Messages in this thread | | | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] THE LINUX/I386 BOOT PROTOCOL - Breaking the 256 limit (ping) | Date | Wed, 30 Aug 2006 19:31:14 +0200 |
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On Wednesday 30 August 2006 19:06, Alon Bar-Lev wrote:
> > > > And the other thing is that this will cost memory. Either make > > it dependend on !CONFIG_SMALL or fix the boot code to save the > > command line into a kmalloc'ed buffer of the right size and __init > > the original one > > I don't mind doing either... Any preference for one of them? The > kmalloc approach seems nicer..
kmalloc is better yes. You just have to do it after kmalloc is up and running and make sure the users before reference the __init'ed version. I suspect only /proc/cmdline will need the kmalloc version after booting, nobody else should look at the command line.
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