Re: [PATCH v4 01/13] x86/boot: add cmdline to struct boot_domain

[Alejandro Vallejo <agarciav@amd.com>]

On Thu Apr 17, 2025 at 3:54 PM BST, Jan Beulich wrote:
> On 17.04.2025 14:48, Alejandro Vallejo wrote:
>> From: "Daniel P. Smith" <dpsmith@apertussolutions.com>
>> 
>> Add a container for the "cooked" command line for a domain. This
>> provides for the backing memory to be directly associated with the
>> domain being constructed.  This is done in anticipation that the domain
>> construction path may need to be invoked multiple times, thus ensuring
>> each instance had a distinct memory allocation.
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Smith <dpsmith@apertussolutions.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Jason Andryuk <jason.andryuk@amd.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Alejandro Vallejo <agarciav@amd.com>
>
> Acked-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>

Thanks,

> preferably with ...
>
>> --- a/xen/arch/x86/hvm/dom0_build.c
>> +++ b/xen/arch/x86/hvm/dom0_build.c
>> @@ -653,7 +653,7 @@ static int __init pvh_load_kernel(
>>      void *image_start = image_base + image->headroom;
>>      unsigned long image_len = image->size;
>>      unsigned long initrd_len = initrd ? initrd->size : 0;
>> -    const char *cmdline = image->cmdline_pa ? __va(image->cmdline_pa) : NULL;
>> +    unsigned long cmdline_len = bd->cmdline ? strlen(bd->cmdline) + 1 : 0;
>
> ... this becoming either size_t (as you have it elsewhere) or unsigned int.
> Happy to make the adjustment while committing, so long as you agree with
> either of the suggested variants.
>
> Jan

Yes, sounds good. I'd rather it be size_t seeing as it's the output type
of strlen()

Cheers,
Alejandro