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From: Zhang Yanfei <zhangyanfei@cn.fujitsu.com>
To: Wang YanQing <udknight@gmail.com>
Cc: jbarnes@sgi.com, tjd21@cl.cam.ac.uk, khalid.aziz@hp.com,
	kexec@lists.infradead.org, horms@verge.net.au,
	ebiederm@xmission.com, hari@in.ibm.com,
	Zhang Yanfei <zhangyanfei.yes@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] i386:kexec-bzImage: Use "\0" as command line instead of empty command line
Date: Sun, 07 Apr 2013 13:54:58 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <51610A32.6080200@cn.fujitsu.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130407010103.GA2176@udknight>

于 2013年04月07日 09:01, Wang YanQing 写道:
> On Sat, Apr 06, 2013 at 01:52:09PM +0800, Zhang Yanfei wrote:
>> 于 2013年04月03日 17:43, Wang YanQing 写道:
>>> I get garbage output of /proc/cmdline and in dmesg when I
>>> use kexec to load new kernel bzImage without append command
>>> line like below:
>>>
>>> kexec -l bzImage --initrd=initramfs.
>>
>> Hello Wang
>>
>> I tried this:
>>
>> ./build/sbin/kexec -l /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-279.el6.i686 --initrd=/boot/initramfs-2.6.32-279.el6.i686.img 
>>
>> But nothing happened and it seemed the command loaded the kernel successfully.
>> Can you describe your situation more concretely, please?
> Yes, it will load the kernel successfully, but when you use kexec -e to run into
> the loaded kernel, in the new kernel context, you will get garbage output when 
> execute `cat /proc/cmdline`, and you also can see the garbage in "Kernel command
> line" from dmesg. 

With no commandline, can the new kernel boot?
I tried in my box and the new kernel just panicked for it cannot
find a root= argument in its commandline.

Thanks
Zhang

> 
> I am sure you will see this issue, because when user pass no cmdline, and cmdline_len
> will because zero, so the line below in setup_linux_bootloader_parameters_high will
> not work:
> cmdline_ptr[cmdline_len - 1] = '\0';
> 
> Thanks
> 


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  reply	other threads:[~2013-04-07  5:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-04-03  9:43 [PATCH] i386:kexec-bzImage: Use "\0" as command line instead of empty command line Wang YanQing
2013-04-06  5:52 ` Zhang Yanfei
2013-04-07  1:01   ` Wang YanQing
2013-04-07  5:54     ` Zhang Yanfei [this message]
2013-04-07  9:35       ` Wang YanQing
2013-04-08  1:08         ` Wang YanQing
2013-04-08  3:35           ` Zhang Yanfei
2013-04-08  3:53             ` Wang YanQing
2013-04-08  4:33               ` Zhang Yanfei
2013-04-08  6:07                 ` Wang YanQing
2013-04-08  6:43                   ` Zhang Yanfei
2013-04-08  4:18             ` Wang YanQing

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