Re: [tip: x86/urgent] x86/boot: Pull up cmdline preparation and early param parsing

[Hugh Dickins]

On Fri, 10 Dec 2021, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 09, 2021 at 05:37:42PM +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> > Whatever we do, it needs to be tested by all folks on Cc who already
> > reported regressions, i.e., Anjaneya, Hugh, John and Patrick.
> 
> Ok, Mike is busy so here are some patches for testing:
> 
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bp/bp.git/log/?h=rc4-boot
> 
> I'd appreciate it if folks who reported an issue, verify those.
> 
> The first two are reverts which should address the issues with mem=
> folks have reported. And the last one should address Anjaneya's issue.
> 
> I guess doing it the way as Mike suggested is cleaner/better.

Yes, mem= works fine for me, on both machines, 64-bit and 32-bit,
thanks; but I'm not exercising the troublesome EFI case at all.

Hugh