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authorAlon Bar-Lev <alon.barlev@gmail.com>2007-02-12 00:53:52 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2007-02-12 09:48:37 -0800
commit30d7e0d466b3ac0b5ef77e4062bf9385f0d72270 (patch)
treecff57621e9e5b8898abb2982ec3b0b7d0e6eac88 /include
parentff91691bccdb741efb2df0489058a4961fa79598 (diff)
downloadlinux-30d7e0d466b3ac0b5ef77e4062bf9385f0d72270.tar.bz2
[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 'include')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/init.h5
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/init.h b/include/linux/init.h
index c65f5107d512..e290a010e3f2 100644
--- a/include/linux/init.h
+++ b/include/linux/init.h
@@ -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__ */