From: Adrian Bunk 16 kB is often no longer enough for a normal boot of an UP system. And even less when people e.g. use suspend. 17 seems to be a more reasonable default for current kernels on current hardware (it's just the default, anyone who is memory limited can still lower it). Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk Acked-by: Randy Dunlap Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- init/Kconfig | 15 ++++++--------- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) diff -puN init/Kconfig~let-log_buf_shift-default-to-17 init/Kconfig --- a/init/Kconfig~let-log_buf_shift-default-to-17 +++ a/init/Kconfig @@ -259,17 +259,14 @@ config IKCONFIG_PROC config LOG_BUF_SHIFT int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)" range 12 21 - default 17 if S390 || LOCKDEP - default 16 if X86_NUMAQ || IA64 - default 15 if SMP - default 14 + default 17 help Select kernel log buffer size as a power of 2. - Defaults and Examples: - 17 => 128 KB for S/390 - 16 => 64 KB for x86 NUMAQ or IA-64 - 15 => 32 KB for SMP - 14 => 16 KB for uniprocessor + Examples: + 17 => 128 KB + 16 => 64 KB + 15 => 32 KB + 14 => 16 KB 13 => 8 KB 12 => 4 KB _