Decrease kernel boot log verbosity level

When my kernel boots, apart from the useful important information, it prints lots of debugging info, such as

....
kernel: [0.00000] BIOS-e820: [mem 0x0000000000000000-0x000000000009d3ff] usable
kernel: [0.00000] BIOS-e820: [mem 0x000000000009d400-0x000000000009ffff] reserved
kernel: [0.00000] BIOS-e820: [mem 0x00000000000e0000-0x00000000000fffff] reserved
...
kernel: [0.00000] MTRR variable ranges enabled:
kernel: [0.00000]   0 base 0000000000 mask 7E00000000 write-back
...
kernel: [0.00000] init_memory_mapping: [mem 0x00100000-0xcf414fff]
kernel: [0.00000]  [mem 0x00100000-0x001fffff] page 4k
kernel: [0.00000]  [mem 0x00200000-0xcf3fffff] page 2M
kernel: [0.00000]  [mem 0xcf400000-0xcf414fff] page 4k
....
kernel: [0.00000] ACPI: XSDT 0xD8FEB088 0008C (v01 DELL CBX3 01072009 AMI 10013)
kernel: [0.00000] ACPI: FACP 0xD8FFC9F8 0010C (v05 DELL CBX3 01072009 AMI 10013)
....
kernel: [0.00000] Early memory node ranges
kernel: [0.00000]   node   0: [mem 0x00001000-0x0009cfff]
kernel: [0.00000]   node   0: [mem 0x00100000-0xcf414fff]
kernel: [0.00000]   node   0: [mem 0xcf41c000-0xcfdfcfff]
....
kernel: [0.00000] ACPI: Local APIC address 0xfee00000
kernel: [0.00000] ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x01] lapic_id[0x00] enabled)
kernel: [0.00000] ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x02] lapic_id[0x02] enabled)

and much much more.

I don't see how this can be useful to anybody other than a kernel developer/debugger.

I have found, that I can get rid of these by using loglevel=5 as boot parameter. The debugging logs are no longer printed on the terminal, but they are still in dmesg and in syslog.

Is it possible to decrease the boot log verbosity globally, so that dmesg and syslog are not flooded by this useless information ?

I am using self compiled kernel 3.18

ACEPTED SOLUTION

Turns out, putting following lines to /etc/rsyslog.conf solved the problem for me:

kern.debug   /dev/null
& ~