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[PATCH] Dynamic kernel command-line: common 

Current implementation stores a static command-line buffer allocated to
COMMAND_LINE_SIZE size.  Most architectures stores two copies of this buffer,
one for future reference and one for parameter parsing.

Current kernel command-line size for most architecture is much too small for
module parameters, video settings, initramfs paramters and much more.  The
problem is that setting COMMAND_LINE_SIZE to a grater value, allocates static
buffers.

In order to allow a greater command-line size, these buffers should be
dynamically allocated or marked as init disposable buffers, so unused memory
can be released.

This patch renames the static saved_command_line variable into
boot_command_line adding __initdata attribute, so that it can be disposed
after initialization.  This rename is required so applications that use
saved_command_line will not be affected by this change.

It reintroduces saved_command_line as dynamically allocated buffer to match
the data in boot_command_line.

It also mark secondary command-line buffer as __initdata, and copies it to
dynamically allocated static_command_line buffer components may hold reference
to it after initialization.

This patch is for linux-2.6.20-rc4-mm1 and is divided to target each
architecture.  I could not check this in any architecture so please forgive me
if I got it wrong.

The per-architecture modification is very simple, use boot_command_line in
place of saved_command_line.  The common code is the change into dynamic
command-line.

This patch:

1. Rename saved_command_line into boot_command_line, mark as init
   disposable.

2. Add dynamic allocated saved_command_line.

3. Add dynamic allocated static_command_line.

4. During startup copy: boot_command_line into saved_command_line.  arch
   command_line into static_command_line.

5. Parse static_command_line and not arch command_line, so arch
   command_line may be freed.

Signed-off-by: Alon Bar-Lev <alon.barlev@gmail.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Ian Molton <spyro@f2s.com>
Cc: Mikael Starvik <starvik@axis.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: Kazumoto Kojima <kkojima@rr.iij4u.or.jp>
Cc: Richard Curnow <rc@rc0.org.uk>
Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Cc: Miles Bader <uclinux-v850@lsi.nec.co.jp>
Cc: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Greg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
hifive-unleashed-5.1
Alon Bar-Lev 2007-02-12 00:53:52 -08:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent ff91691bcc
commit 30d7e0d466
2 changed files with 27 additions and 7 deletions
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include/linux/init.h
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@ -67,7 +67,8 @@ extern initcall_t __con_initcall_start[], __con_initcall_end[];
extern initcall_t __security_initcall_start[], __security_initcall_end[];
/* Defined in init/main.c */
extern char saved_command_line[];
extern char __initdata boot_command_line[];
extern char *saved_command_line;
extern unsigned int reset_devices;
/* used by init/main.c */
@ -164,7 +165,7 @@ struct obs_kernel_param {
#define early_param(str, fn) \
__setup_param(str, fn, fn, 1)
/* Relies on saved_command_line being set */
/* Relies on boot_command_line being set */
void __init parse_early_param(void);
#endif /* __ASSEMBLY__ */

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init/main.c
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@ -121,8 +121,12 @@ extern void time_init(void);
void (*late_time_init)(void);
extern void softirq_init(void);
/* Untouched command line (eg. for /proc) saved by arch-specific code. */
char saved_command_line[COMMAND_LINE_SIZE];
/* Untouched command line saved by arch-specific code. */
char __initdata boot_command_line[COMMAND_LINE_SIZE];
/* Untouched saved command line (eg. for /proc) */
char *saved_command_line;
/* Command line for parameter parsing */
static char *static_command_line;
static char *execute_command;
static char *ramdisk_execute_command;
@ -399,6 +403,20 @@ static void __init smp_init(void)
#endif
/*
* We need to store the untouched command line for future reference.
* We also need to store the touched command line since the parameter
* parsing is performed in place, and we should allow a component to
* store reference of name/value for future reference.
*/
static void __init setup_command_line(char *command_line)
{
saved_command_line = alloc_bootmem(strlen (boot_command_line)+1);
static_command_line = alloc_bootmem(strlen (command_line)+1);
strcpy (saved_command_line, boot_command_line);
strcpy (static_command_line, command_line);
}
/*
* We need to finalize in a non-__init function or else race conditions
* between the root thread and the init thread may cause start_kernel to
@ -453,7 +471,7 @@ void __init parse_early_param(void)
return;
/* All fall through to do_early_param. */
strlcpy(tmp_cmdline, saved_command_line, COMMAND_LINE_SIZE);
strlcpy(tmp_cmdline, boot_command_line, COMMAND_LINE_SIZE);
parse_args("early options", tmp_cmdline, NULL, 0, do_early_param);
done = 1;
}
@ -503,6 +521,7 @@ asmlinkage void __init start_kernel(void)
printk(KERN_NOTICE);
printk(linux_banner);
setup_arch(&command_line);
setup_command_line(command_line);
unwind_setup();
setup_per_cpu_areas();
smp_prepare_boot_cpu(); /* arch-specific boot-cpu hooks */
@ -520,9 +539,9 @@ asmlinkage void __init start_kernel(void)
preempt_disable();
build_all_zonelists();
page_alloc_init();
printk(KERN_NOTICE "Kernel command line: %s\n", saved_command_line);
printk(KERN_NOTICE "Kernel command line: %s\n", boot_command_line);
parse_early_param();
parse_args("Booting kernel", command_line, __start___param,
parse_args("Booting kernel", static_command_line, __start___param,
__stop___param - __start___param,
&unknown_bootoption);
if (!irqs_disabled()) {