Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 12 Mar 2007 10:43:52 +0000 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] x86_64, i386: Add command line length to boot protocol |
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On Tue 2007-03-06 13:21:34, Dave Jones wrote: > On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 07:14:30PM +0100, Bernhard Walle wrote: > > > +cmdline_size: .long COMMAND_LINE_SIZE-1 #length of the command line, > > Why a long? It's unlikely that someone is going to have a command line > bigger than 0xffff.
Well, I could imagine overflowing that. Describing your numa setup, excluding few bad bits of ram using memmap=exact, set up your boot over iscsi on cmdline.... these are likely to eat insane ammount of cmdline space. Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html - 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/
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