printk does not output in the /var/log/messages for kernel compiled with debugging
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printk does not output in the /var/log/messages for kernel compiled with debugging
Hi all,
I'm running kernel 2.6.15.7. When I compile the kernel with no debugging in Kernel Hacking option from make menuconfig, I see the log output in /var/log/messages coming from the various functions defined in kernel code. (e.g. - arch/i386/kernel/setup.c) . However, when I compile the kernel with debugging support I don't see those message be shown. For each case I can see the output from device driver.
I even tried with the kernel parameter debug and removing quiet.
When I see the debug enabled kernel output I can see one line after the kernel loads which I don't see when the debug disabled kernel loads -
hotplug: tty seq=1973 HOME=/ PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin ACTION=add DEVPATH=/class/tty/ttyc5 SUBSYSTEM=tty
I've been trying this for several days but could not make through.
Here's part the .config file -
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#
# Automatically generated make config: don't edit
# Linux kernel version: 2.6.15.7
# Wed May 7 05:22:33 2008
#
CONFIG_X86_32=y
CONFIG_SEMAPHORE_SLEEPERS=y
CONFIG_X86=y
CONFIG_MMU=y
CONFIG_UID16=y
CONFIG_GENERIC_ISA_DMA=y
CONFIG_GENERIC_IOMAP=y
CONFIG_ARCH_MAY_HAVE_PC_FDC=y
#
# Code maturity level options
#
CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL=y
# CONFIG_CLEAN_COMPILE is not set
CONFIG_BROKEN=y
CONFIG_BROKEN_ON_SMP=y
CONFIG_LOCK_KERNEL=y
CONFIG_INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT=32
#
# General setup
#
CONFIG_LOCALVERSION=""
# CONFIG_LOCALVERSION_AUTO is not set
CONFIG_SWAP=y
CONFIG_SYSVIPC=y
CONFIG_POSIX_MQUEUE=y
CONFIG_BSD_PROCESS_ACCT=y
CONFIG_BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3=y
CONFIG_SYSCTL=y
CONFIG_AUDIT=y
# CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL is not set
CONFIG_HOTPLUG=y
CONFIG_KOBJECT_UEVENT=y
# CONFIG_IKCONFIG is not set
CONFIG_INITRAMFS_SOURCE=""
# CONFIG_CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE is not set
# CONFIG_EMBEDDED is not set
CONFIG_KALLSYMS=y
# CONFIG_KALLSYMS_ALL is not set
# CONFIG_KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS is not set
CONFIG_PRINTK=y
CONFIG_BUG=y
CONFIG_BASE_FULL=y
CONFIG_FUTEX=y
CONFIG_EPOLL=y
CONFIG_SHMEM=y
CONFIG_CC_ALIGN_FUNCTIONS=0
CONFIG_CC_ALIGN_LABELS=0
CONFIG_CC_ALIGN_LOOPS=0
CONFIG_CC_ALIGN_JUMPS=0
# CONFIG_TINY_SHMEM is not set
CONFIG_BASE_SMALL=0
#
# Loadable module support
#
CONFIG_MODULES=y
CONFIG_MODULE_UNLOAD=y
# CONFIG_MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD is not set
CONFIG_OBSOLETE_MODPARM=y
CONFIG_MODVERSIONS=y
CONFIG_MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL=y
CONFIG_KMOD=y
#
# Processor type and features
#
CONFIG_X86_PC=y
CONFIG_M486=y
CONFIG_X86_GENERIC=y
CONFIG_X86_CMPXCHG=y
CONFIG_X86_XADD=y
CONFIG_X86_L1_CACHE_SHIFT=7
CONFIG_RWSEM_XCHGADD_ALGORITHM=y
CONFIG_GENERIC_CALIBRATE_DELAY=y
CONFIG_X86_PPRO_FENCE=y
CONFIG_X86_F00F_BUG=y
CONFIG_X86_WP_WORKS_OK=y
CONFIG_X86_INVLPG=y
CONFIG_X86_BSWAP=y
CONFIG_X86_POPAD_OK=y
CONFIG_X86_ALIGNMENT_16=y
CONFIG_X86_INTEL_USERCOPY=y
CONFIG_HPET_TIMER=y
# CONFIG_SMP is not set
# CONFIG_PREEMPT_NONE is not set
# CONFIG_PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY is not set
CONFIG_PREEMPT=y
CONFIG_PREEMPT_BKL=y
CONFIG_X86_UP_APIC=y
CONFIG_X86_UP_IOAPIC=y
