kernel/linux.git/init/main.c, branch v6.12.80

init: handle bootloader identifier in kernel parameters

2025-10-19T14:33:50+00:00

commit e416f0ed3c500c05c55fb62ee62662717b1c7f71 upstream. BootLoaders (Grub, LILO, etc) may pass an identifier such as "BOOT_IMAGE= /boot/vmlinuz-x.y.z" to kernel parameters. But these identifiers are not recognized by the kernel itself so will be passed to userspace. However user space init program also don't recognize it. KEXEC/KDUMP (kexec-tools) may also pass an identifier such as "kexec" on some architectures. We cannot change BootLoader's behavior, because this behavior exists for many years, and there are already user space programs search BOOT_IMAGE= in /proc/cmdline to obtain the kernel image locations: https://github.com/linuxdeepin/deepin-ab-recovery/blob/master/util.go (search getBootOptions) https://github.com/linuxdeepin/deepin-ab-recovery/blob/master/main.go (search getKernelReleaseWithBootOption) So the the best way is handle (ignore) it by the kernel itself, which can avoid such boot warnings (if we use something like init=/bin/bash, bootloader identifier can even cause a crash): Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=(hd0,1)/vmlinuz-6.x root=/dev/sda3 ro console=tty Unknown kernel command line parameters "BOOT_IMAGE=(hd0,1)/vmlinuz-6.x", will be passed to user space. [chenhuacai@loongson.cn: use strstarts()] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250815090120.1569947-1-chenhuacai@loongson.cn Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250721101343.3283480-1-chenhuacai@loongson.cn Signed-off-by: Huacai Chen Cc: Al Viro Cc: Christian Brauner Cc: Jan Kara Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

init/main.c: Initialize early LSMs after arch code, static keys and calls.

2024-08-20T18:05:33+00:00

With LSMs using static calls and static keys, early_lsm_init needs to wait for setup_arch for architecture specific functionality which includes jump tables and static calls to be initialized. Since not all architectures call jump_table_init in setup_arch, explicitly call both jump_table_init and static_call_init before early_security_init. This only affects "early LSMs" i.e. only lockdown when CONFIG_SECURITY_LOCKDOWN_LSM_EARLY is set. Tested-by: Guenter Roeck Signed-off-by: KP Singh Signed-off-by: Paul Moore

Merge tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2024-05-19-11-56' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

2024-05-19T21:02:03+00:00

Pull non-mm updates from Andrew Morton: "Mainly singleton patches, documented in their respective changelogs. Notable series include: - Some maintenance and performance work for ocfs2 in Heming Zhao's series "improve write IO performance when fragmentation is high". - Some ocfs2 bugfixes from Su Yue in the series "ocfs2 bugs fixes exposed by fstests". - kfifo header rework from Andy Shevchenko in the series "kfifo: Clean up kfifo.h". - GDB script fixes from Florian Rommel in the series "scripts/gdb: Fixes for $lx_current and $lx_per_cpu". - After much discussion, a coding-style update from Barry Song explaining one reason why inline functions are preferred over macros. The series is "codingstyle: avoid unused parameters for a function-like macro"" * tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2024-05-19-11-56' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (62 commits) fs/proc: fix softlockup in __read_vmcore nilfs2: convert BUG_ON() in nilfs_finish_roll_forward() to WARN_ON() scripts: checkpatch: check unused parameters for function-like macro Documentation: coding-style: ask function-like macros to evaluate parameters nilfs2: use __field_struct() for a bitwise field selftests/kcmp: remove unused open mode nilfs2: remove calls to folio_set_error() and folio_clear_error() kernel/watchdog_perf.c: tidy up kerneldoc watchdog: allow nmi watchdog to use raw perf event watchdog: handle comma separated nmi_watchdog command line nilfs2: make superblock data array index computation sparse friendly squashfs: remove calls to set the folio error flag squashfs: convert squashfs_symlink_read_folio to use folio APIs scripts/gdb: fix detection of current CPU in KGDB scripts/gdb: make get_thread_info accept pointers scripts/gdb: fix parameter handling in $lx_per_cpu scripts/gdb: fix failing KGDB detection during probe kfifo: don't use "proxy" headers media: stih-cec: add missing io.h media: rc: add missing io.h ...

Merge tag 'bootconfig-v6.10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace

2024-05-18T01:23:55+00:00

Pull bootconfig updates from Masami Hiramatsu: - Do not put unneeded quotes on the extra command line items which was inserted from the bootconfig. - Remove redundant spaces from the extra command line. * tag 'bootconfig-v6.10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace: init/main.c: Minor cleanup for the setup_command_line() function init/main.c: Remove redundant space from saved_command_line bootconfig: do not put quotes on cmdline items unless necessary

Merge tag 'locking-core-2024-05-13' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

