Re: [PATCH v2 00/24] Remove COMMAND_LINE_SIZE from uapi

[Alexandre Ghiti]

Hi,

On 12/11/22 07:13, Palmer Dabbelt wrote:
> This all came up in the context of increasing COMMAND_LINE_SIZE in the
> RISC-V port.  In theory that's a UABI break, as COMMAND_LINE_SIZE is the
> maximum length of /proc/cmdline and userspace could staticly rely on
> that to be correct.
>
> Usually I wouldn't mess around with changing this sort of thing, but
> PowerPC increased it with a5980d064fe2 ("powerpc: Bump COMMAND_LINE_SIZE
> to 2048").  There are also a handful of examples of COMMAND_LINE_SIZE
> increasing, but they're from before the UAPI split so I'm not quite sure
> what that means: e5a6a1c90948 ("powerpc: derive COMMAND_LINE_SIZE from
> asm-generic"), 684d2fd48e71 ("[S390] kernel: Append scpdata to kernel
> boot command line"), 22242681cff5 ("MIPS: Extend COMMAND_LINE_SIZE"),
> and 2b74b85693c7 ("sh: Derive COMMAND_LINE_SIZE from
> asm-generic/setup.h.").
>
> It seems to me like COMMAND_LINE_SIZE really just shouldn't have been
> part of the uapi to begin with, and userspace should be able to handle
> /proc/cmdline of whatever length it turns out to be.  I don't see any
> references to COMMAND_LINE_SIZE anywhere but Linux via a quick Google
> search, but that's not really enough to consider it unused on my end.
>
> The feedback on the v1 seemed to indicate that COMMAND_LINE_SIZE really
> shouldn't be part of uapi, so this now touches all the ports.  I've
> tried to split this all out and leave it bisectable, but I haven't
> tested it all that aggressively.
>
> Changes since v1 <https://lore.kernel.org/all/20210423025545.313965-1-palmer@xxxxxxxxxxx/>:
> * Touches every arch.

The command line size is still an issue on riscv, any comment on this so 
we can make progress?

Thanks,

Alex