CONFIG_X86_LOCAL_APIC=y
CONFIG_X86_IO_APIC=y
# CONFIG_X86_MCE is not set
CONFIG_TOSHIBA=m
CONFIG_I8K=m
CONFIG_X86_REBOOTFIXUPS=y
CONFIG_MICROCODE=m
CONFIG_X86_MSR=m
CONFIG_X86_CPUID=m
#
# Firmware Drivers
#
# CONFIG_EDD is not set
CONFIG_EFI_VARS=y
CONFIG_DELL_RBU=m
CONFIG_DCDBAS=m
# CONFIG_NOHIGHMEM is not set
CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G=y
# CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G is not set
CONFIG_HIGHMEM=y
CONFIG_SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL=y
CONFIG_FLATMEM_MANUAL=y
# CONFIG_DISCONTIGMEM_MANUAL is not set
# CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_MANUAL is not set
CONFIG_FLATMEM=y
CONFIG_FLAT_NODE_MEM_MAP=y
# CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_STATIC is not set
CONFIG_SPLIT_PTLOCK_CPUS=4
CONFIG_HIGHPTE=y
CONFIG_MATH_EMULATION=y
CONFIG_MTRR=y
CONFIG_EFI=y
CONFIG_BOOT_IOREMAP=y
# CONFIG_REGPARM is not set
CONFIG_SECCOMP=y
# CONFIG_HZ_100 is not set
CONFIG_HZ_250=y
# CONFIG_HZ_1000 is not set
CONFIG_HZ=250
CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START=0x100000
# CONFIG_KEXEC is not set
#
# Power management options (ACPI, APM)
#
CONFIG_PM=y
CONFIG_PM_LEGACY=y
# CONFIG_PM_DEBUG is not set
CONFIG_SOFTWARE_SUSPEND=y
CONFIG_PM_STD_PARTITION=""
#
# Parallel IDE protocol modules
#
CONFIG_PARIDE_ATEN=m
CONFIG_PARIDE_BPCK=m
CONFIG_PARIDE_BPCK6=m
CONFIG_PARIDE_COMM=m
CONFIG_PARIDE_DSTR=m
CONFIG_PARIDE_FIT2=m
CONFIG_PARIDE_FIT3=m
CONFIG_PARIDE_EPAT=m
# CONFIG_PARIDE_EPATC8 is not set
CONFIG_PARIDE_EPIA=m
CONFIG_PARIDE_FRIQ=m
CONFIG_PARIDE_FRPW=m
CONFIG_PARIDE_KBIC=m
CONFIG_PARIDE_KTTI=m
CONFIG_PARIDE_ON20=m
CONFIG_PARIDE_ON26=m
CONFIG_BLK_CPQ_DA=m
CONFIG_BLK_CPQ_CISS_DA=m
CONFIG_CISS_SCSI_TAPE=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_DAC960=m
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_UMEM=m
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_COW_COMMON is not set
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_LOOP=m
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_CRYPTOLOOP=m
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_NBD=m
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SX8=m
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_UB is not set
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM_COUNT=16
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM_SIZE=65536
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD=y
CONFIG_CDROM_PKTCDVD=m
CONFIG_CDROM_PKTCDVD_BUFFERS=8
# CONFIG_CDROM_PKTCDVD_WCACHE is not set
CONFIG_ATA_OVER_ETH=m
#
# ATA/ATAPI/MFM/RLL support
#
CONFIG_IDE=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE=y
#
# Please see Documentation/ide.txt for help/info on IDE drives
#
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE_SATA is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_HD_IDE is not set
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDISK=m
# CONFIG_IDEDISK_MULTI_MODE is not set
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDECS=m
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDECD=m
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDETAPE=m
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEFLOPPY=m
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDESCSI=m
# CONFIG_IDE_TASK_IOCTL is not set
#
# IDE chipset support/bugfixes
#
CONFIG_IDE_GENERIC=m
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_CMD640=y
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_CMD640_ENHANCED is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEPNP is not set
