Re: [RFC PATCH 2/2] init: Allow multi-line output of kernel command line

[Petr Mladek]

On Tue 2020-05-19 12:42:35, Joe Perches wrote:
> ARM may have its longest possible command line larger than the longest
> possible printk.
> 
> If necessary, emit the commend line on multiple lines.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> 
> compiled, untested
> 
>  init/main.c | 31 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>  1 file changed, 30 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/init/main.c b/init/main.c
> index b63a3c001ac4..b3ebbbc129ae 100644
> --- a/init/main.c
> +++ b/init/main.c
> @@ -826,6 +826,34 @@ void __init __weak arch_call_rest_init(void)
>  	rest_init();
>  }
>  
> +static void __init print_cmdline(char *line)
> +{
> +#ifdef CONFIG_PRINTK
> +	const char *prefix = "Kernel command line";
> +	size_t len = strlen(line);
> +
> +	while (len > PRINTK_LOG_LINE_MAX) {
> +		char *pos = line;
> +		char *last_pos = pos + PRINTK_LOG_LINE_MAX - 1;
> +		char saved_char;
> +		/* Find last space char within the maximum line length */
> +		while ((pos = memchr(pos, ' ', len - (pos - line))) &&
> +		       (pos - line) < PRINTK_LOG_LINE_MAX - 1) {
> +			last_pos = pos;
> +		}

strchr() would safe the length calculation:

		while ((pos = strchr(pos, ' ')) &&
		       (pos - line) < PRINTK_LOG_LINE_MAX - 1) {
			last_pos = pos;
		}


> +		saved_char = line[last_pos - line];
> +		line[last_pos - line] = 0;

This looks less cryptic:

		saved_char = *last_pos;
		*last_pos = '\0';

> +		pr_notice("%s: %s\n", prefix, line);
> +		prefix = "Kernel command line (continued)";
> +		line[last_pos - line] = saved_char;
> +		len -= pos - line;
> +		line += pos - line;

'pos' might be NULL when there is no ' ' in the string. What about?

		len -= last_pos - line;
		line = last_pos;
> +	}
> +
> +	pr_notice("%s: %s\n", prefix, line);
> +#endif
> +}

Plus, the code should count the prefix length when splitting the line as
reported by Sergey.

Best Regards,
Petr