Re: x86_64 command line truncated II

[Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>]

Andi Kleen wrote:
> 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

Easier said than done as the original version is unwilling to revert. 
Looking at the replacement patch it has the same fix I have been testing 
to restore the original dual buffer semantic.  So I think it would fix 
the problem we're seeing here.  I'll follow up to this email with the 
incremental patch I tested with 2.6.18-rc2-mm2.

-apw
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