x86: early_printk: Protect against using the same device twice
If you use the kernel argument: earlyprintk=serial,ttyS0,115200 This will cause a recursive hang printing the same line again and again: BIOS-e820: 000000003fff3000 - 0000000040000000 (ACPI data) BIOS-e820: 00000000e0000000 - 00000000f0000000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved) bootconsole [earlyser0] enabled Linux version 2.6.31-07863-gb64ada6b (mingo@sirius) (gcc version 4.3.2 20081105 (Red Hat 4.3.2-7) (GCC) ) #16789 SMP Wed Sep 23 21:09:43 CEST 2009 Linux version 2.6.31-07863-gb64ada6b (mingo@sirius) (gcc version 4.3.2 20081105 (Red Hat 4.3.2-7) (GCC) ) #16789 SMP Wed Sep 23 21:09:43 CEST 2009 Linux version 2.6.31-07863-gb64ada6b (mingo@sirius) (gcc version 4.3.2 20081105 (Red Hat 4.3.2-7) (GCC) ) #16789 SMP Wed Sep 23 21:09:43 CEST 2009 Linux version 2.6.31-07863-gb64ada6b (mingo@sirius) (gcc version 4.3.2 20081105 (Red Hat 4.3.2-7) (GCC) ) #16789 SMP Wed Sep 23 21:09:43 CEST 2009 Linux version 2.6.31-07863-gb64ada6b (mingo@sirius) (gcc version 4.3.2 20081105 (Red Hat 4.3.2-7) (GCC) ) #16789 SMP Wed Sep 23 21:09:43 CEST 2009 Instead warn the end user that they specified the device a second time, and ignore that second console. Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com> Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org> Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> LKML-Reference: <4ABAAB89.1080407@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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