Re: [PATCH v4 1/2] kernel/crash_core: separate the parsing routines to lib/parse_crashkernel.c
From: Pingfan Liu
Date: Wed Apr 17 2019 - 01:48:51 EST
On Wed, Apr 17, 2019 at 3:01 AM Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Apr 08, 2019 at 01:58:34PM +0800, Pingfan Liu wrote:
> > Beside kernel, at early boot stage, the KASLR code also needs to parse the
> > crashkernel=x@y or crashkernel=ramsize-range:size[,...][@offset] option,
> > and avoid to put randomized kernel in the region.
> >
> > Extracting the parsing related routines to lib/parse_crashkernel.c, so it
> > will be handy included by other
> > files.
>
> Use this commit message for your next submission:
>
> crash: Carve out crashkernel= cmdline parsing
>
> Make the "crashkernel=" parsing functionality available to the early
> KASLR code. Will be used by a later patch to parse crashkernel regions
> which KASLR should aviod.
>
OK.
> > Signed-off-by: Pingfan Liu <kernelfans@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@xxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Nicolas Pitre <nico@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Chao Fan <fanc.fnst@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > CC: Hari Bathini <hbathini@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > ---
> > kernel/crash_core.c | 273 ---------------------------------------------
> > lib/Makefile | 2 +
> > lib/parse_crashkernel.c | 289 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> > 3 files changed, 291 insertions(+), 273 deletions(-)
>
> And this is not how you carve out code.
>
> First, you do a patch which does only code move. Nothing more.
>
> In a follow on patch, you make the changes to the moved code so that it
> is immediately visible what you're changing.
>
Will fix it. Thanks for your review.
Regards,
Pingfan