From b743852ccc1d9630bb07dc65ef185dab7e2984f6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Paul E. McKenney" Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2023 08:27:48 +0900 Subject: Allow forcing unconditional bootconfig processing The BOOT_CONFIG family of Kconfig options allows a bootconfig file containing kernel boot parameters to be embedded into an initrd or into the kernel itself. This can be extremely useful when deploying kernels in cases where some of the boot parameters depend on the kernel version rather than on the server hardware, firmware, or workload. Unfortunately, the "bootconfig" kernel parameter must be specified in order to cause the kernel to look for the embedded bootconfig file, and it clearly does not help to embed this "bootconfig" kernel parameter into that file. Therefore, provide a new BOOT_CONFIG_FORCE Kconfig option that causes the kernel to act as if the "bootconfig" kernel parameter had been specified. In other words, kernels built with CONFIG_BOOT_CONFIG_FORCE=y will look for the embedded bootconfig file even when the "bootconfig" kernel parameter is omitted. This permits kernel-version-dependent kernel boot parameters to be embedded into the kernel image without the need to (for example) update large numbers of boot loaders. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230105005838.GA1772817@paulmck-ThinkPad-P17-Gen-1/ Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney Cc: Masami Hiramatsu Cc: Jonathan Corbet Cc: Andrew Morton Cc: Nick Desaulniers Cc: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Johannes Weiner Cc: Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) --- init/main.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'init/main.c') diff --git a/init/main.c b/init/main.c index e1c3911d7c70..669cb892e6c1 100644 --- a/init/main.c +++ b/init/main.c @@ -156,7 +156,7 @@ static char *extra_init_args; #ifdef CONFIG_BOOT_CONFIG /* Is bootconfig on command line? */ -static bool bootconfig_found; +static bool bootconfig_found = IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_BOOT_CONFIG_FORCE); static size_t initargs_offs; #else # define bootconfig_found false -- cgit v1.2.3