Re: x86_64 command line truncated II

[Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>]

On Monday 07 August 2006 16:42, Andy Whitcroft wrote:
> Andi Kleen wrote:
> > Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> writes:
> > 
> >> Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> writes:
> >>
> >>> It seems that the command line on x86_64 is being truncated during boot:
> >> in mm right?
> >>> Will try and track it down.
> >> Don't bother, it is likely "early-param" (the patch from
> >> hell). I'll investigate.
> > 
> > Following up myself ... 
> > 
> > Are you sure it's a regression? 2.6.17 does the same
> > and we always had that 255 character limit (I tried 
> > to increase it once, but it broke some old lilo setups) 
> > 
> > i386 should be the same btw.
> 
> Its not being truncated at 255 characters, its being truncated at the 
> first space.  This is coming out of parse_args, which dumps '\0's into 
> the command_line as it rips it apart.  We now only have one copy of the 
> command line (in x86_64) instead of two, so we now expose this trashed 
> copy in /proc/cmdline.

I don't see this in my version; so it's likely fixed already. I did quite
a lot of changes on this patch already.

Please test

ftp://ftp.firstfloor.org/pub/ak/x86_64/quilt/patches/early-param

-Andi