From: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
To: paulmck@kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org,
corbet@lwn.net, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
ndesaulniers@google.com, vbabka@suse.cz, hannes@cmpxchg.org,
joel@joelfernandes.org, quic_neeraju@quicinc.com,
urezki@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC bootconfig] Allow forcing unconditional bootconfig processing
Date: Sun, 8 Jan 2023 15:04:25 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230108150425.426f2861e9db1152fa84508f@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230107162202.GA4028633@paulmck-ThinkPad-P17-Gen-1>
On Sat, 7 Jan 2023 08:22:02 -0800
"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 08, 2023 at 12:22:15AM +0900, Masami Hiramatsu wrote:
> > On Wed, 4 Jan 2023 16:58:38 -0800
> > "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org> wrote:
> >
> > > The BOOT_CONFIG family of Kconfig options allows a bootconfig file
> > > containing kernel boot parameters to be embedded into an initrd or into
> > > the kernel itself. This can be extremely useful when deploying kernels
> > > in cases where some of the boot parameters depend on the kernel version
> > > rather than on the server hardware, firmware, or workload.
> > >
> > > Unfortunately, the "bootconfig" kernel parameter must be specified in
> > > order to cause the kernel to look for the embedded bootconfig file,
> > > and it clearly does not help to embed this "bootconfig" kernel parameter
> > > into that file.
> > >
> > > Therefore, provide a new BOOT_CONFIG_FORCE Kconfig option that causes the
> > > kernel to act as if the "bootconfig" kernel parameter had been specified.
> > > In other words, kernels built with CONFIG_BOOT_CONFIG_FORCE=y will look
> > > for the embedded bootconfig file even when the "bootconfig" kernel
> > > parameter is omitted. This permits kernel-version-dependent kernel
> > > boot parameters to be embedded into the kernel image without the need to
> > > (for example) update large numbers of boot loaders.
> >
> > I like this because this is a simple solution. We have another option
> > to specify "bootconfig" in CONFIG_CMDLINE, but it can be overwritten by
> > bootloader. Thus, it is better to have this option so that user can
> > always enable bootconfig.
>
> Glad you like it!
>
> In addition, if the help text is accurate, another shortcoming of
> CONFIG_CMDLINE is that its semantics vary from one architecture to
> another. Some have CONFIG_CMDLINE override the boot-loader supplied
> parameters, and others differ in the order in which the parameters
> are processed.
Yes, that differences confuse us...
>
> > Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
>
> Thank you!
>
> > BTW, maybe CONFIG_BOOT_CONFIG_EMBED is better to select this.
> > (or at least recommend to enable this)
>
> Like this?
Yes! Thanks.
>
> Thanx, Paul
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> commit d09a1505c51a70da38b34ac38062977299aef742
> Author: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
> Date: Sat Jan 7 08:09:22 2023 -0800
>
> bootconfig: Default BOOT_CONFIG_FORCE to y if BOOT_CONFIG_EMBED
>
> When a kernel is built with CONFIG_BOOT_CONFIG_EMBED=y, the intention
> will normally be to unconditionally provide the specified kernel-boot
> arguments to the kernel, as opposed to requiring a separately provided
> bootconfig parameter. Therefore, make the BOOT_CONFIG_FORCE Kconfig
> option default to y in kernels built with CONFIG_BOOT_CONFIG_EMBED=y.
>
> The old semantics may be obtained by manually overriding this default.
>
> Suggested-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Thank you!
>
> diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig
> index 0fb19fa0edba9..97a0f14d9020d 100644
> --- a/init/Kconfig
> +++ b/init/Kconfig
> @@ -1379,6 +1379,7 @@ config BOOT_CONFIG
> config BOOT_CONFIG_FORCE
> bool "Force unconditional bootconfig processing"
> depends on BOOT_CONFIG
> + default y if BOOT_CONFIG_EMBED
> help
> With this Kconfig option set, BOOT_CONFIG processing is carried
> out even when the "bootconfig" kernel-boot parameter is omitted.
--
Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-01-08 6:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-01-05 0:58 [PATCH RFC bootconfig] Allow forcing unconditional bootconfig processing Paul E. McKenney
2023-01-07 15:22 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2023-01-07 16:22 ` Paul E. McKenney
2023-01-08 6:04 ` Masami Hiramatsu [this message]
2023-01-09 4:25 ` Paul E. McKenney
2023-01-09 23:56 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2023-01-10 0:07 ` Paul E. McKenney
2023-01-10 0:54 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2023-01-10 1:09 ` Paul E. McKenney
2023-01-10 14:17 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2023-01-10 15:02 ` Paul E. McKenney
2023-01-26 19:26 ` Paul E. McKenney
2023-01-27 5:57 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2023-01-31 18:50 ` Paul E. McKenney
2023-02-24 8:31 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2023-02-24 16:13 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2023-02-24 16:33 ` Paul E. McKenney
2023-02-25 0:58 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2023-02-25 1:19 ` Paul E. McKenney
2023-02-26 23:16 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2023-02-27 16:56 ` Paul E. McKenney
2023-02-27 23:29 ` Masami Hiramatsu
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