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEPCI=y
CONFIG_IDEPCI_SHARE_IRQ=y
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_OFFBOARD is not set
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_GENERIC=m
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_OPTI621=m
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RZ1000=m
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDMA_PCI=y
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDMA_FORCED is not set
CONFIG_IDEDMA_PCI_AUTO=y
# CONFIG_IDEDMA_ONLYDISK is not set
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_AEC62XX=m
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_ALI15X3=m
# CONFIG_WDC_ALI15X3 is not set
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_AMD74XX=m
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_ATIIXP=m
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_CMD64X=m
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_TRIFLEX=m
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_CY82C693=m
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_CS5520=m
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_CS5530=m
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_CS5535=m
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_HPT34X=m
# CONFIG_HPT34X_AUTODMA is not set
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_HPT366=m
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SC1200=m
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_PIIX=m
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IT821X=m
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_NS87415=m
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_PDC202XX_OLD=m
CONFIG_PDC202XX_BURST=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_PDC202XX_NEW=m
CONFIG_PDC202XX_FORCE=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SVWKS=m
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SIIMAGE=m
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SIS5513=m
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SLC90E66=m
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_TRM290=m
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_VIA82CXXX=m
# CONFIG_IDE_ARM is not set
# CONFIG_IDE_CHIPSETS is not set
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDMA=y
# CONFIG_IDEDMA_IVB is not set
CONFIG_IDEDMA_AUTO=y
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_HD is not set
#
# SCSI device support
#
CONFIG_RAID_ATTRS=m
CONFIG_SCSI=m
CONFIG_SCSI_PROC_FS=y
#
# Console display driver support
#
CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE=y
CONFIG_MDA_CONSOLE=m
CONFIG_DUMMY_CONSOLE=y
CONFIG_FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE=m
# CONFIG_FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE_ROTATION is not set
# CONFIG_FONTS is not set
CONFIG_FONT_8x8=y
CONFIG_FONT_8x16=y
#
# File systems
#
CONFIG_EXT2_FS=m
CONFIG_EXT2_FS_XATTR=y
CONFIG_EXT2_FS_POSIX_ACL=y
CONFIG_EXT2_FS_SECURITY=y
# CONFIG_EXT2_FS_XIP is not set
CONFIG_EXT3_FS=m
CONFIG_EXT3_FS_XATTR=y
CONFIG_EXT3_FS_POSIX_ACL=y
CONFIG_EXT3_FS_SECURITY=y
CONFIG_JBD=m
# CONFIG_JBD_DEBUG is not set
CONFIG_FS_MBCACHE=m
CONFIG_REISERFS_FS=m
# CONFIG_REISERFS_CHECK is not set
# CONFIG_REISERFS_PROC_INFO is not set
CONFIG_REISERFS_FS_XATTR=y
CONFIG_REISERFS_FS_POSIX_ACL=y
CONFIG_REISERFS_FS_SECURITY=y
CONFIG_JFS_FS=m
CONFIG_JFS_POSIX_ACL=y
CONFIG_JFS_SECURITY=y
