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author | Alon Bar-Lev <alon.barlev@gmail.com> | 2007-02-12 09:53:52 +0100 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org> | 2007-02-12 18:48:37 +0100 |
commit | 30d7e0d466b3ac0b5ef77e4062bf9385f0d72270 (patch) | |
tree | cff57621e9e5b8898abb2982ec3b0b7d0e6eac88 /init | |
parent | [PATCH] sched: avoid div in rebalance_tick (diff) | |
download | linux-30d7e0d466b3ac0b5ef77e4062bf9385f0d72270.tar.xz linux-30d7e0d466b3ac0b5ef77e4062bf9385f0d72270.zip |
[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>
Diffstat (limited to 'init')
-rw-r--r-- | init/main.c | 29 |
1 files changed, 24 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/init/main.c b/init/main.c index 4e88bddfbebf..4e9e92bb2b89 100644 --- a/init/main.c +++ b/init/main.c @@ -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; @@ -400,6 +404,20 @@ 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 * be reaped by free_initmem before the root thread has proceeded 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()) { |