Thread (4 messages) 4 messages, 2 authors, 2014-04-16

Re: [PATCH 1/1] powerpc: Increase COMMAND_LINE_SIZE to 2048 from 512.

From: Joseph Salisbury <hidden>
Date: 2014-04-14 18:59:00
Also in: lkml, stable

On 04/14/2014 11:30 AM, Joseph Salisbury wrote:
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1306677

While booting the PPC64EL kernel, the command line gets truncated to 512 characters. This is due to a hard limit of 512 defined for COMMAND_LINE_SIZE.  It would be beneficial to have a command line longer than 512 characters, as iscsi targets and cloud-init parameters are passed through the kernel command line.

Signed-off-by: Joseph Salisbury <redacted>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> (supporter:LINUX FOR POWERPC...)
Cc: Paul Mackerras <redacted> (supporter:LINUX FOR POWERPC...)
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org (open list:LINUX FOR POWERPC...)
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org (open list)
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org

---
 arch/powerpc/boot/ops.h |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/boot/ops.h b/arch/powerpc/boot/ops.h
index b3218ce..5a01fb1 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/boot/ops.h
+++ b/arch/powerpc/boot/ops.h
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
 #include "types.h"
 #include "string.h"
 
-#define	COMMAND_LINE_SIZE	512
+#define	COMMAND_LINE_SIZE	2048	
 #define	MAX_PATH_LEN		256
 #define	MAX_PROP_LEN		256 /* What should this be? */
 
After further review, it appears ppc does not actually use the define in
the ppc headers but uses the common generic
default(include/uapi/asm-generic/setup.h).  COMMAND_LINE_SIZE should
probably become a kernel config option.  Do folks agree that is the
correct thing to do?  If so, I can re-work the patch.

Thanks,

Joe
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