# CONFIG_JFS_DEBUG is not set
CONFIG_JFS_STATISTICS=y
CONFIG_FS_POSIX_ACL=y
CONFIG_XFS_FS=m
CONFIG_XFS_EXPORT=y
CONFIG_XFS_QUOTA=y
CONFIG_XFS_SECURITY=y
CONFIG_XFS_POSIX_ACL=y
CONFIG_XFS_RT=y
CONFIG_MINIX_FS=m
CONFIG_ROMFS_FS=m
CONFIG_INOTIFY=y
CONFIG_QUOTA=y
CONFIG_QFMT_V1=m
CONFIG_QFMT_V2=m
CONFIG_QUOTACTL=y
CONFIG_DNOTIFY=y
CONFIG_AUTOFS_FS=m
CONFIG_AUTOFS4_FS=m
CONFIG_FUSE_FS=m
#
# DOS/FAT/NT Filesystems
#
CONFIG_FAT_FS=m
CONFIG_MSDOS_FS=m
CONFIG_VFAT_FS=m
CONFIG_FAT_DEFAULT_CODEPAGE=437
CONFIG_FAT_DEFAULT_IOCHARSET="iso8859-1"
CONFIG_NTFS_FS=m
# CONFIG_NTFS_DEBUG is not set
# CONFIG_NTFS_RW is not set
#
# Pseudo filesystems
#
CONFIG_PROC_FS=y
CONFIG_PROC_KCORE=y
CONFIG_SYSFS=y
CONFIG_TMPFS=y
# CONFIG_HUGETLBFS is not set
# CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE is not set
CONFIG_RAMFS=y
CONFIG_RELAYFS_FS=m
#
# Miscellaneous filesystems
#
CONFIG_ADFS_FS=m
# CONFIG_ADFS_FS_RW is not set
CONFIG_AFFS_FS=m
CONFIG_HFS_FS=m
CONFIG_HFSPLUS_FS=m
CONFIG_BEFS_FS=m
# CONFIG_BEFS_DEBUG is not set
CONFIG_BFS_FS=m
CONFIG_EFS_FS=m
CONFIG_JFFS_FS=m
CONFIG_JFFS_FS_VERBOSE=0
CONFIG_JFFS_PROC_FS=y
CONFIG_JFFS2_FS=m
CONFIG_JFFS2_FS_DEBUG=0
CONFIG_JFFS2_FS_WRITEBUFFER=y
# CONFIG_JFFS2_SUMMARY is not set
# CONFIG_JFFS2_COMPRESSION_OPTIONS is not set
CONFIG_JFFS2_ZLIB=y
CONFIG_JFFS2_RTIME=y
# CONFIG_JFFS2_RUBIN is not set
CONFIG_CRAMFS=y
CONFIG_VXFS_FS=m
CONFIG_HPFS_FS=m
CONFIG_QNX4FS_FS=m
# CONFIG_QNX4FS_RW is not set
CONFIG_SYSV_FS=m
CONFIG_UFS_FS=m
# CONFIG_UFS_FS_WRITE is not set
#
# Partition Types
#
CONFIG_PARTITION_ADVANCED=y
CONFIG_ACORN_PARTITION=y
# CONFIG_ACORN_PARTITION_CUMANA is not set
# CONFIG_ACORN_PARTITION_EESOX is not set
CONFIG_ACORN_PARTITION_ICS=y
# CONFIG_ACORN_PARTITION_ADFS is not set
# CONFIG_ACORN_PARTITION_POWERTEC is not set
CONFIG_ACORN_PARTITION_RISCIX=y
CONFIG_OSF_PARTITION=y
CONFIG_AMIGA_PARTITION=y
CONFIG_ATARI_PARTITION=y
CONFIG_MAC_PARTITION=y
CONFIG_MSDOS_PARTITION=y
CONFIG_BSD_DISKLABEL=y
CONFIG_MINIX_SUBPARTITION=y
CONFIG_SOLARIS_X86_PARTITION=y
CONFIG_UNIXWARE_DISKLABEL=y
CONFIG_LDM_PARTITION=y
# CONFIG_LDM_DEBUG is not set
CONFIG_SGI_PARTITION=y
CONFIG_ULTRIX_PARTITION=y
CONFIG_SUN_PARTITION=y
CONFIG_EFI_PARTITION=y
#
# Instrumentation Support
#
CONFIG_PROFILING=y
CONFIG_OPROFILE=m
# CONFIG_KPROBES is not set
#
# Kernel hacking
#
CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME=y
CONFIG_DEBUG_KERNEL=y
CONFIG_MAGIC_SYSRQ=y
CONFIG_LOG_BUF_SHIFT=17
CONFIG_DETECT_SOFTLOCKUP=y
CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS=y
CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB=y
CONFIG_DEBUG_PREEMPT=y
CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK=y
CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK_SLEEP=y
CONFIG_DEBUG_KOBJECT=y
CONFIG_DEBUG_HIGHMEM=y
CONFIG_DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE=y
CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO=y
CONFIG_DEBUG_FS=y
CONFIG_DEBUG_VM=y
CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER=y
# CONFIG_RCU_TORTURE_TEST is not set
CONFIG_EARLY_PRINTK=y
CONFIG_DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW=y
CONFIG_DEBUG_STACK_USAGE=y
#
# Page alloc debug is incompatible with Software Suspend on i386
#
# CONFIG_4KSTACKS is not set
CONFIG_X86_FIND_SMP_CONFIG=y
CONFIG_X86_MPPARSE=y
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Last edited by shoily; 05-31-2008 at 10:09 PM.
Reason: Grammer mistake in thread title
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