Re: [PATCH RFC bootconfig] Allow forcing unconditional bootconfig processing

Masami Hiramatsu
2023-02-25T00:58:24Z

On Fri, 24 Feb 2023 08:33:07 -0800
"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org> wrote:

> On Sat, Feb 25, 2023 at 01:13:06AM +0900, Masami Hiramatsu wrote:
> > Hi Geert,
> >
> > On Fri, 24 Feb 2023 09:31:50 +0100
> > Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi Paul,
> > >
> > > On Sat, Jan 7, 2023 at 5:33 PM Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> wrote:
> > > > On Sun, Jan 08, 2023 at 12:22:15AM +0900, Masami Hiramatsu wrote:
> > > > > BTW, maybe CONFIG_BOOT_CONFIG_EMBED is better to select this.
> > > > > (or at least recommend to enable this)
> > > >
> > > > Like this?
> > > >
> > > > Thanx, Paul
> > > >
> > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > > >
> > > > commit d09a1505c51a70da38b34ac38062977299aef742
> > > > Author: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
> > > > Date: Sat Jan 7 08:09:22 2023 -0800
> > > >
> > > > bootconfig: Default BOOT_CONFIG_FORCE to y if BOOT_CONFIG_EMBED
> > > >
> > > > When a kernel is built with CONFIG_BOOT_CONFIG_EMBED=y, the intention
> > > > will normally be to unconditionally provide the specified kernel-boot
> > > > arguments to the kernel, as opposed to requiring a separately provided
> > > > bootconfig parameter. Therefore, make the BOOT_CONFIG_FORCE Kconfig
> > > > option default to y in kernels built with CONFIG_BOOT_CONFIG_EMBED=y.
> > > >
> > > > The old semantics may be obtained by manually overriding this default.
> > > >
> > > > Suggested-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
> > > > Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
> > > >
> > > > diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig
> > > > index 0fb19fa0edba9..97a0f14d9020d 100644
> > > > --- a/init/Kconfig
> > > > +++ b/init/Kconfig
> > > > @@ -1379,6 +1379,7 @@ config BOOT_CONFIG
> > > > config BOOT_CONFIG_FORCE
> > > > bool "Force unconditional bootconfig processing"
> > > > depends on BOOT_CONFIG
> > > > + default y if BOOT_CONFIG_EMBED
> > > > help
> > > > With this Kconfig option set, BOOT_CONFIG processing is carried
> > > > out even when the "bootconfig" kernel-boot parameter is omitted.
> > >
> > > Thanks for your patch, which is now commit 6ded8a28ed80e4cc
> > > ("bootconfig: Default BOOT_CONFIG_FORCE to y if BOOT_CONFIG_EMBED").
> > >
> > > After this change, an all{mod,yes}config kernel has:
> > >
> > > CONFIG_BOOT_CONFIG_FORCE=y
> > > CONFIG_BOOT_CONFIG_EMBED=y
> > > CONFIG_BOOT_CONFIG_EMBED_FILE=""
> > >
> > > Will this actually work? I haven't tried booting such a kernel yet.
> >
> > Yeah, good question. It is same as when you boot the kernel with 'bootconfig'
> > but do not add the bootconfig file to initrd. You may see below message
> > on boot log, but kernel boots normally. :)
> >
> > 'bootconfig' found on command line, but no bootconfig found
> >
> > (Maybe it is better to fix the message, because if BOOT_CONFIG_FORCE=y, this
> > will be shown without 'bootconfig' on command line.)
>
> I just tried it again, and for me it just silently ignores the bootconfig
> setup. Which is what I recall happening when I tried it when creating
> the patch.
>
> Here is the .config file pieces of interest:
>
> CONFIG_BOOT_CONFIG=y
> CONFIG_BOOT_CONFIG_FORCE=y
> CONFIG_BOOT_CONFIG_EMBED=y
> CONFIG_BOOT_CONFIG_EMBED_FILE=""
>
> Anyone else seeing something different?

Hmm, from the code, I think you'll see that message in early console log.

In init/main.c:

----
#ifdef CONFIG_BOOT_CONFIG
/* Is bootconfig on command line? */
static bool bootconfig_found = IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_BOOT_CONFIG_FORCE);
static size_t initargs_offs;
#else
----
And
----
static void __init setup_boot_config(void)
{
...
strscpy(tmp_cmdline, boot_command_line, COMMAND_LINE_SIZE);
err = parse_args("bootconfig", tmp_cmdline, NULL, 0, 0, 0, NULL,
bootconfig_params);

if (IS_ERR(err) || !bootconfig_found)
return;

/* parse_args() stops at the next param of '--' and returns an address */
if (err)
initargs_offs = err - tmp_cmdline;

if (!data) {
pr_err("'bootconfig' found on command line, but no bootconfig found\n");
return;
}
----

Thus, if CONFIG_BOOT_CONFIG_FORCE=y, the process passes the below check

if (IS_ERR(err) || !bootconfig_found)
return;

But since we have an empty 'data', the error should be printed.

Thank you,

>
> Thanx, Paul
>
> > Thank you!
> >
> > >
> > > Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
> > >
> > > Geert
> > >
> > > --
> > > Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org
> > >
> > > In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
> > > when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
> > > -- Linus Torvalds
> >
> >
> > --
> > Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>

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