that a generic way to dynamically control the printing
> of certain messages to the console during kernel boot is required.
> Systems that really need this are large SMP systems or NUMA machines
> with a large number of nodes.  The number of messages that appear 
> per-node or per-cpu is huge in these machines.
> 

See KERN_EMERG, KERN_ALERT, KERN_CRIT, KERN_ERR, KERN_WARNING,
KERN_NOTICE, KERN_INFO, KERN_DEBUG.

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