Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753532AbbDGRAq (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Apr 2015 13:00:46 -0400 Received: from mail-ob0-f176.google.com ([209.85.214.176]:36146 "EHLO mail-ob0-f176.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751068AbbDGRAo (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Apr 2015 13:00:44 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <1428404540-16601-1-git-send-email-kuleshovmail@gmail.com> <20150407110931.GC14136@gmail.com> <20150407113502.GA14704@gmail.com> <20150407140316.GA17681@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2015 23:00:30 +0600 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2 v2] x86_64/earlyprintk: setup earlyprintk as early as possible From: Alexander Kuleshov To: Ingo Molnar Cc: Thomas Gleixner , Ingo Molnar , "H. Peter Anvin" , Greg Kroah-Hartman , LKML Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1492 Lines: 34 2015-04-07 22:49 GMT+06:00 Alexander Kuleshov : > * 2015-04-07 20:03 GMT+06:00 Ingo Molnar : >> >> Yes, you need to check how and where in the arch init code >> boot_command_line is set up in the CONFIG_CMDLINE_OVERRIDE=y case. >> > > arch setup code defines builtin_cmdline and initalizes it with > CONFIG_CMDLINE, which > is 'root=/dev/sdb earlyprintk=ttyS0 loglevel=7 debug rdinit=/sbin/init > root=/dev/ram memblock=debug' string in my test. During kernel > initialization (int setup_arch), > builtin_cmdline copying to the boot_command_line if CONFIG_CMDLINE_OVERRIDE and > CONFIG_CMDLINE_BOOL are set. > > I think that it is not correct to pass boot_command_line to the > setup_early_printk in > CONFIG_CMDLINE_OVERRIDE=y case. As boot_command_line will be overwritten with > builtin_cmdline. > > What do you think if we'll builtin_cmdline from the > arch/x86/kernel/setup.c to the init.h to > make it visible for head_{32,64}.c and pass builtin_cmdline or > boot_command_line to > the setup_early_printk depend on CONFIG_CMDLINE_OVERRIDE? No, it's the wrong way. CONFIG_CMDLINE_BOOL can be 'y', but CONFIG_CMDLINE_OVERRIDE will be 'n', and boot_command_line will be appended, but not overwritten -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/