Commit 2062a4e8 authored by Dmitry Safonov's avatar Dmitry Safonov Committed by Linus Torvalds
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kallsyms/printk: add loglvl to print_ip_sym()

Patch series "Add log level to show_stack()", v3.

Add log level argument to show_stack().

Done in three stages:
1. Introducing show_stack_loglvl() for every architecture
2. Migrating old users with an explicit log level
3. Renaming show_stack_loglvl() into show_stack()

Justification:

- It's a design mistake to move a business-logic decision into platform
  realization detail.

- I have currently two patches sets that would benefit from this work:
  Removing console_loglevel jumps in sysrq driver [1] Hung task warning
  before panic [2] - suggested by Tetsuo (but he probably didn't realise
  what it would involve).

- While doing (1), (2) the backtraces were adjusted to headers and other
  messages for each situation - so there won't be a situation when the
  backtrace is printed, but the headers are missing because they have
  lesser log level (or the reverse).

- As the result in (2) plays with console_loglevel for kdb are removed.

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