2024-05-14T00:01:28+00:00

Pull locking updates from Ingo Molnar: - Over a dozen code generation micro-optimizations for the atomic and spinlock code - Add more __ro_after_init attributes - Robustify the lockdevent_*() macros * tag 'locking-core-2024-05-13' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: locking/pvqspinlock/x86: Use _Q_LOCKED_VAL in PV_UNLOCK_ASM macro locking/qspinlock/x86: Micro-optimize virt_spin_lock() locking/atomic/x86: Merge __arch{,_try}_cmpxchg64_emu_local() with __arch{,_try}_cmpxchg64_emu() locking/atomic/x86: Introduce arch_try_cmpxchg64_local() locking/pvqspinlock/x86: Remove redundant CMP after CMPXCHG in __raw_callee_save___pv_queued_spin_unlock() locking/pvqspinlock: Use try_cmpxchg() in qspinlock_paravirt.h locking/pvqspinlock: Use try_cmpxchg_acquire() in trylock_clear_pending() locking/qspinlock: Use atomic_try_cmpxchg_relaxed() in xchg_tail() locking/atomic/x86: Define arch_atomic_sub() family using arch_atomic_add() functions locking/atomic/x86: Rewrite x86_32 arch_atomic64_{,fetch}_{and,or,xor}() functions locking/atomic/x86: Introduce arch_atomic64_read_nonatomic() to x86_32 locking/atomic/x86: Introduce arch_atomic64_try_cmpxchg() to x86_32 locking/atomic/x86: Introduce arch_try_cmpxchg64() for !CONFIG_X86_CMPXCHG64 locking/atomic/x86: Modernize x86_32 arch_{,try_}_cmpxchg64{,_local}() locking/atomic/x86: Correct the definition of __arch_try_cmpxchg128() x86/tsc: Make __use_tsc __ro_after_init x86/kvm: Make kvm_async_pf_enabled __ro_after_init context_tracking: Make context_tracking_key __ro_after_init jump_label,module: Don't alloc static_key_mod for __ro_after_init keys locking/qspinlock: Always evaluate lockevent* non-event parameter once

NUMA: early use of cpu_to_node() returns 0 instead of the correct node id

2024-04-26T04:07:03+00:00

During the kernel booting, the generic cpu_to_node() is called too early in arm64, powerpc and riscv when CONFIG_NUMA is enabled. There are at least four places in the common code where the generic cpu_to_node() is called before it is initialized: 1.) early_trace_init() in kernel/trace/trace.c 2.) sched_init() in kernel/sched/core.c 3.) init_sched_fair_class() in kernel/sched/fair.c 4.) workqueue_init_early() in kernel/workqueue.c This will harm performance since there is an increase in off node accesses. In order to fix the bug, the patch introduces early_numa_node_init() which is called after smp_prepare_boot_cpu() in start_kernel. early_numa_node_init will initialize the "numa_node" as soon as the early_cpu_to_node() is ready, before the cpu_to_node() is called at the first time. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240126064451.5465-1-shijie@os.amperecomputing.com Signed-off-by: Huang Shijie Acked-by: Palmer Dabbelt [RISC-V] Cc: Albert Ou Cc: Arnd Bergmann Cc: Catalin Marinas Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: Huacai Chen Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Jakub Kicinski Cc: Jiaxun Yang Cc: Josh Poimboeuf Cc: Mark Rutland Cc: Masami Hiramatsu Cc: Michael Ellerman Cc: Michael Kelley (LINUX) Cc: "Mike Rapoport (IBM)" Cc: Nick Desaulniers Cc: Paul Walmsley Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Valentin Schneider Cc: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Will Deacon Cc: Yury Norov Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

bootconfig: do not put quotes on cmdline items unless necessary

2024-04-26T04:07:01+00:00

When trying to migrate to using bootconfig to embed the kernel's and PID1's command line with the kernel image itself, and so allowing changing that without modifying the bootloader, I noticed that /proc/cmdline changed from e.g. console=ttymxc0,115200n8 cma=128M quiet -- --log-level=notice to console="ttymxc0,115200n8" cma="128M" quiet -- --log-level="notice" The kernel parameters are parsed just fine, and the quotes are indeed stripped from the actual argv[] given to PID1. However, the quoting doesn't really serve any purpose and looks excessive, and might confuse some (naive) userspace tool trying to parse /proc/cmdline. So do not quote the value unless it contains whitespace. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240320101952.62135-1-linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes Cc: Masami Hiramatsu Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

init/main.c: Minor cleanup for the setup_command_line() function

2024-04-12T16:03:13+00:00

This is just a minor cleanup to make the code look a bit cleaner. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240412081733.35925-3-ytcoode@gmail.com/ Signed-off-by: Yuntao Wang Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google)

init/main.c: Remove redundant space from saved_command_line

2024-04-12T16:02:08+00:00

There is a space at the end of extra_init_args. In the current logic, copying extra_init_args to saved_command_line will cause extra spaces in saved_command_line here or there. Remove the trailing space from extra_init_args to make the string in saved_command_line look more perfect. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240412032950.12687-1-ytcoode@gmail.com/ Signed-off-by: Yuntao Wang Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google)

bootconfig: do not put quotes on cmdline items unless necessary

2024-04-12T16:02:08+00:00

When trying to migrate to using bootconfig to embed the kernel's and PID1's command line with the kernel image itself, and so allowing changing that without modifying the bootloader, I noticed that /proc/cmdline changed from e.g. console=ttymxc0,115200n8 cma=128M quiet -- --log-level=notice to console="ttymxc0,115200n8" cma="128M" quiet -- --log-level="notice" The kernel parameters are parsed just fine, and the quotes are indeed stripped from the actual argv[] given to PID1. However, the quoting doesn't really serve any purpose and looks excessive, and might confuse some (naive) userspace tool trying to parse /proc/cmdline. So do not quote the value unless it contains whitespace. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240308124401.1702046-1-linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk/ Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google)